Warmond

You could say the weather forecast for today
wasn't exactly sunny
. . . .
but we (my dear friend Anet and I)
didn't think that it would be that bad

We arrived well in time in Warmond
to set up the stall and park the car on the parking lot some further away.
But we were halfway finished when a few drops fell,
and we decided it would be wise
to clamp the large white canvas sheets to the back of the stall.
And exactly that moment the rain came pouring down !!!
(thank you Anet you are such a great help !)
Stool wet, chairs wet, we wet.
Thank heaven the paintings were up (or under) the stall.
Hmmm, all stall holders were struggling
to keep their art and themselves dry.

No it didn't last very long
but, after a dry spell a new shower came.
(I was soooo happy I had packed the clamps and the big sheets)
Wet and dry alternated until early afternoon.

But YES there were customers too !
Although not as many of course
as there would have been in dry weather.
but I'm very grateful to the people that did come
with whom we had many lovely talks about my art.

The brand new Sea Spirit (see the previous post)
has a new home and one of my textile birds too.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH
I hope you enjoy your purchase a loooong time !

In two weeks time on Saturday (with daughter) to AMERONGEN

GRIETMARKT

(hopefully with better weather . . .)

GRIETMARKT . . .

In three weeks time I will be at the
on 12 September  10.00 - 17.00

GRIETMARKT

the Art Market in
Amerongen

Today I finished the third of my brand new hanging dolls.
You've seen the Flower Spirit (Flora)
the Tree Spirit
and now the Sea Spirit
is also finished.

Hmmm I broke three needles of my embellisher machine
on the lovely velvet tricot with little sequins on it
. . . . .
(now I have to find out where I can order new needles !)

Making holes in shells isn't an easy task either
(even with my nice Dremel tool !)

It shows "you can't win them all"

Even the backside is now nicely finished
with my "Fiberrainbow" label stitched on.

I also found a nice box
so the dolls can be transported safely
in three weeks time to Amerongen

BUT
. . .
first I'll have an Art Market with only my paintings 
next Sunday August 30 in
11.00 - 16.00

WARMOND
 

Thank you !

 After a quiet Sunday
a very busy Monday and again a quiet day today
I have time to tell you that we had a lovely Saturday
at the GRIETMARKT !

(ready for the start)

Sunshine, a sweet friend assisting me,
a happy friend in the next stall who had her first try,
lots of nice people to talk to about felting, stitching and painting
and some sales !
We went home satisfied.

A big
THANK  YOU
to the team who organized the market
and my customers !!!

ART market in Warmond

My upcoming Art Market is on Sunday

August  31

in Warmond
(that is just north of Leiden)

11.00 - 16.00

This market will be a bit different from the ones I usually go to
because I take only my paintings this time
and only a few textile pieces.

The "Fire Bird" above is a brand new painting
that I will take with me.
(acrylic on canvas,  40 x 50 cm)

There will be some funny narrative ones and also
some with flowers, both are gouache on paper.

So why not add some textile flowers too
. . .

So if you love to see (and buy) some art
please visit the market next Sunday !
My stall will be near Herenweg 75.

Hope to see you there !

a new bird

In another week
is the last Art Market of this season :

GRIETMARKT

in Amerongen.

It is a lovely market with art and design
combined with a farmers market (organic food)
If you are anywhere near on Saturday,
please visit
you won't regret it !!!

That means I'm still busy with some new work.
Stitching songbirds with all kinds of snippets
is like painting with cloth !

This time : a barn swallow.

I LOVE their acrobatic flight
and the way they gather together happily on telephone wires !

This was the start.
After the background was pieced together
the bird comes grows with little snippets . . .

. . . stitched together with tiny stitches

(Just need to paint the canvas
and stitch it on)

un-perfect 10 grams

First : the Art Market in Baarn was

HOT

 and therefor not very successful
. . .

This was around 12  o'clock when we had just started,
but it quickly became very warm and
though there were enough lovely people to talk to
and some sweet customers too, it was not a great success.
(it was a looong lazy afternoon !)

*

Today was again the day for our zoom meeting
to show what we made for the challenge this time.

The task was to include a foreign object
that had to be included in the 10 grams (!!!)
and some kind of contrast.

I thought about a spool for machine thread
but in the end (really just today !) I decided on a
scouring pad
(NO, don't ask me where the idea for that came from ???
because I really don't know !)
The scouring pad weighed about 3(+) grams
so that left less than 7 for the wool !

Because I wanted to stack them up
I made three resists out of bubble wrap
(15, 10 and 6 cm squares)
and had to lay out the wool very thin.

Halfway through the stacking process
I doubted if it all would work (as often happens . . .)

But it did !

Like a small cake !

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 !!!

new start

With the help of daughter
I had a lovely market in BAARN :
beautiful weather,
lovely surroundings,
nice chats and lots of compliments
and customers.

I hope everyone enjoys their little artwork
for a loooong time,

THANK  YOU !

*
These last few weeks I skipped a few
of the Stitch Club workshops
because the felting and stitching for the markets
took up all my time.
But now it is time for
a new start

The workshop of  Katherine Diuguid
is the first again for me
(the others that I skipped will probably follow later)
Katherine gave us a kind of "watercolour" mixing design.
Having two different coloured strands of floss in the needle
is something I use often,
but now it is a more structured exercise.

The colour in the center

is mixed with the ones around it
and that gives a wonderful result !

halfway there !

tomorrow . . .

I've surprised myself :
I did it !

I hardly believed it possible, but my little bird piece
that I started earlier this week is finished.
And so : in time to take it with me to BAARN tomorrow !

(detail)
"Puttertje"

(European Goldfinch  -  Distelvink)

So once again :
if you are anywhere near tomorrow,
come and have a wonderful time with music and art !

See you there !

last august day . . .

Oh my,
only so many hours in a day
and so many plans
(that will surely not all fit into the hours !)

The little waist (or shoulder) bag
is finished now.

Stitching the bird is still underway

hmmmmm, will there be enough time ? 
(doubt it)

*

BUT for the August-challenge of Yaroslave Troynich
I made a bit of time free
just to make a little sketch this time !
We had the letter
"R"
and had to make a hybrid this time :
choose not one but two animals
and merge them
into ONE !!!

I used Dutch words this time :
RUPS , RATELSLANG

(caterpillar and rattlesnake)

Meet Richard Ratelrups !

ART market

"Cultureel Festival BAARN"

Sunday  3 September 

(12.00  -  17.00)

Still working on some new items for the market
this Sunday !

A brooch, a felted necklace and a bag.
The band for the little bag
hangs to dry in the sun,
that sometimes shines between the showers,
 so I have to be careful that it isn't wet all over again !

I'm also stitching on a "bird" wall hanging
(because the two bigger ones were sold two weeks ago)

but I don't know for sure if this one will be finished in time

. . . . .

If you live anywhere near
and you want a fun afternoon with art and classical music :

COME TO BAARN
on Sunday !

thank you !

Walk Art Markt in Zeist :

a wonderful market day !
Not the rain that was predicted,
but quite some clouds, a bit of sun
and a bit of wind from time to time.

Ready for the start !

A VERY quiet morning with no sales at all
(and that's not very encouraging I can tell you . . .)
but the afternoon made up for everything !
Ohhhh and so happy our youngest grandson came by
and later his big sister

(who saved me from some bad telephone inconvenience . . .
hmmmm, that's REALLY not my "forte" !!!!!)

Many nice talks and compliments about my work
and a lot of explaining how I do my gouache paintings,
the felting and the little textile pieces.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH
dear customers,
I hope you enjoy the lovely items you bought
for a looooong time !

There were quite a few new things I could take with me today
but they came back home with me  . . .

(including a new fish an a new beetle)

No worry :
in two weeks time on Sunday
there is another Art Market in Baarn !

Hope to see you then !

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 !