day 2

The mandalas that I"ll be making 

for this Pink Ribbon challenge

will all be very different.

It just depends on what comes into my mind

at the moment I sit down to begin.

Here is number two.

"would you like some tea ?"

Karisma colour pencil on fine white water colour paper (A5)

the mandala is 12cm (5") in diameter

sold

Please send me an email if you want to have this original drawing,

it costs you € 2,- 

(+ postage depending on whether you live in Holland or somewhere else)

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Something else I'll have to bring to the post 

is my September felting-exchange.

The theme was "trees"

and because in fact I am tóó late ...

I made up the lame excuse that  "trees grow very slowly"

.....

An appletree fits right into the season

and is the size of a postcard.

bead-apples

(see you tomorrow)

lovely people

Last sunday we had some lovely people in our house

to celebrate Man's birthday

(yeah : 17 ... sort of ...)

One of the visitors was wearing

this nice real Peru hat

CUTE !

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The b i g piece I'm working on

will have lots and lots of pieces of fabric that have a special meaning to me,

(I think that's one of the fun parts of it)

Some of these snippets

have come from lovely people who live far away.

 A lot of them I've had for some time already

and they were "patiently waiting" till I found some good use for them :

so Sus, Connie, Jacky, Heike, Eva, Jude ...

somewhere there will be a special place for a lot of your pieces. 

I'm working on the "moon and stars"side now

(that will be the reverse of the "butterflies")

Thére was the perfect spot for some very dear

MEGAMENDUNG

It's amazing how well the dark red background of the megamendung

fits in with the ikat fabric !

Today I did some tea-dyeing to take off the "bright white"

of some pieces and I wove a few strips in them.

Now they fit in with two little "Judes"

These parts will probably became corner pieces somewhere 

The next fun part is the stitching of course

Mmmmm stitching !