Lost in the fog somewhere in NL
Thursday, September 27, 2012
Saturday, September 1, 2012
The Challenge of Travel Blog Hop
The premise of this blog hop was to travel places we've never been through jewellery. I chose New Zealand since it's a country I've never been too... when I think of New Zealand I think of bright greens and blues surrounding Mountains and of course Kiwi birds.... Well my kiwi bird bead has a lovely background but the little brown blob did nothing for me so it is no residing in Fred Fishes aquarium. (One of these days he's going to run out of aquarium to swim in!)
As I was strolling through photos of New Zealand I kept running into sets for the Tolkien books... I've always loved the intro to The Hobbit... so my necklace is a tribute to Bilbo and all the hours of pleasure people have had reading about him.... I've even include the door into his hobbit hole as a bead in my necklace ....
Using the flag as a jumping off point was suggested... well it's red white and blue with Stars and a union Jack... Those colours are not New Zealand in my mind! I see New Zealand as blues, greens purples and more blues....
New Zealand's aboriginal population are the Maori's... traditionally they had elaborate tattoos... The tattoos remind me a bit of the intricately filigreed steel beads that I've been enamelling for the last 18 months... so my trip through New Zealand is colour.
The necklace has a lampworked tree bead as a focal and then grades up through blue water, green trees, purple mountains and then back into blue sky; my version of a New Zealand landscape.
I've finished the necklace with one of my enameled toggles! All components of this necklace are made by me except for the chain which was purchased as chain.
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole and that means comfort.
It had a perfectly round door like a porthole, painted green, with a shiny yellow brass knob in the exact middle. The door opened on to a tube-shaped hall like a tunnel; a very comfortable tunnel without smoke, with panelled walls, and floors tiled and carpeted, provided with polished chairs, and lots and lots of pegs for hats and coats - the hobbit was fond of visitors. (From 'the Hobit' JR Tolkein)
And speaking of visiting I would love you to visit me on this blog hop! Don't forget to visit the other participants! A list can be found here! http://treasures-found.blogspot.ca/
New Zealand's aboriginal population are the Maori's... traditionally they had elaborate tattoos... The tattoos remind me a bit of the intricately filigreed steel beads that I've been enamelling for the last 18 months... so my trip through New Zealand is colour. 
The necklace has a lampworked tree bead as a focal and then grades up through blue water, green trees, purple mountains and then back into blue sky; my version of a New Zealand landscape.
I've finished the necklace with one of my enameled toggles! All components of this necklace are made by me except for the chain which was purchased as chain.
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole and that means comfort.
It had a perfectly round door like a porthole, painted green, with a shiny yellow brass knob in the exact middle. The door opened on to a tube-shaped hall like a tunnel; a very comfortable tunnel without smoke, with panelled walls, and floors tiled and carpeted, provided with polished chairs, and lots and lots of pegs for hats and coats - the hobbit was fond of visitors. (From 'the Hobit' JR Tolkein)
And speaking of visiting I would love you to visit me on this blog hop! Don't forget to visit the other participants! A list can be found here! http://treasures-found.blogspot.ca/
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