summer!

Nobody told me the days would be much shorter after retirement :)
I was not as much on the loom as I hoped for, but I have been working on a 'stitching order', making some new crochet pieces for my weekly eBay AND working in my garden!

fire screen, stitched petit point, an order  to go with one of my carpets

Usual I put pictures of the tomatoes and other veggies, so here a picture of some of the flowers!

my DH and our cat ... and as you can see I have been stitching in the garden ...

one of the critters in my garden

I took several pictures of animals I see here, luckily for me I was not around when the first scorpion in the garden was killed, and I was already asleep when the cat brought her first snake home :)

So here some pictures of nicer meetings in my garden:

the tortoise was just outside of the garden.

Still hoping to see a hedgehog ... they say there are some around

And finally a picture of our second cat Lucky:

both cats love it here, I think maybe even more than we do LOL

 

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 :-)