Cut Out & Keep Jewelry Superstar Feature

This past week, I've been the featured "Jewelry Superstar" on Cut Out + Keep. Each day for seven days, I've created a jewelry tutorial with step outs for you to recreate. You can see all seven of the projects below. Just click the link above each photo and it will take you straight to the tutorial. You can also learn a little bit about me in my Jewelry Superstar interview: find out some fun facts such as who my favourite actor is, what my favourite TV show is and what my favourite colour is (regular readers will already know this one!). I also talk about where my jewellery-making journey began and where I find inspiration. So please come and join me on Cut Out + Keep for some fun, elegant, classy and casual jewellery tutorials. Fiesta Sunset Earrings Sof-Suede leather lace combined with wire wrapping. Wrap it neat or wrap it messy - both ways look equally good! Pavé Drop Earrings Very sparkly, elegant earrings made with Swarovski crystals and ETI's Re......

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Storage Stool Revamp Part 2 - The Reveal

Today, I continue the transformation of my little sewing stool from dated 1980's brown laminate to a modern, graphic piece of furniture that looks right at home in my recently revamped studio. Didn't it come up well?!! You can see Part 1 of the transformation here . What I started out with is the little stool below. It has served me well over the years; firstly as a sewing stool and more recently, as seating in my studio. It has a lift up lid with storage inside making it perfect for stowing away works in progress when I have to clean up the studio for workshops. But this dated brown laminate just has to go! Replacing the laminate isn't an option because the composite wood underneath would probably have disintegrated if I tried to remove the old laminate. The best alternative is to paint the surface with laminate paint. So off to the hardware store I went armed with a list of what I needed. But my jaw nearly dropped when I saw how expensive the laminate paint sy......

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Storage Stool Revamp - Part 1

Many, many, MANY years ago, my husband gave me the most wonderful birthday gift - a Horn sewing cabinet with a built in machine lifter. To say I was over the moon would be an understatement. At the time, I was doing a lot of sewing for the little people in our lives so it was wonderful to have a space where I could not only sew, but I could also quickly and easily stow away my machine and sewing projects out of little hands way. Over the years, the cabinet fell into a state of disrepair and we parted company but the little stool which came with it continues to serve me well. Last week, I got a bee in my bonnet about that little stool. Whilst it's very compact and fits perfectly under my workdesk, visually, its 1980's brown laminate and brown fabric was sticking out like a sore thumb in my crisp black and white studio. It suddenly seemed very out of place! And whilst it's not in perfect condition, it's a very sturdy little stool that has a lift up lid with a stor......

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