image saturation and an amazing walk

well i was going to add these a few at a time with some commentary and explanation but blogger yet again has decided to do what it wants and i'm too exhausted to fight it - but we really did have an amazing walk today - the weather is heaven and flowers abundant. got lots of things on the go and im having a free shipping sale on etsy for a week - after which i will have to put my shop on holiday for a while to sort out some things here and enjoy the spring.

caterpillar convoy

spring is defiantly here

though we are still plagued by totally mad south winds every few days - its been an intense winter of them - otherwise it smells fantastic

google is playing silly buggers again - just when i thought it was all dandy

had a lot of fun making this, it was an order, i was sent a 

morrocan amulet to make into something else - stupidly i didn't 

photograph it in its original state. essentially the leather comes 

from the original piece.

a lot of water this year

some soldering i have been playing with, silver copper and brass

with pebbles

alpaca and brass with amazonite (i think) still to add the hooks

alpaca and brass with sterling hooks and some lovely kyanite i

got from down under

the wild and scraggy mountain top

a pendant - fossilized bone from treasurehider - brass and leather

thank you all for your comments i really do appreciate them, at the moment i'm a bit of a reluctant blogger as i cant find the hours in the day for all the stuff i want to do and the little mishaps and boring stuff of functioning - cooking shopping etc that consume huge amounts of time.

loads of eye candy

a gris gris pouch

saddle stitch bone and stone

'crows feet' tiny pebbles - found crow leg bones, verdigris copper and plait

a beautiful walk on a horrible day

perry the poser - i swear he ran in for this shot and as soon as i 

lowered the phone he came over to see

table top eye candy

macrame pouch with tiny beach stones

a pendant of beach glass cloth and a roman thingy

phylakto - a protective amulet with lovely little rough cut rubies

another one

back of the first one, it warrants a view

this f_ing wind is driving me nuts

my favorite place and one i covet including the pine secluded 

meadows on either side of it. that tower thing is actually a aqueduct 

for a water mill below

more table top

perry always looks out of all the windows and in all the cupboards

colour

kayla at the top of the aqueduct

bone components _ i decided i needed to snort calcium that day

small amulet combo

a journey and then loads of work

well i went to montana for a while to see my dad back in january, then i came back and got so stuck in to making i forgot all about blogging, though not about walking the dogs. lucky for them - its that so much accumulates and then it becomes too much to tell. so here is to being lazy in the typing department and throwing in the visuals.
first 3 random shots from montana

and then some work, learning things all the time