"Ojo de Dios"

Not long ago, I found a tutorial on Etsy, on how to make a "Ojo de Dios"!
Now I have never seem one before, nor had I even heard of the thing!
But it was Bright, it was colourful and it was something I had never made/done before!
So it was fast added on my ever so long, "To Do List".

Now for some History about the Ojo de Dios- Gods Eye in Sanish!: (ifo taken from good old wikipedia!)

A God's eye is a yarn weaving and a Huichol spiritual object. The Ojo de Dios or God's eye is a ritual tool, magical object, and cultural symbol evoking the weaving motif and its spiritual associations. For the Huichol peoples of western Mexico, the God's Eye is symbolic of the power of seeing and understanding that which is unknown and unknowable, The Mystery. The four points represent the elemental prosessus earth, fire, air and water. The Ojo de Dios, or God's Eye, is a simple or complex weaving made across two or more sticks and is thought to have originated with the Huichol Indians of Jalisco, Mexico. The Huichol call their God's eyes Sikuli, which means "the power to see and understand things unknown." When a child is born, the central eye is woven by the father, then one eye is added for every year of the child's life until the child reaches the age of five. Original Huichol Crosses are extremely rare to come by. There are many that are being made for the tourist market, but they do not carry the same traditional and spiritual significance. So on our last camping trip I had all I need to try to make my first one! It took me a lot longer than expected to get it started, as this Tutorial I has did not really explain in full detail how to weave, nor how to really start!! By the end of the day I had it going!   It took me a while to get it all done, with many unwinding as really I had no clue about how to create designs and how to make it all work for me! But I am happy with the end result, and guess what I have now loads more wool, and am going to make a few more while on Holidays! Under the sun in Fiji!!! Let me know if you think you might want a Tutorial! Just comment below!!

 

Video-Counting!

She can really count in French from one to ten, ok a little stumble on 4, calling it 5 but she is learning! I don't even know if she can count in English!

 

Give Away!

Its Time for another give away!

This is how it works; Follow my Blog, Like my Facebook page, and leave a comment there!

On the 28th of Juin June, I shall draw the winner and contact you for posting details!!

Too easy? Well that's just it!!! Spread the word and play the game!!

This Time to give away, I have a little coin purse!

Its made with cotton, and can top capsules.

I have been making these for a while now, but only recently has my stock really started to build.

You see I make then when we are going somewhere - a bit far- so Stephen drives and I sit there crocheting away, every now and again glance up to look at the landscape!

Or stop to take a break... I am not that insane!

But with all the camping trip we have been doing, I have found heaps of time!

Its Great!

Good Luck

 

TuesDay Tullula

These photo's are all blurry, but I had to use them as they were taken on Saturday night and I just think her pose is just too sweet! She really is loving playing with the camera! But she moves too much!!!

  

Ten On Ten- June

Another Month, Another "Ten on Ten"...

Its a great day, on the tenth on every month, take a photo every hour for ten hours.

Do join in and have a look at Rebekah's blog at A little bit of sunshine.

So here is my day on this rainy 10th of June!

I pull the Camera out, to take my 1st photo, Tullula poses, I have to take it!

Cool little cushion I put together!

 

 Its 10am, I am at work, the Spa!

 

 Our day is ready to start!

Corridors of where I work, and quit sitting area!

One massage after another, and a pretty focus point!

A little break for me!

Hmm...looks like someone has got to my lip stick!

The girls and I at the end of our busy Day!

I am home, after a little run on the treadmill at the gym. Time to relax with a Cuppa!

 

A Fountain of Words!

Things can be so very different from one country to the next! I often get amazed at the things that are actually different, things we use daily and yet we just don't think that maybe, somewhere else its very different!

Now, I have been writing a Diary/Journal since I was 12 years old!
It was on that Birthday, we were about to leave South Africa, the Indian Ocean; where we had lived for almost 10 years!! My parents really would of loved to stay to live in South Africa, but they could sense that things were going to change! We had seen some horrible things, some changes that had not worked too well and maybe after all that time roaming:Sailing that side of the globe it was time to move on!
So, we all got given a Diary/Journal; looking back at it I guess it made sense, we were about to go on a Adventure and my Father said we should write what we did/felt on a daily basis!
What a Wonderful Gift!
 To this day, I have just about then all, in a great big box, and a few tied up as they don't close very well with the amount of papers/photos/post cards and bits and pieces I have collected along the way!
Now that I have Tullula, sure I don't write as much as I used to, and this Blog has somehow become part of the writing, but it still sits beside my bed and when I get a chance I write to the best listener in the whole world, My Diary!

 This is my 2012 Diary.

Now being French (I think) I write with a Fountain Pen, and before I left France I had a big stock of cartridges, but things do run out and for a few weeks now I have run out of Ink!
So today I did not for get to get some while at the Office Supply shop!
But all they had was Black! In France they is almost a whole isle of then, all the colours from Green to Pink and Purple, Pale Blue, Dark Blue I am sure if you had some fancy you would find the colour!!!!
Then, I realised that its not very common to use fountain pens, as the girl behind the counter commented that she once was taught to use one in Primary School, but did not think it was done any more and that she thought she would no longer know how to use it!
How funny that sounded to me, "you don't know how to use a pen any more?"...
I googled it and there are sites where one can learn to write with a Fountain Pen.
I did say that I found that in Anglo-Saxon Country's they tended to write in upper or lower case, where us in France we wrote still a faire bit in Script, and that really it was easier to write in Script with a fountain pen!
See just a simple thing like writing and we are so very different!
So I looked up the History of the Fountain Pens, and yes France, Germany, India and the UK were the main country to still use them today! I am pretty sure France could be the Country that uses it the most!

Now I think like every one who likes to write I have a Special Pen that I use, and I use  Jordi Labanda Pens! (I have a certain Link with Barcelona, it sure is a Deep Deep root)...But the 1st one I had was given to me by a dear friend and it was so smooth to write with, and so pretty to have that since then I have had a few more and am still very happy with them!

So there is my Fountain of Words!!

TuesDay TulluLa

It gets a point when Children want to push/pull/ explore their potential on all sorts of Devices with wheels!
Tullula has a little friend who's parents ride skate boards, so this child also rides, and Tullula has very much enjoyed doing what he did, and pushing herself along!
Great for motor skills really!!!

Paris..In a Skirt

Here in the Southern Hemisphere Winter can Finally be felt in the Air!
Well It is a bit strange to say such a thing, as really where I live, Just North of Brisbane in all reality its not cold, but then one adapts and summer is so warm so then a little chill in the air feels like "BRRRR, its Cold"...It still brings a smile to my face thought to see poeple complain at how cold it is and here they are walking around in their "flip flops"....
yet, its that time of the year when we pull out the warmer cloths, bathing suits don't go too far, but surfing is done with a wet suit!!!
I don't mind it, its nice o pull out those cloths I used to wear in Paris, a change is always good!
I found a skirt I had made, and I just Love it that I had to share it with you all!!!

I Knitted it all on circular needles and just did the design as I went along!
I am not too sure how long it took me to make, but I tell you it was not fast!!! I have lined the skirt with cotton and it has an elastic band at the top...
Now the best part is that  made it on the Bus, in the Metro on my way to and from work, or where where I was going!
It was great, and many comments were made along the way by strangers. Amazed to see a young girl knitting away!
I look at it today and I can see myself one day in particular, sitting on the bus and knitting, glancing out of the window now and again, at the beautiful city that was going past!
How wonderful memories can be, and it all come back to me thanks to a Skirt I made in Paris!!



Do you have something special you have made somewhere you once lived? Do drop me a note and Ill post your photo!!