- English: Sheep in a rural landscape. New Zealand, 2006 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
I recently chose to join a blog hop along with several other jewelry makers. The "Challenge of Travel Blog Hop" was inspired by the Olympics. There are so many places in the world that a lot of people rarely visit, so our host, Erin Prais-Hintz, challenged us to cyber-visit a country on the other side of the world from us. She wanted to encourage us to learn something new, to help change our viewpoint a little bit and put new images in our mind.
I chose New Zealand because it is one place that I'm afraid I'll never get to but I dearly would love to see. I am familiar with some of the scenery because of movies and because my parents-in-law visited there two years ago and their pictures and stories titillated my ears :) Also, I am a spinner and supposedly New Zealand has the highest concentration of sheep in the world.
The piece I made for this blog hop is one of my favorites from all that I have made for these challenges. I felted un-dyed wool into bracelet length, sewed beads onto it and used gold colored wire to attach the toggle clasp. The seed bead colors were chosen from the photos I have seen of the countryside: shades of blue and green. I used freshwater pearls to represent the many sheep dotting the mountainsides. Apparently, gold is abundant in New Zealand so I chose that color for the closure.
Now that you've seen mine, I hope you'll visit my co-travelers :)
