My creative space

Look at the mess! I'm doing a test run on my fair table today. Since I don't live in a showroom, all my stock is packed away in boxes. When I sell something online, I take it out of the boxes and that's it. The only thing I keep track off stock is my mini-art.
I don't want to have any surprises when I'm at the fair and see half empty baskets or boxes so that's why I quickly check to see what has to be made still.
I ordered a large table (3,60m) but I'll gladly share it with my friend Mariana who we convinced to join too.

Want to show you creative space? Hop over to Kootoyoo's to play! It's fun! :)

Bunny butcher

I love bunnies so you can imagine I was kind of sad when this happened...
Not surprised though 'cause the ear was kind of vulnerable because it came off earlier and I 'glued' it back together with vinegar and slib before firing. So while sanding, this happened.
Oh well, will make a new one to complete my series of 10 bunnies...
The other 9 will be listed later this week. They are jippety jappety happy to meet you.

Flickr Favorites

1. rain on my window., 2. Bobbins, 3. strange fruit.., 4. cleaning up

It's raining outside which is a good thing. No more snow for me, I'll take rain 'cause that means it's also warming up a bit. I've been working hard to fill my kiln and now it's running and I have time to clean and sew. Sewing is not my favorite pasttime but I need to make tokens for my greeting cards. I'm glad that the bobbins are colorful as that makes me happy. What are your plans today?

Don't forget to look at my favorite mosaic from last week. I can see why this person made 2 mosaics! ;)

If you like to play this week, make your mosaic and add a link to your blogpost (NOT your blog please) or Flickr in Mister Linky (click on the button below and fill in your name with the link to your blogpost or Flickr picture).

Evanement - international women's day

In 1908, 15,000 women marched through New York City demanding shorter hours, better pay and voting rights.
A woman named Clara Zetkin (Leader of the 'Women's Office' for the Social Democratic Party in Germany) tabled the idea of an International Women's Day. She proposed that every year in every country there should be a celebration on the same day - a Women's Day - to press for their demands. It wasn't until International Women's Year in 1975, that the 'International Women's Day' was given official recognition by the United Nations and was taken up by many governments.
So, 8th of March, women will come together to celebrate solidarity, equal rights and freedom.
The city I live in organises an event the day before called 'Evanement' with a market where women's organisations are presented, workshops are being held and where lots of female artists get a chance to present their work.
I'm one of those artists and it's in exactly 2 weeks on the 7th of March. Eeeks, I still have lots to do in preparation so I might be a bit absent on the blog in the coming 2 weeks.

Apart from the market, a few of the activities that you can do there are:

• Tango for starters: fun to try out if you never have before.
• vestiare populaire gives you the opportunity to dive into a dressing room with more then 600 outfits which you can fit on and then be photographed in a studio
• 'de koekjesfee' or the cupcake-fairy is there to make and bake fabulous cookies and cakes
  (kids older then 4 and accompagnied by an adult)
  
• Chocolate, bittersweet a workshop from Fair Trade about the production process of chocolate and in insight in the cacao market.
• A 'how to raise my child' game to get an insight on how other parents look upon issues with their children. Fun and humor garantueed.
  
• An exhibition about breast cancer and how to prevent it
• A workshop with Michaël Verheyden about handbags & fashion accesoiries
• Iris Mondelaers who is a jewellery designer will show how an item is born from start to finish.

For some of these activities, you can sign up before hand but only on the day itself at the info desk of the event from 12u. The info desk is located in the hallway of the Cultural center.

In the fashion museum there is a workshop organised by Knitting guru Stephane Martello.
If you want to take part in the workshop, you will have to sign up. The cost is 10 euro's which includes a visit to the Fashion museum. You can get more info here: modemuseum@hasselt.be



And last but not least, in the evening, Axelle Red will give a show in the cultural center.
She's a Belgian artist that is well know internationally too. She's actually from this city but now lives in Paris. If you want to hear what kind of music she brings, go here.
Tickets for this (15euro) also have to be bought upfront. You can do that via e-mail: plaatsbespreking@ccha.be




If you plan to visit and need more info, feel free to contact me: mitsy@artmind.eu

Ripple dreams... part 4

Waves?

No, ripples!

And still lazy about sewing in the ends...

But it looks good already I think.

After last weeks progress on the blanket, I measured the rows and counted the colors of yarn I had bought for my ripple blanket. Well, what I suspected was right: not enough yarn for a decent sized blanket.
So I hopped over to Texere yarns to purchase some more colors. Hard choice because I already have so many. I'm using the King Cole Merino blend for my ripple. It doesn't feel as soft as Debbie Bliss cashmerino or Cashsoft from Rowan Yarns but for 100% merino wool, it feels soft enough. It doesn't tickle as some wool does, and it comes in a nice variety of colors although I'm sad there is no real lime amongst their choices. It will be warm to snuggle under... can't wait!Anyway, I really want to wait for the colors to arrive before making a big progress on my blanket. The way I choose my colors is by putting the balls of yarn next to each other and see how it looks. I do that in ripples of 7, one for each day of the week. :)
I didn't make it this week because of the reason mentioned above. I will wait for the yarn first because I feel I lack some colors now, especially yellow. But I managed to ripple 4 rows.
Everytime I start a row and do a few stitches, I see how it looks and I usually exclaim to myself: 'Oh, that color is just perfect here'! LOL
Do you talk to & encourage yourself when you are working too?

Tutorial on Poppytalk handmade

Today, one of my tutorials is published on Poppytalk Handmade. It's all about how to make a moss terrarium. I know there are plenty of moss terrarium tuto's out there but let's say that this is an ArtMind-style tutorial. LOL :)
Hop over here to find it. Enjoy!
If you leave a comment here, you'll have a chance to win a set of singing birds for your own moss terrarium. :)

Oh, and when I was editing the pics, I saw there was a little snail on top of the glass jar - waaahhh - that made me scream as I really really really dislike snails... brrr, they make me shiver! Any animals you dislike?

My creative space

There is always a list of feelings that I still have to make so I planned some time in the feeling factory this week. But oh, I do get easily distracted and suddenly I was making bunnies instead of feelings. Cute bunnies. Hopefully in my shop next week. Can you wait? :)

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