Saturday was such a good day! Lorraine and Z and I met up to repeat the "bead walk" we took last year. Lorraine knows where all these little bead shops are around London and this time last year we met up and she showed us around. Was that the first time I met her? Maybe. The three of us have met up since then and always have such a good laugh. Saturday was about demotivational scrapbooking, bad friends, booze and biscuits, and how you finish the saying "speak of the devil..." We visited 5 or 6 bead shops (I know where they all are now Catherine, for your visit, and Lorraine loved your necklace.) I wanted bits and pieces for my Artfest charms. I have an idea involving acorns, but haven't been able to make acorns that I like yet. I found really funky glass toadstools on Saturday and am making these for trades:
Gocco spring card
This was done on two screens, one for the halftone dotted background created in Photoshop Elements and one for the branch of blossom. I had to do some nifty work with the ink blocker to do it. The ink colours are pearled cherry blossom (sakura), pearled lake blue (kosui), traditional brown (karacha).
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Living in London
Tonight I appreciated living in London. K met me after my artist books class. We walk down towards Holborn and onto the Strand to find somewhere for dinner. Then we walked across Waterloo Bridge. If I'd had my camera, I could show you a view including Big Ben, Parliament, the London Eye, the OXO tower, the 'gherkin', Royal Festival Hall, St. Paul's, Tower 42 (NatWest Tower). We arrived at the Old Vic and found our seats and watched Kevin Spacey and Jeff Goldblum perfom Speed-the-Plow. So good, so high energy, and they still seemed genuinely grateful for the applause.