Scherezade, by Caprilicious

Hello everyone, how are you? Are you all enjoying the stumbling beginnings of summer? I do hope the weather makes it's mind up and plays ball pretty quick - I'm fed up with grey skies and sweaters. The flowers are showing up, though - we took out two box plants at either end of our little border on the front of the house, and the extra sunlight, although weak, has caused the rest of the plants to turn into a jungle. I'm just going to let it happen this year, and see how it all grows. I was going for the cottage garden look, and most definitely not a jungle! Hubby bought two lovely pots to replace the box shrubs but I'm yet to find plants to put in them.

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Scherezade

The Sultan Schakhriar, convinced that all women were false and faithless, vowed to put to death each of his wives after the first night. But the Sultana Scheherazade saved her life by entertaining hubby with fascinating tales, for a thousand and one nights. The Sultan, consumed with curiosity, postponed from day to day the execution of his wife, and finally allowed her to live (after which she promptly took a lover - she loved to live dangerously, this girl. However, that's another story). 
This was the brief introduction that Rimsky-Korsakov wrote (not the last bit, though), intended for use with the score as well as the program for the premiere of his beautiful, haunting piece of music that I have loved since hubby introduced it to me. I watched the ballet set to this music, and there came the inspiration for my next piece. I have put the ballet on here for you - for those who love classical music, start from the beginning with the orchestra, but those of you who love the dance form, you will find the actual ballet if you fast forward to 12:26. Do have a look, I guarantee you will love it.

I saw these pink dragon's vein agates on a website and the markings on the stones excited me, and I've held onto them for a while now until I found the perfect idea. The beetles wings seem to set off the colours, as do the crystals. I reckon it is fit for a princess or Shezada - which is where the name Scherezade comes from. I was on my way to my camera, when I saw Wilfred sitting on a chair in the living room - I got him to try it on, but he wasn't very impressed, for some reason - philistine! 

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Right, folks, that's me for this week. Have a fabulous week and I'll get to you as soon as I can.
Until then,
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