Business
Website revamp
After far too long a silence, I’m baaaack! Working on updating my website, which it badly needs.
Etsy (webshop)
Gone to the beach :-)
Iced Moments is closed from 4-25 July. All items in my Etsy shop, have been deactivated, but I have pinned most items on Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/IcedMoments. So although you can’t buy, you can still look around. Shipping resumes on 11 August. I will refund shipping costs for any orders placed between Read more…
Etsy (webshop)
Fluid – from web page to app
There seem to be some some web pages that I view constantly, several times a day. My Etsy statistics page is a good example: I stalk my stats almost hourly ;-) But, sometimes it can be hard to find the right tab in amongst all of those many, many web Read more…
General
Tangled CDs
So, creatively speaking, life has been a bit chaotic for the last few months. As usual I have been doing “stuff”, but haven’t been organised enough to take photos or talk about what I’ve been doing. So, it’s time to play catch-up. I discovered Zentangle™ quite a while ago, but Read more…
General
R.I.P.
I usually try to avoid posting personal stuff on the internet. But I would like to tell friends, clients, and well-wishers what’s been happening in my life in the last few months. My mum was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer in early April. At the time she was given one Read more…
General
My Timer-Driven Life
One of my articles has been published! In a fairly obscure e-magazine called Soda Lime Time, a monthly magazine for lampworkers. Anyway I submitted an article, it was accepted, and it was published in this month’s issue. It’s not specifically related to lampworking, so I am republishing it here. My Read more…
General
My newly renovated studio
Well, it’s been a while since I updated this blog. I’ve mainly been using Facebook to post (occasional) updates. I’ve been having long conversations with myself about the pros and cons of blogging and facebooking. But I have updated my blog software, I have a newly renovated studio, and some Read more…
Lampwork
My fine feathered friends
Sorry, no, this isn’t going to be about birds. Instead it’s about my current obsession: feathered, also known as “raked”, beads. Okay, okay, it’s just one of my many obsessions but this one has been going on for a while. It started early last year after I attended JC Herrell‘s Read more…
General
To Draw = To See
Last Saturday I attended a drawing workshop, “To Draw = To See”, given by Annemarie Schumacher of dertigdecember, another designer at The New Label Project. Although I do not think of myself as being able to draw, I have dabbled a bit over the last few years. Annemarie taught us Read more…
Chain maille
So, what the heck is a headpin??
During my Christmas show I was reminded that not everyone knows what a “headpin”, or “head pin”, is. No, it’s not something that you stick into your hair (or head), nor is it meant to be stuck into a hat. In this post I will show you what you can Read more…