Okay, so I like Van Morrison but the real reason for this post was I keep forgetting that not everyone who reads my blog also looks at the pictures on flickr. I really haven't been keeping up with showing some of my more recent crochet covered sea stones. I was thinking about this after selling so many at the trunk sale and then they just literally flew out of the etsy shop monday evening ( a record I think ). Although I may never see these stones again at least I have the photographs of them. I get quite attached to these when I am making them. You see because I actually do about half of the work with the stone in my hands or lap we become quite close.
There are actually at least three stone that I am so far unable to part with if you wonder why they keep showing up in my photographs. I want to share some up close and personal pictures with you.
My stones are like snowflakes, no two are exactly alike. I think that is what makes it so interesting for me. I am going to start a flickr group for the stones that have been sold and gone to loving homes around the world. It will be like the fern animal group Ashley started. I would love to see the stones in their new environments and it would especially be wonderful if you would take some pictures of them in a natural setting that is especially significant for you.
absolutely wonderful!
Posted by: Terisa | February 12, 2009 at 02:03 AM
they are so pretty, guess no I really want one
Posted by: Kaylovesvintage | February 12, 2009 at 05:09 AM
i realised today why i like your covered stones so much: for me, they are a delicate union between a woman and nature, threading layers of history and other women together. so beautiful.
Posted by: melissa | February 12, 2009 at 07:06 AM
Absolutely beautiful!
I think I'm in love.
Posted by: Creative Origins | February 12, 2009 at 07:20 AM
Maggie~
I love all of your stones but
I think that my favorite ones
are the ones that look like
sand dollars or Sea urchins
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mary_faith/2919705596/
I realize that alot of your stones
do look like the dried shell
of the Sea Urchin after the spines
are off. I love all of them!
I would love to see you cover a
Sea urchin shell like this too!
I cant wait to see these stones
on flicker! I am nosey that way,
to see into the eyes of others
how they view beauty, and how they
would place something for a photo.
They are all different!
Thanks for the great photos as
allways!
Rane
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Posted by: Rane | February 12, 2009 at 08:33 AM
Your Stones are so wonderbeautiful ! Each has his own personnality. I can imagine how difficult it is for you to let them go ... But I'm sure that their lucky new owners know how precious they are and will love them so much and will find them a special place ...
Thank you, Margie, to make me think to visit you on flyckr.
Posted by: nanou | February 12, 2009 at 02:43 PM
Your Flickr group is a wonderful idea, we have a little trip planned this weekend to the beach with the sugared almond stones, I am hoping that Feste and stripy swimmer will be interested in coming along, we may even have some sunshine! Thinking of you and the long journeys your stones in coats have undertaken. Lovely to see them in their new homes.
X
Posted by: lisa | February 12, 2009 at 03:56 PM
*sigh* Margie! *blush* today I am
a bad speller, not the first day
and no the last.
Posted by: Rane | February 12, 2009 at 07:12 PM
dear margie.
i have not left you a little note in a while... though i am still reading. i just used your knitted bunny tutorial for a valentines day bunny for my boyfriend ( a lil white one with a red vintage lace bow!)
also on a side note. a lovely lady in my 21st century art class just did a project on the amazing knit graffiti artists knitta please... if you haven't already heard of them you should most definatly check them out...
http://knittaplease.com/ABOUT.html
maybe next time I come to Toronto we could do a little yarn bombing of our own!
love from winnipeg
emily
Posted by: Emily | February 12, 2009 at 07:19 PM
How about making some of these over pastel eggs or in pastel colors over papermache eggs for Easter??
Posted by: Pam | February 13, 2009 at 03:41 PM
wow! this is sooo cool!!
Posted by: Fee | February 18, 2009 at 03:58 PM
I like your new blog header/layout. The IT department at my university rolled out thin clients in our library a few months ago. There have been some software issues, but overall
they are working fine. It's been a bit of a learning curve for the students, but I think everyone is getting used to them. The library was the first installment but they're
hoping to transition all labs on campus to thin clients in the near future.We're working on a renovation as well, so this was helpful to think about moving beyond computers.
Thanks!
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Sometimes it is not what happens that is the gift but what we learn. This is our doing - it is not the awful event that is the gift but how we respond.
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