My week - a birthday, a bay and bracelets.

 What a lovely week!

 Our beautiful daughter turned 21 this week and we travelled to Wollongong to celebrate with her.
We went for a picnic and found this fabulous bay which looks perfect for snorkelling.
We'll be back!

Then there was dinner and of course cake!
It's a double layer mud cake - uses 4 big blocks of chocolate - Oh, the decadence!

A small amount of creativity has been going on.
I've been making some cards which I forgot to take photos of.

And these bracelets which I made from some beads donated by Sue of metal and stone. These will go into the free goody bags which we give to customers at our craft collective The Nook at Leura, during the annual Leura village fair.

This afternoon it stopped raining enoughto go out for a little walk to a local lookout.

 On the way the sulphur-crested cockatoos were enjoying a snack -

 When we got to the lookout it looked like there was more rain on the way.

And there were lots of flowers out, including this Isopogon.

How was your week?

Cloud Atlas

Still on the theme of clouds!

How appropriate that Jennifer Byrne's classic pick tonight on The 1st Tuesday Book Club on TV was Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell.
Have you read it?

I found it thoroughly engrossing!
The book consists of six nested stories  they are folded inside each other) telling stories from the past to the deep future and they are all connected very cleverly.

Sorry - you can't really click to look inside here - but this edition has such a pretty cover!

If you've read it - tell me what you thought of it.

Mad about clouds

My husband took a photo yesterday of some lovely wispy clouds and I started thinking about how varied and everchanging clouds are.
Do you remember playing that game when you were a child - lying on your back, looking up at the sky and making pictures out of clouds?

It strikes me that clouds can still inspire creativity!

You can photograph clouds!

photograph by ellemoss

You can paint clouds -

painting by soloworkstudio

you can wear clouds,

dress by northbrooklydrygood

in many different ways.



Earrings -

cloud earrings by zoozjewelry

necklace -

ceramic necklace by chARiTyelise

You can crochet clouds (who knew?!)

necklace by HoKiou

You can stick them on your wall.

decals by greywolfgraphics

You can find many used for these sweet cloud dishes -

bowls by dgordon

or snuggle up with cloud pillows -

pillow by myfavoritedress

and stick pins in a cloud -

pin cushion by spincushions

And of course clouds are perfect for a mobile -

mobile by madeleinesergeant

I have in mind that I should design a cloud tshirt for Boos Tees.
What do you think?

Do you have some special cloud memories?