Yearly Archives: 2012

A Photo a day May {Week 1}

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Well I am attempting the Photo a day challenge again: My last attempt at this didn’t go so well but hopefully I will be better this time! Day 1: Peace. Inscription on a bench outside the ruins of theMerchant Navy church in Southampton.  Day 2 {Skyline} is missing as of yet as it has not stopped raining here… Day 3:… Read more »

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Bunting Jumper {How To}

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Well here it is… I tried to take photos along the way to make a tutorial of how to recreate the bunting jumper. I hope the instructions will be good enough for you to follow. First things first, decide what materials you would like your flags to be made out of. Most of ours were made out of scraps of… Read more »

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Jumper Inspiration

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We showed you a sneak peak of a jumper refashion that we have done. We took a plain grey Primark Men’s jumper and turned it into something much cuter. Well I thought I’d share some more inspiration with you before showing you how to make your own: TL: Here TR: Here BL: Here BR: Here For more inspiration check out… Read more »

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Sneak Preview: Jumper transformation

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Well this is a little sneak preview of a tutorial that will be coming along soon. We found some men’s jumpers on sale in Primark. But decided to refashion them a bit. So here’s what we did. So cute now!  Will put up a tutorial soon showing how we did it, and hopefully some other jumper transformations as well! =)… Read more »

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Social Media

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Well we all know that social media is where its at, at the moment…  I thought I would take this opportunity to say where else you can find Beads and Barnacles on the web. Facebook:  BeadsAndBarnacles Pinterest: Pippa K Instagram: beadsandbarnacles I have yet to embrace twitter for use from the blog, I have an email address which I can be contacted on and… Read more »

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Back in the Swing of Things…

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Life is slowly getting back to normal.  Having got back from ship on Saturday evening I was kept up late by Nikki trying to sort out dresses for her next 3 balls! Then up early on Sunday to go racing, thankfully the wind kept up and meant that we had a decent race (so it was worth it).  Then a… Read more »

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Still here

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Well what can I say, I’m still alive. Sorry I haven’t been in communication much but I have had very limited internet sat in the back and beyond of Liverpool’s dock system / at the end of their cruise terminal pontoon. I am back in the land of the living now but omg what crazy weather are we having! We… Read more »

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