Finally snow.

Finally snow, i love the muffling effect of it.
Went home from work walking, i was too scared
to drive my bicycle, but i enjoyed my evening trip.




Saw this photo in the newspaper last week.
Beautiful but sad, made by an unknown.
There's a butterfly right in the middle of the picture,
seems he found a little gap to escape from hard reality.




Dried mushrooms on the windowsill.

For Billie.

These little nicknacks were meant for my little
niece's grocery shop that she got for her St Nicolas.
In all fairness I have to admit that i was pretty
overkeen to make all that lilliput stuff.
As a little girl in the early sixties, i envied my
schoolfriend's little shop a lot! Especially the mini
cleaning products and the soap powders had my
great admiration.
The ever-cherished desire of having a grocery shop
of my own never came to fruition, so i tried my fortune
the other day, this is the result :-)
It is out of the question my little niece will like
this retro stuff, possibly the little bottles and the
hamburger. She's a modern almost 4year old girl who
likes Pink, so I will have to do this all over.
I will show the improved version in another post,
i found some 'my little pony' miniatures in the
secondhand shop yesterday.




That's her.
I manipulated the colours a bit, so she looks
more a sixties girl.

I added my pencil sharpener as a reference.

To be continued.

At the M HKA.

I braved the bitter cold today to see the textile
exhibition in the M HKA .
Took some photos of Varvara Stepanova's
textile designs.
(the rest of the exhibition i will show in another post)
The horizontal photos are taken by me in the
museum, i googled the photo of Stepanova and
Rodchenko and also the costumes.
I like them a lot!















I also found a very nice textile site.
For Stepanova books, click here.

Winter.

I spend a large part of the day under my blanket,
drowsing, with a crate of clementines beside me.
Browsed through my new Gaudesaboos book.
It's an imaginary story about a childrens TV-character
that was very popular in the early sixties.
It is all fake, with manipulated
photos from the Belgian TV archives, but it looks very
real, at least all the merchandising.
It feels like winter started today, freezing cold,
they forecast snow for Tuesday :-)
Are you prepared well, is your roof sufficiently
insulated??
I did some extra croching!!







Briek Oranges.




I made this patchwork together with my mom,
it was my first one.




Briek Snowball.
Tuesday, remember!!!

How to make a pom-pom fleece.

Do you remember the little orange pom-pom fleece
in a post a few weeks ago?
I did some research to figure out how it was made.
Hope this little description is clear enough.




So, you need a wooden frame, the distance between
the nails determines the size of the pom-poms.
There's a space of 3cm between the nails on the example
up here. The height of the nails is also 3cm.
Start the first layer with a strong cotton, you can
see here how the yarn runs round he nails.
Make a ferm knot in the beginning and at the end.
After that, you start winding the nails with a thick
and soft woolen thread.
The more windings the thicker the pom-poms.
At the end, tie off the crossings with a fine strong thread.
The woolen threads are cut through in the middle.

Many thanks to O.M. :-), who helped me with the research.
The coloured photos come from an old Phildar copy.
The Geolite has probably become extinct :-)





Have a nice weekend!

Roasted skull for dinner.

This post is for my sister & Willy; we were in the

bookshop last week to spoil ourselves with some children's

books under the pretence that we needed some

reading matter, just in case we might have young

visitors. :-)

I always wanted to have a book of Pieter Gaudesaboos,

i like his fifties style very much, so i finally bought one.

Anyway, i 'm only posting this to show that the mice on

top of the crane are roasting a skull, however, this little joke has

become invisible in the book, the skull's only a tiny

grey smudge without detail; too bad for an illustrator i

should say so :(

I bought this one and my sister the two cookie books.

The photos from this post come from 'Tommie en de torenhoge

boterham', you can browse it here.

I will make a special post of my book later.

OK, here is the promised SKULL.

Sweet Dreams.

Weird.

I made a copy of this cushion with an opening
on the back to have the possibility to fill it up,
but it started growing breadthways.
OK.
Hope my client likes it.

I'm still not sure my computer is ok now, he also

does weird things beyond my will.

Lets hope the best.

computerfailure

I'm out again. Hope to be back soon.

St Nicolas.

My computer refused to work this week, but
he's repaired now, I can't imagine a better Santa Claus
present at the moment!
Felt somewhat incomplete this week :-), but on the other
hand, I finally started knitting; the warm jumper i
planned for myself is postponed, have to finish this
mini version for my little nephew first.
Still raining here, made myself comfortable :-)







Still live with dirty socks. (mine)
Have a nice St Nicolas' eve everybody! :-)

Arthur's dreams.

Do you ever had fantasies how it would feel
to be inside the brain of a doll?
I sometimes wonder if they do have their
desires, fears and little traumas too , just as we
humans have to go through in our lifetime.
The pics i'm showing here are of course pure
speculation, i made them without Arthur's
knowledge, he would kill me if he knew.
This series of 7 belong to my viewmaster project,
provided that these are not my viewmaster pics
but those of Arthur.
The 'Arthur's N O S' on the photo up here stands for
'Arthur's neverending overdose of slides', i made
this up while posting this, if you know someting
better for 'N O S', please tell me, my english
vocabulary's still very limited.
Have a nice evening and sweet dreams :-)

e n d .