Mastercrafts - Stonemasons

Wow, just wow

Loved it - never thought that it would every appeal to me as much as green woodwork, but the level of skill achieved was astonishing

I did love the final pieces as well - though the combination of water and stone made the winning piece and winner for me as that's what I like to work with as a landscaper.

I enjoyed it as well and thought the right person's design won....although they were ( yet again) all great stuff

Once again I forgot this was on and forgot to set my magic box to record it. Off to find it on iplayer later...

Mrs C

It's been an interesting series all round - especially to see where people come from when they signed up for the different challenges and how their perceptions of it had changed when they reached the end. I'm glad the sundial I liked best was chosen as the winner & it just goes to show how it needs just the right amount of patience, technical skill and flair to blend to get something stunning. Nothing's ever as simple as it looks!

One thing which has struck me if how each of the crafts which has been shown is based on slow, repetitive actions, which must initiate a certain pace of life and way of thinking. My training was in ceramics, which isn't so slow per se, but repetition is needed to become good.

Dandelion wrote:One thing which has struck me if how each of the crafts which has been shown is based on slow, repetitive actions, which must initiate a certain pace of life and way of thinking.

That's my feeling about Voluntary Simplicity, a slowing down of the pace of life. Of course we are v busy day to day, but overall, the taking the time to do things, like those craftspeople we have watched, rather than purchasing goods/service/lifestyle, all these things lead to a clearer and more appreciative frame of mind.
Not that I am advocating us going back to banging the rocks together, I am way to partial to the pre-grown, pre-roasted coffee beans we buy and I do rather like our coffee maker and other appliances, but those conveniences do free time up for me to do other things which give my life meaning and worth.

I posted before you Badger, along the same lines? but it seems to have got lost...

But yes, I agree...making things and growing things and having to slow down and think a bit about it all...and learning by repetition and careful work all seem to help the VS process along