inspiration

April Component of the Month! Headpins...

 (If you are looking for the "Inspired by Reading" post and creative reveal - please click here. )

Inspired by reading... Paris to the Moon

(If you are looking for the Art Jewelry Elements CoM reveal - it is located here.)

The Lady of Shalott

If it was the fall of 1981 - then I was 13. We were visiting Boston as a family; my older sister was looking at colleges. We - as good tourists do - went to Harvard Square, and to the Harvard Co-op. This image was on the front of a bin of posters, dorm room decor at its finest. I was stopped dead in my tracks. No one noticed but me - my family walked inside the store... It was that feeling that time was slowed, and all sound and motion around you has ceased to affect you. I was enchanted. I had no idea who William Holman Hunt was, neither had I ever heard of "The Lady of Shalott".

Simmering...

Its time to write the recipe, gather the ingredients, spice it up a bit... 

Its Bead Soup time again! 

Its the Journey... Focus on Life #2

“Not all those who wander are lost.” 

 J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

Journey year

History Hop... My Medieval muse, my Celtic roots.

Hop to it! (Just a wee pun for our hostess, Leah of Beady Eyed Bunny...)

The brief - select a period of History - which in and of itself was a HUGE challenge for me. I liked and was inspired by so many... and create a piece inspired by that time, those people, their materials, their style...The choices: 

Is your passport in order? Challenge of Travel preview (Part II)

Tomorrow is the big reveal - Erin's Challenge of Travel. Yesterday I shared information on famous German figures in science, literature, music. Today - the arts.

Start packing your bags... Challenge of Travel preview

This Saturday is Erin's Challenge of Travel blog hop reveal. Its a creative challenge to create a themed piece - in this case the country of your choice. Germany is mine. Not exotic, not a place that is known for a different design aesthetic - like  Japan or Aboriginal Austaralia. German is a large part of my heritage (along with Irish, Welsh and Scottish. Full Celt!) yet I have never been there.

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