Arts and Crafts
January 19th, 2009
These are the two two-sided charms I made this weekend with my friend Jenny. She did the soldering because I’m scared of hot liquid metal, and she has a way of making almost impossible things look easy. The solitude/loneliness one was inspired by May Sarton’s line that “Loneliness is the poverty of self and solitude is the richness of self” and is not at all a reflection on the weekend, for the whole of which, in fact, loneliness was quite in abeyance. It was a lovely weekend, full of exuberant giggling girls and long and thoughtful conversations and chocolate and art-making in this perfect balance. Only now I’m home and tired and all the things I want to say about all things we talked about and the things I was reading and all of the thoughts having conversations with each other will have to wait.
January 20th, 2009 at 1:50 pm
Oooooooh prettttty. Is it wrong of me to like best the copperplate handwriting?
January 20th, 2009 at 8:30 pm
No more wrong than it was of me to pull a page of it out of its source and use it for collage!
These look so beautiful.
January 21st, 2009 at 7:14 am
Those are gorgeous! How big are they?
January 21st, 2009 at 11:22 am
So funny I couldn’t answer you, @missburrows, until I had pulled out a ruler and measured! They are one inch by three inches, just as I would have estimated.
February 7th, 2009 at 2:01 am
Ooh how clever are you? Gorgeous.