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The pendants listed in the last couple of posts are in there...
...with more bits to follow as and when :-)
Saturday, 17 July 2010
Thursday, 15 July 2010
..new pendants...
I've been having a really good time over the last few days...
...making a few more pendants.
Here they are...
There are even more waiting to be finished....
...but before I do, I'm going to get on with making up those little Kuba panel bags I said about a while back...
:-)
...making a few more pendants.
Here they are...
There are even more waiting to be finished....
...but before I do, I'm going to get on with making up those little Kuba panel bags I said about a while back...
:-)
Tuesday, 13 July 2010
..a tale of two surfaces...
There are two distinct working areas in my studio at the minute...
..one looks like this...
...the stitch it...bead it place...
...and the other...
..the cut it..bend it..bang it place :-)
I have to work in this manner...
...because I don't have a desk/table that is, in itself, large enough to accomodate the various different processes that go into making things like this...
...one of the latest pieces to have been finished.
Here's another brooch that's ready to go too...
I'm enjoying making jewellery!
..one looks like this...
...the stitch it...bead it place...
...and the other...
..the cut it..bend it..bang it place :-)
I have to work in this manner...
...because I don't have a desk/table that is, in itself, large enough to accomodate the various different processes that go into making things like this...
...one of the latest pieces to have been finished.
Here's another brooch that's ready to go too...
I'm enjoying making jewellery!
Saturday, 10 July 2010
...new bits...
I finished the Kuba-inspired brooches...
..and then set to work on some new ones....
..using bits of my hand-dyed fabrics and threads...
..more to follow next week...
..have a good weekend everyone :-)
..and then set to work on some new ones....
..using bits of my hand-dyed fabrics and threads...
..more to follow next week...
..have a good weekend everyone :-)
Monday, 5 July 2010
...Beyond the Border...and the dyepot!
It's been another busy week...
...more out than in..
..but I did manage to get somethings done :-)
Threads and fabrics that had been languishing in plastic food bags were an absolute delight when removed and dealt with!
..and I started some more stitched pieces....
This one's going to sit across the top of a large-ish cushion...
..and these cut-out Kuba shapes...
..will be used on the cushion, and on some brooches...
Saturday was gorgeous!!!...so the opportunity was grasped with both hands...
...and we went to St Donat's for 2010's Beyond The Border International Storytelling Festival.
It was an absolute delight, with entertainers from all around the globe, but, it seemed, especially from Armenia this year!
The group called "Bro Ar Men" are, actually from Bretagne, but one of them is Armenian...and to my delight, they had a guest artist with them...
..a superb harp player called "Myrdhin" that I last saw in 2002 when we were living on the edge of the Forest of Broceliande (where he and his wife run a Harp Summer School each year). It was great to chat to him again!
The next act was a brilliant Armenian "ashik" called Seref Tasliova, who performed a story entitled "The Stone Brides".
After lunch, we went to the Bradenstoke Hall...
... to hear Ben Haggarty telling the story of Gilgamesh...
...and then to hear another Armenian, Vergine Gulbenkian, telling "The Sound Beneath the Waves", a story well-loved by both Armenians and Turks.
The setting of the festival is beautiful......
..and besides the storytelling and music...
..there are many other sights to see....
..including ladies with hair extensions that I would love to have had for spinning!!!
...more out than in..
..but I did manage to get somethings done :-)
Threads and fabrics that had been languishing in plastic food bags were an absolute delight when removed and dealt with!
..and I started some more stitched pieces....
This one's going to sit across the top of a large-ish cushion...
..and these cut-out Kuba shapes...
..will be used on the cushion, and on some brooches...
Saturday was gorgeous!!!...so the opportunity was grasped with both hands...
...and we went to St Donat's for 2010's Beyond The Border International Storytelling Festival.
It was an absolute delight, with entertainers from all around the globe, but, it seemed, especially from Armenia this year!
The group called "Bro Ar Men" are, actually from Bretagne, but one of them is Armenian...and to my delight, they had a guest artist with them...
..a superb harp player called "Myrdhin" that I last saw in 2002 when we were living on the edge of the Forest of Broceliande (where he and his wife run a Harp Summer School each year). It was great to chat to him again!
The next act was a brilliant Armenian "ashik" called Seref Tasliova, who performed a story entitled "The Stone Brides".
After lunch, we went to the Bradenstoke Hall...
... to hear Ben Haggarty telling the story of Gilgamesh...
...and then to hear another Armenian, Vergine Gulbenkian, telling "The Sound Beneath the Waves", a story well-loved by both Armenians and Turks.
The setting of the festival is beautiful......
..and besides the storytelling and music...
..there are many other sights to see....
..including ladies with hair extensions that I would love to have had for spinning!!!
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