Where am I?

Curly-Girly Crafts is based in Colchester, Essex.

Forthcoming Craft Events
I will be selling enamelled jewellery, craft kits, encaustic artwork and encaustic supplies at the following events.
 

Guild of Essex Craftsmen Events

8th and 9th March

Hylands House, Chelmsford

10 - 5pm

25th/26th May

Thames Chase Forest Centre

Upminster

10 - 5pm

24th/25th August

Cressing Temple Barns, Braintree

10.30 - 5.30pm

8th/9th November

Hylands House, Chelmsford

11 - 5pm

STOP PRESS

Belstead House

My encaustic cards and enamelled jewellery are available for purchase at Belstead House, Ipswich.

I will be teaching Enamelling and Encaustic Art at Belstead House in 2008.

2008 Dates are as follows:

5th April - Encaustic Art

14th June - Enamelling

12th July - Enamelling

22nd November - Encaustic Art

Dates for 2009!

Saturday 10^th January - Enamelling for Beginners

Saturday 14^th February - Encaustic Art for Beginners

Saturday 2^nd May - Enamelling for Beginners - Further Techniques

Saturday 4^th July - Exploring Card Making Ideas

All classes are suitable for beginners and can be booked directly via Belstead House.

I will also be running an Encaustic Art weekend course at Urchfont Manor, Devizes from 5 - 7th December 2008.  Book from the Urchfont Manor college directly.

My Writing

My other creative passion is writing.

I am an active member of a writing community based at http://www.slingink.co.uk, where you can currently purchase two anthologies with my work inside!  Floating features Kiss and Fortunate? The new anthology Eurofiction Anthology Volume 1 features Passion. Remorse features in Footprints, which is now available from Amazon.

At the beginning of the year my story Hunger for Life was accepted for the Zombie aid Comic Relief book but sadly the book did not come to fruition due to an overcommitted editor! I'll forgive you one day Cavan Scott! I've put a link to the story on this page so you can have a read regardless!

Amelia's Foot was commended in the Leaf Books Short Shorts Competition and has been published in the anthology, The Final Theory and Other Stories, you can purchase this from Leaf Books directly http://www.leafbooks.co.uk/readers/books/finaltheory.html

I recently took part in the Children in Need Writeathon, run via Alex Keeghan's Bootcamp.  I managed to write 12 stories on the night and raised £230 for Children in Need.  Two of my stories, Liver and Slippers were chosen to be published in the Children in Need Publication of stories from the night.   I've linked 2 of my stories The Turning of Tina and Christmas Burglars to this page, please remember that I only had 60 minutes from receiving the prompt to submitting the story so don't be too harsh with your criticisms!

I have co-authored a number of PC articles, which have appeared in PC Answers and the Australian edition of the Microsoft Windows XP Magazine. Four articles in all have been published so far, and all are now online - click here (250 Office tips), here (record your personal finances in Excel), here (create a quiz in Excel) and here (formulae and functions in Excel).

You can catch up with my travel adventures by viewing my blog http://www.tonipeers.blogspot.com.

In the meantime. click on the links at the bottom of the page to take you to some of the stories that I have written recently.