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Why I Heart Bali

Bali is my top destination dream spot for a few reasons.  Obviously, Bali is beautiful, mountainous, and has so much to share...turquoise clear waters, temples, tropics, jungle, rice fields, culture...how much more amazing could a place be?

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Bali is also source to the art of ancient silversmithing, check it out in this video!  I would love to see this first hand, and am so intrigued by the use of organic plant materials in the soldering techniques the balinese use.



Here's a few examples of Balinese silversmithing (so intricate!):

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I might have to try and talk Matt into going to Bali as our honeymoon....

4 thoughts:

Vapid Vixen said...

Oh wow. That stuff looks amazing. I'll send you my mailing address so you can ship my trinkets to me from your honeymoon. ;)
Love the picture of Tommy and Ruby. Adorable!

Gillian said...

Beautiful! It shouldn't be much of a hard sell for the honeymoon, anyone would want to go there....

h said...

I just saw a woman's blog post on her honeymoon to Bali: http://seejaneworkplaylive.blogspot.com/2011/09/bali-hai-see-jane-honeymoon.html maybe that might be inspiration for you? It's looks absolutely lovely!!

Unknown said...

Iris~thanks!!

I think this blog post has definitely inspired Matt!!

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