Mushrooms and Sicily inspiration

Game of Shrooms.......

Yes, I did spell it correctly. Game of Shrooms is a once yearly event where artists from all round the world make mushroom-related art and hide it on a specific day for others to find and keep for free. I've decided to participate this year, and am up to three mushrooms so far. Game of Shroom began in 2019; it is a game, similar to the Easter Egg Hunt, but by artists, and mushrooms not eggs!
The artist (me) will then provide hints on Social media, like Instagram and Facebook, which is challenging as Instagram is a bit of a mystery to me. The key is for their followers, (not sure I have followers, but stranger things have happened) who live nearby to find the art piece, They then hopefully take a photo of the mushroom art they've found, tagging in the artist, in this case www.blueseabirdclaydesigns.com on facebook or Instagram.
I have no idea if anyone will look for or find my shrooms, I really need to get better at Instagram and post hints of where they are. But if anyone is interested I live in Copford, Near Colchester, Essex, and the day of hunting is the 8th of June 2024. 

Sicily

I'm currently in Sicily for a few days before travelling to Tuscany to celebrate my sister's birthday. Oh I love Italy; the food is wonderful and the colours!!!!! I love the ceramics and artwork, and spend a lot of time just looking at everything and taking photos. One of the things I like to do when away is work out a colour palette of the area, and Sicily is proving difficult because there are so many lovely colours, and I'm trying not to stick with the ones I usually use. Here are the photos I've taken so far (well, to be honest here are a few of the photos I've taken, I have many many more on the camera).

This is the one I'm going to use mostly I think. I have to have lemon in it as Sicily is so well known for lemons, and the light blue is everywhere, and not a colour I usually use. I've been living on pistachios for the past two days, so this green is perfect. If you haven't had pistachio ice cream, or to be more Italian, Gellato, then you haven't lived. I'm making sure I'm definiely living by having pistachio tirimisu, pistachio brittle, pistachio liquore, and pistachio biscuits...... you can't take chances with these things :). 

Then I have to consider canes. and both the pictures above are from tables, one a cloth and another a table top. Soooooo many ideas for canes, so much inspiration. I'm going to take a pencil and paper on the plane on Friday and sketch out some cane ideas. I always use plane journeys to do fun things.
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And as well as inspiring colours and canes, there's so much inspiration for projects to make with said zillions of canes - because I always make far far too many to know what to do with. So, I'm thinking some nice fish for the bathroom wall to go with the 6 seahorses already on there, and a cactus plant, not quite as large as this one, with each 'leaf' being a different cane pattern. 
I'm off to Tuscany on Friday, so will be making another palette, and no doubt find more ideas for projects, and perhaps design some more mushrooms. Please look me up on Instagram and follow me, but don't be alarmed if you comment on any facebook posts involving mushrooms, and get replied to by someone promoting different types of mushrooms. I've had to delete so many unwanted posts about 'medicinal mushrooms' which is amusing, but I really don't want to be thought of as a magic mushroom supplier!!!