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sistine chapel
04 Friday Jun 2010
Category Archives: art
made in sevilla
07 Friday May 2010
Remember when I started shopping for the new azahar sevilla store awhile back? Well, finding merchandise turned out to be more difficult than I’d expected, mostly because people making arts & crafts don’t tend to have much of a markup and so cannot offer a wholesale price. And cold calls (even in person) didn’t seem to go over very well. So, although the store has been ready for a couple of months now (thanks Tal!) the shelves are still empty and I was beginning to despair. And then …
make your own jackson pollock
05 Monday Apr 2010
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diana porter jewellery
09 Tuesday Mar 2010
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it’s about wisdom, it’s about togetherness whilst being separate,
it’s about change, it’s about the spirit in all of us, it’s about tiny precious moments,
it’s about knowing and not knowing…and on and on…
Ever since my friend Lizzie in Bristol sent me a small catalogue of Diana Porter’s fabulous jewellery (about ten years ago?) I have longed to own, well, almost everything she makes. But I especially like the sibyl necklace collection. It’s been interesting to notice how my preferred words have changed over the years. I think if I were to get one of these today I would pick: strong, joyful and listen.
The choice of words for this collection are: calm, clarity, confident, flexibility, fulfilled, humour, joyful, listen, open, play, pleasure, powerful, responsibility, safe, secure, space, strong, sure, unafraid, vision, warm.
Which words would you choose?
Diana Porter Contemporary Jewellery
picasso’s guernica in 3d
14 Sunday Feb 2010
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This is a stunning video by Lena Gieseke.
Guernica is one of the few paintings I’ve seen up close & personal
that actually took my breath away. And so does this short film.
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