by Gemma Williams | May 18, 2022 | CONCRETE
I know it’s the middle of May and the keen mathematicians among you will realise it’s been way more than 1oo days. But we officially have 100 meals completed. We skipped Friday’s as that is the day we eat separately from the kids. We also missed out...
by Gemma Williams | Feb 5, 2022 | FAMILY
I realise that I haven’t updated you on our 100 days of 100 meals for a while so here is day 10 to 29. I’m not sure it will be very interesting though, so apologies. I’m mainly going to talk about day 29 as this was something I’d never tried before, and I’ll just put...
by Gemma Williams | Jan 19, 2022 | CONCRETE, NEW PRODUCTS
Love is definitely in the air, as it always is in the run up to Valentines and it’s my love of Jesmonite that I want to shout about. Since I started working with Jesmonite, I have discovered how wonderfully versatile it is. I am loving the colours and patterns I can...
by Gemma Williams | Jan 11, 2022 | CONCRETE
Daily updates on the 100 dinners in 100 days is not happening, but I’ll try and pop on weekly ish. Here’s our week 1 meal update. Day 2 Day 2 was an easy one, we did a roast chicken with roast potatoes, parsnips and carrots. And my husbands gluten free Yorkshire...
by Gemma Williams | Jan 1, 2022 | FAMILY
My children have challenged me to make 100 different meals over 100 days. This is going to be interesting, so I thought I’d do a little blog series about it, although I doubt I’ll have time to chart every meal. There are 2 factors that make this more difficult,...
by Gemma Williams | Oct 10, 2021 | CONCRETE
I don’t know about you, but at this time of year, it’s all about the pumpkins! Pumpkin crochet, pumpkin soup, pumpkin concrete, pumpkin spice latte, pumpkin carving, pumpkin everything. Well not quite everything, I’ve never had a pumpkin pie. You...
by Gemma Williams | Jul 15, 2021 | CONCRETE, CREATIVE
Before I started my craft business, I hadn’t really thought about how important it is to support small businesses. I did buy from them, but I didn’t actively search them out when I needed to buy something. I regularly shopped, and still do, from the main online...
by Gemma Williams | Jun 25, 2021 | CONCRETE, CREATIVE, GRANDMA'S CORNER
The end of the school year is coming up fast, so lots of people’s thoughts naturally turn to teacher gifts. It can be a bit of a minefield choosing the right gift. Do you buy something for just the main teacher or the assistants too? How much per gift? What kind...
by Gemma Williams | Jun 14, 2021 | CONCRETE, TUTORIALS
I am going to show you how to make your own concrete bowl. This is a super easy tutorial to get us started with the tutorials that I’m hoping to share with you. I discovered this when I had some left over concrete from another project I was working on. It makes a...
by Gemma Williams | May 28, 2021 | CONCRETE, CREATIVE
You may have noticed a few changes around here! Welcome to the new design and hopefully an improved Concrete Gems website. This website has been a labour of love and there is still a lot of work to do on it. Please bear with me if you come across something that...
