Picnic

Yes, the perfectly simple way to share a meal, be outside, enjoy reading or sleeping or playing a game...
However this "Picnic" is the name given to the humble starting of a small creative duo - that being my sister, Abi, and myself.

From my side, Picnic takes the form of 'handmade handpainted ceramic jewelry'.

This is something I started doing over a year ago, just for fun, to create pieces that I could wear to spice up my own, and rather small, everyday jewelry collection. But after much encouragement I have been putting more energy into it and at the end of last year even went public and set up a tiny stand at a small local market...

The results were far better than I expected: people actually bought my jewelry!!

This year I plan to put that much more energy into this venture... so keep your eyes open.

Holiday Pastimes

One of those glorious things that I doubt I will ever get tired of is the three month holiday at the end of every year - a definite perk in the life of a student!

I've been spending my time excitedly planning for our trip to Ethiopia (which includes an unforgiving amount of vaccinations). We leave on Monday - are going north of Addis Ababa and then south, in just under a month, and thats about the extent of the itinerary as it stands :)

Besides stocking up on Rehydrate, 'just in case' antibiotics and some new walking shoes, I have been making some new jewelry - more on that soon, drawing for the Portrait Project  that Lucky Pony is running, enjoying early Christmas celebrations with Curt's family, who will be all over the country closer to the time, going to the my favourite Saturday morning spot - the Boeremark, and spending lazy mornings in bed.

Oh, and if it was not evident I haven't been spending a lot of time with the camera... oops!

Depeapa and Lucky Pony

This is one giveaway not to miss out on...

Depeapa is a spanish creative who spends her time making beauties of many shapes and sizes!
Go visit Angie over at Lucky Pony to enter to win one of Depeapa's amaze-balls items! (yes I just said amaze-balls).

Tough to choose but these would def be in my top three choices:

Careful though, its tempting to just order the lot online, lucky for me in this instance I'm still an untrustworthy student, with no solid salary, who isn't allowed a credit card in my name!

Photos are from the Depeapa etsy shop.