An authentic masterpiece!

This CD, sung totally in innu, by Chloe Sainte-Marie, a singer from Quebec, is truly a masterpiece!
The first song, Mamitunenitamun, that you can hear here, is particularly intense and you don't need to understand what is being sung in order to fall for it.
The whole album is great, the words and music are by Philippe McKenzie who deserves much admiration.
Chloé's voice is that of an angel...


Chloe Sainte-Marie. Photo by Pierre Dury

Sold as soon as posted...

This set has only been online for a day before it was sold! :-)

New jewelry

Here are a few of the pieces that I made lately. They are all available at my Etsy shop: http://www.etsy.com/shop/maximeboldeau




Citrine hearts and pink tourmaline bracelet and earrings set:


Onyx drops and african striped glass bracelet and earrings set:


Soft green chrysoprase necklace and earrings set:


Pearls and sterling necklace and earrings set:


Knotted black spinel and sterling necklace:


Labradorite knotted necklace:


Red coral on vintage chain bracelet:

My first sterling pendant

This is my very first handmade pendant. It's somewhat lopsided, but since it's rather small, it doesn't show too much.
It's made of recycled mexican sterling from old broken pieces, and sterling wire scraps from my beading projects.
I'm quite proud of it because I learned all I needed to achieve it from books.
Oh how I love books! And how important they have always been for me!

Just listed necklaces

Necklace with jasper landscape pendant (SOLD)


Long half and half black onyx and agate necklace


Indian faerie two strand apatite and hessonite garnet necklace. (SOLD)

Beautiful music, and film.

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress



This is one album that I don't think I'll ever tire of. I've been listening to it in loop for a few months now, and it just keeps on transporting me...
It is a fusion of Mozart and chinese music at it's best. I think it is sublime!

Tracks #1 (La montagne Phénix), #10 (Le soupir du bois), and #26 (La grotte des livres) are good examples of the atmosphere created by this music.
You can hear excerpts of it here.

By the way the film is very good also.

Mean beauty, last post.

These are the last photos of this (giant?) thistle. I intend to rip it out as soon as the flowers have all withered. The ruler is 72 inches long.

A day at Jenness Beach, NH

This is a quickly realized panoramic photomerge relating a cloudless day at Jennes Beach, New Hampshire...

Today at "Les Belles d'un Jour"

I took a few minutes at lunch to visit Michel, my neighbour, and catch a few shots of the blooming daylilies. It must be the peak of the season around here...





Some welcome shade...


A sea of flowers...

Beautiful peach roses

Shot at our neighbour's place...

Seventeenth century Quebec

This is a detail of the collage.


This is a photoshop collage that I realized for an history schoolbook a few years ago.
All the character's photos are mine.

Neat ideas from Idée

Found on another blog a while back, I had to try it again. You can choose up to ten colors, and it will display a corresponding array of Flickr photos. It is such a feast for the eye!
They also have other neat applications.

Mean beauty III

For this photo, I was around five feet from the subject...
Oh! How I love my new camera!


At last, flowers! My giant thistle is blooming!

Newly listed jewelry

Green opal knotted necklace, with sterling silver "S" clasp.


Jade and glam ensemble.


Tutti frutti necklace.

A brand new camera

My older EOS Rebel digital camera needed a good sensor cleanup, so I went to the local camera shop to get it done. Actually, I didn't know what caused these blurry spots on some but not all of my pictures. It appears that it's dust sitting on the light sensors. I suppose that this mostly happens with SLR cameras since dust can enter the camera body during changes of lenses.

Anyway, I also enquired about prices for macro lenses. As these were way too high for my budget, I then asked the salesman if a non-SLR could be a good alternative, mostly in regards to macro.

He then showed me what the latest Canon bridge camera could do...and I was flabbergasted!
The results were really terrific! The only thing that made me not buy it was that it runs on AA batteries, and I loathe AA batteries!

So he showed me the Nikon P90 bridge camera, which gave similar amazing results but featured an affordable lithium ion battery pack.

I took it home for a little more than half the price of a good macro lens, and I'm in love with it.

This photo of Queen Ann's lace is an example of what this little marvel can do:

More new jewelry

A mid-oriental inspired necklace and earrings set.


Black onyx, black agate and rock crystal knotted necklace.


Azurite, new jade, vintage chain and antiqued brass accents.


Amethyst and rock crystal knotted necklace.


Turquoise and antiqued brass accents bracelet.

Toy car illustration

Here, just for the fun of it, is a little toy car illustration that I did a while back...

Just listed on Etsy...

Lapis lazuli and brass necklace, with an oriental inspiration


A gemmy amber colored keyring.


A bracelet made of lapis lazuli drops and chrysocolla beads on a vintage brass chain.

Port of Montréal

I was in Montréal yesterday, with my daughter and her cousin, to see an exhibition on pirates that had been much advertised. We then went all the way up to the museum's belvedere where we could enjoy a striking view of the port of Montréal.
I then took a series of photos of that view, from left to right, taking care to overlap each photo with the preceeding one (or the next one depending...).
Later on, back home, I remembered that, with the newer versions of photoshop, you could merge such photos automatically (file>automate>photomerge...).
This I tried, and here is the result ( 1 minute for something that would have taken me the better part of a day manually!):

Some more sold jewelry

Faceted garnet drops, fine jade , sterling and brass earrings


Moss agate discs, fine jade and brass earrings


Turquoise, carnelian and metal necklace


Opalite and brass necklace and earrings set


Ebony discs and metal, necklace and earrings set


Amazonite coin beads, czech glass and freshwater pearls necklace and earrings set


Lapis lazuli, yellow jade and brass ensemble


White coral drops, chromed metal accents and brass, necklace and earrings set


Lapis lazuli drops, carnelian faceted beads on a solid brass chain necklace with earrings set