this blog is moving!
To www.belovedcountry.com !
The archives will stay here, but for new posts belovedcountry is the place to be.
The design is a bit of a work in progress so bare with me ;-)
To www.belovedcountry.com !
I wondered through Glasgow today, catching up with some lovely people but also feeling horribly lost. Disillusioned by rampant consumerism, confused by the image of 'Africa' being propogated by fundraisers who acost me in the street. I look slightly deranged in the bookshop, until a glint appears in my eye at the sight of a South African flag on a book cover. I open it and stop myself from crying as I read:
So here I am, sitting in glasgow, scotland, visiting friends. I goggled 'bead shop glasgow' to see if anything's opened up here since I left. On the Bead and Button website there is a message board, where someone else had made the same enquiry. And who should have replied, but Mark who runs my favourite little bead shop in Cape Town! This world is so lovely and small.
Arrrrgghhhh!
I have so much website design to do over the next few weeks, and bugger all inspiration. Please! If anyone has any ideas, suggestions, html tips, anything.
I need to transform this sorry-ass website, into a kind of heaven. (yes, for those of you in the know, that is a VM reference!)
...its taken 3 days to make and no one's at home to show it to!!!
Its a South African themed washing line, with a pair of Ishweshwe trousers, an HIV awareness t-shirt, a traditional skirt with lines around the bottom, an apron, and a headscarf. All the fabric I added is either pure cotton or raw silk. The details (stripes, aids ribbon) are beaded on. It took FOREVER!
That's why I'm so quiet. I'm sewing. Yes I know I'm an old lady. But I'm an old lady with a funky t-shirt!