Author: Ruth Singer

Exciting news – I have been selected for an award by Creative Brighton and British Design Innovation for business development. The award will pay for me to attend my first trade show – Design Edge – in September. I’m nervously excited about this show. I’ve just downloaded the manual and have to slog my way…

Lots happening at the moment. Am hugely frustrated that this coincides with a stunning heatwave! I am, quite possibly, even busier than usual, but the heat just makes it hard to find the motivation to work. What is worse is that my sewing room is really hot and just turning the iron on makes it…

And I have holiday photos to show you! So here is a little photo essay of my last two weeks.One week canal boating in Oxfordshire. A night of thunderstorms and torrential rain. Many sheep. A prickly thistle. Several sunsets. Much quietness and stillness. A wonderful few days. Grandad’s 90th birthday! Many relatives (no pictures of…

Yes really.This is us at the Tower of London. We were the entertainment for an accountancy company corporate party! The crafts section got very little interest from the sea of suits, but as usual the jousting went down a treat. And the free champagne went down us quite well too. I’m the one in the…

Didn’t have a good day yesterday. I went to pick up my car to take it into the garage for repairs, and found all four tyres flat, presumably vandalised. I’m waiting to find out how much that will all cost, along with the repairs it was going to have anyway. Not the way to start…

I restrained myself from buying a very pretty vintage apron today. I regret it now. I don’t have space, having just acquired a pile last month. Here is my current favourite. It’s old, stained and worn, but I love it! I’ve had yet another weekend off, which makes me panic on a Sunday night, so…

Oh wow! I have a new camera at last. It is wonderful. I have been taking photos of all sorts of random things, just for practice. I haven’t read the instructions yet, so I am using about 2% of it’s capabilities, but it’s just so fun to play with. I have been doing other things…

I’ve finally had chance to go through my swag bags and start sorting things out. This has been helped by yesterday’s new drawers which are now all tidy and organised! Those that know me will laugh at that. Me, organised?? My argument is that I can be organised if I have enough time and enough…

Not the hopping and skipping kind of way, but the acquiring useful things from skips way. Well, not exactly. Skips these days don’t tend to have anything exciting in them, though I usually get cross about the amount of recyclable stuff going into landfill. I consdidered heaving an extra large ironing board out of one…

I have at last finished the braids for a bracelet Heather has commissioned from me. I kept starting them when I had company and making mistakes. Once you have made a mistake in one of these braids it is almost impossible to correct it. These are worked in gold thread, and it tangles and twists…