Announcing my next bead jewellery making workshop I am looking forward to guiding my next group of students in the making of a glass bead...

I have created a couple of items of wire and bead crocheted jewellery in the Suffragette colours of White, Purple and Green

You know those small packs of playing cards you get in Christmas crackers, the ones that are too small to play with.... These..... Let me...

As I mentioned in my previous blog I was privileged to have been invited to provide some of my handmade bridal jewellery and tiaras for a...

I was privileged to have been invited to provide some of my bridal jewellery and tiaras for a styled wedding shoot last month by the...

Yesterday I held a knitted wire and bead jewellery making workshop in Gnosall, Staffordshire Knitting with wire isn't difficult but it...

A brief review of bracelet and necklace restringing clasps used by Angela Smith Jewellery. I am often asked what clasps I use when...

30 years of making bead jewellery January marks a milestone anniversary for Angela Smith Jewellery Angela Smith Jewellery is thirty years...

Are you a knitter? Have you ever thought about knitting jewellery with wire but not had any idea about where to start? What type of...

Last weekend I attended a craft and Makers Market in Newport, Shropshire. The theme for the day was Halloween, which is not something I...

If you are wanting a handmade Christmas this year I have just the workshop for you! I have put together a selection of beaded Christmas...

It isn't a secret! Most people realise that plastic melts. Did you also know that if two pieces of plastic melt together they will fuse...

I would hazard a guess and say that almost everyone has enjoyed completing a jigsaw at some time. I still remember with fondness some of...

A couple of weeks ago I made the decision to act on yet another idea that had been forming in my head for a month or so. I have two...

This weekend I made an attempt to clear some of my work room, this involved reorganising my boxes of beads to make room for other beads...

It has been a while since I visited my hoard of paper clips - today I couldn't resist! I seem to accumulated them over the years, in...

Today saw me revisit one of my old designs and adapt it. When I say old, I mean over ten years old - it is one I used to knit fairly...

Gnosall, Staffordshire. Yesterday afternoon I held my first Jewellery Making Workshop of 2023! Setting up, I realised just how many beads...

This week I added a couple of new freshwater pearl necklaces to my website. Both necklaces feature stunning olive green freshwater pearls...

Already in April! what happened to March? Just a quick post to remind you that I have a jewellery making workshop coming up this month on...