The break

I’ve been sick all week this week. It would’ve been nice if I could still do stuff, but I wasn’t fit enough to do even the simplest things even if I try. My throat and my head had suffered, and my body was feeling cold while Greg thinks that it’s boiling hot and I can only be up 5 hours at a time. 

In effect, the progress of my store had been pretty slow this week. I managed to expand my herringbone collection a little. Herringbone is a little technique that I learnt just last week, and decided that I want to take my shop into a detour from the usual to explore other possibilities. It was the perfect project for my current situation as it allows me to make simple but elegant jewelry that takes less concentration to make than my normal wire jewelry. I also get to use one of my favorite material: freshwater pearls!  

Click this link for more details:

http://www.etsy.com/shop/letterstoamuseme?section_id=7919471

I’m also particularly grateful for the Etsy community this week! My items had been featured in so many treasuries! They’re like small doses of happiness and it excites me everytime! These are some of my favorite treasuries that I got featured in:

 "Wire Art" by BristolTreasuresUK featuring my "Windows" necklace

"Quotes About Music and Dreams" by gbbox featuring my "Perception" earrings

I was overwhelmed by joy to be featured in this many treasuries that by Thursday afternoon, I was determined that if I can’t do anything else then I might as well try making as many treasuries as I can to support other sellers. That day, I woke up at midday, and while choosing items on Etsy I fell asleep on the lounge room carpet at about 4pm. Greg came home at 7:30pm to wake me up and escort me back to the bedroom. I couldn't talk much because of my throat, so communication to Greg was done by pointing, grunting, a bit of nodding... it was like playing Pictionary but with miming. It was pretty effective :p

I only finished my first treasury the next afternoon, and 2 days later, it has only received 12 views. Oh man... so much of trying to pay things forward! Maybe there’s no point in doing anything when you’re sick....

So here is my treasury, please click this link if you think this treasury is worth more than 12 clicks: 

http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4d82c13317986d91332e628a/oriental-tree?ref=pr_treasury

Oriental Tree by LetterstoAmuseme

By Friday I was feeling better enough to sit on my desk for a few hours and to have friends over for games. And on Saturday, it was Canberra’s Skyfire...!!! I know Canberra has a lot of fireworks, but Skyfire is the biggest! Greg and I were there with our church group, and pretty much the whole Canberra was there, I think. The highlight for me was watching Jessica Mauboy for about an hour before the firework starts, and the firework itself of course. I love Canberra and its free concerts. On Monday while we were going for a run around the lake, Greg and I bumped into a free concert where Jimmi Barnes (Australias rock legend) was playing. So instead of running our second lap we squeezed in through to the front of the stageand jump around  to Jimmi Barnes.

Skyfire was amazing, they really didn't hold back with the amount of fireworks they were blowing up. The colours, and the variations of the fireworks were breath taking. They were dancing in sync with music on the radio so the choreography was very interesting. On the finale, the whole sky was practically filled with light and colors, it was so spectacular and overwhelming, it left half of the population in Canberra going home in awe.

Greg took this photo using a tripod and our SLR camera, pretty amazing huh?

 Skyfire 2011