coming #2

Red is a hard color to photograph (at least with my
camera). I could hardly see either it's focus or not,
because the red is displayed as a pixel mess. So it's
only good luck, if I got a picture with a focused red
flower. This one will be up tomorrow.

i feel pretty

No, not me! LOL It's the name of the ring I show you
the preview earlier today. This is the story along to it.

A cheeky little linnet was playing in the bushes,
as it was attracted by something bright. It was
a ranunculus at the neighbor's garden. The linnet
found it so pretty just by looking at the orange
flower, that it began to sing...

Still... I need to grub my Bernstein CD out now and
listen to it, while taking photos for the next listing. The
light is not so good today, but I'm not satisfied with the
photos I've taken yesterday - I'm gonna try with another
background. I'll show you a preview later this evening.


Ha! I just realized, Maria has a flower on her head, just
like my little linnet does ^_^

coming

I'll start listing the new felt items. This will make the
start later today.

links

... link to link to link to link to link to link to link to link ...



Happy weekend, friends!
I wish, it would stop to snow...

today

I'm working on a necklace. The wool in the water reminds
me of the worms we used to buy for our fishes.


Is it snowing, where you are? We got 10cm snow last
night! It's a record since we live here and of course
it's my turn to keep the yard free of snow. So, I think,
I have enough snow this winter.

retreat

My last retreat was about 28 years ago, when I was
in the elementary school. I'm not a religious person,
but I remember, I enjoyed it - getting in touch with
my spirit, to calm down, to stop and look.

So, when I saw this, I thought, it's my chance. Don't
know, how it would be, but I'm always open for a
new experience.


Sarah Blasko

dust bunnies

I'm working on my new felt collection. I'm not sure
I should call it a collection, as I'm pretty sure, as ideas
keep on flowing it'll end somewhere else than it has
begun. So, maybe it'll be a collection of some tiny
collections LOL



This is only a little part of how my kitchen table look
like at the moment - there's no place left to eat on
the table (but I have time to let it look this way, as
my son will be first back on Tuesday ;)). But the
dust bunnies of the wool are in every corner of the
apartment. I'm a HUGE mess worker, as I have only
eyes for my work when I'm on the roll. I work while
I'm sitting or standing or walking. So when I cut the
felt the scrap falls just where I was and while I'm
walking I take the dust with me. And right after I
vacuum the dust, I make new one - I'm horrible!!!!
But I don't really care, as I'm happy with the result :)

I won't show and tell at the moment, till I have the
collection ready - which I hope, at the latest next
Sunday. I'm so excited! Can you feel my excitement?
^_^

sweden

I was talking about our favorite jazz singers and bands
with an old friend lately after the last gig, when we
suddenly noticed, many of them come from the Northern
part of Europe. Koop is a group from Sweden that I
really, really love (you might have seen on the right
bar, I've been listening to their music again this week).

This morning I was 'googling' for typography for my
felt work (which I could hopefully show you soon ;)),
when I stumbled upon the work of Thomas Broomé,
also from Sweden. I love esp. his Modern Mantra
series, not only because I love typography in general,
but because I've always been exploring the use of
typography in pictures.


Two doodles I made at work last Monday.

On Etsy, of course, there are also sellers from Sweden.
I looked up only for Stockholm, but there could/must
be more. Some of my fave list...


ExoticFlavour, cristinapires, aCatsNest,
kannor, suzzieholler, birribe,
Couturetime, Saltsyrup, percerosso,
Myling, Antracitproduction, britou

hearts

So, I've made another item with felted hearts. It isn't
for my shop though. It's for the Hearts for Haiti.


I will update this post with the item link, as soon as it's
listed in the shop.
It's there now! :)

on a gray day

I've collected colors on my way home from work today.
Tonight: a gig with the choir.

Happy Weekend to you all!

late

A new decade has started and I'm pretty late with my
first post of the new year. I've actually started this post
a while ago, but never managed to finish it. Oh, well..
no stress, right? ;)



New year's resolution? Well, I don't really make any,
cause I know, I'll soon forget about it. I do have things
I'd love to do better than in the past, but it's part of
the on-going learning process in my life. Doing, falling,
standing up, taking a break, stepping out of the track,
looking back (I often got the suggestion not to look back,
but I think looking back to learn is more than okay..),
looking forward, adjusting, continuing the old track or
maybe starting something new or maybe even going
back a little while before continuing, thinking, collecting
new things or perhaps cutting back of what I already
have, listening,... I'm open for any possibilities that lie
ahead :)



And so I started to felt again (while lampworking is on
hold because of the winter cold) - mostly for custom
orders. I also made some hearts just for fun and as I
saw them lying side by side with my last supply purchase,
I simply had to make the two items (I usually don't like to
follow trends or seasons or whatever, so those two will
be the only Valentine items in my shop).



Besides felting I've knitted a tiny pouch for a bead (will
make more of these for future purposes) and I'm working
on some paintings. Do you know, that I still use the colors
I brought with me from Indonesia, when I first came to
Germany over 20 years ago? So, I'm working with vintage
Japanese water colors :)



Last not least I want to share these photos from the
first Sunday in January, when we took care of Ella for
a day. She and my son became friends very soon.