My Top Three Narnia Inspired Etsy Items

I actually adore The Chronicles of Narnia. I call this blog 'The Chronicles of Amoronia', because I am a fool for everything Narnia-related. So it was only a matter of time before I searched Etsy for Narnia-related things, and I have found my top three!

Here we go...

#3

Narnia, by 3BlueCrane

#2

Narnia Silver Earrings, by (our very own, EGST member, Stephania!) lePetitFoyer

and... #1

The Chronicles of Narnia Book Purse, by NovelCreations

I hope you hear that, Santa...! Oh, well. If you can't bring me these, at least you may try a little bit harder for world peace, stability and love. Many kisses my darlings!

Jujube Fruit

Today it was a nice, cold, dry Saturday. The sun was shining enough for me not to bear to stay inside, so I decided not to join my friends at the cafe. Of course I learnt afterwards that most of them went to gather olives anyway, as it's the time of year when olive oil is produced, but I, too, had the pleasure of touching a tree. And now that I am back, I would like to share with you images of the fruit I picked, which is often found in gardens throughout Greece.

Ziziphus zizyphus (from Greek ζίζυφον, zizyfon) commonly called jujube (sometimes jujuba), red date, Chinese date, Korean date, or Indian date is a species of Ziziphus, used primarily as a fruiting shade tree.

The neighbour who cultivates this tree in his garden was gathering the jujube fruit today, when he happened to see me and invited me over. We shook the tree carefully, having spread some old sheets beneath it, and so all the jujube that fell on the ground were ours!

These fruit are at their best when they are ripe and start to dry, while they are still on the tree. If you collect them at that point, you will enjoy them sweet, and you can even dry them further and keep them for about a year. They are date-like, but more interesting, so distinctly sweet and warm to the taste, and to me they are a sign that Christmas is near! What a blessing!

Glamour Earrings for the Holiday Season

I found a few vintage chandelier octagon prisms and grabbed them! This is the first pair of earrings I made, and I was listening to Loreena McKennitt's winter garden while I was making them, so it seemed only natural to include the cd cover in my photos...

They have an incredible sparkle, which was very hard to capture with my camera, but hopefully those pomegranates on the cover will make them more visible to you. Here they are:

Glamour and Sparkle, Eco Friendly Earrings for the Holiday Season

And here is the song. Enjoy!

Oh, and I'm also glad that the weather today is different, we had 9 degrees Centigrade in the morning when I woke up. Cool!