Back home

I've been away for about a week........and the train journey there wasn't exactly pleasant!  The constant rain has played havoc with many train routes in the U.K.  Some rail tracks have been mangled by the force of the overflowing rivers, as if they were just toy sets. Usually my journey to my parents house takes around 5 hours 15 mins, but this time it took 6 hrs 20mins, which means I was lucky I suppose as many people had to wait much longer than that.  1 taxi tide, a packed coach, 2 trains, and a car journey later and I arrived at my destination. 

 Never mind.........a cozy house and chocolates made up for it............and there were many,  many chocolate bars - dark chocolate with mint, dark chocolate with orange, dark chocolate assortments.....so I think I'll be stocked up for a while.  :D 

Old room

 One day I'd like to move out of my city, and move somewhere greener so I can look out of my window and see what I used to see out of my old room.  You can just about see Tremadog Bay, a part of the Irish Sea
 in the distance.

Waiting........

Can't wait until my silver leaf arrives this week (fingers crossed) - then I'll be able to work on some of my pieces.  

These ones in the bottom picture are quite festive I think (maybe not the spiral one)!  I wanted to make something festive and whimsical, and that's how I came up with the candy cane idea.

I really want to finish that candy cane one actually.......the one with the mica flakes centre......but I can't finish them properly until I have that silver leaf.  I'll have to post photos of these again, in daylight, because at the moment it's dark so much of the time that it's really difficult to get some good light.  Apparently some new light bulbs will be available to buy in 2013 that are better than LEDs, and even better than full spectrum light bulbs since they won't contain any nasty mercury (I've had to massive light-saving ones shatter on me recently, and as it's not the best thing for your health, I'm a bit scared to handle them now)!!

Jester - Part 9 & 10

Art nouveau pendant

Hmmm......I think this is going to be quite a difficult one......

Tins

I don't usually do this, but I couldn't resist!  Today I saw a beautiful biscuit tin in a supermarket.  They were on sale with 50% off the original price - they were £5 down from £10 (I wouldn't have bought it for £10, though).  I liked them so much I bought two as Christmas gifts.........and one for myself. 

The chocolate biscuits inside are nice (made with butter, no vegetable oils) , and I love the design on the tins.  Very Parisian art nouveau I thought.  It reminds me a little bit of some of Alphonse Mucha's work.  I went to their website, and it turns out they have more collectible tins! 

http://www.biscuiterie-mere-poulard.fr/boutique/fr/14-coffrets-collector

Maybe it's a good thing I can't buy them as well....lol.

Pink flower macros

I've bought myself a new camera :D, because the old one was a bit pathetic and wasn't working proper;y anymore.  Even though the old point & shoot was prone to taking blurry shots, the one good thing that it did manage to do was macros. 

I'm looking forward to testing out my new camera over Christmas.  Sadly, there probably won't be any pretty frosty shots this year because it's simply not cold enough yet.

Anyway, here are some pink flower macros I took with my previous Canon A1000 (a nice colour to have around when the weather is dull and miserable).