day 28

Another baby-sitting day

but my mandala for today 

was well underway

yesterday.

So I just needed to finish it

(and with the little one in bed ...)

This time I wanted to portray one of the cats.

In fact they are our daughter's cats

(we had two exactly like them years ago)

But since her appartment is too crowded already

they are our semipermanent house guests now

(daughter and the children miss them though :

always extra hugs when they are here !)

What do we day dream about ?

Things that we want to happen ???

And what might cats day dream about, if they do ?

Hmmmm a lot of wishful thinking 

for all of us probably ...

Here is my Pink Ribbon mandala for day number twenty-eight

"day dreams"

Karisma colour pencils on heavy weight drawing paper

the mandala itself is  14 cm  (5.5")  in diameter

If you want to have this original artwork for yourself or someone dear

(don't forget Christmas and "Sinterklaas" are getting closer)

please send me an email at

fiberrainbow@gmail.com

It costs  € 28, -  

(+ postage : € 1,92 for Holland and  € 3,15 elsewhere )

These are big brother Bagheera and little sister Bella

(enjoying the warm afternoon sunshine !)

(see you tomorrow)

sweet dreams ...

Today I finished my felting-exchange piece 

for this month.

It is for Caroline, one of the new friends I made 

on this wonderful workshop

with Sara Lechner

(almost a year ago now)

Her theme for the exchange is :

DREAMS 

I tried some technique a friend explaned to me

to get some ripples on the surface. 

As a matter of fact, I did two pieces

because I wasn't satisfied with the first one :

too big 

and the colours were a bit messy.

So I made a fresh start yesterday.

... work in progress ...

The ripples were not exactly as I wanted them

but this technique is still new to me 

so :

practice makes perfect

;-)

Then today came the rest of the fun : 

stitching !

Using  various variegated colours Cotton Perlé

and the new Rayon thread from Emma's

I called it "sweet dreams"

I put it in the mail this afternoon and

because I had to mail Caroline about something 

I told her not to look here if she didn't want to spoil the surprise.