Today I want to show you another painting I just finished. It is still difficult for me to decide what I like more, to paint in a realistic style or go for the more loose and faster style...In fact I like to do both!
This is only a small painting, 40 x 40 cm.

Today I want to show you the October fabric page, themed "Together", I made for Marja in the Netherlands. It shows a picture of me and my grandmother Wilhelmina, made in 1958 (I am named after my grandmother). My mother sewed the winter coat and knitted the knee stockings I am wearing.

Here you can see what I have been so busy with the last weeks. It is a big painting (you can click on the picture to enlarge it)after a picture I made in Biloxi at the Gulf of Mexico.I made it for the 24th birthday of our son Wesley. He saw the painting when I just started it and was so enthusiastic about it that I decided to finish it for his birthday last week.

And this is the august fabric page I made for Helina in Finland. Her theme is "a walk in the woods". I printed a picture of a tree to muslin, then surrounded it with green patches and embroideries of leafs.

This fabric page I made in September for Janny in Holland, she choose a "Vintage" theme.

The page with this lovely Parisien lady I received yesterday. Doreen from Australia made it for me and it is a wonderful addition to my fabric pages with the "thinking of France"theme.

I am now working on a fabric page for Marja in Holland, her theme is "together". I'll show you a picture when it is finished.

Back on line.......

My computer died after coming back from vacation in september. The screen went from white with black stripes to black. It went out for repair, came back, worked for 10 minutes and went black again......Once again out for repair and when that didn´t work I had to buy a new laptop. The old one was not even 2 years old and the bad news is that I lost all my mailaddresses also!

Well, I have some good news to share also, I just managed to buy some tickets for the concert of Paul McCartney in the Gelredome in Arnhem on Dec. 9th. I had tickets for his concert in 2003 and couldn't go because I had to stay in bed with a herniated disc!

Autumn has started over here in the Netherlands, the temperatures are still nice, around 15 o C, and luckely not much rain as usual in this time of year. We have found a lot of sweet chestnuts and seen lots of odd mushrooms in the woods next to our home.

I received some wonderful fabric pages the last months, today I show you the ones from August and September. The first page is made by Helina in Finland. She broke her right wrist and managed to make it with her left hand, my compliments! She wrote that the picture reminded her of Hansi. I first thought of German artist James Last (his nickname is Hansi also!)but then remembered cartoons I had seen on postcards in France and the picture sure looks like work of Jean-Jacques Waltz, the artist/cartoonist from Colmar!

The September page is made by Helga from Germany, she made a felted page and stitched a beautiful French lavender landscape on it, I will show you a close-up of her wonderful work. Thanks so much ladies of the Fibre_fever group! Tomorrow I'll show you the pictures of the pages I made and what kept me so busy the last weeks.... Now back to bed, I am still

having trouble with the flu!

Yesterday I received this lovely package from Lola in Canada.
Fabric in my favorite color, a Piglet for my collection, an old hankie to use in my crazy quilting
and this little ashtray made from
Dutch Delftware, ain't it funny that this possibly travelled to Canada with someone and now is back on Dutch ground?
Thank you so much Lola for this price for the finishing challenge!

Fabric pages

These are the pages I made for June and July.

The first one I made for Doreen in Australia, her theme is "Butterflies".
The color of the picture is not very good, it is made of rich purples and greens.

The second one I made for Helga in Germany, her theme is "Angel among us".















I printed a picture that I made at Graceland, Memphis from a statue next to Elvis grave on fabric and found the poem on the Internet, the maker is unknown.

Fabric pages (sorry, but Blogger doesn't let me change the size of the characters....)

These are the fabric pages I have received in June and July.

The first one with Joan of Arcs emblem is made by Marja in Holland.
She made the page of felt and it looks just like an emblem you can sew on a jacket.
The other page is made by Janny, also from Holland. She stuffed the page made with Provence fabrics with lavender, so it smelled lovely when I opened the envelope.
Thank you both for your lovely work, I have pinned the pages with the other 4 I already received to the wall of my sewing room and it is becoming a wonderful collection.