Africa the beautiful... Swaziland

Whoever said
orange, blue, grey and green don't look gorgeous together?





House on fire: an artistic venue which every year hosts a large festival featuring various African bands, atracting visitors from all the neighboring countries.
You can buy your tickets from this awesome ticket booth...

And you can dance or sit down on the grass here...

You can read all about it  here http://www.house-on-fire.com/

And when you come, they'll welcome you with flowers...



 And a Rumi poem...(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumi)

In Africa, there is always some animal roaming free anywhere you go...

And lots and lots of palm trees...

And sausage trees...

And lovely lodges with rooms with thatched roof, under which you can sleep after your senses are left overwhelmed with the colors, the smells, the wild...

Meaning

My, I've been blog-lazy!...
But I have been working hard, and I'm trying, again, to do different things.

More and more, I feel like making pieces that speak to me, that have meaning, and are not just a simple collection of nice materials in complementing colors.

This one started the moment I purchased the pendant online: a handmade ceramic house (from Captured Moments on etsy). There and then I had the title for the piece: Home is where the heart is. I think it came out because sometimes more than others, I miss home.

I filled the pendant with resin and words cut out from a vintage dictionary (home; refuge of our lives), sawed a heart with I stamped with the word "safe", cut a hole in it which I filled with resin colored with turmeric (and you thought it was only good for curries...), prepared another bezel with resin, a map and the word "where" and added warm colors in gemstones and silk. Home, warm, safe, refuge...