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 !!!

a box and "un-perfect 10"

In some shop I found these fun boxes :
bare wood and two sides perspex
but WHAT to showcase in it ?

And then I fitted one of my finger puppets
from earlier this year in it !
Hmmmm . . . . . a bit dull.

Then, something daughter said,
gave me this fun idea.

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This Wednesday it was again zoom-time with the
UN - PERFECT 10 GRAMS group.

We had to keep in mind the following prompts
unity
wearable
3D, using a resist

Well, with only 10 grams it is not so easy
to make something wearable if you don't want to make jewelry !

But an old piece that I weighed gave me the right idea !

(though I had to use 2 x 10 because I have two hands !!!)

It was, like before, a fun meeting with the seven
ladies of the group that were able to attend
and to see and hear about the work they all made !

THANKS  LADIES !

happy New Year ! (1 - 1 - '24)

Yesterday,
just in time, I finished the challenge
for Yara's Bibabo wild marathon

The letter was the "X" for December
a pretty tough one !
The creative challenge is that you make
a real living animal that starts with the chosen letter.
I waited for a long time
also because there was lots that needed doing
but in the end I checked the web page of the game.
there Yara always gives suggestions of the possibilities>
When I saw the "Xantus' Hummingbird" on her list
I knew definitely what to make !
(see the my insta-page for some extra information)
After looking at lots of pictures I made a start
with the slightly altered pattern we normally use for finger puppets.

So meet Xerxes !

Daughter's first bigger tattoo is a hummingbird !

So today I went to wish her a happy New Year at her home
(instead of the other way round : because of her broken ankle !)
and brought her the little birdie 
as a good start !

wordless Wednesday

solstice and more

 The   l o n g e s t   day already in this year,
where did the first half go ?
At least we had SUMMER for the last two weeks !
Some heavy shower yesterday :
much needed in the garden
(and the rest of nature !!!)
I didn't make any special solstice stitching this time
hmmmm, maybe later ?

Yesterday our youngest grandson
came "around the back" with a friend from school

(just before the big shower came )

The STITCH CLUB "white-work" workshop
wasn't really for me :
because of the colour (or rather lack of it !)
and the straight lines, but I tried in the same curtain fabric
with lots of fun "threads" . . .

I liked making texture with the stuff to wrap presents !

For this month's challenge for the
#bibabowildmarathon 
the letter "O" came out of the raffle !
There were many many animals to choose from :

Otter, Ocelot, Okapi, Octopus, Ostrich, Orangutan,
and also Ooievaar and Olifant (in Dutch !)
But I chose :
ORYX

a beautiful antelope from the dry parts of east Africa.
( endangered . . . like so MANY other animals )

I made a finger puppet so I had to work small.

Making the pattern of the colours wasn't easy !

Meet Oliver the Oryx !

It was all wet felted in one piece,
just the horns, which can be more than a meter in real life,
were separately and attached in the end

Another fun project completed !

art market

Almost one week to go
to prepare everything
that I will take with me to the market.

 It is always a lot of organizing
because I don't take the same things to every market :
wrist warmers for example
are not necessary in springtime.
But I take little bags, finger puppets
and all of the jewelry.
And surely my textile pieces mounted on canvas !

But most of the paintings will be there too !
I framed the last three today !

a sneak peek of the very newest !

If you live in Holland anywhere near AMERONGEN
please join us on this wonderful
art and farmers market !!!

You might find a lovely present
for yourself, a loved one
or even Mother's day !

I hope to see you there !

wordless Wednesday

thinking

Thinking of the devastation

the bush fires brought

to big parts of Australia

made me want to make a special finger puppet

(of which you saw the start yesterday)

Wishing the people Down Under, who lost loved ones,

their homes

their precious woods

with soooo many animals

all the best.

Might be a good idea to sell him to the highest bidder
so I can donate that to the rescue
of animals there
(start at € 20)

No shipping costs

email me at fiberrainbow@gmail.com

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 ...

three blind mice ....

I'm working on little finger puppets

(for the fair)

O, NO

no more pictures allowed !

Something funny going on here !?!

When I was still working with the youngest children

in school, I loved to tell stories

with a hand or finger puppet

.....

the children enjoyed themselves

and had such funny reactions

talking to the puppet !

All the mice that are finished

are waiting for a new member of the family .....

No use to go on right now,

can't show my felting exchange either ... 

sorry .... !