end of the first ...

Yes :

the end of the first month of 2020 !

It's been quiet here.

Not a lot of time on the net,

have been reading books

and making small animals, finger puppets.

(though I can't stay felting too long,

somehow there's something wrong with my posture :

felting too long gives me backache ...

must find a way to avoid that !)

a growing menagerie 

(... thinking of the devastation Down Under) 

We had birthday parties :

middle grandchild and dear friend who turned 77,

and there was a swimming diploma for a very proud youngest ...

and he and I started on the first page

of a blank calendar that was a christmas present.

nothing better than the skating competition of big brother

for January !!!

more ...

Not done yet with it

(far from)

.....

baaaaaa he says ... 

the back : finished and before felting

(hmmmmmm ... there will be more)

... that is the question ...

Is there

a mouse

with a tiny cat

or

is there

a cat

with a giant mouse

I think that is the question

?

(not finished yet)

a handful

Here they are 

....

Not all of them,

but a handful of finger puppets ready to play

The little gray-and-white mouse in the middle

was the very first one !

At first that mouse and the fox had smaller, seed bead eyes.

But today I found slightly bigger beads

and exchanged them,

and gave the other ones eyesight too.

This little froggy

has yellow felted balls as eyes

and I stitched them with some black thread

hmmmm ..... might give hime a crown ...

(Ohhhhh this is addictive !)

little puppets

As a Christmas present

I chose to order some Kap Merino wool

(that's very short-fiber fine wool)

I needed that for my online class with Pam de Groot

but I had some more use for it !

For a long time now I admired the puppets

Yaroslava Troynich is making.

(I didn't take a workshop with her

but worked it out myself

and am now making my own little finger puppets)

This isn't the first one,

but the first I remembered taking pictures while making. 

Here is the little fellow

drying, stuffed with paper.

Eyes will be tiny glass beads later.

FUN !

More surely will follow ...