New bracelets.

After a long period without braiding (early December until end of January), I decided to experiment with some new designs to get my mojo back.

This is the result; larger stones set in yatsu shippou braid in two or one color. I hope you like them!

Two colors with large unbleached mother-of-pearl nuggets.

One color with lapis lazuli.

I also braided some simple ones in fresh spring colors. I´ll make earrings too, and more pastels and greens I think. What do you think?
Spring is coming!

Baby blue with larger pearl.

Purple with bling.

Note to myself: Time to plant shiso....

Daughter

Happy International Women Day - March 8th.

I´d like to celebrate the day with a text about/to my daughter.

Daughter.

May you always be fearless.

I hope the world will be different when you grow up; more open, more equal.

I hope the fact that you are a woman will be only a positive thing,

a gift, a value.

May you always be strong and confident,

but full of love and empathy for the other.

I hope, when you see a roaring ocean,

that you run to it with joy,

not from it in fear.

I hope I can be there to teach you all that

and be the mother you deserve.

Picture taken summer 2012, Pacifica, CA.