Hand Made Beads...so tasty they will blow your eye-balls from their sockets.

For your delight.......some pics of a papier mache bead making workshop which I do. Out of all the workshops I teach, this one's my favourite....so far. I do a little demo using a little triangle of paper and build it up from there. The best bit is getting the soldering iron out and burning the s**t out of it at the end. What a stink!!! The personality of the individual really comes out in these beads and I've had one women make a solitary bead in two and a half hours although it was truly exquisite. Teenagers, on the other hand can make loads to go on bracelets in about an hour. I am planning to teach this workshop at the studio in the Spring/summer and will be

posting sessions on my website shortly.

Make It...Green Screen Festival.

In July of this year The Make It group put on a 3-day Film and Craft festival and it was awesome (a word which I don't normally use) We procured the film Handmade nation by Faythe Levine, a film about the renegade handmade craft movement in the US. It was truly an inspiration. We also built a crafty tree and hung free craft packs from this, we put the tree on a meadow of astro-turf where people sat at night to watch the film and knit. We offered free workshops in bunting making, patchwork cushion making and a giant knitting nancy. On the Saturday we had the unique and wonderful Bicycle Basket Bazaar and the soft bench (a knitting project I'm involved in and will write about later) The Community Foundation gave us the funding which was a very wise move on their part.