finally fixed

Pffffffffffffffft

Sometimes the solution to a problem is quite simple

though it's not always the thing you want !

Well, Blogger / Google made me do things

I didn't want to but left me no alternative

(at least I'm not clever enough to find an alternative)

Let's move on !

* 

My face is better, thank you,  

;-)

So much better I dared go to the Stitch'nBitch group

in Rotterdam today

which was lovely.

At last I'm able to show the little pieces

of felt I made for December.

I finished ánd sent them both

(as a kind of bonus for being too late)

This was the first one where I forgot to add the black and white prefelt

And this the second one I made. 

With the stitching, I mirrored the black and white circles.

 (now I can start with the next one !)

HA ! felting is só much fun :

you can't start early enough !

(not so) nice

Ha, what a way to begin the new year :

last friday I went to the dentist

(a two-hour appointment !)

Now the pain is over but when I look in the mirror

I would hardly recognize myself

when the right side of my face was doubled !

I'm glad our youngest grandson

didn't start to cry right away

But what must be done

must be done

*

All the busy felting for the Fair prevented me

from doing the little felt for the felt-exchange in time :

I started it on the second to last day of "last" year ...

and made a mistake.

So, I made a new one on the second day of this year

But then I thought :

why not finish them both ?

And that's what I did !

OOOOOH  NO ! 

Blogger acting funny again uploading photo's !!!!!

The envelope went in the mail this afternoon. 

Patience again, till I sorted this out !

*

January  9  Wednesday :

Still NO solution for my problem !!!

happy new year !

The last day of the year

.....

sometimes busy, busy, busy

but not every year

...

sometimes I'm reflective on such a day :

what happened this year

what did I do

(right or wrong)

what plans do I have for the near future 

...

but now it's just a quiet day

waiting for the clock to strike twelve

and hug my dearly loved family members

and welcome the new year

2013

*

I wish to you all the best,

peace

(badly needed in places !)

joy

and (very important too)

good health

For all my stitching, knitting and felting friends

all over the world

a lot of

creativity

(Ha, we have to wait another 10 hours,

but New Zealand, and I think Australia too, did already launch their firework !)

merry !

Merry Christmas

or

 feast of light  
or
turn of the season

for all my blogging friends

out there !

Serious Request

That is the name for a special action this time each year

by three Radio DJ's

who are living in a "glass house" for a week without food.

The benefits they get,
from people who pay money to hear special music

or is donated in some other way,

will go to the Red Cross

This year the motto is

"let's hear it for the babies"

The money will be spent to fight back

infant mortality in Africa

before, during or just after birth.

That's the charity I wanted to spend

my "Mouse-lottery" money on !

So here is the mouse

sitting on top of the Christmas decoration,

the ladybug money-box (still rather empty)

the glass jar with the felted balls

and pen and paper

to write down name, telephone and chosen number of balls !

It went very well !

There was € 111,65 in the ladybug

at the end of day two.

I topped it up till a nice round figure

and just send it off to Serious Request.

And ?

How many balls wére in the jar ???

66

(yes, just my age, ha !)

But ... because there were tree people with the right answer

I had to use a RNG

(random number generator)

At first we tried to use three felted balls,

but the "generator" didn't want to pick up any of them

so we used pieces of paper with names instead

It seemed one of them tasted very good ...

and Serena is the lucky one !

I phoned her and will bring her the mouse tomorrow.

(I was very sorry for the other two "winners"

so I'll send off a finger puppet mouse to each of them)

And the Christmas Fair ?

Two loooooooooong, but fun days

and I mostly sold to people I know !

(I was véry glad that one of the little quilts that were for sale

went to my dearest friend and former teaching-partner !

I know it gets a loving home !)

It has a name now too : "This it your wake-up call"

I sewed the little "felt-fabric" onto a canvas I painted first.

I think that's a nice solution for such small work

(though for me, textile work can easily hang on it's own)

Update on Serious Request :

when the three DJ's came out of the glass house

in the evening of the 24th

the total amount of money raised for the Red Cross was

€ 12.251.667, --

 

two more days

Preparations for the Christmas Fair

are nearing the end.

That is NOT because I'm almost

finished with all I wanted to do

...

but it's because

in two days time

the Fair starts,

this Friday ánd Saturday !

There are a lot of things that just will not be finished in time.

Creating craft and needlework is taking

a lot of time !

That's okay with me, but that means

I have to adjust my "targets"

So no more bags ...

just finishing off want I have so far,

and I'm very satisfied with

the new red one !

"Ages" ago we organized a big Christmas Fair

on the school I then worked,

with lots of things made by children

ánd a lot of their parents.

We had so much fun creating,

and the Fair was a HUGE succes !

Daughter reminded me that one of the great things then

was a lottery

with three wonderful prizes to win

(made by creative people)

Now I will have my own little lottery on the Fair :

people can guess how many felted balls there are in a glass jar

This will be the prize for the person who gets it (almost) right !

Mouse was made thanks to Gabi's

wonderful PDF tutorial

Thanks again Gabi !

(Off, finishing a few things ....)

belated

I totally forgot about my November felting exchange

Yes

a little late

but that was due to all the Blogger fuss 

So here is the little felt piece I recieved for last month

solar eclipse

Ha, the fun thing was

it was sent in an envelope

that was made out of a newspaper page

with a stamp on it of course

(but the post missed it : there was an uncancelled stamp on it ha, ha !) 

Thanks Margot !

And this is what I made for the theme abstract

for my November partner

After it had dried, I started stitching

but ...

forgot to take a picture before I sent it off

:-(