Spring was short and Summer seems to have arrived here already.
It is more than 30 C  for the third day in a row!

Here a picture from some spring visitors in our garden:

I have been working in the garden, in fact making a garden, for the last Month.
But because I need help it is not yet finished...
I hope tonight or at least tomorrow night the last part of the hard work will be finished  so that I can start growing flowers and some vegetables.

Minneke Poes loved to sit on the earth, between the lavender plants:

And now back to my loom, and to show you I am still working, this is the wool carpet I am working on this moment:

Today I started listing on eBay again,  there are some nice pieces this week:

http://tinyurl.com/btmnxdl

Brand new crochet pieces and some very nice carpets.
one of the new crochet pieces, a nice square:  




















And some of my favorite silk carpets:

and a tiny one, perfect for half inch or quarter inch scale:

And  to finish for today, just for fun a new picture of our cats:
looking outside on another rainy day

Sunday 10 March, not to bad only a Month without posting on my Blog  :)

This winter we had a lot of rain and thunderstorms...I hope weather will improve from now, today was a sunny day 20C!
So I have been sitting outside in the sun working on my crochet.
I finished a 'prototype' for my IGMA submission some days ago and I have been working on the 'definitive' piece today.
Here a picture of the 'prototype' do you like it?

In the 'real piece' I did make some changes to make it look better, it will also be less round and more star shaped.

So this makes 4 pieces ready now my last one !
I still did not decide what to make crochet or a stitched piece ....maybe I will make some try outs first.

And just for fun a picture I took because I love my cats so much  (and my DH also of course):

I am a little jealous they prefare to sit on his lap ... but maybe it is because I am not sitting still enough :)

A little more than a week ago I finished a loom of silk carpets.
Again some Aubusson type carpets, here an example of one:

And I also am listing again regularly on eBay.
I try to have at least one new crochet piece every week.
This week there is a nice star table top, I am not really happy with the fringe, maybe I have to take it of:

and how it looks an a small square table:

update :-)

I am really bad in 'blogging'!

Maybe I can give excuses, I have been busy and stressed and and... so I will try to explain what happened:

We moved!
It is a big difference in my life.  I hope to retire from the shop in Selçuk (If my husband does not call me back there when the season starts!)
We did buy a house in Kusadasi - closer to his shop - and live in a very quiet , green place.
OK it is a long walk  -13 minutes :-) - to the main road and the bus stop.
It will take me half a day to go to the post office, and shopping will be not easy also (we still don't have a car).  Thanks to a friend living close by I get a lift to the supermarket now and than.

It is in a 'closed site' with 31 houses, in a big garden, and it has a shared swimming pool (nice for summer!).

This was before we moved,  most of the blinds are closed here: we get a lot of light at home!
And in this picture you can see the hill behind our house.
My workroom is on the first floor (we have only one :-)  ) where the little balcony is on the right - with the open blind.

It took me only some weeks to pack everything, clean the new house and move ...

A view in our living space from the kitchen, you can see we have cats :-)

from the living space to the kitchen, and I did not clean up before I took these pics ....

And most important my workroom.
When I am working on my loom I have a good view on the olive groove from my window,
and of course my cat(s) -only one in the picture- like to sit close when I am working:

The view:

a loom of carpets finished, and a new one started...

It is again some almost a Month I did not 'Blog'...
I did finish a loom of carpets and started a new one already some weeks ago.
These were custom made 'Beluch' carpets:
I even made a 3th one a slightly different version for my own.

And after knotting weeks and weeks on similar designs I neede something really different.
So here a picture of my first try to a French Aubusson or Savonnerie style carpet:
And I forgot to tell that this one is for sale this weekend on the Miniature Show Online :
http://aminiminiatureshow.weebly.com/
at the really bottom of my page

I did like it so much that I wanted to try one more.

So I finished my second - a little bigger - Aubusson yesterday.  It is still on the loom and will look better when finished but here a previeuw of it:

They all look much better in real....

And after two Aubusson ones I need to start something different again :-)

I can't believe I did not post since Februari! Chicago

I can't believe I did not post since Februari!

Life has been hectic and I did feel sooooo tired a long time.
I am slowly slowly recovering but the hot summer does not really help me.

DH is home today so I have an unexpected day off today, one of the first since a very long time.

Lets try to start from Februari...

The first familly of my guests left somewhere in March : the twins their sister and their mother.
Life was a little more quiet after they left my very crowded flat.

Just before I left for Chicago the other little girl and her mom also went home agian.

ready to leave:  she was really cute and I miss her!

The last of my guests went home 18 june, after school finnished.
Can and Merve did finish their shool year here in Selçuk and can go on to the next year in hometown again.

And then I left for Chicago.
My room mate had to cancel last minute and I did not find someone else to share my room with.
Anyway I had a very nice quiet time there.
It was nice to see all my friends again, this year specially the petit pointer friends...
Here a picture of my table:

I took a workshop with my friend Kari Bloom, she is a very talented lady and a very good teacher.

 Thank you Kari!

I took this picture of the chair I made in my room, it is perfect with my big silk carpet.

And dinner with petit pointers:

                              me and Tamra, I don't remember who took the picture but I love it!

The show was 3 days now and after a flight of 12h. from Istanbul, the jet-lag, the stress of all winter and the 3 day show I was SOOOO  tired that after breaking up my table the last evening, I fell in my bed at 7 in the evening and did even not go down for dinner,  I was exhausted and slept until morning.

It is now end of July and I am still working hard...I finished a loom of carpets some days ago, started a new loom.   I also started making placemats for a customer and I am preparing my table for the 'Online miniature Show'somewhere in August -have to check out the correct date :-)-  so I am busy all the time....

I hope to put some pictures on my blog in some days!