| Re: Using nature's materials
I love picking up small natural objects to bring home... Whenever I go somewhere new I often come home with a stone or a piece of wood or bark, pine cones, empty snail shells etc. It brings a little bit of nature into my living space.
One of my favourite things is a piece of slate I picked up in Dinorwig slate quarry, Snowdonia - it is plain dark slate grey except near the top there is a perfect silvery circle like a full moon. It stands on a shelf in my room, along with a piece of driftwood from Lyme Regis, some red kite feathers given to me by a kite nest surveyor, a pine cone from Kew gardens, and some eucalyptus leaves from the Maini in Greece. I love the way each object holds something of the place it came from.
Stones with holes through them are a particular favourite as well... I've got so many of these now, scattered around the house and garden.
Anyone else got anything particular they like to collect? |