ANITA IS FAIRLY NEW TO THE BEADING BUSINESS. In fact it was only last September that she created what she calls her first ‘real’ design. Admittedly she did try beading a few years ago but it wasn’t love at first sight so she slipped her attempts into a cupboard alongside half finished cross stitches, scrapbook pages and other assorted crafts she had tried and forgot about it, well almost.

“I have always been interested in artistic things,” explains Anita, “I thank my mum for that. However I never really found anything that I was passionate enough about to stick to. I had even attempted beading in the past but lost interest as I thought beading was just seed beads on