enjoy !

Holidays give many opportunities.

You can spend them with family

with friends

with the cat / the dog

or alone

("home alone" can be sooo good,

though there still is that movie

they show almost every year about this time ... )

You can party

you can cook / eat some extravagant dinner

or just look what's in the fridge

...

Everyone can choose (I hope)

what suites her or him best.

The main thing is :

  ENJOY  

(these last few weeks I've enjoyed another

online felting class

made quite a few felted birds,

and made some special presents

that will be unwrapped in two days)

But

in case you are one of the many people

who have to WORK right now

then I hope you catch some

  happy time  

later !

king or fisher ?

It might become a mild

addiction

.....

Soon after making the very first bird

I started to use a felting needle :

not too much,

but just to make sure I start off with the right shape.

That way I'm able to follow more closely

the colour pattern on the bird.

King or Fisher ???

We don't hardly ever see them here, kingfishers.

They are quite rare

Years ago I saw a bright blue flash

from a branch near the water behind our garden

and knew what it must have been right away !

(never seen one since)

(no harm done)

(hmmmm ... sure lóóks like an addiction)

one bird in the hand ...

Like last year

I'm participating in an online felting class

of Corinna Nitschmann.

Though I don't have a lot of time

to do some big felting right now,

but there's the possibility to save these lessons for later

(like the wrist warmers and the skirt)

But the little birds that adorned a felted vessel

were sooooooooo CUTE

I had to try them right away !

A tiny bit of wool

lukewarm water, soap

and nimble hands

do the trick.

A small great tit was the result !

And because it's such fun ...

(a blue tit without a picture)

a wren

and a tail tit.

Always love it when in winter these little ones

come foraging in a group !

Maybe I even make one of these special visitors in felt !

(ring-necked parakeets are more and more common here)