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| My Wood and Copper Jewelry Display |
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| Copper Cuff Bracelet Jewelry Display |
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| Copper Necklace Display |
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| Men's Necklaces on Wood |
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| Fern Leaf Collection on Wooden Display |
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| Layers Collection on Wooden Display |
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| Cascais Collection on Wooden Display |
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| Lola the loyal shop assistant working the show! |
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| Lola - Loyal Shop Assistant, Dressform extraordinaire! |
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| *notice how I cleverly inserted my website into her laptop screen! ;) |
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| Photo from http://greenpeaceblogs.org/ |
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| The Douro River running one direction. The hills around here are filled with wine vineyards! |
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| The Coa River running the other direction. This is the river valley where all of the engravings are found. About 90 kilometers worth of engravings have been found, all within 300 feet of the rivers edges. |
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| We started at the top of the mountain (where the shots of the rivers was taken) at the Coa Valley Museum. It's an incredible site in itself, the design apparently winning several awards. The outside is awesome and the inside is made to give the feeling of being in caverns and valleys (totally forgot to take photos of the inside :P ) and the exhibits are laid out in a very stark, modern way contrasted with an eery, primitive soundtrack. I LOVED it. :) |
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| A larger shot of the building. (sort of reminds me of the ship that picked up R2D2 and C3PO on Tatooine :) |
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| Some of the artwork on the walls of the museum. They were huge and gorgeous, luminescent, lit up by black light. |
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| All of them represented some of the engravings found in the Valley. These two orange people were my favorites. |
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| And here we are, midway down the mountain in a town called Castelo Melhor (Better Castle, apparently better than the one that was destroyed just before this one was built, lol) in our tour jeep ready for the ride down into the valley. |
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| Our guide pointing out the engravings and talking about the theories on why they were made, etc. |
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| Some of the engravings were very hard to see and they were usually engraved over and over each other spanning about a 10,000 year period. One of the reasons for this is territory markings, another is hunting superstitions. |
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| These you can see fairly well, a horse is the largest and there's also a goat at the top right. There's actually a couple other engravings on this rock, but they are very difficult to see. (photos were hard also as the sun was behind us shining right on the face of the rocks, so no shadows to hilight the engravings) |
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| Another shot where you can actually see some of the engravings. |
Display views from the Weekend Boutique! I love designing my display almost as much as I love designing jewelry! What do you think? Do you...
