tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7498151893557823902024-03-13T02:28:06.060+00:00onesunnyafternoonone sunny afternoon - my blog of inspirations and likes. Updates for my handmade jewellery and accessories shops are posted here and I talk about everything and anything else in between.Sinnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01148364909628609497noreply@blogger.comBlogger320125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749815189355782390.post-27953483186488265172023-08-24T13:41:00.003+01:002023-09-14T19:26:47.887+01:00Namibia: Live stream in the Namib DesertThere's a live 24/7 webcam from a waterhole in Namibia!
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Sinnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01148364909628609497noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749815189355782390.post-49031184778822250962017-08-07T10:11:00.003+01:002023-05-24T12:34:39.255+01:00Updating and relinkingSlowly, slowly re-linking all the images in my posts; moving them from the previous hosting site (which had been so good before! So sad...). Also updating dead links and videos. Please bare with me! Here's a pretty picture of some lavender I grew =)
Sinnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01148364909628609497noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749815189355782390.post-79661020861161062202017-02-02T17:07:00.000+00:002017-02-03T13:15:44.366+00:00MomentsGot a review today that made me think...
"Needed this to attend a funeral. Suits the moment. Thank you"
Let's go back a bit. When I was brainstorming for a shop name, I wanted something that sounded happy and carefree. I settled on 'One Sunny Afternoon' because, who doesn't like warm sunny afternoons right? I did wonder if it was too long but anyhow, there we are.
Writing the shop story for Sinnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01148364909628609497noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749815189355782390.post-74194497476491521862016-10-03T10:51:00.001+01:002016-10-03T10:51:58.802+01:00To die slowly“He who becomes the slave of habit,
who follows the same routes every day,
who never changes pace,
who does not risk and change the color of his clothes,
who does not speak and does not experience,
dies slowly.
He or she who shuns passion,
who prefers black on white,
dotting ones "it’s" rather than a bundle of emotions, the kind that make your eyes glimmer,
that turn a yawn into a smile,
that Sinnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01148364909628609497noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749815189355782390.post-24065936633549887232016-07-14T16:47:00.001+01:002016-08-21T19:21:57.691+01:00Ceramic Masters of IcheonThis beautifully shot film of the working process of five Korean ceramics masters is just mesmerizing. The skill! The artistry! Ah. ❤ I could just watch it on loop...
Video by the American Museum of Ceramic Art
via My Modern MetSinnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01148364909628609497noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749815189355782390.post-56418656712985966992016-02-10T11:41:00.000+00:002017-08-20T16:46:23.929+01:00Joy in the OrdinaryIn all the little things...
image from Action for Happiness
Sinnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01148364909628609497noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749815189355782390.post-17768274398400977522016-01-22T22:27:00.000+00:002016-01-28T23:57:15.038+00:00{卷珠帘}卷珠帘 {'Raise the pearl curtain'}, a beautiful traditional Chinese style song by young talented singer songwriter 霍尊 Huo Zun (also goes by Henry Huo) who came to fame on a Chinese singing talent contest a couple of years ago. The lyrics are written in old Chinese prose and describes a woman wistfully thinking of the person she loves as she sits by a window on a moonlit night.
I'm really loving Sinnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01148364909628609497noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749815189355782390.post-61025217709425822412015-12-06T18:04:00.000+00:002017-08-20T16:46:32.018+01:00Be the GoodWith so much sadness in the news recently, I've been finding it difficult not to feel helpless and a little despairing. I really liked this quote; it made me think that even though each of us on our own may not be able to do very much on a grand scale to change the upsetting situations we are seeing, I find some hope in the thought that each of us can still do good everyday in small ways. And Sinnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01148364909628609497noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749815189355782390.post-89653800239371851022015-10-09T11:29:00.000+01:002015-10-09T11:43:59.473+01:00A dance to The UnforgivenResurrected my ancient iPod touch this morning and was happily running through old playlists when the opening strings of the The Unforgiven as played by Apocalyptica came on. Aah I still get shivers from it.
I actually first heard this version on the inaugural Eurovision dance contest back in 2007 when the winning couple from Finland danced a Paso Doble to it. Their interpretation of the music Sinnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01148364909628609497noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749815189355782390.post-28880985861751541812015-09-20T00:11:00.001+01:002017-08-09T18:51:52.712+01:00Earrings inspired by Chinese period dramas...Well, I had to do it at some point. Between watching all those Chinese historical dramas, wanting to own their fabulous hairpins and earrings, and pinning beautiful photos of hanfu and qipao, kimbok and kimono, I don't know what took me so long to actually make some jewellery inspired by traditional clothing.
Here's the brainstorming... always the fun bit.
And here are the four earrings! I Sinnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01148364909628609497noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749815189355782390.post-62972446079407290832015-09-18T12:24:00.002+01:002017-08-04T18:27:11.993+01:00Things to give up if you want to be happy...I love this, words to remember and a state of mind to strive for...
15 Things to Give Up If You Want to Be Happy
1. Give up your need to always be right
When given the choice between being right and being kind, choose kind. - Wayne Dyer
2. Give up your need for control
By letting it go, it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. When you try and try, the world is beyond Sinnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01148364909628609497noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749815189355782390.post-1597208357869100792015-08-24T20:05:00.001+01:002017-08-25T16:30:35.635+01:00Chess set of tiny plantersEven though I'm not really a chess player, I love ornate chess sets. Especially ones with a special theme where the pieces have original designs.
So I saw this and immediately fell in love. A chess set of tiny planters that you can customise with your own choice of herbs and cute succulents? I want one! A 3D-printed set that XYZWorkshop created for a design competition.
If you are in Sinnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01148364909628609497noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749815189355782390.post-26637523762249160022015-08-03T10:36:00.002+01:002015-08-03T12:13:45.142+01:00So much to learn, so little timeYou know, when I was younger, I used to wonder how I was ever going to be able to read all the books that had ever been written.
We have access now to so much information and knowledge via the internet, never mind 'fear of missing out', I think sometimes I have 'fear of not having enough time to find out and learn about it all'.
Reading about a random topic on Wiki that leads to a marathon Sinnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01148364909628609497noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749815189355782390.post-29708791307367764152015-05-11T10:49:00.000+01:002017-08-20T16:43:28.441+01:00Cookie WisdomAs a kid, Cookie Monster was always my favourite one from Sesame Street because he had funny eyes and was such a messy eater XD
[Image from artisticstateofmind]
Sinnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01148364909628609497noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749815189355782390.post-26023921418937975722015-04-08T19:31:00.000+01:002017-08-05T00:28:13.876+01:00Let it GoOk, I know it is possibly one of the most overplayed song ever... but it's a little special to me.
Just to make it more interesting because it has been played so many, many times, here it is in Mandarin from the Taiwan version of Frozen. Beautifully sung by Shennio Lin, and with a translation of the lyrics that capture the feeling of the original the closest I feel, when compared with the Sinnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01148364909628609497noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749815189355782390.post-22192996354656656012015-03-18T10:18:00.000+00:002015-03-18T10:19:21.599+00:00Etsy MiniOoh I like the new Etsy widget. Neat and concise. Very nice. This is my Etsy shop's Etsy Mini =D
new Etsy.Mini(5853544,'thumbnail',4,4,0,'https://www.etsy.com');
Sinnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01148364909628609497noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749815189355782390.post-12628739133186898952015-02-12T00:59:00.000+00:002017-10-31T00:36:02.805+00:00A beautifully expressive short balletI keep saying this, but I just love discovering a new piece of artwork or music and artist or singer through randomly clicking on a link somewhere. Today this video of Sergei Polunin dancing to Andrew Hozier's 'Take me to church' was trending and I clicked to see why.
Wowee! I had heard of Polunin before, I think probably from coverage for when he unexpectedly left the Royal Ballet, but I Sinnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01148364909628609497noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749815189355782390.post-30522546850116251672015-01-07T23:45:00.001+00:002023-01-06T15:29:28.306+00:00Assassin's CreedAll right, a little fan-girl geeking out coming up. You have been warned.
I'd always known of the Assassin's Creed games, but had never played them or really known about them in depth.
And then a couple of years ago I came across this really cool video of parkour/free-running inspired by the Assassin's Creed game style.
I loved it! But still I didn't attempt to get the game itself at the Sinnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01148364909628609497noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749815189355782390.post-52235900713082299782014-07-19T23:39:00.000+01:002015-08-08T11:57:32.385+01:00The Drowned ManWay, way back in January, one of my friends treated me to an evening out to see immersive theatre company Punchdrunk and the National Theatre's most recent offering, The Drowned Man. It was like nothing I'd ever seen before. Seriously. It was mind-blowingly awesome. I loved it so much I couldn't stop recommending it and took my sister and her boyfriend, and my youngest sister all to seeSinnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01148364909628609497noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749815189355782390.post-32984120137191607132014-07-10T18:57:00.000+01:002017-08-20T16:41:59.599+01:00Measure
"If your parents ever measured you as a child, they had you stand against a wall, and made a little pencil mark on the wall to show your growth.
They did not measure you against your brother, or the neighbor’s kids, or kids on tv.
When you measure your growth, make sure to only measure your today self by your past self. If you compare your relationships, your success, or your anything against Sinnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01148364909628609497noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749815189355782390.post-54272283331743783982014-03-01T17:45:00.000+00:002017-08-20T16:40:48.860+01:00...the audience still sleeps
Sunrise on the beach, Rhodes, Greece | 2008
“When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.”
~ John Lennon
Sinnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01148364909628609497noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749815189355782390.post-44172212612586662402013-12-14T06:00:00.000+00:002017-08-06T20:32:06.858+01:00A necklace 18 years in the makingBack in the summer, I worked on probably one of my favourite custom projects so far...
My clients wanted a necklace for their god-daughter's 18th birthday gift. The brief was that they wanted it to have some connection to her name, India, and for it to make use of a piece of amber that they had actually acquired on a trip to India 36 years ago.
Early ideas revolved around using her name or Sinnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01148364909628609497noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749815189355782390.post-47270508423336586612013-12-06T12:05:00.000+00:002017-08-22T09:42:01.640+01:00..to look back on the distance
Nelson Mandela, 2000 via LSE Library on Flickr
“I have walked that long road to freedom. I have tried not to falter; I have made missteps along the way. But I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the Sinnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01148364909628609497noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749815189355782390.post-66815449890656461582013-08-23T13:13:00.000+01:002013-08-23T13:13:21.882+01:00Little President ManHave you met Robby Novak, aka Kid President?
He is adorable and I'm a huge fan. His videos are so funny and uplifting. This incredible little boy living with his own illness inspires a lot of happiness.
You can't help smiling and he has the most infectious laugh.
Only 10 and he's met the President at the White House and been invited to the United Nations!
Sinnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01148364909628609497noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749815189355782390.post-78336249424385391392013-08-07T15:52:00.001+01:002017-08-20T19:43:41.125+01:00Visit to a lavender farmWent to visit some friends who live in Hertfordshire over the weekend. They took us to a lavender field in Hitchin which is part of a working farm. Hitchin used to be one of two major lavender growing areas in the country.
It was really sunny in the morning when we arrived and as we came off the road into their car park we could see this purple hill in the distance. It was so pretty!
My Sinnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01148364909628609497noreply@blogger.com0