Day 24 - Frangipani

[vilakins]

I didn't have much time today so here's another glass-coaster flower. I've run out of work and won't be working tomorrow and maybe Friday either so I might have time to do something more ambitious. Though my sister wants to phone me which will take out a couple of hours. [rolls eyes] It's always text or phone with her; she won't use e-mail because it hurts her arm (smashed badly a few years ago) yet texting or holding a phone doesn't? I've considered buying a hands-free set for the landline to use when she rings. :-P

Anyway. Flower.

Frangipani



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Comments

[gwendraith]

Very pretty and very nice for coasters, too :)

[vilakins]

That was because when I did the first experimental one in desperation because I had limited time, I suggested it could be on a painted glass coaster. Now I'm imagining them as a set :-)

[watervole]

Lovely flower!

I prop my phone up on a book rest if I have a long conversation. I can't hold things for long.

[vilakins]

Thank you!

I have the wonderful book seat for reading, but I'm not sure I could get my ear close enough. I certainly find it hard to hold something for over an hour, maybe two. and the pressure on my ear makes that hurt too. Maybe I'll put her on speaker phone and swap phones when the batteries run low.

[watervole]

I always use the speaker phone. I find I generally need the added volume in any case.

[vilakins]

I will do that. In any case, though she texted me she'd ring "this arvo", she hasn't. Instead I read, napped with Jasmin and Sebastian on me, and did some art.

[watervole]

I like the look of the book seat - no UK price on their web site, but I've asked just in case I can afford one.

[vilakins]

It was about $40 here. I use it all the time: on my lap, on the arm of a chair, on the table. It's one of the most useful things I've bought, and Greg couldn't see the point when I got it. He has since realised how good it is because it's so very adaptable.

[watervole]

Adaptable isn't so useful to me, because I always have to read at the same angle, but book rests that travel well and don't break are what I need.

[vilakins]

It must be pretty robust: I give it a lot of use. I hope you can find one there. The one I bought was the only one in the store.

[reapermum.livejournal.com]

That's nice, and with symmetry.

Have you considered adding a pansy to this set. They come in many colours and have lovely faces.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

OK, I'll keep that in mind!

[elmey.livejournal.com]

With that color and that name, this one has to be scented--the flower I mean, not the coaster :) Is it from NZ?

I refuse to do video chat because then people could see what I was doing while they were blathering on-- and I'm talking my brother, and all of husband's siblings, none of them ever stop.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

We have them here, but according to Wikipedia:

They are native to Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and South America as far south as Brazil, but have been spread throughout the world's tropics. [...] In several Pacific islands, such as Tahiti, Fiji, Samoa, Hawaii, New Zealand, Tonga, and the Cook Islands species are used for making leis. In modern Polynesian culture, it can be worn by women to indicate their relationship status - over the right ear if seeking a relationship, and over the left if taken.

Ahahaha, I've worn one over the wrong ear at the Pasifika festival! I had a neighbour with it in her garden and its scent was gorgeous. They're very much a Pacific islander flower to me and this is the biggest Pacific islander city in the world. :-)

[rolls eyes] My sister got it from my mother. I could walk around and do things and just say "Uhuh" and "Mmmm" every five minutes or so.

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

The colors... eeee... so lovely.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

It took a bit longer than usual to get the pink right. For these flower pictures, I'm using almost all pure Artrage colours with no black in them so the colours are very clear. For the leaves I go darker though.

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

Another fantastic flower! Your colours are rich and pleasing and the blossom is wonderful!!!
Ah...hahaha, sorry, I know these eager "callers"; I have one in our family too:-)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I like using really rich clear colours for this series. :-)

She'll talk my ear off for at least an hour, probably two. DO NOT WANT!

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

Ah, so long? Well, here the calls are excessively expensive, more than an EU average is. So - everyone thinks twice to speak THAT long. Oh my poor friend....let Sebastiam miaow in the phone loudly!!!!!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Our phone calls are free if in the same area and nowadays cheap between cities, bit it wasn't always so; toll calls (outside your area) used to be very expensive when I was a kid. But I now see there are advantages to expensive calls. ;-)

Sebastian would oblige if it's meal time. He has a special "feed me" miaow which goes "wah-ah!" with the second bit up an octave.

Once before we got married I was talking to Greg on the phone and I thought he had a cat with him, but I'd left the upstairs phone on my bed when i went downstairs to continue on the phone down there, and Claudia was on my bed miaowing down the phone at our voices. :-D

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, I love that story with your lovely Claudia!

[luinielle.livejournal.com]

That's beautiful - I love the middle of the flower.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I wondered if it would remind you of home. Here they mean Pacific Islands as they like to wear them and use them in tapa patterns. :-)

[luinielle.livejournal.com]

:o) It does remind me of home. It's known as Plumeria or pua melia and it's used for leis given to tourists/visitors. I love the fragrance.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

So do I. A neighbour had some and I used to stand by their fence and enjoy it, esp in the early evening. :-)