lovely things

great stuff going around on the internet. let's be thankful for that !

• interesting thought provoking read on crafts, craft practitioners  and craftsmanship.
• new earth friendly high tech (the three in the same sentence, yes) developments  using linen fibers.
• those on the japan trip will appreciate this color vocab list :) pay attention to the hex numbers, now you can use those colors in your graphics!
•  shifu for those who want to use it, but don't want/know how to make it: maybe you shifusers are familiar with this page. i just found it.

have a lovely thanksgiving those of you in the u.s. 

 don't get lured by the calls of black friday and cyber monday and please buy handmade!

neki desu

pressies

as i mentioned, vero had dinner with us after a long work day. not only that, but also  she brought pressies for us! i am the happy owner of the frou frou scarf above made needles to say by her.

blandina  gave me this skein of hand-spun nettle yarn.i know nettle is used as yarn in the himalayas, but had never seen it in person.

it's rustic charm send me shooting sparks  to the loom. already started a very shibui weave. it will be used for book pages.

raining again today. more time for weaving without distractions.

neki desu

mica male**

my r&r which was more like chateau et relais. got the above at the marche des pecheurs.
met this woman who is kinder and   much more charming in person than how she comes accross in her blog. had time to brush up my italian too.
got this for husband -san.


saw this             this

this             and this 

had time to laugh,eat, talk and  manage a one day bug which put me in a sorry state dinner with vero

even got pressies! but i'll talk about that tomorrow. the trip back was through the lovely golden and red vinyards of cote du rhone.
here are some more photos.it really doesn't look like i was in aix en provence ^_^

** not bad at all

neki desu