Louise Goodchild Designs

*Cough* Yuck!  *Splutter* Well, hello, there!  This is Louise-bot signing in for the first time, after fighting my way through a mountain of...

There are many - many! - of us small (micro) businesses, trying to sell our work, both online and face to face.  We are competing in a huge ...

Happy New Year to you all!  I don't know about you, but I always feel the post-Christmas lack of sparkle quite keenly - I'm a huge f...

Why wire?  Well, that is a very good question. If you've been following my blog for a while, you'll know how I fell into jewellery...

I'm as guilty as the next person of occasionally becoming bogged down by the sometimes irritating minutiae of daily life.  On the whole ...

As those of you who follow my blog know, I took art up to A level at school, then I put my pencils down and barely picked them up again unti...

The Shadow Reader by Sandy Williams (urban fantasy ... ish) I liked this book.  It didn't suck me in and shut off real life until I...