This photo was emailed to me by my friend, fellow blogger and jeweller Paula Lindblom. I was telling her about the red nose day we have in the UK, for charity...and thought I would send her one. The image shows Paula enjoying her new jewellery!
I Like to listen to music as I blog...and often in my studio as I make and think about my work. This album is one of my all time favourites along with Harvest and Everybody knows.
Where until recently a clear, minimalist design language often without any
decoration prevailed, as is now increasingly colorful patterns visible. Stoffe,
Keramiken oder Papier mit abstrakten, sich wiederholenden Mustern zu verzieren,
ist nicht mehr länger verpönt. Materials, ceramics or paper with abstract,
repetitive patterns to adorn, is no longer frowned upon. Es lebe das Ornament!
Long live the ornament!
38 craftsmen and designers from Germany, Britain,
Sweden, Switzerland and the U.S. show in June and July in the form of Hanover
craft exhibits, which the lavish variety of nature as a model.Represented are
the works of glass, ceramic, metal, paper, textiles and jewelry.We exhibit: Markus Akesson (S) - Miriam Arentz - Ingrid Bärndal (S) - Andrea Borst - Sarah Caputo (GB) - Claudia Diehl - Claus Dorsch - Pia Duppich - Jan + Dagmar Eiden - Marie Fernström (S) - Carola Gänsslen - Masha Ginsburg - Gabriele Green - Henning Greve / Elsa Töbelmann - Barbara Guthmann - Joanne Haywood (GB) - Katja Höltermann - Christina Hoge - Jürgen Kreuchauff - Myong-ae Kyong - Christine Lambrecht - Julia Langstein - Catarina Larsson (S) - Eva Liebmann - Maria Liliegren (S) - Traudel Lindauer - Waltraud G. Linnemann - Ruth Löbe - Maria Magdalena Nawrath - Gitta Pielcke - Monika Schönholzer (CH) - Stefanie Seitinger (USA) - Martina Sigmund-Servetti - Britta Sommer - Dirk Tietgen / Petra Schmalz - Musin Won (GB) - Silke Wrede - Hugo Zumbühl (CH) Markus Åkesson (S) - Miriam Arentz - Ingrid Bärndal (S) - Andrea Borst - Sarah Caputo (GB) - Claudia Diehl - Claus Dorsch - Pia Duppich - Jan + Dagmar Eiden - Marie Fernström (S) - Carola Gänsslen - Masha Ginsburg -- Gabriele Green - Henning Greve / Elsa Töbelmann - Barbara Guthmann - Joanne Haywood (GB) - Katja Hölter man - Christina Hoge - Jürgen Kreuchauff - Kyong Myong-ae - Christine Lambrecht - Lang Julia Stone - Catarina Larsson (S) - Eva Liebmann - Maria Liliegren ( S) - Traudel Lindauer - Waltraud G. Linnemann - Ruth Löbe - Maria Magdalena Nawrath - Gitta Pielcke - Monika Schönholzer (CH) - Stefanie Seitingen (USA) - Martina Sigmund Servetti - Britta Summer - Dirk Tietgens / Petra lard - Musin Won ( GB) - Silke Wrede - Hugo Zumbühl (CH)
http://www.handwerksform.de/http://www.hwk-hannover.de/webview23/23,45,1259.html
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"This garden is probably the most famous of the separate gardens at
Sissinghurst. It was started in 1950 by replanting the garden to the east of the
Priest's House, retaining the original layout but fusing a color scheme of
silver and white: focusing on plants with gray or white foliage and flowers of
mainly white, but with touches of yellow. It is unclear what inspired Vita to
create this monochromatic garden. Through her writings we know she had been
thinking about creating a white garden for at least a decade. Although other
white gardens in England (such as the phlox garden at Hidcote) predated this
one, they did not seem to have an influence on the development of the White
Garden at Sissinghurst. Some speculate that she was inspired by descriptions of
white gardens from hundreds of years earlier in Moghul India."http://www.hort.wisc.edu/mastergardener/Features/botgardens/sissinghurst/sissinghurst.htm
This image shows the Beehives at Sissinghurst, you can pick up some honey made by the bees from the gift shop and the vegetables grown in the vegetable plot will be used to feed visitors in the restaurant. http://sissinghurstandfrittendennews.thisiskent.co.uk/2009/04/sissinghurst-vegetable-garden-soon-to.html