Alô - alô !

Started the holiday workshops for the kids today, curious what we do ? check it out here * It's winter here and today it rained and rained and rained some more, but we were warm inside with all the art supplies....lots of FUN !

This ostrich seems to be calling out : "alô, alô " !

Counting down to Christmas

This year it has taken me some time
to get that Christmas feeling....
It's been such a weird year here
Well anyway, last Friday we had rain (Yeah !)
and it was chilly and I had the lights on in the tree
and Xmas songs playing all day
The kids were already home -school broke up on Thursday-
and finally.....
there was that Christmas feeling I was longing for......
So now, I'll be counting down...
...6 more sleeps...
and here are some Xmassy things I have been making lately

some cards I made for a group of crafty friends....

A try out of some sort, that I want to use for cards still

and some fabric balls I made today with the kids.
from an idea by my Brazilian/Swiss friend S☼l Santiago
(meet her here at Borealis Shine)

Red Work

An in-between-project...

A Birthday present:

It's a recycled journal I bought and I made a journalcover of pieced fabrics

with a little portrait on cotton on top.

It's for a friend who had her Birthday when I was away

and she likes patchwork, stitching and quilting.

Best of Times

Printed cotton on Pine

12x16 inch (30x 40 cm) approx.

with Coloured pencils, Pan Pastels, Acrylics, inks, stamps etc.

Christmas Houses

These are some fabric houses I made, the roofs come off

and they can be used as little containers for some Christmas trinkets; little gifts or cookies.

The small ones I made instead of Christmas cards two years ago,

the big ones I filled with home baked cookies as a present.

They give me that Christmas feeling

and

I want to make more of those now that I found the photos again.