Tuesday, May 06, 2008

Boomerang Swingers

I've been slack with the online stuff lately - busy, busy me. Yep I've been busy with lots of new activities.
Including teaching at the BIA, wholesale orders, avoiding my new computer which though finally out of its box and plugged in needs software installed before I can do anything, visiting friends & family, enjoying life etc. But now that I have commenced 3 mths long service leave from my Uni admin job, I'm running out of excuses and finding time for some new designs.

Like these Boomerang Swinger and Retro Swinger earrings made from recycled laminex (contemporary) and sterling silver that I gave birth to last week. Despite the pointy geometry you'll be glad to know it was a quick and easy labour and the pairs of twins are doing just fine.






I love these 50's boomerang shapes that you see in architectural details of bridges, houses, carparks and on barkcloth and laminex/formica of the era and reproductions of today. It seems boomerang patterns have quite a following among the lovers of retro as a basic google/flickr search reveals.




Above is the rather wonderful and in the process of being lovingly restored Boomerang House courtesy of Boomerang Thang who did not mind me using his photo: "in true boomerang style, I say, give it away and it will come back to you". So long as it doesn't hit you in the head I reckon.


5 comments:

Shannon Garson said...

Hooray!!1 You are back! I'll look forward to some angst ridden entries about artists block in the near future. (with a strong emphasis on how fantastic you are deep down underneath for overcoming your obstacles of course!)

Rebecca-the-Wrecker said...

thanks shannon!
i feel like a bit of a fraud for having such a fun time during my artists block phase!

Kay Cooke said...

You've given me a whole new perspective on boomerangs! I like the earrings a lot. BTW I am enjoying the Scrabulous game! :)

Ursula Achten said...

it never occured to me- up tp our post, that the boomerang is a true fifties design. I like your focus on them and your swinger earrings are great..especially the boomerang-ones....and b.t.w. I'm happy that you're back!!

Anonymous said...

I've just recently downloaded Mt4 Protect and wanted to tell you guys about my experience with it.
I was worried about all the MT4 Trojan Horse's out there at the moment as I heard you can get them from downloading Expert Advisors from the internet.
While I don't download decompiled experts the last thing I want is some hacker getting my account details and draining my forex account as I have built it up into quite a bit of $$$. That's why I purchased MT4 protect so it can stop my pc from getting attacked. I think the price is well worth the protection I will receive
I bought a copy at [url=http://www.mt4protect.com/] www.mt4protect.com [/url] via paypal and my product code was sent to me within 4 hours.
I installed it and its awesome! It works in the system tray and scans my computer in real time to detect any attacks.
The EA optimization tool is so great - you can allocate more memory to your MT4 terminal so your trades get executed faster! There are also heaps of registry tweaks and cleanup features that have tuned up my Windows 2000 computer.
With crackers and virus attacks hitting Forex traders all the time now I definitely think that MT4 Protect is a worthwhile investment.