esterday I picked the last of the apples of my tree and felt very autumnal,-Its the best season by far and I'm really into all those beautiful berry colours- have made some felt and crochet acorns to keep me in the mood which I shall make into a fall necklace for the shop....
great many thank yous to all of you have encouraged me to start this wretched etsy shop....I really did need a kick start! it has been painful and certainly not for the faint hearted (!) trying to work out a shop policy was like drawing blood from a stone but at least after months of procrastination I have a banner and a somewhat amateurish shop front....just have to list everything now!
allelulia I'm home! And just look what was waiting for me on my return, but the cutest most perfect bijoux gift! My own little travelling Becassine, where did you get her Di? I love her....shame I cannot look like her when I travel.....
ere I am in Surabaya this week on the bi annual factory visit which was going very well until we took a trip to the beautiful Shangrila hotel in the centre of town.....a crowded bus failed to stop and managed to write off the car we were travelling in! Within minutes we had attracted quite a crowd of locals, I snapped some pictures of the general chaos that ensued, quite a contrast to the tropical haven of our destination....
eville is also home to the famous Alcazar which is a moorish fortress built in the 10th century, - the moors not only introduced beautiful architecture to the south of Spain and amazing culinary skills, but they also were brilliant mathematicians- the tile work throughout the palace is all based on mathematical tessallations, regular, irregular and star-shaped tiles are juxtaposed to create geometrical patterns that flow over the whole surface,- the individual pieces, called "alízares", were cut out by blows delivered by a pick and then fired using a limited palette. In 1922 M. C. Escher was so inspired after studying the Moorish use of symmetry in these tiles, that he produced all those intricate works using these regular divisions of the plane.....
ery addicted to wrapping lengths of cord...here is the thickest bracelet I have done so far, I think that they look better if they have lots of different coloured cords...
he only thing that I really managed to make successfully while I was away was a bunch of bracelets- made by twisting lots of different coloured embroidery silks around thick cord and then securing 10 - 20 of these coloured cords with a thick wrap of linen, which then had loads of seed beads sewn all over the top- all for the still fictitious etsy shop that is still a figment of my imagination!
