Bespoke glass beads for the discerning jewellery maker
Checkout My Basket: £0.00 0 itemsMy autumn bead finally entered its competition yesterday. I lost count of the number of versions I did to try and perfect it, but when my final attempt broke taking it off the mandrel I had to enter the first of the version I was trying to recreate even though it was not as good […]
I went back to work this week, after six wonderful weeks off, and landed with a bump. Nothing was going to compare with three weeks in America and an awesome 25th wedding anniversary party was it? And it’s going to be a busy term, with several fairs to attend and all that that entails with […]
We’ve been home just over a week and, as with most holidays, feels like we never went away. Glad I took so many photos. Busy busy because I have a bead fair on Sunday, a craft fair on Monday and our 25th wedding anniversary party the following Saturday. So, I have beads to clean, jewellery […]
The last day. We didn’t have much planned other than being at the airport in time for the flight home. The forecast was an 80% chance of thunderstorms so we made the decision to forego the beach in Cape Cod in favour of a tour of Providence. It had started raining by the time we […]
After a breakfast of fresh fruit, scrambled eggs with cheese and toast, we bid farewell to Brooklyn and New York. We’d left late to avoid the commuter rush but the roads were still busy with every road seemingly at a standstill. Fortunately the interstate wasn’t far, through Queens and the Bronx, but whilst it was […]
Our second and final day in New York city. Today we were going to visit the places we had missed; but first the place that caused New York to hit the headlines for all the wrong reasons, Ground Zero. We caught the B line from Newkirk in Brooklyn to Dekalb Street. The New York subway […]
New York city. This time we caught the Q line to Times Square, putting ourselves in the heart of Manhattan. A seething mass of people, in cars, on buses and on the sidewalks. Busy, chaotic and vibrant. We needed to convert our online purchase of a city tour package into real tickets at Madame Tussauds […]
We bid an early farewell to Washington as our parking meter kicked in at 7am and we didn’t intend feeding it. As it was we joined rush hour, Washington-style, fortunately most of it going in the opposite direction. We left DC via Maryland, and passed Annapolis onto the Chesapeake Bay bridge, 4 miles over water, […]
Washington, home of the American president. We were staying at the State Plaza and had a kitchen and dressing room in our suite on the 7th floor. No breakfast though so we set out to find some. The White House was about 10 minutes walk so we went there first. As it was still early […]
Back to a more normal day except breakfast was waitress served, not self-service as it had been up until now. Biting the bullet I had a short stack of pancakes with maple syrup and ‘breakfast meat’ aka crispy bacon, with grapefruit juice. A short stack, I was informed, was two pancakes, a tall stack three. […]
