Matrioshka brooch

A Canadian lady gave me the idea for this brooch because she wanted me to do one for her daughter.

I managed to do the bigger Matrioshka 2 1/2" x 1 1/2" (6,5x3,5cm).

I did a small felted crochet tag (like the falling star of the little planet) at the bottom of the small one so that you can pull her out.

Moon Mood

After waiting for the sun to come (which didn't) I got inspired by the snow and the moon so that I did this piece with the moon with a sleep bonnet and two of my guardian angels trying to defend me from some moon mood I would rather not experience...

The piece (it hangs from the door of my new "glass studio") is about 10"x6!" (25x15cm)

Nachdem ich gewartet habe, dass die Sonne scheint (was nicht geschehen ist) ließ ich mich doch vom Schnee inspirieren und auch vom Mond. Ich machte dieses Stück mit dem Mond und seiner Schlafmütze und zwei von meinen Schutzengeln, die versuchen, mich zu beschützen, so daß ich nicht mondsüchtig werde...

Das Stück (es hängt von der Tür meines neuen "Glasstudios") ist ca. 25x15cm.

Little Green Spirit

Yesterday the sun was about to appear. Because of that I did these colorful brooches. This one has a fresh water pearl in green and is a little bit bigger as the other one. About 3 1/4"x 2 1/2"
(8x6cm).

Gestern war fast die Sonne da. Deswegen habe ich mit mehr Farbe gearbeitet. Diese Brosche hat eine Süßwasserperle in grün und ist ein wenig größer als die andere Brosche. Ca. 8x6 cm.

Fall spirit brooch

This is another fall spirit brooch. There is a promise of sun today and I did the brooch in colors I see through the snow...

It is 3"x2" (7,5x5cm) and has a small fresh water pearl in peach color on it. I bought these pearls and other stones in my last trip to Baviera. I thought they would look great on my pieces.

I also got some pins backs recently, very sturdy and wide so that you can use them with shawls too.

Diese ist noch eine Herbstgeist-Brosche. Heute haben wir fast einen sonnigen Tag und ich sehe diese Farben durch den Schnee...

Die Brosche ist 7,5x5cm und hat eine Süßwasserperle in Aprikosenfarbe. Ich habe neulich diese Perlen und einige Steine in Bayern besorgt.

Auch habe ich sehr gute Broschennadeln bekommen, die nicht zu klein sind, so daß man sie auch an Schals gut befestigen kann.
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Time flies - Zeit fliegt

Are you like me and have this feeling before Christmas? Time before Christmas -even if you're not a declared Christian- has something fugitive. There is these expectation in the air, and these "I cannot ........ before Christmas, I have no time".

But actually time flies all year, even now I' m doing carpool and taking care of grandchildren from time to time...

This inspired me to do this piece. The little lady carries her pensum with her like a cloud (I put a clock face on it!).

The felt is made by me with several sorts of merino and mountain sheep wool.

It's not a doll but it's meant to be framed in a shadow box like the one with the planet. It's about 8"x7" (20x17cm). It looks great when the "cloud" pops out over the passe-partout.

Zeit fliegt, nicht nur vor Weihnachten. Ich muss sogar noch auf Kinder aufpassen und spiele manchmal Chauffeur!!...

Dies inspirierte mich dieses Stück zu machen. Die kleine Dame trägt ihr Pensum mit ihr in Form einer Wolke.

Der Filz ist selbstgemacht und aus Merino- und Bergschafwolle.

Es ist keine Puppe aber zum Einrahmen gemeint. Man kann einen tiefen Rahmen verwenden.
Es ist ca. 20x17cm. Ich biete es in Etsy an. Es schaut besonders gut aus, wenn man es so einrahmt, dass die "Wolke" auf dem Passepartout zu liegen kommt!.

What I worked on these last months - Woran ich in den letzten Monaten gearbeitet habe

I want to let you have another sneak peek from my work. I have the studio full of pieces for the book about the embellisher and I would like to show all of them!

Ich möchte ein kleines Stück der Arbeit, die ich in den letzten Monaten für das Embellisher Buch gemacht habe, verraten. Das Studio ist voller Stücke und ich würde so gerne alle zeigen...

Blogs Blogs Blogs

I have just lost two days trying to do a Typepad-Blog. After more than 20 hours at the computer I decided to update and refresh the Blogger-Blog because of some reasons that became clear while I was fighting in a new and different features jungle.

The first of the reasons was that I was losing my time and probably would lose it very often in the future if I had two blogs. This is an experience it seems I have to do every 4 months. I am drawn like an insect to the light to wonderful blogs I see and their -supposed- possibilities.

I would swear it is the last time I felt into temptation but I know me and don't dare to say it definitely. I hope it was.

The reason about all this is probably that I'm not happy at all with the recent evolution of my work. I'm doing very nice things but they are not what I really want to do NOW.

So I began with a kind of barometer of my present art feeling on the top of the right column of this blog, just to share it with you so that you can understand what you see on the posts.

You'll have to commute between fairies and skulls. I'm not going to maintain two different blogs because it would rob me precious time and I'm not going to translate "everything" into German either!! :-)