Blackberries and mild days of Autumn.

....and as another week ends and we are a day nearer to the onset of Winter, we are still having very mild Autumn days and nights, last night reaching 18 degrees C still at around 8/9pm and did mean that Izabel panted her way through the early hours of this morning before either she, or I, nodded off to sleep in exhaustion.

 

I am still remembering Autumn, the berries and golden vines.

 

 

This bead is one of my favourites of the week, its a big bead with layers of glass, gold and silver leaf and lots and lots of hand pulled canes in which I can mix the colour to get what I want.

Its not always easy to mix glass colours as they don't mix like paint, blue and yellow don't always make green and red and white don't make pink, its a lengthy process of layering the glass and pulling into canes which can be used to 'paint' onto glass.  I am really enjoying this painting style of bead making it both relaxing and meditative and I have found that I prefer to work without the radio on so I can disappear into my own world for hours at a time.

Autumn at the river

 

Well its only day 3 of Blogtoberfest and I am already flagging, not for blogging so much but for just feeling completely and utterly pants with this virus.  This is my first virus of the Winter season, or should that be Autumnal season?  either way the weather has changed from sunny skies to damp mornings and the leaves are no longer green and glossy on the trees but turning the russet reds and golden browns tinted with lime greens, the Autumn colours.

 

I was walking with the dogs down at the river (River Wye) this morning and found some lovely ripe blackberries, which I was picking and eating, blackberries are good for a sore throat right? and decided to take a couple of Autumnal pictures for my blog post today, seeing as work in the studio has come to a halt due to lack of energy, rather than playing with glass every minute I can during the day I am counting the minutes until my next lot of pain killers to top up my levels in my blood stream, which I am sure is gloopy green and slimey reflecting how I feel..me whine at being ill.....never!

 

 

 

Beautiful red berries dusted with dew

 

Blackberries, you can see how many I ate!  I am sure they have healing properties.....

 

Dewdrop, this was actually taken the other day on my phone, all my photos at the river are taken on my phone, its not a bad camera really.

 

Right off to the settee, I feel a day of nothing and crocheting socks coming on will take pictures...on the phone...for tomorrows blog......

 

 

Laney x

A head for flowers.

Autumn Fruits

Its something new for me.  Tiaras.  I was asked to enter a competition, open to all mediums.  I wanted to do a finished piece, as opposed to 'just' beads, but didn't want to make a necklace or bracelet, so I took a few days to think about it.  At first I was going to do something 'arty' like stitching the flowers onto a canvas to create a picture, but decided that my sewing skills are not good enough and eventually came up with tiaras, no sewing skills necessary!  This is the one that I am going to enter into the competition, a collection of Poppies, Blueberries, Acorns, Blackberries, Poppy seed heads and sculpted leaves.  My daughter modelled the tiaras for me, but I wasn't allowed to use her face...she had no makeup on!  I did get one with a smile though.....

Autumn Fruits Tiara with a smile!!

 

 

 I made two tiaras.  This is the second one, even though it was the first one I made! 

Blue Roses

 I really enjoyed making these, even if my fingers were sore for days, all that wire wrapping! 

As the sun has been out over the last couple of days, making it actually feel like summer, I have taken a few pictures of my beads for putting on Etsy, the sun really makes a difference.  These are Meadow Cranes Bill.

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The sunshine really makes glass sparkle.