{"id":10808,"date":"2015-07-20T11:00:55","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T17:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/?p=10808"},"modified":"2015-07-20T06:35:42","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T12:35:42","slug":"the-ups-and-downs-of-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/the-ups-and-downs-of-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ups and Downs of Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"LDeVries<\/a>In the northern hemisphere we are in the midst of summer, but Mother Nature is showing her many sides from hot and still to muggy and stormy, from tornadoes to floods to hurricanes. Down in the southern hemisphere, summer days are a distant memory, but nonetheless, summery colors are making a surge on the pages I’ve been visiting.<\/p>\n

Lillian de Vries<\/a>\u00a0created this pendant with its interesting visual and tactile texture as inspiration for a summer challenge on Craftliners.com, a blog for the European wholesale company Craftlines, for which Lillian is a designer. The colors are mostly warm but delicate\u00a0with a scattering of dark speckles falling out of a cooling ceiling of blue. It strikes me as a visual interpretation of a summer memory with its up and down days scattered through the memories of hot\u00a0afternoons\u00a0and those thankfully cool mornings.<\/p>\n

Lillian plays with all kinds of texture, both visual and tactile, as well as stopping to create miniature and faux foods here and there. If you’re have a gratefully cool morning hiding from the heat, or are down under dreaming of warmer days, make a temperature\u00a0appropriate beverage and escape into the creative wanderings on her blog<\/a> and Craftliner’s pages<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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