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Photos from our craft room. This is a dump of photos from my phone. Many may be duplicates or similar angles.
Here it was, finally. The last full day of my second nine-day vacation in less than a month. I have to say, spring 2015 was awfully kind to me. Sunday morning found me boarding the huge passenger ferry on Weizhou Island after what was probably the best day of this trip. The ride back was perfectly uneventful, and we were treated to the same tourist video of Weizhou Island and Beihai that we’d seen coming over (or one awfully similar).
I really didn’t have too many plans for Beihai. One of the more famous sites is supposed to be Silver Beach which, according to every website (tripadvisor, etc.) that I could find is one that the Chinese advertised as “the best beach in the whole universe!,” and most people seemed to comment that, it wasn’t quite that good. Not bad, but not great. So, unless there looked like there would be an amazing sunset, I had no plans whatsoever to go there. (Since the sky wasn’t looking particularly cooperative, I made the easy call of not going the few kilometers out of town to hit this beach.)
I got back to the hotel near downtown sometime around noon and checked in. I stayed in the same place I’d slept Friday. Black Pearl Hotel or something along those lines. Unlike Friday night, when I didn’t get checked in until 10:00 at night and had no time to see anything in Beihai, I would at least have an afternoon and evening this time around. (Friday night in Beihai wasn’t pleasant at all; I had a hard time finding an open restaurant and met some of the rudest people I’ve come across outside of Shanghai. When I did find a restaurant, though, those folks were perfectly hospitable with me.)
This particular Sunday, I had (a mediocre) lunch in the hotel restaurant, where I managed to lose my room key…which I would eventually find about thirty minutes after leaving. (It took me about that long to explain to people in Chinese that I couldn’t find it and where I thought I’d lost it. I eventually found it on my own back at the restaurant.)
Since there wasn’t much that I was interested in seeing or doing in Beihai, I relaxed for the afternoon and went out around 4:00 to head to Old Town. This is basically one street that looked…somewhat interesting. Old Town is where Beihai’s older residents live. It’s a collection of restored 19th century buildings, in Chinese arcade style, with a few of note: a former post office, the Maruichi Pharmacy (which has its own history that involved potential espionage for the Japanese during World War II), the Shengping Jie Archway, and a handful of restaurants.
I didn’t have terribly high photographic expectations here, but not terrible enough that I didn’t want to shoot. The sky wasn’t being particularly cooperative in my opinion…threatening rain. However, I managed to get a few shots that were interesting enough for me (presented here, obviously) and I had an absolutely wonderful dinner at a Thai restaurant called Nirvana. The environment of the restaurant was quite nice, as was the food. I had spring rolls, a mango chicken dish, and another mango smoothie (but the smoothie was nowhere near as good as the one I’d gotten on Weizhou Island on Saturday evening).
After strolling up and down the street (up while it was still light, and back after it had gotten a bit dark), I called an unofficial end to the holiday and retired to the hotel.
Monday morning, I had a bullet train to take me back to Nanning, with a 7:00 p.m. flight back to Chengdu. That would give me a day in Nanning. I had spent time online researching tourist attractions, parks, museums, anything interesting in Nanning that I could see on a Monday. I also tried to find some good restaurant reviews (I ended up choosing an Indian restaurant) for places to eat. If you haven’t read the previous days’ summaries, I’ll remind everyone what all I loved about Nanning here: …(keep waiting…). Ok. There you have it. Like Lanzhou three weeks before, I spent hours upon hours waiting in the airport for my flight back home, which was completely uneventful, and I was glad to have my second spring vacation done. The next major vacation would be a little farther off, in late September…for two weeks in India. Stay tuned…
Carleton Memorial United Church, Ottawa. Etched glass 'grape vine' designed and installed by Northern Art Glass in the main entrance door.
The renowned Fairy Castle is one of the most beloved, permanent displays at the Museum of Science and Industry. A gift to the museum from silent-film star Colleen Moore, the castle has captured millions of people's imaginations since 1949. The castle was constructed on a scale of one inch to one foot and measures 10x8x7 feet.
Adam Etches v Roman Dzhuman, middleweight Bout, Manchester Arena.
24th November 2012.
Picture By Mark Robinson.
This is the finished Laser Etched Granite Floor Medallion 36" in diameter.
The finished piece was installed in the entryway of a home in Westchester NY at the bottom of a curved stairway.
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Totoro is etched onto the copper sheet.. and then riveted to a roller-printed (patterened) sterling sheet (that i neglected to photograph tonite).. :o/
little brass micro-bolts hold the 2 pieces together.
the copper is about 1.25" tall and .75" wide
hologram style glass ball with dragons. it is really neat, comes on a base, so it can easily moved around and rotated etc.
Closeup of the pulley stack at one of the four corners of the glass. Notice that the wiring is jewelry wire, this didn't end up working, I had to move up to wire rope.
These are a departure for me. A friend gave me a bunch of vintage copper shapes for enameling from the 1960's I am guessing and I decided to etch them to make some necklaces. This one is " Salad Days" and it has the names of old school salads stamped on the ovals including "congealed" for all you Southerners.
A congealed salad is a wicked thing!!
Lucknow Residency : The site for siege of lucknow as it is known as in the history of 1857.
The Residency is actually a group of buildings that were built in 1800 A.D by the then Nawab of Oudh, Nawab Saadat Ali Khan. It was constructed in order to serve as the residence for the British Resident General who was a representative in the court of Nawab.
The year 1857 will always be mentioned in the chronicles of history because of its dramatic sequence of events. The Residency became one of the most talked about battlement during the siege of Lucknow by Sepoys.
A shot of the wiring and rods when I was first testing with the jewelry wire. It worked great and was much, much, MUCH easier to work with than the wire rope I ended up having to use. Unfortunately, when I woke up the morning after taking these photos, the wire had stretched and no longer functioned.
I was inspired by an image I found online, and created this piece from it. I find this to be ironic because I essentially etched a series of disconnected lines.
This piece was regretfully dropped and damaged, which is why there appears to be spotting here and there. It's because though preserved, bits of residual powder managed to re-adhere themselves to the screen. I did some touching up on the main line work, but decided to let the shaded parts be.
The damage occurred a few months ago, but the spotting has grown on me so I don't mind it anymore. It has since been more properly preserved.