Helix - Crafts

You know it’s almost Christmas when the music on the radio changes to the pogues and slade and the car is frosted over in the mornings. This year I have already written my Christmas shopping list, bought my Secret Santa and posted my Christmas cards. All that’s left to do it put up the tree, [...]

When I suggested a competition to win a day crafting with me back in October last year I never thought how quickly it would come around - I didn’t get time to get excited until the week before. On the competition day 5 crafters came along for the day. We made Stationery boxes and gossiped [...]

At the moment my studio is in the middle of being decorated a bright sunshine yellow. I have been hankering after a refit for a long time, but now the room is being decorated, all my crafting goodies are in metal crates in the middle of the room and I can’t get to make a single card! After [...]

We are in the midst of the show season at the moment. It was Glasgow last weekend, and it’s the NEC next weekend, I am not sure what days I will be at the NEC this time, as I have so many other commitments,  I will miss not being there as it’s a great chance [...]

Well, here I am back from Stitches, the craft trade show held at the NEC. I spent my days running from workshops to seminars and then onto stand demonstrations; not really getting chance to catch my breath but having a wonderful time all the same.
 
The atmosphere in the hall and on the workshops was buzzing! The [...]

What a week this has been! Here in deepest Derbyshire the snow has been quite thick; I braved the snow in my husband’s 4×4 to get over to Peterborough, as nothing stops for live TV! Not even 4-foot of snow. We then had the daunting task of getting over to Manchester later in the week [...]

Back to another Stitch and Creative Craft show last weekend, this time in Manchester where I was teaching the workshops over 3 days. On the stand we were joined by Amanda Bateman demonstrating Helix and Nancy Watts demonstrating My Craft Studio.
 
My own studio is in the middle of being decorated; all my crafting goodies are in [...]

Merry Christmas from Stephanie and the team!

As I write this, my last blog of 2008, I am reflecting over the past 12 months and how they have passed by so quickly in a haze of crafting! Over the last year I have been all over the country from Devon up to the north of Scotland in [...]

Am I the only one who panicked when I opened my Advent Calendar this week, 2 weeks till Christmas? When did that happen? Where have the last 11 months gone? It seems only a short while ago I was planning spring cards with Lambs and Daffodils, summer cards with beach huts and Ice-cream, and autumn cards [...]

I would like to dedicate this week’s blog to Origin Publishing’s launch of the record breaking attempt to make the largest hand-made greeting card in the world at the NEC Hobby Crafts show in support of BBC’s Children in Need 2008.
 
The plan is to make the largest hand made greeting card in the world in conjunction with [...]