Linda's Magic Workshop - Linda Britt Design

I love to take pictures.  My Nikon 7000 goes with me most places.  I try to be aware when something catches my eye and find what caused me to stop and look.  Usually it is in the details! Today I'm sharing some photos I've taken of circles and their many origins.  I keep a file so I can review and many times I use the textures, rhythm, color, lines and themes for my jewelry.  I hope you enjoy the details of these circles too!  Stacked Sewer Pipe  Farm Equipment Rows of Feathers Flamingo - the difference is in the details My Gourd Purse patterned from a flower in circle Christmas Ornament Glass Balls Take time to really see - not just look-at the beauty of the details.  These are circles but more important is what we find within those circles.  Lyrics not just words. Visual poetry.  The details of Life.

 Male Bluebird Have you been to one of those memory classes where they ask, “How many dresser drawers do you have?” and did you know? Or care?   It seems that details, seeing them, creating them and remembering them opens the worlds around us.   Details are the difference between the mundane and the wondrous.   They are the difference between ordinary and extraordinary, between good and excellent.   Details amaze me or maybe it’s my ability or inability to observe and remember details. About 6 years ago I started birding.   I met a man, my Peter, who was an avid birder and, of course, I became one also.   I thought it would be a breeze.   I was used to looking at and creating details in my interior design work.   Booted Racket-tailed Hummingbird I saw him in Ecuador and look at his details! I started out knowing there were big birds and little birds, colorful birds and plain birds, birds that flew and birds that stayed on the ground and I knew I liked to watch birds. I lo

I walked through the forest on a sunny day. Butterflies flitted from flower to wildflower gathering nectar. Bird songs filled the air.   I took a deep breath and was at ease with the world. Sunshine flowed through swaying pine branches. Rocks glittered with the light. Moss grew in the shade on the north side of the trees. Wildflowers scattered color and scent among the stones and trees. The yellows, greens, browns, rust and gold fed my soul. Here I sit with my beads, my wire, and my photographs. I dream of that walk again and create my ‘forest walk’ necklace.   The silver clay setting has a small polished dark stone surrounded by memories of flowers and leaves in relief.   A little engraving of vines and a hint of yellow (Gilder’s Paste) complete the silver part of the design.   My picture of a butterfly on wildflowers is set in the upper bezel protected with Ice Resin that magnifies the details.   Small tumbled beads, the colors of my walk, are amber, glass, malachite and turquoise.