happy new year

On this last day of 2013

I wish all my friends out there

a more peaceful, 

a less greedy,

(with more re-use)

a happy,

a creative and colourful

world 

for all of us 

in 

2014

Let's do it !

(and don't forget to laugh a bit every day)

;-)

happy holidays

Wishing all the best for the Holidays

to my blog-land friends :

may your days be happy and warm

(hopefully power restored in the UK, and maybe elsewhere in Canada too)

Lots of love to you all

*

(3FM Serious Request grand total 

up till tonight 9.05 pm when the Glass House opened up again :

€ 12.302.747,- )

;-)

Fair

Tired

That's what I was, after two days Christmas Fair.
(though Man helped me all the time)

(HA ... b.t.w. walking goes better now :

today without any help of the crutch !)

The start at Friday morning

My lottery for "3FM Serious Request" went well 

I will send the money tomorrow

(though it was not as much as last year)

The "request" is this year for money for the Red Cross 

to try banish diarrhea out of the lives of small children in Africa

because of the lack of clean drinking water

(money raised till Sunday night  : € 4.328.242,- )

The boy Finn was the winner

who guessed the right amount of origami cranes in the bowl !

There were 

48

(folded by our two big grandchildren,

who didn't know how many there were either,

because I had a lot of cranes everywhere in the house

which they had made months ago  ;-)  !)

Tomorrow the felted "Rainbow bird"

will go to Finn

(I phoned his mum today)

last minute things !

That's what I'm busy doing right now !!

Stitching beads (and safety pins) on flowers.

Sewing on buttons.

Stitching book covers.

Finishing bags :

I thought I'll use a simple method,

but in the end it turns out to be not simple at all  !

(I don't think I will stitch felted bags together ever again)

Stuffing fishes.

("gefillte Fisch")

Man decided to make stained-glass stars.

Though it was extra workload for me, 

I stitched them this time on the machine

and Man burned them,

outside :

BRRRRRRRRRRRRR !

I had to make another "beast"

though nót from the sea this time :

Iiiiieeeeeee .... I like him 

And today on tóp of all the other things 

(I really couldn't help myself)

I made a little (very rare)

"Rainbow bird"

for my lottery at the Christmas Fair

this Friday and Saturday !

;-)

Little grandson had some fun too

(I still need that one from time to time)

Sunday was :

 a wonderful day !

I could ride with a dear felting friend to Amersfoort

where the one-day exhibition was

Though not every participant of the felting-exchange 

could make it, I saw old and new friends.

Some had been very busy on Saturday

putting everything in the right place,

and the last bits were done 

on Sunday morning.

Some of the year-round collections :

a beautiful book, with the little felts inside !

Other work

I had a ride home again,

where dinner was ready,

so later that night I still had enough energy

to lay out a new fish :

here he is, spitting out his template !

finished today !

(little) step ...

... by (little) step

I'm making progress,

still a bit of "wheely" chair 

or one crutch for support

...

Today was my first day out again 

(to the "Christmassy" Alpaca Farm)

We had tea, coffee,

yummy sweets,

chicken soup 

and talked a LOT
(and did a stitch or two)

Someone even spun a chunky yarn 

with christmas lights in it !!!

FUN !

The last few days I've been busy with felting

little bags.

While Man started with our Christmas cards,

on which I added a little (embellisher) felted star 

;-)

Ha, tomorrow I will meet all the ladies of the year-round

felting-exchange !

We will see all the 144 card size felts 

(plus some other artwork of each person)

a good day

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh ...

so simple to make a day ... to  a good day

 One :  my GP came by, and assured me 

all would be well again in a couple of weeks 

ánd it would be best to start again 

with the painkillers

(I stopped last Sunday, I don't like too much pills) 

So I did

Two :  then came the postman

who brought this  big  (expected) envelope !

You might remember I participated again 

in another felting exchange ?

Well ... this is the result !!!

In the envelope I received today was
a booklet

with 15  (!)  differently made flowers 

with their descriptions

and 

five of those flowers for me !

WOW

that was, what made my day a really good day

;-)

What a rich gift
to see all these lovely, different "flowers"
in lots of different techniques.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH 
TANJA
!
And of course a big thank you to all the other participants !

It was so much fun to discover that two of the names
were quite familiar :
they were also in my first (monthly) felting exchange
ánd
I recieved one of their flowers !

(I hope to be recovered enough, so I see you two on Sunday ... !)