fanny pack

In ten days time we will have another market :
Saturday August 17
10.00  -  17.00

"VERWEVEN"

(in Zierikzee)

This is a special textile market

so I will leave my paintings home

and will take only "textile stuff" with me.

Some time ago

I made these small bags :

bum bag

or

fanny pack

(ha, didn't know that name but I like it)

I started making them

when we visited a medieval feast

and loved those tiny pouches, worn on a belt

for special small things.
here

(nothing like the handbags or shopping bags

we have nowadays)

Time to make some new ones like that.

The first pic has funny colours because is was taking at night,

next one (by daylight) the second colour is added

and the slot for the belt is made.

Decorations on the flap

finished front and inside the flap 

Back of the fanny pack

*

My  QUEEN OF THE NIGHT (Epiphyllum oxypetalum)

has been very generous lately

Though there were even more flowers buds,
in the end as much as 8 flowers bloomed
(not all at once of course !)

In the early evening three more started to open up
(the two at the bottom and one high up
are already from days before)

The next morning all were gone .....

(always hoping for seeds to develop
but never had any luck there)

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new start

After I finished the big bag for daughter

there were days of

TOTALLY  NOTHING

because of the extreme

HEAT

 that we had here :

40 degrees Celsius

is quite unusual for our little country .....

Climate Change is presenting itself !

Staying inside (and reading) was the only wise thing to do.

Luckily the weekend brought

some rain (that the garden needed badly) and cooler weather.

Time to start something new.

Building it up with snippets in blues and greens,

a small piece : 15 x 15 cm  

(5.9 x 5.9") 

(on the right is what lóóks like Megamendung,

but it's made by Kaffe Fasset ...)

All of the snippets are "glue-stitched" down :
you see it on the back, NOT up front !

(eternal thanks, Jude ,
for ever in your debt   ;-)  !)

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19 - 7 - 19 (.... I forgot)

Ahhhh ... forgot my 19 / 19 date post

because we were watching

the replay of the Apollo moon landing

50 years ago

Still some a-ma-zing stuff !!!

I've been stitching some very small pieces

that will become brooches

(5 x 7.5 cm  or 2"x 3")

... or they can be put in a small frame.

We had some very rainy days

but the garden  LOVED  it.

(and it keeps me from filling the watering can

and getting back ache again !)

When I was stitching

right next to the window because it was quite dark

I saw these :

But right now the hot weather

is just around the corner again.

so this afternoon the young swans were having a good time

swimming in their dinner !

(both with one foot on their back, haha)

And I was busy making a special bag

for daughters holiday

I'll finish it tomorrow ...

fun weekend ! (6 / 7 July)

With great anticipation

I'm looking forward to this weekend :

we have a stand at the ART  MARKET near Winterswijk

close to the German border.

(for some silly reason I don't understand

it seems I cannot copy the flyer

of the Art Market in Berenschot Mölle ...

though I could on FB ..... grrrrrrr)

So I'll have to do it another way :

HERE !

sorry

Though the market is on both days of the weekend

we will be there on SUNDAY

but on Saturday

we will visit my dear blogging-friend Birgit in Germany !

It has been a (too) loooong time since we've seen each other,

after visiting we will go to our B&B in Wintersijk

and next day to the market !

That's why I've been BUSY felting

these last few days

"Hidden"

I made some felting objects, just for the fun of it

and trying some new tricks

The "Medusa jellyfish" is still drying upside down

"Blooming"

(must still find a way to let it stand all by itself)

And some (life size) tulips

(also not done yet)

While in the garden lots and lots of Phlox's

are giving massive blobs of colour,

somewhere in the background is a stunning newcomer 

a Hemerocallis (day lily)

that I bought quite cheap in a box in some general store.

Normally there is hardly any "red" in my garden ...

but this dark red beauty (though it looks rather bright here in the sun)

is something I really like!

Hmmmmm

quite a bit of  RED  today 

.....

wordless Wednesday