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The Saturday before last, between a lackluster winter clothing shopping foray and a grocery store stock up extravaganza, we swung through the Paddington market. The Paddington market is a weekly affair featuring a wide variety of artisans and their Australian made wares, diverse and delectable treats and musical performances that are sometimes a bit esoteric. Meandering through the stalls we found some really beautiful and clever work. I particularly liked these photographs encased in thick laminate. The clear casing, a little over an inch thick, caused a variety of lighting effects dependent on the angle of the light source. When holding up a photo of a sunset scene up to the actual sun the red and orange hues in the picture seemed to glow.

In the end, we restrained ourselves to only purchasing the wind chimes pictured above along with a couple more similar pieces for gifts. The glass maker was a genial and talkative fellow. As as he carefully wrapped up the wind chimes we had quite a conversation, spanning from his children to his grandchildren to his background as an electrical engineer to the conflict in Afghanistan and our consensus that if more political leaders were students of twentieth century history and/or ever played Risk they would know that you never, ever get involved in a land war in Asia. Actually, I was just thinking the Risk part because I've learned after enduring many blank stares that throwing in obscure references to board games the conversations is only effective with a very small demographic.

Back at our flat I promptly (after seeing the ice cream safely to the freezer) hung the wind chimes up in the window. Though we don't get much wind I am quite happy with the way the glass plays with the ample light we do get. And in case you're keeping count, which you're definitely not, that purchase brings our total home decoration count to three paintings, two maps, one fake flower and the wind chimes. I wouldn't say we're nesting just yet.

Comments

sly said…
Very, very cool. And you are descriminating nesters...you choose your decor wisely!
2 May 2012 at 08:21
M and D said…
You choose carefully.
4 May 2012 at 13:42
Amy said…
I like the wind chimes. Very nice.
10 May 2012 at 09:26
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