Edinburgh Snapshot

Fireworks Night

Edinburgh Snapshot

North Bridge

Edinburgh Snapshot

The big house on a rock near where I live...

Scottish Arts Club Craft Fair this Saturday!

Come along and visit my stand at the Scottish Arts Club Fair - coming up this Saturday 16th at 24 Rutland Square, Edinburgh, 11 - 4. 

It's the first time I will have been involved in an event run by this prestigious organisation and I am excited! The old Georgian house in the New Town of Edinburgh which is home for the organisation, looks very beautiful from the pictures I have seen on their website. 

Here are a few of the lovelies that will be for sale at the weekend (and if you are not local then I have added web links to these in my shops so you can snag them anyway :-)): 

 Peace

 Ahoy There! 

 Butterfly Gardenia in Forest Frost

 A Walk in the Woods

 Fireflies

Fireside

Little Bead Shop

So, I'm just back from my fabulous home town - Edinburgh! I was there on a flying visit to do a day's teaching at the rather wonderful Little Bead Shop in Bruntsfield. I had a small but very sweet class doing my absolute favourite thing in the whole world (apart from singing Handel...Bach...Rossini..Mahler...oh, Ok - I have lots of favourite things to do!) BEAD EMBROIDERY. Everyone (including my lovely Mum!) did a really good job getting started on a beaded cuff (like the one above), I only work with a few stitches as the beads really do the rest for you, and everyone left having made a really good start to their project. Below are two of my own beaded collars for your perusal.

I had a great day and I hope everyone else did too! Gil Baird, Little Bead Shop proprietress, has a fantastic shop with a really unique range of beads and I thoroughly recommend if you are visiting Edinburgh (something I recommend in itself!!) you pay it a wee visit. Everyone who works there is always super helpful and lovely and if you're lucky, there may be some of the very talented Emma Baird's BEAUTIFUL lampworked beads...She's also very good at photography as you can see from the three pictures in this blog entry! It's a great place to visit and you can be sure of a cheerful welcome. I have a few more classes scheduled in November and December and I'm really looking forward to them already.