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Older than Grandma!

-Look Up, Look Down Challenge, Week 25 Every Thursday, I publish a post containing photo(s) taken from above or below, and invite you to join in the challenge by posting your own photos with […]

Thousand Paper Cranes

I am always amazed at the incredibly complex shapes and objects a skilled origamist can achieve.  Packs of beautifully patterned, coloured papers abound in shops in Japan, and I succumbed […]

Vintage Pompeii

This week, Sonel asked us to take something old and give it a vintage feel.  Above you’ll see some Pompeiian columns in sepia, and below in their original technicolour. Linked […]

Forming an Orderly Ewe!

Today’s post is a bit of a teaser for a longer post, which will follow in the next week or two, reporting on a great street art walking tour I […]

Object of Touristic Desire

These trinkets, in a shop window in Toledo, are examples of the art of damascening. This involves inlaying different metals into one another—typically, gold or silver into a darkly oxidized steel background—to produce intricate patterns. This is still practiced in […]