I've fallen a little bit in love

with the city of Krakow. Everyone should visit at least once in their life, it's an unexpectedly gorgeous place to be, and even with the cold it was impossible not to love it! Didn't bring any amber beads back with me, but did find a beautiful pair of studs which match my peridot independence necklace, and also a rather lovely little four-leaf-clover brooch, which has two leaves of golden amber and two of green amber - perfection!

It was a perfect hen weekend, and I've already decided I must revisit Krakow one day armed with my DSLR and a sketchbook for all the bits of jewellery it inspired!

Photos to follow, I'm writing this on a friend's laptop, on the evening before we go to Italy - lol, such a jetsetting month this is turning out to be!

Today has been mostly made up of driving down the M25 singing, trying to swap pounds into euros and getting very confused about what can go in which suitcase for tomorrow. I feel bad that I've neglected Ducking Fabulous, the blog and my Folksy shop for the last few weeks, but there's been so much going on that I haven't been able to do anything much :(

On the plus side, I have remembered to bring a sketchbook with me on this trip (anticipating loooong delays due to British Airways striking, sigh) but hopefully I'll at least be able to capture my ideas as they arrive!

Ciao for now!

 C x

To the home of amber...

I'm off to Poland for a hen weekend early on Friday morning, which has come round unexpectedly quickly!

Poland is, apparently, a wonderful place to buy amber - so I'm hoping to find some beads and chunks of it to incorporate into pieces when I'm back home in England :)

It's going to be minus six while we're there, so probably minimal opportunity to show off any of my latest creations even if I do take them with me!

Hmm... I foresee lots of inspiration from the architecture over there though - watch this space!!

four days of creativity

For the last few days I've been down in Wokingham, staying with one of my best friends who also happens to be a fashion designer. We seem to work better together than alone on admin-y things, so we've set up office in her spare room and are tapping away happily at our computer keyboards (sad, I know...). On the plus side, I've got more done today than in the last month, we have Montezuma's chocolate buttons which are actually the best chocolate buttons in the world, and we're off to drive my car around with the roof down on the way to the printer's shortly. Lol!

Ducking Fabulous is extending its presence online, among today's projects were sorting out the fairly inactive till now Twitter account (@duckingfabulous) and creating a Facebook fan page (Ducking Fabulous by Carla). So now I have to work on getting followers and fans!

Hmm, what lovely photos can I share with you this week? I know, the Christmas-present scarf for Julia I finally finished... I'm quite proud!

Badly lit, but shows the stripes off quite nicely. Here's a better idea of its actual colour, with my label sewn onto the bottom!

 

One is excited! In keeping with the knitting/crochet theme, here's one last photo, of a necklace I made for a dear friend's Valentine present, using the crochet flowers I mentioned in my last post...

 

 

The lighting's a bit strange, but it shows the general gist!

Right, back to editing and suchlike, I've also decided to link this blog to the main website, which should be happening later today!