A Brown Elephant? A Brown Elephant? - Day 146 - Daily Content Challenge Today's elephant is brown. Hmm… that had me wondering what colour are elephants? There are three recognised species of elephant - the Asian elephant, the African savanna elephant and the African forest elephant. Elephants are mostly grey in colour. African elephants have ...
Elephant Ears Elephant Ears - Day 145 - Daily Content Challenge Today's Elephant was created using materials the artist found close by. He/she must have been near an ocean because seashells were used for the elephant's ears. African elephants have much larger ears than Asian elephants. Shaped much like the continent of Africa, the large ...
Another Glass Elephant Another Elephant Made of Glass - Day 144 - Daily Content Challenge Today's elephant appears to be a combination of different pieces of glass moulded in the shape of an elephant. The body of this elephant looks like cut glass. The face and ears of the elephant is clearer glass but I ...
A Sitting Glass Elephant A Sitting Glass Elephant - Day 143 - Daily Content Challenge Today's elephant is made of glass. The elephant is sitting down. I love the details on this glass ornament. The elephant has his trunk raised in triumph as if saying, 'I did it!' When I googled, 'Do elephants sit down?', ...
Another Jade Elephant Another Jade Elephant - Day 142 - Daily Content Challenge Today's elephant sits on my curio shelf. This one is made from a piece of jade that has been polished and shaped into an elephant. Earlier I shared a smaller jade elephant that was made into a tiny charm that I wear ...
An Amber Elephant An Amber Elephant - Day 141 - Day Content Challenge Today's elephant is very tiny and I believe it is made of Amber. Amber is not actually a gemstone even though it glows and glistens when polished. Amber is the hardened resin of certain types of ancient trees. Amber is fossilized tree ...
Special Letters from Home Special Letters from Home - Day 140 - Daily Content Challenge My picture shows a souvenir purchased at a souq in either India or Thailand on trips I was fortunate to take while teaching in Kuwait. A teacher friend and I flew to Mumbai and then on to Hyderabad in India. ...
An Elephant Welcome Elephants Giving You a Welcome - Day 139 - Daily Content Challenge Welcome! I like this Welcome sign especially with the spelling 'Wel Come'. There are many synonyms for welcome. Greetings. Come right in. How-do-you-do? Glad to see you. Won't you come in? Bienvenido. Oki. These are some that come to mind. ...
An Elephant Footstool from Kuwait Elephants on a Footstool? - Day 138 - Daily Content Challenge Today's picture shows a footstool I have in my home. This was purchased in Kuwait. We would drive from Salwa, where our school was located to Fahaheel to find the shop that sold these footstools. Fahaheel is an area ...
An Elephant Charm Made of Jade A Jade Elephant Charm - Day 137 - Daily Content Challenge Today's elephant is a charm I found while visiting a jade factory in China. This little elephant is made of jade and I wear this charm on a necklace I own. Jade has been mined and worked in ...
