Oh orange....I'm in love with you and your orange-ness

   

Today my post is about Orange. The colour.

It's my favourite colour in the world - it makes me literally salivate - smile. 

So, here we have it - some of the things I love that are orange:

           

      

    

 

   

  

           

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

And that's a tiny few!

Now breathe! Xx 

Sucker for souvenirs

I see an Information Centre in a town which I have never visited before - I go in.

If I don't see a pen for sale, I throw a tantrum and it sure ain't pretty.

But thankfully Ross - the cutest little town on the West Coast of the South Island has an Information Centre that sells pens and is also open 7 days a week.

Located in the historic end of the town, the old Bank of New South Wales houses a vast collection of great souvenirs as well as the crappy stuff. I love a bit of crappy.

Priced at a good old $1.70 - I had to buy a few pens.......postcards and of course, the infamous souvenir teaspoon for the 6-times-daily-at-least cuppa tea!

The old pub in this town is a gem as well. Dating back to the early 1900s, I am sure it was a "knock shop". But who cares....it's all part of it's spiciness.

 One of the many pub dogs.

 Stoking up the fire - with an entire tree!

The stag that sees everything (he told me it was once a 'Knock shop')

So, of course - I had to didn't I.... (they didn't sell pens...OK!) :)

A touch of old tree prunings and old houses

I never used to be a fan of wood. But in saying that, I guess what I was meaning was the old Lockwood style fake tongue-and-groove homes with too much glossy Rimu around the place.

Anyway, that was then and this is now.

Scandinavia. Oh I love you. IKEA. Oh I love you. Though both those places have nothing really to do with what I have created here, but it's where it all started.

Scandinavia and IKEA have something in common. Yes, IKEA is from over there, and yes, IKEA is renowned for it. Plain, natural wood.

I have just started creating wooden pieces of jewellery.

Firstly but not leastly, let me start off with these beauties:

Prunings from very old trees in Christchurch....

 

Each one is completely unique. Plum, Maple or Oak.

These have been taped off and painted in bright colours with a mix of gold paint...then sealed twice for protection.

Once finished, a large silver jump ring is added as well as a long silver plated chain.

The longest one in this set is off to Australia this week - it was snapped and sold while it was still drying.

The next selection of beads are also blonde natural wood - sustainably harvested again, of course.

Enormous geo beads are paired up with smaller round beads - together they look incredible with bright polymer clay beads and strung onto either black or bright yellow cord.