Friday, 4 March 2011

Desired Things for Spring

It has been gloriously sunny this afternoon and I can feel the promise of better weather just around the corner. I had a lovely dog-walk this morning with a good friend, so we had excercise, a good chat and two happy, waggy-tailed dogs! That more than made up for the time I had to spend cleaning the house when I got back.
As I'm feeling all buoyant and good about the world, I'd like to show you a beautiful bracelet in wonderful Spring greens, from a lovely Etsy seller, desiredthings.

Blue/Green Bracelet with paper charms

From desiredthings
Blue/Green Bracelet with paper charms
 
Her work is gorgeous and because the charms are made from paper, they are incredibly light to wear.
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6 comments:

  1. Nuvofelt4 March 2011 at 17:14

    Desired's things are gorgeous. I've bought several. Love person too!

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  2. desiredthings4 March 2011 at 17:55

    Thank you so much for featuring my bracelet. I really appreciate it.

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  3. Erika Price6 March 2011 at 09:08

    I love Desired's work - so original and totally gorgeous!

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  4. Goblinf8 March 2011 at 09:20

    That's a gorgeous bracelet. Will go and check out Desired's shop.

    Re: Kibera/Pumwani slums: yes it is astonishing isn't it! There's a lot of sad people as well though, who are dispirited and without hope.

    On the other hand, there are some more established areas in the slums and many families who live there with electric power and work in the city itself in professional jobs (such as solicitor or nurse) - they have better sanitary arrangements, in that they will have an earth closet (where you have a bucket type arrangement that you put earth or sawdust on) though the night soil man still comes to take it away. I don't understand why they don't move though, cos periodically the government come & do clearance, and use the slums as an aircorridor for their helicopters so it's very noisy!

    Even if you live in the city proper in modern appartments though, the sewage system works like ours, but only if you have bowsers of water in your hallway - and you use a bucket to fill the cistern to flush the loo - and pay someone to climb the stairs to your flat with the water.

    Hmm this has turned into a discussion of sanitary arrangements! It wasn't supposed to, but it's one of the many reasons I found it difficult to be in Kenya - there's a lot of infrastructure left over from colonial days but it's often not very well maintained, despite the Kenyan talent for fixing things using only a machete and a bit of string or metal (lol) and when I was there in 2006 an huge modern 2 lane highway fully planted up with landscaping was totally empty, having been built so the president could travel quickly between government and his mansion.

    It's not a logical place at all!! or at least is doesn't run along the same lines as the West.
    Toot
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  5. Unknown13 March 2011 at 13:46

    The bracelet is gorgeous! Off to look at the rest of her shop now! :) x

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  6. Unknown15 March 2011 at 15:24

    This is so lovely - love the colours!!

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