Hello Beautiful Beaders, I don’t know about you but last week’s youth climate strike really hit a chord with me. Like many of you I try to be as environmentally friendly as I can. It’s not too late for us to reverse some of the effects our generation have impacted on this beautiful world. The […]
Hello Beautiful Beaders, This year at Riverside Beads I have decided to give as many handmade Christmas gifts as I have time to make. I love it when someone is kind enough to hand make me anything; jewellery; a card; some jam; a piece of knitting. Just wonderful. To help me on my gift making
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Hello Beautiful Beaders, This week I’d like to talk about Shop Local. This is not a new craze, it is what it says in the tin; use your local shops rather than buy from larger nationalised companies. I am passionate about this and I strongly believe that the service we provide as a local store,
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Hello Beautiful Beaders, It’s been a while since I talked about my favourite subject in the whole wide world, so this week I thought I’d treat you to a Kumihimo catch up! As most of you know I heard about Kumihimo, the Japanese art of braiding, around 10 years ago and have been braiding like
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Hello Beautiful Beaders, Well I just couldn’t wait any longer to tell you more about my next Prumihimo based TV appearance, this Wednesday 23rd January, on Create and Craft TV. I’m going to be showing you how to use a fabulous kit that the creator of Prumihimo, Pru McRae, has designed. Over the years Pru
Hello Beautiful Beaders, Happy New Year to you all! If you read my last blog article then you’ll know that 2019 is set to be a bumper year for jewellery designing. This week I wanted to focus a little on our other, more crafty trends that we are very excited about at Riverside Towers. So
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