Art Market in BAARN

Yes,
this Sunday we have again an
Art Market :
this time in BAARN

The Cultureel Festival Baarn again organizes the market in the

PEKING TUIN

There will be performances,
workshops for kids, music
and . . .
ART !

The entry is free
and the program is from 12.00  till 17.00 

(One of my paintings for appetite !)

Our stand is near the "Baarnsche Courant Podium"
Maybe we'll see each other there

ART MARKET tomorrow !

Everything packed away in daughter's car
so we can make an early start tomorrow !
ZEIST
here we come !

A  10 x 10 cm stitched piece on canvas, a cat in the 
Night Garden

And the latest belt pouch
FIRE
also finished

I think the weather will be okay
so I hope to  SEE  some of you there !!!

felting : "water" and "fire"

For the upcoming Art Market in ZEIST
on the 24th of August
I started with a hew
fish

To make sharp colour edges
is it easiest to work with pre-felt
and the industrial pre-felt is nice and even . . .
BUT, I don't have that many colours of it.

That left me with the problem to lay out my wool tops
in a way that the edges were still sharp,
but where I could, I used the pre-felt

The problem with this is that laying out tops isn't
the same thickness as the pre-felt
So : a bit fiddly !

second side . . .

and making the cut for the mouth
to remove the resist.

The final result was the little video
when my fish was drying in the garden !
(still a bit of stitching to do
to give the final touch for the eyes)

And after "water" came "fire"

A new belt pouch !
Brown for the colour of wood
and on the flap : 
FIRE !

First the inside colour, then,
the second layer, the colours on the flap
and a sleeve at the back for the belt.

Securing the edge after the cut to remove the resist
and I like to secure things with some (non-felting) stitches

(and I still have a belt to make !)

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And again . . . we have sweet house guests

water . . . and materials

When I need some new materials for my creative work
I make a visit to Rotterdam.
That I do by boat,
and to be more specific : me and my bike go by boat.
(that way I can move around more easily
than when I go by bus)

But since a while there is some extra water in the city . . .

right now, a bit quiet, BUT . . .

it can be rough too :
just right for a bit of surfing !!!
New entertainment, in the center of the city !

New odds and ends.

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The garden in Mai is always great
but, right now in August
I'm quite happy with it too !!!

A few days ago daughter found this fun flower,
fallen from a tree in our village

But what a coincidence when I saw the mail
from the "National Tree Museum"
with a flower similar to this one !

I think it must be the

Albizia julibrissin

(the "Persian sleeping tree")