Now you may think that as someone who makes jewellery, I could have all I could possibly want and wouldn’t buy someone else’s jewel...

The weeks are rolling by so fast and I sometimes   feel I’m swimming upstream – all my good intentions for this season haven’t   quite m...

I just love rock crystal!   The colourless variety of quartz, high grade rock crystal can easily glitter like the harder (and more costl...

I’ve settled into a routine now the kids are back at school.    There’s too much housework in there for my liking.    And cooking....

I survived the winter school holidays - yay!   Apart from having an event of some sort (half of them involving visitors here) the first week...

Mt Vesuvius visible from Pompeii I'm such a bad blogger.  I do apologise, life keeps getting in the way - in this instance an incr...