Arts and Crafts
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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.
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Oooooooh prettttty. Is it wrong of me to like best the copperplate handwriting?
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.
Those are gorgeous! How big are they?
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.
Ooh how clever are you? Gorgeous.