Happy Birthday Hello Dolly Magazine

Coming soon to Gloriarty the new issue of Hello Dolly Magazine. It's been a very eventful year for the magazine, from the first issue which was an A5 30 something page booklet to a full A4 glossy magazine in a year. It's been a trip.

This special birthday issue is jam packed full of of beautiful reborn artwork by very talented artists.

This issue Hello Dolly Magazine has some very special surprises for their readers including a little birthday gift for every reader as well as a fantastic crochet pattern created by Ceinwen Clarke of the Brighton Doll Festival and more adventures with Jane Bishop in her Reborn With Mummy feature.

So join us in wishing Happy Birthday to Hello Dolly and let's look forward to much more to come.

Doug Richards Meets Savannah

Attending the Enterprise Nation Conference last week was a very interesting experience, meeting up with lots of other entrepreneurs and hearing their stories and how they handle the challenges of running small businesses in today's economy was fascinating.

I also experienced a huge attitude shift of my own, too many time when I have looked at what I have achieved with Gloriarty and Hello Dolly Magazine I have not seen just what exactly it is I have done, how far I have come and just what I have built. The conference really did open my eyes and make me recognise that I am an entrepreneur, one of the great unrecognised army of hardworking people who create wealth for the UK but are almost invisible to the Government


Doug Richards holding Savannah

I was, by equal measures amused and embarassed by one of my reborn dolls ending up on stage with Doug Richards for his presentation, hers are the little legs you can see dangling over the edge of the podium in the video.




Savannah is listed on Gloriarty and is looking for a new home.

Swedish Sewing Paper

Gloriarty now has an Ebay presence, this move has been driven a lot by my amazing find of Swedish Sewing Paper, wonderful, wonderful thing!!! It's like tracing paper but it's got the consistency of a fabric, it's see through and you use it like a tracing paper, so brilliant for tracing dressmaking and craft patterns, but because of the fabric like construction you can use it for fitting garments and it's reuseable over and over again, I've also used it for pattern drafting by laying it over a grid cutting board.

You can use pencil, felt tips, ballpoint pens, gel pens to draw on this paper but I would suggest ballpoints are best, not only do they show up well but they also don't bleed or mark your pattern underneath.

I love this product, so much so that I have agreed to become the distributor for the UK... woohoo go me eh! At the moment I only have it listed on Ebay, but with some work it will be appearing on my Gloriarty website soon.

I love Jasper

I love Jasper! No I don't mean a bloke called Jasper. I mean i know "Jasper" is probably best known as a Sloane Ranger type name, when you picture the name do you get a mental image of some bloke in a suit who's something big in the city? Well you'd be right but there's more to Jasper than you might think.

Jasper is also know as spotted stone, it's an opaque, impure variety of Quartz that is usually red, yellow or brown in color. The mineral breaks with a smooth surface and is used for ornamentation or as a gemstone. It can be highly polished and is used for vases, seals, and other decorative items.

My preferred use of Jasper is cut and polished and in the form of absolutely gorgeous stones and beads which provide huge varieties of patterns and colours for use in jewellery making. I often find myself rifling through my collection of Jasper stones and being both thrilled and inspired to make something gorgeous

On my site Gloriarty you will find some gorgeous examples of the use of Jasper. The necklace pictured at the top of the post is available at Gloriarty titled Grey Jasper Necklace

New Items & Layout ? ? ?

We're currently looking at what types of items we might add to the site and anything we might do to restructure the site to make it easier for people to use in the future.

If you haven't taken a look yet, why not take a look now at www.gloriarty.co.uk and see what you think. We'd love to hear from you with your suggestions for things you would like to see appearing on the site.