The Ridge....

I found this on the  Curiosites de Titam blog.  Something that I would be too timid to do but am enthralled by this virtual journey. I could watch it over and over as there are so many images that appear and then vanish..

THE RIDGE from Camp 4 Collective on Vimeo.

And vis Curiosites as well this stunner. Odda in Norway.

via this site

In need of inspiration????

I seem to be being bombarded by ideas at the moment, not complaining you understand.  Rather that than sitting scatching my head.  Having had sparks fly at Textiles in Focus on Sunday this moning I found this on Neil Gaiman's journal


Intrigued I headed here and then here for the stories.  I have only read two but WOW.  What an amazing ideaand what an imagination he has.
Reading the January story I suddenly had an mage in my head, I wish I was properly able to interpret what I saw in my mind's eye.

I called it Happy New Year.

Time.....

I had a reminder that I was contributing to Sandy's Ideas of Inspiration blog and had fallen by the wayside, as indeed I seem to have done here. So full of resolve (not resolutions) when I saw the first idea of this new year "Time".  I was immediately reminded of the clock we had seen in the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg.  The Peacock clock.

This is a close up of the peacock,

because of the light it was difficult to photograph.  You Tube to the rescue.
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I apologise for the cross posting but I wanted the video here.

Inspiration...

I have just posted my contribution to this months theme of "crescents" over on the Ideas of Inspiration blog. It was a photohraph I took some years ago at the Millenium Seed Bank at Wakehurst Place.

 and of course I had to have a little play.

Going round in circles...........

One of the things I like about our EG meetings is that you never know what is going to happen, or what you are going to learn.  If we brush aside how to restore the fuses, which I didn't really want to know about, there were two other delights yesterday.  One was Susanne's demonstration of how to cast on a Moebius Scarf, this a You Tube demo link and this is a picture of mine at the moment.

I have no idea if it is correct and won't know until I cast off.  I had a terrible time fighting against "casting on " with the wool in the wrong hand.  Great fun, thanks Susanne.

The other was Fay's heads up on a new book by Jan Messent, Celtic, Viking and Anglo-Saxon Embroidery.. Gorgeous. I have ordered a copy. Thanks Fay.

I have been very remiss with my postings on Ideas of Inspiration, the first part of may was glittering gold, hope this will do.

The second part of May was the letter E, I think these will fit, I found them on my last visit to London

Just realised this one qualifies on both counts. Hurrah!

A,B,C.....

as inspiration.  I have noticed alphabets popping up  in the last few days. First on  Ideas of Inspiration and  Inchy by Inch

Then I saw a link to Anatassia Elias who has made a collage alphabet

 and you  look what she does with the inside of a toilet roll.

Of course I had to have a quick play.  Here is my digital ABC

Just a bit of Paintshop play.