Swimming pools

Lately I have been spending more time swimming laps than making jewelry, so I decided to post pictures of swimming pools I like. And since this is a jewelry blog, I decided to add a Bead Parlor bracelet for good measure - a bracelet made with lovely metal beads and tiny Swarovski crystals. Shelley Nybbake designs them, and one of my favorite sayings "we don't do dainty" is from her blog.

The two pools you can see are in New York and Berlin. The top one is in Berlin; in fact, it is a huge container in a river (the Spree, if I'm not mistaken). My friend Frauke hangs out there, and you probably have to look as good in a bikini as she does to do so.

The second picture is more my cup of tea - dumpsters in Brooklyn. Maybe it made the news in the States and everybody has seen this picture already, but those three dumpster pools sure look inviting to me. Not that the public has been invited yet, from what I gather they've only been made available to a select group of New Yorkers. At least it doesn't look like you have to be able to wear a bikini to swim there!

I swim laps in a pool that is not in a river and not in a dumpster but in the middle of the forest, and so it is called "Waldschwimmbad" - "Forest Swimming Pool" (I just remembered this is supposed to be a bilingual blog); it's huge. And whe you don't have little kids jumping on your back as you swim by you get all this great oxygen from the trees .... speaking of which ..... it's a rainy day again, and those are the best days at the pool in August ... schönen Sonntag! ("Have a nice Sunday").