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General Subjects => General Forum => Topic started by: Olga Bondareva on December 04, 2011, 07:20:08 PM
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This Corner is for all who like to knit, embroider, sew, whose passion is decoupage or may be wood engraving. :)
Its very interesting what do you like to do for the good of your soul when winter take you from garden?
For example last year I made many Christmas tree balls. They are formed from newspaper and decorated in decoupage technique. That was good gifts for friends!
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Olga these christmas balls are lovely.
Is there somewhere online that gives instructions on how to make these?
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Those are lovely Olga and so much nicer than what may be bought from shops for tree decorations. Do you also make the magnificent Russian Easter eggs, mostly, I think, in red and black and gold?
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Olga - those really are good fun! My wife has made Christmas decorations, different each year since we were married and often recalling events during the year. They make the Christmas tree more and more interesting each year!
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I used to have a Christmas bauble made during the Second World War from a ping pong ball. Wish I knew where it was.
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Tim, what a pretty decorations! Are they made of felt? Wow! Elephant is a real gem! Oh, and the guitar too! Your wife created a very interesting Christmas tradition!
I used balls mostly as gifts and only a few was on my own Christmas tree. And this year I have another passion, crocheting.
Is there somewhere online that gives instructions on how to make these?
Maggi, only my own instructions. :) I use sectional mould (is it a correct word?) glued with pieces of newspaper:
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Next I cut edges and glue hemispheres together inserting a loop.
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Then cover ball with putty or/and white acrylic paint. Putty makes balls more round. Without putty balls look more vintage. They are not smooth.
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Than glue pictures (from napkins), draw and cover with acrylic varnish.
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That's all. :)
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Those are lovely Olga and so much nicer than what may be bought from shops for tree decorations. Do you also make the magnificent Russian Easter eggs, mostly, I think, in red and black and gold?
Lesley, no I don't have a time in spring. :( Here in Russia we usually paint eggs (natural eggs) by onions husk.
Anthony, there is something in old things I can't express. Hope you will find it. :)
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i love to knit.......hats mainly. I have knitted other things but people always want hats.
I also knit clown collars/ruffs for French bulldogs .
I also like to spin and dye wool if i have the time , the wool comes from my pet sheep Lambi . Lambi is the sheep wearing the little hat
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Lambi was an orphan, i had reared her. She had to have lots of antibiotics , the stopped her horns growing. She should have lovely horns ,so she has some antlers instead (when she is posing for my Christmas card photos )
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Mercy, you have the whole process organised, Emma.... from fleece to fedora, one might say! ;D
.Many of us have admired your hats, both in the forum and elsewhere on the Web, but I had no idea you were also shearing and spinning your own wool! I'm impressed
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Olga, thank you very much for the additional information.
I think this could be a very good project for this winter.
The finished balls are really beautiful, very special.
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Our Christmas tree is always covered with very tasteful hand-made wooden and straw decorations from Slovakia. Every year, when no-one is looking, I sneakily try to add some glittery tinsel to make it a bit more sparkly. And every year I have to take it off again. Slovak women can be very bossy.
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Even at Christmas (actually, especially at Christmas).
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I dont shear the sheep, i just look after them on a day to day basis . Any problems and my local shepardess comes and sorts them out.
I do enjoy spinning the wool , i just dont have enough time . I ve still got to make my christmas card and im running out of time !
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Emma, Lambi looks very pretty in her hat. She is happy you are her friend!
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A couple of years ago I bought a crochet book for only description of this napkin.
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Now I start to crochet a round table-cloth using the pattern. It's size will be 150x150. And it moves up very slowly. :-\
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A lovely pattern Olga and the kind of thing that will be handed down through your family, daughter to grand-daughter. My crocheting is confined to woollen rugs for over the knees. :)
But my sister does beautiful tatting and quilting. She made a white satin beadspread, all hand embroidered in stumpwork. It is magnificent. I wish I were her daughter instead of her sister. :D
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Lesley, any chance of seeing a pic of the bedspread?
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Well I haven't been up to Tauranga where she lives for a couple of years. She's been down here. Maybe next year? I don't think she has a digital camera either, not very technical, even worse than me but I'll ask her.
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A lovely pattern Olga and the kind of thing that will be handed down through your family, daughter to grand-daughter. My crocheting is confined to woollen rugs for over the knees. :)
If I have enough patience, Lesley! :) I've made only 24 cm. It's veeery slow!
Lesley, any chance of seeing a pic of the bedspread?
Yes, yes, please! :)
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Embroidered when I was full of passion to blue poppies. :)
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Those are truly exquisite. What a very clever lady you are Olga. 8)
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My Mum went to cross stitch classes, but it was my Dad who made this, which has pride of place on my lounge wall.
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Very nice Anthony. Both my mother and I used to do a bit of taspestry in the days when each one was longer. No time now.
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Years ago I used to meet up with friends and do some crafts together. One friend went back to America the other went back down to Surrey . Since they left I did a little craft work but somehow it's wasn't the same fun as it used to be. I have boxes of craft material. Maybe once I get older and not able to garden I can get back into doing this again.
Olga I love those Christmas tree decorations. My American friend would love the Santa ones.
Angie :)
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I would like to show you an art I invented when I was a kid in the mid 50-ties. Hope it is the right place here.
Sculpturing with aluminiumfoil. It was then tinfoil. It is still in German but the film will explain what is done.
Later there will be a tuition in full im my foreghn English too I hope. I did every animal known to me (I knew a lot)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlwWxz8omN0&feature=plcp&context=C33480deUDOEgsToPDskIP2V2fqUUAbAN9iumngZLS
It will give a good christmas-decoration. For me it was the toy, because these where rare after the war.
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Incredible Axel, I am amazed :o
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Thats so lovely, thanks for sharing 8)
Angie :)
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Lovely indeed. It wouldn't be too hard to make something much cruder but these animals are real works of art, delicate and beautifully crafted. Thanks for sharing your work with us Axel.
As well as delightful decorations for a Christmas tree, such a craft would be an excellent way to amuse and occupy children who are unwell, even in hospital for extended periods. Perhaps you should be publishing a little book about them and how to make.
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It will be more easy to explain it with some more films. I did workshops with children and they worked quite well, but it is less bother to repeat a film a hundred times than to do it really.
To do a book seems so complicated and performing arts like this one is more like dance or martial arts, you should see it done.
I will post here, when I am ready. It took me a lifetime to create this way and I think its time to pass on what is achieved.
These times are good for sharing ;) With a book I wood be again in the money business and this way of art was a free offer from life to me, I rather pass it on for free.
If somebody got a problem with it he may ask and I do another sequence then. Fiftyfive years of improvement will solve most problems, the rest will be done by intuition.
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Very artistic and beautiful Axel! You really have developed something unique :)
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Magic, Axel! Can you show us some more that you have made?
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I did every animal of reasonable size. But now I have nearly none at home. Two are here because they got a bit distorted.
I will do some for my next tutorial.
The running horse is in our bedroom.
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You have a wonderful creative gift there Axel, thankyou for sharing it with us all.
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Axel,
Wow incredible statuettes! I like elk most of all.
And I start to think could I do something like them for garden.
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New Year cash box.
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nice box :D
Try it with a wire for the structure and modell Aluminiumfoil on it. All the bigger ones on my page lutherart are made like this. They keep for some years outside. You can always repair them easily after damage. They take frost hail and storm better than most other materials.
Only time weakens it a bit.
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Excellent idea Axel, you are very talented. Have you tried modelling flowers yet? An edelweiss would look wonderful - as would a carline thistle, and, of course, an eryngium.
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Too easy ;). I prefer living plants they don`t need so much attention as an animal. Growing from seed and waiting for the flowering is what I want. A deer wants to be fed, and a lot more trouble so I will have an image of his spirit. ;) If I would have a valley just for my animals I would have a lot aroud me.
I bred European amphibians and reptiles, apart from many other animals. But this is over now. Only a small garden with some bees and what lives naturally there.....
My wife is now busy with the christmas-tree and of course there are some animals from me included.
I will post a picture when she is ready.
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Really fascinating sculptures from foil - they would look great on the Christmas tree. Our 'tree' this year is a bunch of bare branches from beech. My wife's idea, and a brilliant one, as the lights really stand out and the whole tree is open and airy. Good wishes for Christmas.
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Here is the christmastree my wife did.
Detail moose
Merry Christmas
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Talent runs in the family, i see, Axel! 8)
It is somehow very intimate to see these glimpses into your homes to see the lovely decorations made and enjoyed at this time.
I, for sure, feel humbled by the privilege. :)
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:-* ;) You are very kind.
Thats what I feel towards the work and your warm personality in this forum.
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Little Ollie's (aged five) message to Santa - left with a glass of milk, shortbread biscuits and a large carrot.
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Very sweet
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Cliff so hearty! :)
partisangardener I like very much your moose and it's large horns.
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Gift mirror
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Olga, I like very much your gift mirror. It looks quite old? The only trouble is I would never be able to look into in as it would spoil the whole. :)
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Not at all Lesley
One can name it:A fontain (of knowledge) among the roses!
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You look like a beautiful wild rose. Clear without false colours and petals. So you fit quite well into the mirror. ;)
The new aluminium-tuition is ready. Still in German but its selfexplained. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rh5_H2zkBYM&context=C3886c10ADOEgsToPDskL25nhQvAFgbDPFNQ6p3akG
I will try one in English soon.
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You have magic hands Axel ;D
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Axel, very interesting technics, never such saw...
Magnificent miniature sculptures - at you TALENT!
It is a true art!
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I hope a lot of people will have a try with it. Here in Germany are some very talented people who made a flying leap for it.
http://forum.garten-pur.de/index.php?board=26;action=display;threadid=43546;start=45
I hope to see here some from you :D
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I have put now on a playlist that everybody may see it in the right order
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL67219BD356694676
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Great! But I did get worried when the giraffe developed antlers..... ???
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:) :)This was meant as an tutorial, how to correct mistakes, like too short legs too slim body and so on.
Usually there is always too little foil for the things you want to do and I show,
with these antlers, there is always a way, even for a "Wolpertinger" Giraffe.
It also shows how to give antlers to a plain deer, if you want ;) :D
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For Christmas, I made it a point to share my crafts to my friends and decided to make them one each. Even as a kid, I really painted a lot of molded plaster and designed each one as well. Though my hobby never really flourished and just went to my own display cabinet. This time, I decided to share it with a specific design for each person I am going to give it to. They seem to have liked it which is truly rewarding for me.
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I've just spotted this thread. Great art and craft everyone.
Below are two pictures. The first shows a wooden bowl that I made using my brothers lathe - the second shows some rather nice owls that Axel made as a gift. 8)
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Axel, thank you for new films and directions. I found foil roll and started to make a dragon but stopped. It's not so easy as films! :)
John, very accurate bowl looking like it is from exotic country. What wood is it made from?
Owls and bowls look very pretty!
You reminded me Czech alpine lover Milan Odvarka has a hobby. He make wooden birds and butterflies in their nature size.
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Lesley, when I look into any mirror I think to myself "This wrinkles are caused by smiles i give to all I love and sympathize!"
Any frame can spoil the beauty of the world in the eyes...
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I love the flock of naked carved birds Olga. 8)
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Looking nice the owls in the bowl John. Your Galanthus reginae olgae are doing fine. I was afraid the place I put them might be too soggy. (They didn't show up like most others.) So I dug int the place where the label was to remove them to a better site I just made. They were just below the surface. :D At least 6 and some looked like flowering :D :D :D. I moved them immediately to a raised bed. I hope they didn't realise it.
I like the fish most, the birds are quite good too, the butterflies look amazing, a talented man. I never tried carving.
Dear Olga you shouldn't have started with a dragon as first thing, usually people start to walk before they run. ;)
But it the right spirit. I like your ambitions, that's the right spirit. You get nowhere without trying, I hope to see your work here too quite soon. :D :D
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Those little owls (perhaps even Little Owls?!!) are very cute.
Ian used to make carved birds but they tended to be more stylised than those of the Czech gentleman.
Olga : stick with making the dragon... after all, no-one has really seen a dragon, so who can say yours is wrong!! ;) ;D ;D
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Hello,
my sister has knitted this cute octopus:
Yours, Olaf
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With a dragon no one is able to say, what could be wrong. The only problem, you must satisfy yourself, the hardest thing for my opinion. Don't be too cruel to yourself. Its the soul of the dragon which wants to come into this world through you. :D
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Cute little octopus, nice fellow :D :D
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Hello Olga,
nice to have such a creative thread here. Your embroidery reminds me what my mother made in the past.
Hi Axel, your video is incredible. See you here or at www.garten-pur.de !
Yours, Olaf
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When I worked in Tasmania some 30 years ago I returned with a small turned bowl with lid made from Huon pine. This wood grows incredibly slowly and can be worked to very fine detail. Even now when I open it it has a wonderful scent which reminds me of the amazing landscapes that these trees grow in. Wood is a marvellous material to work with...
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What a lovely and interesting thread this is turning out to be. So many different talents from so many people. I don't do any of these kinds of things but would like to show you (but I don't have access) some of the superb carving done by the Maori people of New Zealand, anything from tiny decorations to go round the neck, to whole ships and whares (houses, meeting houses). Then there is the amazing tattooing with which the Maoris decorate their bodies. Evey part of the design is significant and tells of the person's or the tribe's history and ancestry. One man who comes to my market every week is literally tattooed from head to foot and is stopped dozens of times each day by people, especially tourists, wanting to take his photograph.
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Axel, Maggi
Yes I was too self-confident thinking I can do it easily. :) I have to start from ladybird. ;D
Instead I've made a gift for myself.
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Lesley
It would be very interesting to see!
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Olga, what a nice diary. You are a woman with many talents! :o
Lina.
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A few years ago I did an art and design course (one evening a week for a couple of years) and ended up with City and Guilds certificate in decorative glass work. A few of the sample pieces I made and still have here.
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These are really nice John and every one unique so the more to be treasured.
I see a dianthus there but where are the snowdrops? :D
Olga, your diary is very lovely and special, something for children and grandchildren to appreciate in years to come. You will only write nice things in it. :)
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Impressing art John.
Olga I like your diary. The outside looks like dreams from a better past. What probably our time will be. ;)
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Spring is on its way and to celebrate that in Romania we have an age old custom for men to give women Martisoare.
They are small objects with a red and white thread, given on March 1st (hence the name: small March'ies)
Here's a selection of some, my friend and I made from porcelain this year.
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You must have a LOT of ladies, Razvan!!!!? ;D
I particularly like the poppies.
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Our aim is 2000 pieces. :))
We mostly sell them.
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How beautiful they are Razvan and what lucky ladies. I am more likely to be given the power bill. ???
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This I bought at Nettetal, Germany, last week.
It was sold by Rudi Bauer's wife. but I don't know, who made it.
Lina.
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How long until it hatches? :D
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Lina that is so nice 8)
I do like the little bird on the branch, wish we had customs like that.
Angie :)
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Angie:
Bird on the branch?
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Arnold, I had to take an extra look too!
The bird is in Razvan's post. Very nice indeed!
Lina.
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Got it.
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It just so happens that Yes, I'm so Happy because one of those little Martisoare arrived in my letter box, just yesterday March 3rd. It is delightful and I do thank you so very much Razvan. A little treasure to hang on my wall where I can see it all the time. :-*
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Howdy All,
Now I feel REALLY inadequate!! ::)
Axel, those foil masterpieces are glorious. Absolutely amazing!!!!!!!!
So many other wonderful things in this topic too, including those cute little owls, and the christmas trees, that mirror, the diary, the March 1st thingies ;) and so many more. I got nothing!! ::)
Yvonne was a card maker, having a group of friends who'd get together and make stuff. I do a little quilling, but has been years since I've done any, and I was never any good at it. :-\
Thanks so much for sharing your skills everyone. Positively brilliant.
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I am so glad it arrived in one piece and you like it.
I was a bit worried, travelling thousands of miles in the post.
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No, it arrived safely and I like it very much. Roger is rather puzzled about what it is and where it came from and why. I'm saying nothing.
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Hi Razvan,
How nice to see the lovely Martisoares you have made. I lived in Rumania for 3 years and I remember them well. You attached them with little silk cords to your jacket. The more the better.
Marianne
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So perhaps on my beautiful Japanese hansen jacket then?
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Thank you. ;)
Don't keep Roger wondering too long. :P
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Yesterday we visited Schechingen, a small community with approximately 2500 inhabitants,
famous for its enormous easter well.
These central wells of many communities are decorated by volunteers at springtime with eggs and other
symbols to celebrate water as the source of all life.
10 years ago a club of seniors from Schechingen saw such a well during a trip and started to decorate
their own one. It improved from year to year and now it is made with 11073 hens eggs, 997 goose eggs
and 21 ostrich eggs. (So it was written, I didn't count them.) All are true natural (no plastic) and hand-
painted by many volunteers. Beside traditional ornaments you can see Christian themes, local motives,
fairy tales, comics and many other things.
Happy Easter to all the forumists and their families and partners!
www.schechingen.de
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FANTASTIC EGGS!!! As beautiful in their way as the marvellous elephants of an earlier thread, when they appeared in London!
Thank you Rudi for posting these super pictures. They've made my (chocolate-free) day!
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That's pretty amazing, Rudi!
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Lesley and Paul, thank you for your friendly comments.
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Wow so many interesting things were posted while I was traveling! :)
This is just to report. I finished my peacock tablecloth.
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SO beautiful, Olga.... how many hours are there in your day? 36 ? :o
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Olga, so amazingly beautiful tablecloth you have crocheted. I wish I had the ability to make a similar one.
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Beautiful Olga, seeing your work reminds me of the skills my mother and grandmother had when crocheting or tatting. They used to do it with their fingers moving so fast that you could never quite make out how it was done!
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A truly beautiful cloth Olga. One to become a family heirloom. :)
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Thank you Maggi, Ulla, Lesley and Melvyn. :)
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Beautiful Olga, my grandmother did similar work.
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Some felt french bulldogs i made ;D
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a hen
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Mercy, Emma! You are clever - these are SUCH fun!
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I like making them ;D
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I like making them ;D
I think that shows, Emma :) :D
Have you got them listed on Etsy or wherever?
Once when I'd been clipping the westies and trimming the feet of a visiting black spaniel, we made a "sculpture of a westie out of the white hair, with the black fur for eyes and nose that was really cute - should have photographed the bloomin' thing ::)
We thought at the time it was asking for transformation to doggy felt!
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Not yet , they take a good 18 hours to felt . I sell them before i get chance to put them on etsy ! I do have an etsy page https://www.etsy.com/shop/WoolyWoolas (https://www.etsy.com/shop/WoolyWoolas)
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I was commissioned to make the hen :) then my mum wanted one .........now i have to make more hens . I just dont have enough free time .
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Not yet , they take a good 18 hours to felt . I sell them before i get chance to put them on etsy ! I do have an etsy page https://www.etsy.com/shop/WoolyWoolas (https://www.etsy.com/shop/WoolyWoolas)
I was about to ask how long it takes to make them- I could well believe it might take longer than that.
The details are suberb in the Frenchies, particularly ( well, to be fair, and at the risk of offending my fowl-keeping chums- there's only so much you can do to show the character of a hen.......)
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I work with clay and this is one of the latest small personalities i have made :)
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So cute - he looks like he just came out of the nest!
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Thanks Maggi :) yes you are right, quite the curious one!
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I remember this thread being a great deal of fun. This is more utilitarian - a banner for the nursery for plant events - but we thought we would come up with something extra special, so my daughter (and wife who has all the stocks of threads, felt, and innumerable sewing bits and pieces, plus all the expertise) have made a design with plants to be stitched onto hessian. This is just the beginning - it is 2m x 1m. Will it be ready for Great Dixter at the beginning of October? Should be interesting - the plants go through the year beginning with snowdrops...
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Oh my word, Tim - that is going to be fantastic! Cannot think of another nursery who will have such a fine handcrafted banner - that will be a good thing to make folks remember Copton Ash right away. I'm greatly impressed and will look forward to seeing the finished object. Congrats to the Ingram "gals" for their idea and handiwork.
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Many, many years ago
way back in the mists of time
when Methuselah was just a nipper, I sat in my office at work one day, doodling away on a parchment with a small stick of graphite. I had illusions of grandeur and decided to start a totally impractical alpine nursery (I had no land, no money, no experience and little knowledge of business or propagation), but I did have the good sense to start with the sign for outside the gate (in essence I had no gate). I designed and painted an attractive board that was of sufficient quality that it took many hours of thinking time to create
enough hours for the realisation to set in that any potential change of career would be both futile and ridiculous. I still have the sales board in the bottom of my wardrobe and dust it off occasionally with a hint of nostalgia, a modicum of regret and an enormous sense of relief - we certainly wouldn't have been able to travel the world as we do now if that board had been theoretically fastened to our (non-existent) gate.
All best wishes Tim and the girls for such a wonderful project.
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That's very nice of you to say so Cliff, and it seems that Whitworth Alpines just took a different course :) Some glorious photos from your recent tour and a great deal of encouragement from this remarkable Forum.
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That is an old sign Cliff, the phone number gives it away!
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That is an old sign Cliff, the phone number gives it away!
Thanks Peter
rub it in! :D The lead in the paint was a good clue as well. :P
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"Established 1986" sort of gave it away too :P ;)