ART MARKET Amerongen

Only a few more days from now
on Saturday
Mai 9
 

I will be at the

GRIET  MARKT

again !

If you are anywhere near,
please come to Amerongen to this wonderful market
with lots of organic products, design and art
to choose from.
And . . . there will be music too !

In addition to my gouache paintings I am also bringing
textile panels with birds, with flowers and with abstract stitching,
and lots of felt objects.

 

Textile jewelry : like the new necklace here,

small felted bags, fish, finger puppets and insects.

It would be lovely to see you 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 !!!

new bag

In five days time
on Saturday August 19
I will be on the Walk Art Market in Zeist.

My market stall will be in almost the same place as last year :
the path on the left side of the main square
near the entrance.

Because I was "low" on little bags
a new one was made
for which I finished the band yesterday.

The new bag
waiting for a button
(that I will look for tomorrow in the city)

One tiny problem appeared to be there
when I attached the band :
I made it too long for the intended waist length,
so now it will "only" be a shoulder bag . . .

This will be more or less (things sold !)
the way it will look like on Saturday.
(though we hope it will not be as hot as it was last year !)

If you live anywhere near Zeist
please come by to say hello !

There is a wide choice of gorgeous art work
with me
(and others) 

Hope to see you there !

number 4

After the "VERWEVEN" Textile Market

in Zierikzee was canceled

a new date was set for September 7

but it turned out

half of the stand holders

couldn't switch to that new date

so next year August 15 will be the new date.

A pity, but the original day was really very wet

and that's just the problem for an outside market :

at least you have to have good (dry) weather.

After some time-out

(reading books)

I finished the belt for the last little pouch !

Four little leaves were repeated for the belt

 The first layers with the inside pocket.

This first layer is shining through

the purple on the outside in the end.

A dark purple on the back and the strip of plastic

to make the slit for the belt

Shrinkage almost done(lighter purple up front and a leaf

on the inside of the flap too.

Drying outside

The hand dyed wool for the flap (daughter)
was so nice that I made a pair of wrist warmers
to go with the bag

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In the garden the roses have started to bloom again
(the New Dawn looked very "black spotted" bad
but has new leaves and flowers too)

My very last allium of the year Allium tuberosum (garlic chives)
loooves to be in a place with no competitors ...
so between the slabs is a great place !

BUT
this autumn the slabs must be raised
....
So before that I must collect all my special-place-lovers in pots.

*

Last Friday the man in the funny boat
that "cleans" the waterway along the garden
from too many vegetation got "stuck" :
the wind (or someone) threw something
that looked like an old umbrella into the water.

It took him quite some time to clear the propeller !!!

canceled !

Tonight we just got the message of the organisation that the

"VERWEVEN" MARKET

is  CANCELED

due to the bad weather they expect for this Saturday.

Friday is okay, Sunday is okay

and sadly Saturday will be very WET !

Nothing to be done

because they don't have an inside location available.

They might set a new date

but that isn't sure yet either.

Well ...

just keeping on felting

This was number one 

Number two

(with a real stone embedded in the flap)

Number three

(with lovely Wensleydale curls)

All are fanny packs

but the straps are long enough to wear over one shoulder too.

(Number four is on the table)

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Daughter has a new family member

.....

He is 12 weeks old

squints a bit with his blue eyes

and is sooooooooooooo  s o f t 

tiny felts

When I saw daughter's little leather amulet bag

it was an inspiration for some tiny felts.

Three tiny bags with the flap folded over.

When they're completely dry, there will be a thin cord

through the top of the bag

(and around the neck)

My assistant today was very helpful

when I started the next one.

He even insisted to help me rolling !!!

Seeing that it was getting smaller and smaller

he thought it was a fun hat

... though better suited for his monkey

HA !

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Daughter has been knitting some "earthmothers"

They posed for the picture on the garden stairs.

(the dark green one also of home spun wool)

The lovely rainbow-mother close up.