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My creative journey on my sabbatical in India and beyond
I bought these 2 figures who were pencil toppers. The female is much bigger than the male in this pair. I bought some more later on and this size difference was reversed. I enjoyed taking them on adventures around Pushkar and Ajmer nearby. Whilst at the Ajmer Fort, Tanya and I were in the sculpture …
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In Pushkar, I went with Ravi and this time Tanya as well to the rose factory. They were in the middle of setting up the complicated process of rose essence extraction. It was fascinating. Whilst there I bought rose essence, rose water to clean skin, rose water for consumption and rose jam! I decided to …
When I was mooching around in Pushkar I found a shop that sold bits and bobs for Hindu devotees. I bought a dress and elaborate headpiece for a small idol and brought her back to Jaffa hoping she would fit one of my Barbie dolls. And it did. The sleeves were in the wrong place …
I knew it wouldn’t be long before I could continue my Barbie themed photography projects. I had finally returned to India after a five year gap. I wanted to mainly trip down memory lane. So I started off by staying near Amber Fort. And on my way to the Anokhi Museum, I found this doll. …
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I followed in the footsteps of my Norwegian knitting friend Toril who went on a printing workshop in Bagru. She had made me some fabulous lilac sheepskin cuffs with a gold printed flower stamp. I wear them all the time. Bagru is between two of our destinations so it was not difficult to fit in …
Well in a word. Very. What is it that makes one person confident and another not so, muses Carly? She has such a terrible memory, and she isn’t sure if she has always been this confident. Is it being the oldest of her siblings? Having to fight all the battles against the parents? Or is …
Carly was coming to the end of her wonderful and nurturing sabbatical trip to India. She’d started off in the north in Rajasthan, but when it started getting cooler, she headed off southwards. All her kids had been out individually to see and stay with her. At her own expense. But that is nothing new …
Carly really loves going on train journeys. She lives in London and has for all her life. The big smoke with lots of people and congestion. She really does know how to appreciate her life and see her friends who live all over the United Kingdom. She can hop on a train to rush off …
Lizzy and Sarah insisted I take Carlos with me to Oslo. It was a short trip with a small rucksack but that was ok! Carlos is not that big! We stayed for 3 nights with my good friend Astrid and on the middle night went to stay in a hammock outside Oslo in a forest …
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Adri is very good a finding crafting courses for us to go on. We went to a dotty mandala painting workshop in Jaffa with both Israeli and Arab women. There was a really lovely atmosphere. The instructor pre-paints the canvas and draws circles and lines faintly to help the painter. The second two I did …