First day at the bench

I spent the morning wandering the streets of the old town looking for inspiration. I ended up shopping. of course.

I found a gallery that had a really nice collection of contemporary craft and I bought myself a beautiful woven scarf. A girl from Melbourne can never have too many scarves. I also checked out some souvenir shops and got a couple of things that will be turned into jewellery.

Here are some of the things I saw...



cobbles




more cobbles




a very cool door




a close up of the very cool door




another very cool door




this is the first example of this that I have seen. I was commenting to some people last night that I haven't seen any grafitti in Tallinn and I was told to go and check out some of the suburbs the soviets built!


And these are hysterical!





They are Matrushkas (sorry, Brigette can you correct me on the spelling?) and the Osama one says "Wanted! Live or dead" and Bill is carrying a copy of "monica's story"


I went to the academy in the afternoon to start settling in to a new bench. I'd forgotten how hard it is to work at a different bench. I wish I'd brought my bench peg with me! The bench is quite a bit lower than I'm used to and my stool is too high. There are a few shorter stools around which get shared, as does the one flexible drive for the whole studio. OH&S isn't as big an issue here as it is at home but I hear that the Academy will be moving to new purpose built premises in the near future so hopefully the new studios will be better equipped.

On the way home I dropped into the blacksmithing studio for a bit of a look around. Here are some pics...



That's Mart on the left, he is the blacksmithing lecturer












I also spent some time putting together my page for Klimt2. I've been accepted and paid my membership so the images should be up soon.

Cheers, Anna