The story of the operasinger, a puppet-play

Nearly finished puppets for a new puppet-play about an opera-singer.

They are rod-puppets.A rod puppet is controlled by moving the metal rods attached to the hands of the puppet and by turning the central rod secured to the head.

Origami ornament

You can find a great tutorial for these origami paper balls at http://thelastpiece.typepad.com/the_last_piece/2011/11/a-christmas-origami-tutorial.html.
I used old sheets of music paper I found at a book-fair with secondhand books.

Felt fun

I was in the mood for some needlefelting and made these little figures.

A garden-summary of 2011

The harvest of 2011 in our small suburban garden:

500 g of cherries
606 g of redcurrants (or miemeren as we call them in  Limburg)
622 g of strawberries
1849 g of raspberries
490 g of blackcurrants
362 g of gooseberries (plus all the ones we ate straight from the bush, I love gooseberries)
362 grr of blackberries
214 gr of mini-plums
1051 gr of pears
73 gr of grapes  (how to keep the birds of your grapes)
2980 gr of pumpkins
146 gr of rhubarb
490 gr of courgette or zucchini
200 gr of kiwi-berries


Some rucola and beans. Thyme, rosemary, celery, wild garlic, lemon balm, peppermint, basil, chives, gill-over-the-ground, origanum, parsley and lots of delicious eggs from our 4 chickens.
I would love to have one of these beehives in our garden:         It's  the starterskit from henandhammock.co.uk
We have these butterfly-houses in the garden and a hedgehog-house which is actually inhabited.
The birds seem to prefer to more natural nesting places in the hedges and trees and we half buried these old stone bottles for other insects.

Apparently addictive

Postcards

Having fun with a fineliner:

Getting in the Christmas spirit

Images from Cath Kidston and Pinterest