Welcome to my blog, a kind of informal MangoBeads: a place to waffle and keep you up to date with what's been going on and what's coming up.
To have got through the last week and to have survived I am truly happy about . It has been an amazing experience and I have met some truly lovely people customers old and new and had some wonderful remarks made thank you all for all the amazing support you really are the best .
We survived the horrendous weather under canvas despite accidently pitching our tent in the middle of a football pitch ! ( we pitched late and were exhausted - good excuse huh ! )
Mum took some truly fantastic pics of the stand and they will be on here by tomorrow - shes temporarily gone AWOL with the card from the camera !
But theres no rest for the wicked I will be on Exeter Catherdal green this coming Friday and Saturday so its a quick turnaround and stand redesign and we are off again !
To have achieved the standard of display we did without the wonderful support of my family and David would not have happened and I am truly grateful to them all -
So please do check back in the next day or so for pics and some exiting new Bead Racks for those collectors !
Gosh its been such along time - Stourbridge was last August whoops where has the time gone . No excuse just been very busy and as you all know there are times when its just too much to keep up with everything and the Blog just slipped. Anyhow time to rectify that . Heres a sneak preview of my new EBAY auction going live tomorrow night.
Sarah and her gorgeous beads
The gang
Stourbridge
If you hadn't already heard
Stourbridge Festival and Masterclass Events have been on all over this week and weekend . Although I missed the festival I was lucky enough to get to
Sarah Horniks Masterclass and meet Sarah and a whole bunch of lovely people we had a real BLAST !!!!
I only had my phone for pics so nabbed a few of Sarahs from
Flickr but do look at her collection and you will see what a great time we had .
I have truly met some wonderful new friends Emma from
The Little Bead Shop ,Kinga from Germany, Joanne , Sarah and Carole, we made loads of fab beads thanks to Sarahs wonderful tuition and consumed our fair share of chocolate and lentils ( yes you are reading correctly ).
I met up with
Becky who was doing another Masterclass and loads of other people.
So back down to earth and I have new beads in the kiln mainly focals for EBay and a few Silver tummied Buddies all will be available later this week so please watch this space......
Bye for now xx
I have a small set of beads on
EBay so please take a look -
.... I love these , these are the result of a week of sheer freedom . My mind has been uncluttered and it has been so nice to concentrate on something other than my usual !
I have a smaller set in the kiln and they will be on ebay tomorrow night - ofcourse they are so much better IRL and big beads too !
I see my son has been at my Blogger account and added his Blog - its very funny I have to admit , hard to believe he's 21 and really grown up enough to make this journey !
I am off on Monday for my few days with Sarah Hornik in Stourbridge I am so looking forward to it and can't quite believe that in fact I have another week or so to myself its been like a real holiday a few weeks of pure self indulgence , heaven !
My youngest will be home on Sunday after a week away with his Dad on the Isle of Man - rubbish weather I fear but I am sure he will have had a good time but it will be lovely to have him home .
Benjy had his little op' today hes survived it well but the aneasthetic has left him very stiff so we have now 2 lots of daily medicine to administer. Very relieved thats behind us now and I am sure he will be feeling brighter in the morning !
