Merry-Go-Round - Visual Inspiration 2 - Sand in my shoes...

Jump on our merry go round and join a group of artists/crafts-women from around the world as they link hands and tell you a little bit about their lives in craft.

Do look up the answers from the rest of this band of crafters (links to your left).

If they haven't all posted yet, remember we all live in different time zones and check again later...

This month:

Create something inspired by the photo published by another merry-goer.

A lucky accident has me working on Samantha's unorthodox post last month— holiday photos.

Sand, beach fun, more sand.

I cannot imagine anything more fitting for me, generally, and this year in particular, when I particularly long to enjoy the beaches of the Atlantic and a bit of farniente this summer.

So, here goes!

I'm calling it Remembrances of Beaches Past.

;)

I am the eye in the sky...

Merry-Go-Round - Visual Inspiration

Jump on our merry go round and join a group of artists/crafts-women from around the world as they link hands and tell you a little bit about their lives in craft.

Do look up the answers from the rest of this band of crafters (links to your left).

If they haven't all posted yet, remember we all live in different time zones and check again later...

This month:

A photo that inspires you.

This photo inspires me in that it is the positive I get out of a not so pleasant time.

As you can see, it tells of movement, speed, travel.

It was taken from a train, on one of the several trips I've had to take over the past four weeks. Because of a mix of professional and personal obligations, this has been a very busy month, both at home and elsewhere. And not in a creative way, I'm afraid.

Actually, I'm on my way again this afternoon, and then again on Tuesday (flying off to Edinburgh for a few days) for the only one among those trips that I have looked forward to a little bit, if only because I chose to go, as opposed to being made to... There'll be one more train trip, And then I really look forward to a quiet, creative summer, mostly at home...

The reason why I like this photo, is that I can sit back and look at the movement and all that green. A bit like when I'm on the train. I find it soothing. I enjoy being in transit. It's all the bother before and after that I mind...

I'll try to take a photo from the plane too!

PS: I also have True Blood, 3 rd season, and Mad Men, 4th season, to go home to! Just so you know how much I long for some quiet here...

***** RAIATEA RELIEF SPECIAL *****

There was a massive landslide in the south of the small French Polynesia island where I took my first steps and hope to take a few steps again someday.

Several families lost their houses and everything in it and some will not be compensated by their insurance companies (yes, I kow!).

Out of all combined purchase totalling 15 euros in my shop, 5 euros will be given to Secours O Sinistrés Raiatea (www.sos-raiatea.com)

(30 euros —> 10 euros given etc.)

***** RAIATEA RELIEF SPECIAL *****

Il y a eu un glissement de terrain catastrophique au sud de cette petite île polynésienne où j'ai fait mes premiers pas et où je ne désespère pas d'en refaire quelques-uns un jour, et plusieurs familles ont tout perdu en perdant leur maison.

Le droit des assurances, différent en Polynésie de ce qu'il est en Métropole a permis à certaines compagnies d'assurances de classer les demandes d'indemnisation sans suite. Tout simplement...

Tout achat de 15 euros dans mes boutiques me permettra de rajouter 5 euros à mon dons personnel à l'association locale Secours O Sinistrés Raiatea (www.sos-raiatea.com : n'hésitez pas à faire votre don directement à l'association si rien ne vous tente !).

(30 euros —> 10 euros donnés etc.).

Merry-Go-Round - Time— to manage or not to manage

Jump on our merry go round and join a group of artists/crafts-women from around the world as they link hands and tell you a little bit about their lives in craft.

Do look up the answers from the rest of this band of crafters (links to your left).

If they haven't all posted yet, remember we all live in different time zones and check again later...

This month:

Time management— how do you juggle your time— how do you wish you could juggle your time?

"Juggle" is about right...

At the moment, for instance, I'm having to deal with an overload of work in my day job and that has to take priority. Whenever that happens, I don't have any time for creation and I just deal with orders, if any...

Sometimes, after a long day of working for my day-job, I will have an outburst of creativity and suddenly put together one or several items in one evening. But I prefer to be able to take a whole day when I work on something, often working on several things in parallel, exploring techniques and allowing projects to "mull" some...

Over the past few years, I have dedicated all or nearly all my leisure time to Le Bar du Vent, researching or actually designing / crafting. That is how I juggle my time and my double life— one day at a time.

Secret Paris

View from the room I was staying in. View AND perfume...