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)

we have a winner ....

Yes !

Late last night I wrote all the names that

answered before midnight October 2nd on little cards

and this morning I let my RNG

in the form of an origami die, decide for all of you ...

and the winner is :

Mo'a

( sorry for all the others ... next time better ! )

Please Mo'a send me an e-mail with your address

and this little fiberrainbow-heart will fly over to you !

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In all the hurry of stitching my giveaway I totally forgot

to post about my wonderful swap !

Some time ago I suggested a swop with my dear blogging friend Sus

and she agreed to that :

one of my mandalas against one of her daily drawings.

She got my "Snake" ( on black paper ) and I safely got her

  "Snow goggles"

I'm very glad it worked out well !

a lovely weekend and ..... a giveaway !

Last weekend we had our grandchildren staying over

( and the cats )

They love all the extra attention,

and doing things together is great fun.

Man found a "Loupe" puzzle in the attic to start with

and I found an "old" package of small origami papers

and a book to work from.

( After a while I knew them by heart again ... )

On the last, very sunny day, I had some canvases,

brushes and acrylic paint.

( I wasn't in the mood to carry down two easels from the attic

so they worked on two little tables ... )

They were very proud

with the results !

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It is hard to believe

but true :

one whole year went by since I started this blog

On the first of October 2010

( kind of nervous )

I made the "giant" step  to begin a blog

because otherwise I would terribly miss my new textile friends

from the Patchwork Beasts Class I took with Jude Hill that summer :

I never regretted it !

To celebrate this joyful event I'm stitching ...

on a small

giveaway

To join this giveaway, please leave a comment on this post

( through this weekend )

On monday October 3rd

I will draw the lucky winner

!!!

I know that there are people who read this blog

and never ever leave a comment, because they don't know how ....

I can only say : please try !

If you're not familiar with commenting :

write something,

follow the intructions and pick "anonymous" when asked for a "profile"

and add your name in the text piece

so I will know who you are.

Then I can include you in this fun game !!!

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I'm back to stitching :

on a piece I started during the

Sun, moon, stars class from Jude in May

Not finished yet, but it's going fine.

I ripped off some bits and added instead a piece of Jude's

megamendung clouds

From the beginning there was a piece with a feather on it ...

After stitching ( and seeing ) só many beautiful feathers

for Jude's Magic Feather Project

there had to appear more on this "Star" piece

( you'll see the rest when finished )