Bonnie Boon Designs

I used a luxuriously fluffy eyelash yarn in deep fuschia pink and a whisper of black, combined with a smooth bright pink to hand crochet this pair of slipper socks.They're available in many colours and yarns, but all are gorgeous and snuggly soft to wear.  The one size is flexible enough to fit all

Here's another painted canvas and embroidered wearable-art brooch featuring a piece of my sea glass collection.  This time I've used shades of purple and blue on a deep mulberry felt background to frame the piece.I love these colours, and the different textures of the brushed paint on canvas, the de

I'm experimenting with different ways to make jewelry featuring the sea glass I collect from the beach.  It seems obvious now, but till now, I hadn't thought of combining painted artwork and hand-stitched embroidery.  So this is a first!For this wearable art seaglass brooch I used acrylic paint on c

Beach gem genuine sea glass pendant crochet necklace Here's another piece of genuine sea glass from the beach. It has a lovely white frosted surface and reminds me of a slippery nugget of ice.  I decided to capture it in a cool aqua green crochet basket and added a necklace 20 ins long.  It fastens

I've amassed quite a collection of sea glass from the beach, since I began this new fascination.  My eye is finely tuned now, and I can spot a glint of glass from quite a distance.  The dogs try to help me on our beachcombing expeditions, but so far, are less reliable;) I've been working on ways to

Recently I've become fascinated by the colourful objects I find on my beach walks.  I stroll along, occasionally stopping to winkle out small smooth stones from the sand, especially excited if I spy the green gleam of sea glass, which I swoop on as if it was an emerald. I love the idea of up-cycling

Time does fly! I've been so engrossed in making pictures with my painting hat on, that I clean forgot to post about my latest one-of-a-kind textile jewelry necklace. As you can see it features large chunky bead shapes, completely hand crocheted in bright Pink, Green, Turquoise, Yellow, Orange, Pu

I made this one-of-a-kind necklace combining knitting, crochet and handmade fabric beads in cotton, wool and bamboo yarn.The soft blues, pinks, purple and cool grey look so pretty together. I stitched the fabric beads from 3 different printed cottons from my quilting stash, then applied a medium

Went to the beach earlier than usual today so it was still quite cool, especially as the sun was well hidden by cloud.Teddy was very patient while I combed the sand for interesting pebbles and wave-smoothed glass gems. At home I popped them in water and their colours gleam again like they did wet

This morning Teddy and I went down to the beach and walked the coastal path for an hour or so. She's not too keen on walking in the hills where we normally go, but this morning both she and I seemed energised by the waves crashing on the pebbles and the winter sunshine was doing it's best to cheer