….tomorrow is sunday, and the large markets downtown will be operating. I have a bit of a ‘shopping\/browsing’ list this time; flushed with success using leather bits in my latest piece (below), I can barely wait to get to the leather guy’s stall to get some goodies for the ideas swimming around in my head; DH agrees, lots of potential for something really different….<\/p>\n
Today we were out and about, down in the tourist area, and although I had my camera, somehow I didn’t like to take a pic of some fabulous new floor rugs showing outside one of the shops there….they are just so new. They are made from horse hide, originally a bit dappled, but chemically treated so that some of the hair has come away leaving bald patches, the colours vary between natural horsey browns through to yellowy- and grey-greens or greeny-greys. The hide has been cut into approx 8″ squares and pieced, with a 2″ border around. The whole effect to me was quite beautiful, and not unlike a natural slate floor. One would look great in our entry area, but the sheepsy black brown and cream mariners compass design one ( as in April 28th post)<\/em> we have there is only half worn ….. still, we have some Aus visitors coming in just over a month, so we will be down there again soon, and maybe by then I will feel able to take a pic. Maybe the leather man will have some snippets on his stall tomorrow……fingers X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ….tomorrow is sunday, and the large markets downtown will be operating. I have a bit of a ‘shopping\/browsing’ list this time; flushed with success using leather bits in my latest piece (below), I can barely wait to get to the leather guy’s stall to get some goodies for the ideas swimming around in my head; […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6uxpF-1v","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}