Looks great in my kitchen along with one from their last tour here and my Kotche drumstick
Can't hardly wait for the Auckland AND Wellington shows in April :)
Saturday, January 26, 2013
Wilco will love you baby!
Framed up my new Wilco poster which my darling Sam just happened to find falling off a wall for me!
Looks great in my kitchen along with one from their last tour here and my Kotche drumstick
Still on the hunt for the '08 NZ tour, love my T-shirt from that show though, can't wear it much anymore for fear of it falling apart
although it is much better quality than the one I got in 2010
Can't hardly wait for the Auckland AND Wellington shows in April :)
Looks great in my kitchen along with one from their last tour here and my Kotche drumstick
Can't hardly wait for the Auckland AND Wellington shows in April :)
Friday, January 18, 2013
I heart orange
With Pea green, didn't notice the extra little blob of orange on the upper left until I looked at the photo.
This one in Dark sky blue (love the Wilco song Sky blue sky haha) has a
yuck grey haze over it, turquoise does the same. I'd read on Lampwork
Etc it can be removed with a soak in Coca Cola or Toilet Cleaner!! Also
advice to soak in jewellery pickle, not pickle juice which I was just
about to do before I read the whole sentence lol.
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Exuberant colour
A long time ago my favourite colour was purple, then for some unknown reason it changed to green. Whenever I have a container full of my beads there is an obvious predominance of blues and greens, especially transparent or translucent blue,s greens, purples.
I've rarely felt like using opaques, (other then ivory or sediment bases) and pretty much steered clear of primary colours altogether.
Lately though I've been lured by the beauty of Special Orange, which has led to further dabbling with opaque red, yellow, green. I think it's a gateway colour:)
I love how it offsets Sky Blue on this heart, I have more colourful hearts in the kiln tonight.
And then I started mixing it up in these 'fiesta' big hole beads which remind me of Mexico and also ended up triangular because they have three spots each.
I've rarely felt like using opaques, (other then ivory or sediment bases) and pretty much steered clear of primary colours altogether.
Lately though I've been lured by the beauty of Special Orange, which has led to further dabbling with opaque red, yellow, green. I think it's a gateway colour:)
These disc flowers I've made a few times recently, great for earrings threaded on to hoops. I made Purple, Twilight Jungle and a few others, but the orange are definitely the happiest!
Friday, January 11, 2013
Creative Trade
So my trade with Megan of Megan Mae Daily is complete, She wore the fish necklace I sent her with a super cute outfit here...
http://www.meganmaedaily.com/2013/01/with-fishes.html
and I put some of her gorgeous button flowers and obi belt together to brighten my favourite denim
I love them so much, I also put a green one on my brown corduroy hat and still need to accessorise whippet collars with some next:)
http://www.meganmaedaily.com/2013/01/with-fishes.html
and I put some of her gorgeous button flowers and obi belt together to brighten my favourite denim
I love them so much, I also put a green one on my brown corduroy hat and still need to accessorise whippet collars with some next:)
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Orange crush
Still loving using orange glass at the moment.
I just put together another 28 big hole beads for the gallery in Tutukaka but totally forgot to take pictures before I sent them. Thought of it about ten minutes after I'd posted them!
There was a fair bit of orange in amongst them though.
I plan on using a lot more exuberant colours this year.
Luckily I still have a bunch of Special Orange to keep going with, not sure why I even ordered it in the first place but it's great with purple and turquoise and green etc lol, funny how I overlooked it for so long:)
I just put together another 28 big hole beads for the gallery in Tutukaka but totally forgot to take pictures before I sent them. Thought of it about ten minutes after I'd posted them!
There was a fair bit of orange in amongst them though.
I plan on using a lot more exuberant colours this year.
Luckily I still have a bunch of Special Orange to keep going with, not sure why I even ordered it in the first place but it's great with purple and turquoise and green etc lol, funny how I overlooked it for so long:)
Thursday, December 27, 2012
Koi inspiration and evolution
Wandering around the internet I came across Megan Mae Daily wonderful silk button flowers and obi belts.
(http://www.meganmaedaily.com/p/obi-belts.html)
(http://www.meganmaedaily.com/p/buttonflowers.html)
I just adore them, they are so individual and just what I need... mine are in the mail!
Megan agreed to a partial trade with one of my beads and requested one of my fish beads...
in colours to go with her fantastic koi socks shown here: http://www.meganmaedaily.com/2012/11/koi-socks.html
I love when I get outside inspiration from such a creative source. It took me a couple of experiments to come up with a koi fish I was happy with, technically it isn't a bead because I ended up stretching out the body and making the tail closed in off the end of the mandrel.So I had to glue in a bail for him to hang from but I love the shape and how the curve makes it look like it's swimming, so much better than the fat barrel fish I made before!
and how it looks more opaque under indoor lights. I think the green is effetre olive, I just had a half rod of the colour I had in mind. It was so much fun to make and I got really excited with ideas and possibilities. I'm definitely going to be making more fish and using more of this orange.
(http://www.meganmaedaily.com/p/obi-belts.html)
(http://www.meganmaedaily.com/p/buttonflowers.html)
Megan agreed to a partial trade with one of my beads and requested one of my fish beads...
in colours to go with her fantastic koi socks shown here: http://www.meganmaedaily.com/2012/11/koi-socks.html
I love when I get outside inspiration from such a creative source. It took me a couple of experiments to come up with a koi fish I was happy with, technically it isn't a bead because I ended up stretching out the body and making the tail closed in off the end of the mandrel.So I had to glue in a bail for him to hang from but I love the shape and how the curve makes it look like it's swimming, so much better than the fat barrel fish I made before!
I fell in love with this bright 'special' effetre orange too,
I love how the colour intensifies more in some spots
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Oh baby baby it's all about the moon
Oh Regina Spektor overwhelms me with how intensely beautiful her voice and music and smile and presence are!
I don't try and record sound when I go to shows because I want to be IN the moment, not trying to capture something which will never be as good as BEING THERE but I couldn't resist taking a couple of photos. There are a couple of clips on youtube too but nothing that compares to what we saw ('from the cheap seats' haha) the third row slightly to the left was the perfect spot, if we'd been on the right of the aisle I would have been disapointed to see mostly the back of her head or any closer I think mostly the side of the piano.
She spoke to me directly too, (not as thrilling as when Jeff Tweedy did but still lovely) when three songs in she was having technical difficulties with seeing the keys and was waiting adorably embarressed and slightly awkward for it to be rectified I called out 'sing silly eye colour gen-er-al-a-zi-ations', (try saying it ten times fast lol) because it's one of my favourites and acapella so I hoped she might bust it out, but she covered her mouth in the sweetest way and said 'oh god, do you think with all this jetlag I could get all that out!'.
Its so obvious to say that anything is better live but I was completely awestruck by all the power and strength in her singing. I thought I liked her newer songs a little less than the Begin to Hope days, but seeing the newer songs in person fully made me melt and fall in love with them all completely.
The start of All the rowboats has huge 'boof-boof' sound effects which I had thought were made by a drum machine or something like that, but no, it's just Regina's own mouth and voice amplified and unbelievably.
I just love her even more now and reconfirmed to myself just how important and worthwhile seeing a live show really is and just how wonderful and tingly and slightly tearful it makes me:)
I don't try and record sound when I go to shows because I want to be IN the moment, not trying to capture something which will never be as good as BEING THERE but I couldn't resist taking a couple of photos. There are a couple of clips on youtube too but nothing that compares to what we saw ('from the cheap seats' haha) the third row slightly to the left was the perfect spot, if we'd been on the right of the aisle I would have been disapointed to see mostly the back of her head or any closer I think mostly the side of the piano.
She spoke to me directly too, (not as thrilling as when Jeff Tweedy did but still lovely) when three songs in she was having technical difficulties with seeing the keys and was waiting adorably embarressed and slightly awkward for it to be rectified I called out 'sing silly eye colour gen-er-al-a-zi-ations', (try saying it ten times fast lol) because it's one of my favourites and acapella so I hoped she might bust it out, but she covered her mouth in the sweetest way and said 'oh god, do you think with all this jetlag I could get all that out!'.
Its so obvious to say that anything is better live but I was completely awestruck by all the power and strength in her singing. I thought I liked her newer songs a little less than the Begin to Hope days, but seeing the newer songs in person fully made me melt and fall in love with them all completely.
The start of All the rowboats has huge 'boof-boof' sound effects which I had thought were made by a drum machine or something like that, but no, it's just Regina's own mouth and voice amplified and unbelievably.
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