Farewell Accra….

So time marches on and our time in Accra has come to an end…here we are sitting in the lobby of the hotel waiting for our transfer to the airport….I have enjoyed this sojourn. I have been really impressed with the crafts I have seen…progress is evident everywhere here…most encouraging…unfortunately i did not make it to one of the bead markets i have heard so much about…but who knows maybe next time if there will be a next time…

The beasts taking shape…

Some time ago I took Jude’s Beast on line class here are some of my creations…. 

Windows on Wednesday

Windows are the eyes of a house...the bod os windows here in SL have captured my imagination.... It is my intention to post a window (Internet permitting) each Wednesday...sometimes they will be my artistic impression and at others they will be photographs taken by me...

Here is the first wow...




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Accra Ghana…..

Today we were retracing foot steps….my dearly beloved’s foot steps…we visited the Aburi Botanical gardens…where as a very young boy, he and his parents would visit for a day out….now nearly fifty years later…nothing is familiar and yet everything is familiar….

 

Red and green... beautiful African colours....

Survival of the fittest or in this case the persistant....

A wonderful morning spent wandering around the gardens...

......only in Africa!

Clothtocloth - Coconut ice and some sugar plum faries



...the star....



 

the shift...visited by a couple of sugar plum faries

coconut ice detail

....and then some more....

this little piece of card weave desperately wants to be part of this cloth.....

Clothtocloth - coconut - ice

I have been working quietly on my cloth some new ideas and some distractions…. 

…and then there have been more experiments with the avo…….

I added bicarbonate of soda to the boiling pot and this is the result….:-)

the dark pink is satin velvet the other pieces are bits of cotton cloth…..

Holiday flowers

This picture of a new sunflower makes me think of hope…helps me to get through the day here…hope… that is….this is a hard country to live in…Sierra Leone..that is…

These are hydrangeas' taken at Stour Head church…near Warminster in the UK….this picture reminds me of a wedding gown….love…something I feel everyday…how lucky can this person be?

Packing….I hate packing…

…..it means the holiday is over …. it also means that my dearly beloved and I have some very serious discussions about how the cases should be packed…when I was a one this was very easy and even if I say so myself I do believe that I am a very good steve-a-dore (sp) (one who can pack large amounts into tiny spaces without damages). My dearly beloved, though he may think he can pack, he can’t and will not admit that he can’t…so the dilemma…I have retreated to the computer to keep the peace…and to say a silent prayer that all our possessions will arrive in Sierra Leone on Monday evening in one piece !

Test post from windows live

Everyday I learn something new…

Avocado leaves and peels

Hi Kaite this post is in reply to your comment. On the left is silk velvet, cotton and some silky see through fabric ( need to study up on types of material) the background fabric is a canvas type fabric which we in South Africa, call bull denim. These peices were dyed with leaves picked from an avocado tree on the compound. The lilac peices on the right were dyed using avo peels, now I don't know if this happened because the avo was well passed it's sell by date or there was something in the material I just don't know. Perhaps your elderberry witch was sitting on the side of the pot. The stippling effect on the background fabric happened when I placed the cloth on the top of the washing maching to dry, there must have been some washing powder crumbs on the top that I did not notice...anyway I quite like the result...

Sierra Leone Brewery....Star Beer

Sierra Leone Brewery

When I was told that we had been signed up for a tour of the local brewery I have to say that my first thoughts were "I'd rather be home sewing!" But then I was told that we would be travelling through a part of Freetown we had not visited before (a post for another day). Interested in what is happening in and around I was in for the journey. Upon our arrival at SLB we were ushered into the company pub where we savoured the delights of the product of the brewery....BEER!

The local brew "Star Beer"

Beer bottle soldiers..

I have to be honest and say that upon reflection.... a really entertaining afternoon was had, thanks to the warm welcome from the staff at SLB and the great company of our colleagues.... this visit will be a fond souvenir of our time here in Sierra Leone.....

SLB's "greening" contribution...