My Life & Creative Journeys

• About GBUK

  Kate Drew-Wilkinson

  Posted on August 01 2025

  The Origins of the Society There have been several pioneers of glass beadmaking in this...

• Oh Calcutta!

  Kate Drew-Wilkinson

  Posted on June 18 2019

  In 1965 theatre critic and writer Kenneth Tynan became the first person to say ‘fuck’ o...

• My Adventures in Lamp Work, The Very Beginning.

  Kate Drew-Wilkinson

  Posted on June 18 2019

  MY ADVENTURES IN LAMP WORK, THE VERY BEGINNING.     It all began at the Second Internat...

• Oh Katie Chelsea Bead Lady

  Kate Drew-Wilkinson

  Posted on May 20 2019

  

    Oh Katie,   Chelsea  bead lady  All decked explosively in color  All twisting beads a...

• MAKING BEADS WITH STAINED GLASS SCRAP. The beginning. 1998

  Kate Drew-Wilkinson

  Posted on April 21 2018

    In 1998, while I was living in the country in Mexico, the buyer from a national chain...