Wabi Sabi: Rutilated Quartz, The Beauty of Imperfection |
Watermelon Necklace (olive new jade & pink lepidolite, Grade C/D) |
Lumpy Bumpy by Charlene (My favorite yarn!) |
Ceramic Sculpture and Pottery - Inspired By Nature
Ceramic artist, Jenny Hoople, uses nature inspired ceramic sculpture and studio pottery to give people an experience of refuge from modern culture.
by Jenny Hoople
Wabi Sabi: Rutilated Quartz, The Beauty of Imperfection |
Watermelon Necklace (olive new jade & pink lepidolite, Grade C/D) |
Lumpy Bumpy by Charlene (My favorite yarn!) |
by Jenny Hoople
Two Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Creatures I made while I was on vacation! |
Never heard of hyperbolic planes? I hadn’t either, until my math friend and wine expert, Landon, posted a link to hyperbolic beading on my Facebook profile and while I was trying to figure out what a hyperbolic plane was, I found HYPERBOLIC CROCHET! It’s super easy to learn how to crochet a hyperbolic plane, and it can result in an infinite variety of wooly, crochet coral reef creatures. Christine and Margaret Wertheim of the Institute For Figuring began a collaborative project using hyperbolic crochet to create giant, crocheted coral reefs that are currently on display at various museums around the world. The way that so many interesting sea creatures grow is in the form of a hyperbolic plane. Sea slugs are a great example, also lettuce, which is not a sea creature. Hyperbolic planes were only a theoretical, impossible to recreate shape to mathemeticians until one fabulous math lady discovered that it was quite easy to create a hyperbolic plane by crocheting it! I have fallen in love with crocheted hyperbolic planes and, using the above PDF instructions from the Institute for Figuring, taught myself how to make them while I was on vacation. I thought it could be fun to fill a used fish tank or a terrarium with them, easier to take care of than a real coral reef!
by Jenny Hoople
Custom Pet Portrait by Molly Kugler Dickinson |
Richly Embroidered Pants by Grace Xiong |
by Jenny Hoople
This interactive map is of Salvatierra, Guanajuato, Mexico. Where I am right now, soaking up some sun and some Mexican culture!! This is the town in Mexico where my husband’s family goes when they need to buy anything that can’t be found at the corner store in their little Ranchito. It’s also the place to go just to get out and eat at a restaurant and feel a little fancy. It’s about a 20 minute bus ride to Salvatierra from their town, La Luz (but this year, we’ve sent our truck to Mexico, so we’re travelling in style and comfort!)
The first thing you see in the map is Neveria el Carmen. This is where I’ll be eating mantecada (butter pecan) ice cream in a green linen tank top and sun hat while you’re all shoveling snow! Hah! In the background you see some rounded domes, that building is the catedral (cathedral). Lots of times we’ve been passing through to get to the pharmacy and ended up walking through a wedding out in the courtyard. That’s Mexican culture for you, everything all mixed up and jumbled together and fun and exciting and lazy and boring. All at the same time!
So have a little walk around and see what we’ll be seeing. I’ll be back soon, but in the meantime, you can have a virtual walk through Salvatierra when you miss me 😀
by Jenny Hoople
Click on this Job Tears picture to enlarge and then right-click to save it for use as your desktop background! (All the cool kids are doin’ it!) |
(Coix lacryma-jobi) Used for beads since at least 2,000 B.C. Once an important source of food, most likely originating in India. When the polished grain-like seeds are mature, there is a perfect hole through the middle, literally nature’s perfect bead. Used for making rosaries and for musical African shaker gourds. Prolific grain-like plants. Annual, 30-36″ tall.
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Happy Holidays to all of you, and remember, “Every Gift Has a Story, what will yours be?”
by Jenny Hoople