NAture's treasure box 2

Hi there!

just a pic of the last Nature's treasure box, a commission i would say...

what else? reflecting on the fact that be thankful and realize the wonder all around HERE is the only way to happiness....yes, i admit, for years i looked from my home out of here (Val Marecchia or the earth..?)   just to understand better, that the only home is here here inside.
and the rest...will follow.


My friends, i wish you a woderful week end...

i hope to spend mine in serenity... among the nature's Treasures all around!

Nature's Treasure Box

Hi Folks!

spring is rejuvenating everything... and i'm going into this process with all myself...

I did this box for a Little Girl, my faerie friend S, who wish to keep all her treasures found in walks on the beach or into the wood...

My friends, today my Heart was literaly filled up with Gold, by this little Angel.. and this emotion was so great that i was overwhelmed by joy.

Thank You Life You blessed me with so much Love...

Whispering Hearts

Hi friends!

here i'm again...snow is continuing to fall, this time it reveals us the show together with the wind, which blows it from upside down and let it make a real dance...

this morning i simply let it fall..i've not the duty of office, and so... i just look at the show as it is: a wonder of God!  ^_^

I share with you the evolution of the first week of work about "Whispering Hearts", an on line class i took with the Master of crazy stitching art, Jude Hill.

This for me is a complete new thing, so i enjoy it without thinking too much about the final point it will lead me at.. anyway, my aim is always to can combine my love for painting and for fabrics..it will happen one day...because who seeks shall find!

At the moment, this work takes all my free time, i just feel to come to it every time i need art..

i' not painting from a lot ( the real paint, not commissions, that i had a few..), but i  look forward to new inspirations growing underneath like the new spring signs under the earth...or better, under the snow!

I had a few parcel, the day that snow let us breath a bit...

I'm very happy about these... some laces from Sonia Cantè' s blog, she made a so lovely wrapping and i really appreciated my first blogger shopping.

The book " Diapason" , about which i spoke few posts ago, and a new book of Mataji Nirmala Devi, the most beautiful i found until now, it talks about Jesus and His Divine Mother...

And i also wish to share with you today, a new song i felt in love with, of the extremely talented american singer Kari Jobe... 

 

Have a wonderfull week end you all, folk!

my first crochet flower

I always thought when starting a new art, that will be too much difficult and i'll not be able...and that's my lack of confidence, a little hall in my Anatha Chakra (the house of Love and confidence) which will be soon overwhelmed by Sahaja Yoga ... blessed gift from Maha Devi Shri Mataj.

This project follow the ties series, as the main panel is made up with that ties i used also for the Caribean bag, and it's another gift for an Angel i met on my way: she will receive it as a surprise very soon!

I did know i wanted to put something on the front, and i visualized a flower... but i thought it was to brave to start crocheting now, and mostly with few hours of time. I went to my mother (a Master Crocheter) and looked with her on the Big misterius book of "All works with tread", the old book she always studied for her project by when i can remember.
So i chose the simplest and looked her going quickly with her hands.. continuing my "too difficult!" comments.
Then she suddenly left me alone. with my emptiness. Should i have learned something in that few minutes of time?
Yes...the thing is: i did.

I went to my studio, took the Big old book with me.. and started.
My hands went on the tread as they were very familiar with it... and i remember i used to do some "pasticci"  ( mess, in litteraly translation " bad pastries ) with crochet when i was a child.
But it felt as it was the day before.

And this flower came out so easily and happily...grew with love by thinking to my Angel Friend.

that was the little daily tale.


Bye!

Caribean elfic bag

Hi friends!

here i'm again at the studio, cutting time away for my passions...and with a new bag, that will be a gift for a friend which very soon will go on holiday where i was been nearly one month ago, BVI ( British Virgin Islands)...

First of all, i have to say that i LOVE to built thing by reciclying old or used cloth with a story for me...and create out of them a new life.

For this project i  took:
-some ties i found in a garage sale on the road for Connecticut in my Usa travel last year,
-an old dress i neither know the owner, but it waited for me in a corner of the roof where my studio is..a very good fabric, light shining blue
- a pillowcase i got into an antiquitè market in a village around here.

This curious meeting of stories, fabrics, and colours made me think from the beginning to S, so i decided to sew a bag for her. The combination i thought, is also very close to the Caribean colours...

 

and a shoot to the label, hand stitched on a piece of the floury fabric....

I hope you 'll enjoy this very simple and coloured project..
have a nice week end you all !!!

Creativity Stretches

Hi friends!

this week is the first off work...yep!

and i could think about the idea to enlarge my studio taking even the room next to it...that actually is a perfect roof!

Why not?
I like to change and mostly, to see new pieces of land while i' m working!

Well, this space is mostly created for my sewing projects; it's very strange how tables get very easily overwhelmed by things, and call for more space, for other tables where to place new projects and crafts!

^_^

Actually  i have one corner for painting, one for pottery, one for pc and sewing machines, one for everything else + little projects... and this new one, of which mostly i like the idea of projecting a new space full of love and creativity! have you ever seen my studio?

I made new experiments about how to make a fabric hard enough to be painted on, with oil colours.... so i tried many traditional ways...sugar, corn flour starch, vynavil... and maybe i'll find the right one for me!

And my Santa's laboratory is going very good...Elfs are really helpful here!
This is a sewing project, for a gift!

I'm Joy!
This is the daily Mantra!  ^_^
Enjoy your life!

an interesting work about paper

My dear Friends,

today i wish to piont out for you this website which show the work of some French Guys...really interesting in my opinion.

http://www.papieraetres.com/accueil.php



Hope you'll enjoy!

Studio's spot

Good morning my friends,
here a nice spot of my studio... the Angel came from England, the tree is of a friend she landed to me endless...and i enjoy t so much!

this morning frost was on the north side of the Val Marecchia.. our first day of frost....
winter, you're finally welcome!
now sun is shining to light our ways on the earth...i wish mine, will be as His one.

^_^ enjoy your weekend all around the Universe!

Elf at work

divine identity keeper

how thick this cup is!

coming soon a new painting

works in progress.....    and a faery tale---

have a nice day!

Silvia's Heart

That's a gift for Silvia, a friend which will soon move out, and land in venice.... i thought it was a good idea to remember where is our place... Xo

Wall painting

Hi Guys!
here some pics of my last work on commission...traditional flowers for a bedroom...enjoy!!

sewing projects

Hi friends!!
finally i found the time for a short photo session to share my last sewing projects...it was a very nice time!


Today i took a day off off... that means i finished just yesterday a big work on a wall, and today i took my trekking shoes and went into into into the woods...something really refreshing that i suggest in this hot italian sumer days!


my friends, i wish you a wonderfull week end!!

Hannah Nunn, a shining soul

http://www.hannahnunn.blogspot.com/

Here's her blog and you can reach even her site.
I discovered this artist just for case, and i still am in love with the shining atmospheare of her work and soul, so that i wish to share with you all this.
Enjoy!
and...have a nice week :)

Repairing shoes

why not?

a friend asked me to help these old pair of shoes

They got many halls wearing them along many winters

and i thought to use some of my prefelt

and some thick pressed wall

to make some decoration.

hopefully she will wear them for another season!

Feltrosa remembers

Hi Friends!

here some pics of the class i did in feltrosa 2011, Gambettola (FC- Italy), a very important workshop and meeting of feltmakers and textil art.

I worked with Rutsuko Sakata (http://www.rutsuko.net/eng/profile.html ) , a great Japanise artist .Above you can see some of her art pieces with flower coming ot and not stiched bu growed out from nuno felt

In this meeting, there was also Nina Demidova, a Russian very sweet yong lady, teaching wraps and dress making. This very colorfull pieces you see in the photo, are so light and fll of shades, that seems born from nature.

And hereMandy Nash, (http://www.mandynash.co.uk/ ) another great designer about felt.

Here a working moment...

Just something i made

Hi friends!

here a little idea for a card - framed gift!

and.here the font 

http://alittlehut.blogspot.com/search/label/download

it's the NEW LOVE WOOD.....

Little Portfolio

Ecco qua un piccolo porta quaderno, personalizzatoe personalizzabile! ho seguito le istruzioni sul sito di Amy Butler, designer americana che spesso pubblica "free patterns", e che mi sono divertita a tradurre per Voi:

Piccolo portfolio

Materiale :

-30 cm di tessuto in cotone medio o leggero TESSUTO A

-20 cm di tela di cotone da usare in mezzo

-30 cm di tessuto da coordinare TESSUTO B

-2 nastri lunghi 25 cm di altezza 1,3 cm

STEP 1

Taglia la stoffa come segue

Pannelli esterni- 28 x 17,5 cm

            Taglia 2 pezzi dal tessuto A

            Taglia 1 dalla tela

Pannelli interni – 17,5 cm x 12 cm

            Taglia 4 pezzi dal tessuto B

             Taglia 1 pezzo dalla tela misura dei pannelli interni.

STEP 2

Metti 2 pannelli interni uno sopra l’altro con il dritto a contatto, con la tela in mezzo.

Cuci uno dei lati lunghi con cucitura da 1,3 cm.

Gira i tessuti dalla parte diritta, e stira sulla cucitura.

Cuci a 6 mm dal bordo per rifinire, sempre dal lato dove hai cucito prima.

Ripeti per il secondo pannello.

OPTIONAL STEP

Fare i nastri da sola.

prendi le due stoffe ( stabilire misure),.stira da entrambi i lati lunghi piegando per 1,3 cm in dentro.

Piega per 1,3 cm in dentro un lato corto per ogni striscia di tessuto.

Poi piega a metà,  e stira.

Cuci a 3 mm dal borso il lato corto e il lato lungo di ogni striscia di tessuto.

STEP 3

Imbastisci la tela al rovescio del pannello esterno, a 6 mm dal bordo, per tutti i lati.Metti da parte.

Prendi l’altro pannello esterno con il diritto in su, appoggia i pannelli interni fissando bene i bordi, punta con gli spilli.

Metti i laccetti in dentro a metà del lato corto esterno. Imbastisci bene il tutto a 6mm dal bordo.

STEP 4

Metti i due pannelli esterni a contatto con le facce diritte a contatto.

E spilla.

Cuci lungo i bordi a 1,3 cm, ladciando un ‘apertura di 6 cm da no dei lati lunghi.

ATTENTA A NON CUCIRE I LACCETTI INSIEME ALLA CUCITURA DEI BORDI:

Prendi gli angoli e risvolta il tutto, .fai uscire bene gli angoli con le forbici chiuse. Stira ben ei bordi, mettendo in dentro la parte lasciata aperta per 1,3 cm ) come il resto della cucitura).Cuci a mano la chiusura.

Un nuovo cappello, impara l'arte....

Ricordo che durante il mio lungo soggiorno irlandese, un giorno ho scritto su un foglio le cose che avrei voluto imparare prima di lasciare questa dimensione (diciamo...)  e tra queste c'era...il cucito. 

Indossare abiti e accessori fatti da me, mi sembra una cosa meravigliosa.
Un tempo era scontato, ma oggi non piu'.
E l'energia che passa attraverso stoffe e decorazioni su cui ho passato il mio tempo e momenti di gioia e di pace, sono sicura che portino con loro, queste energie. 
Di questo mi piace vestire, vestire la mi anima direi.

Ho sempre creduto troppo difficile questa arte, poiche' al contrario della pittura, nel cucito qasi sempre si parte dalla fine.se voglio fare una borsa, la prima cosa è pensare alla cerniera....è stato duro ficcarmelo in testa! ma è un meraviglioso processo alchemico e molto zen, occorre pazienza e non sostare troppo sull' idea di come e quando sarà finito...e questo insegna tanto...ad affidarsi alla magia, a vivere il presente, ma non a caso, bensi' con un progetto preciso!

che filosofia, eh?

eccomi qua, piu' elfino che mai!!