CREATIVE FUN WITH BEADS...

New version of my old bracelets... I bought these ones last summer and I have been waring them quite a lot, so some bead got damages and the elastic lost it elasticity. So I took everything a part and made new ones by adding few new beads from my bead boxes that I showed on the previous posting...

At the bead or craft shops you can find all kind of nice beads plus these flower shaped metal parts that you can add on each side of your beads, they will make the bead look nicer and also they will hide the big holes that some beads has. This 1 mm thick elastic is excellent for the bracelets, if you have thinner ones make then a double string with it. 

...And these are the results of a creative afternoon... I can ware this mixing colors or just separately by one colors...Nice accessories for many occasion...

BEADS... AND MORE BEADS

Few days ago I found these nice wooden boxes in an art shop and they were ideal for all my beads that I had been keeping in a simply plastic containers. These boxes can actually be on the top of the table as a decoration. I think they would even look nicer if I will paint them with a nice colour. 

RUTA DEL FERRO - Iron road

                                        Iron road of the Pyrenees. A cultural itinerary of Europe

This Ruta del Ferro is a easy walking trail starting just few kilometers from were we live. It is a nature walk along a small river and on the side of this walking trail there are many artist that has express their own ideas about iron...At the end of the first part of this route there is an old iron mine as well

As you can notice the bottom of the river is looking all rusty, due to the iron in the stones and soil

Art by the trail

More Art...

...And suddenly there are some figurines in the middle of the nature...

...Ok lets go and see them closer...

These guys are my favorite art on this trail...partly made of stone and the metal is from the manhole covers....

This one is from the commune of Massana

Mix of stone and metal

Meet the Mexican...

LOOKING FOR NEW IDEAS

At the moment I am looking for new country style ideas and I was going through all my old decoration magazines and found plenty different country style photos...so after cutting the images out, I glued them into my visual diaries...

MOUNTAIN LAKE WALK IN ANDORRA

Welcome to the nature walk...Lake of Engolasters 1620m altitude, few minutes away from Andorra- La-Vella the capital of Andorra...

On the way up by car we past this small but beautiful church of Encostelars...

...And here is the lake on the Saturday of February... The ice was making weird noises under pressure of the water level changes... This water is use for production of the electricity and they say that one part of the lake is 80m deep...

                                                         Nordic walking around the lake...

                                                        ... View towards to France...

                       Down in the valley Andorra-La-Vella...In the air some moist air from Spain...

Northern Spain, Barcelona, Pamplona & Andorra
Andorra
Secrets of the Seven Smallest States of Europe: Andorra, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, San Marino and Vatican City

NEW DOORS OPENING SOON

This is an old door but for me it will be a new experience soon. In few weeks time I will open this door to a new adventure...

I will then also open these wooden window shatters, letting the sunlight in...

Even this door that has been closed for quite sometime will be open soon...

MAISONS DU MONDE

I am in France at the moment visiting some friends. Yesterday I went to the town of Perigueux to do some shopping and visited the Decoration and Furniture Shop Maison Du Monde, they have an online shop as well.

...Today I am creating a blog for my friend...They have a Real Estate Agency in Dordogne, South West of France...www.aremeconseils.blogspot.com, they have beautiful old stone houses for sale, in the country side of Dordogne and Haute Vienne...