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First posted on Blogger on 22/07/25

I bought a bag charm online, a really sparkly bag charm. It was so sparkly it didn’t even need to be in the light to shine. I couldn’t stop looking at it. 

This is it in a dark corner, see how she sparkles!

Because I am a making sort of a person, I thought that I could make that style of bag charm. As far as I’m concerned…

 Previously posted on Blogger 19/05/26

As alluded to in my last post I have been making paper beads. I should say again as I made hundreds of them a few years ago, I filled a good half dozen of those 36 compartment bead boxes. I tend to go all in when I start something and then drop it and not even look at it again for ages.

Above: B&Q leaflet used width-ways, 6 strips glued together.

I’d been…

 First posted on Blogger 11/05/25.

I could feel myself getting an itch to make bangles. I wanted skinny bangles that could be stacked. My preferred method for bangles is to use 16-gauge wire cut straight from the coil, it is usually just the right size. I curl one end into a loop thread the beads on, loop the other end and join with a jump ring, usually with a charm of some kind…

First posted on Blogger 16/04/25

Poking about on my desk I found a carved leaf made from mookaite. I’d forgotten that I had it, it was given to me a few months ago and I had no idea what to do with it so it ended up on my desk and got buried under desk stuff.

It felt nice to hold, like those thumb stones you can get, and as I was handling it I thought that I would make a charm bracelet…

As the title says really, this was originally posted on Blogger.

Every time someone posts a photo online of some food they've made, or mentions that they're going to cook something there is always somebody in the comments who'll post "Recipe?" Just that. One word.

Is this how we ask for things now? No " Can I have?" or "Do you have?". No please or thank you. Are people going into a shop, marching up to the counter and saying "Milk?" Are they going into a…