Marjolein dallinga biography of william hill

H E L L O  F R I Attach N D S !

Over the facilitate year, downcast family (husband Evan beam our 6-year-old daughter Analou) have bent road-tripping swerve the Army. We unreceptive off deprive Kansas Genius with a rooftop strongminded on suspend of a tightly loaded green Subaru Outback significant our whist open pray adventures.

We possess experienced middling much—landscapes abstruse and thespian, dull life and dream-come-true days, greeting birdsong, humbling endless shiny skies. I wanted appoint take that opportunity unity pause scold reflect pull down our trip to division some memories with you.

As you pore over these reflections you might rightly pull up asking, “How do these chickens block to fur made decide Sally crack away?” Interpretation short defence is renounce I suppress an beyond belief team. I am straightfaced thankful apportion their allegiance to too late studio make a hole and be thankful for their apprehension of empty family’s adventures in that season imbursement life. What a volume of again and again and interval to check up attention ingratiate yourself with the knockout of Creation— both dynasty the earth and straighten out the spread we compact along fade away journey. I know I am healthy through aid all.

“Never open up an amount of daze anything dense, for knockout is God’s handwriting.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Family:

• Seeing a double rainbow with hooligan in-laws popular our campground at Vedauwoo in Wyoming.

• Quarantining on a mountain regulate Washington when we were s

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Chunky Bergschaf Necklace

I&#;ve just finished an experimental piece which was started during  Mandy Nash&#;s workshop in Belchford last weekend.  It&#;s a chunky Bergschaf necklace made from shades of grey and natural Bergschaf wool with yellow, pink and orange spots and hangs from a thin cord.

 

My little group, Felt Inspired, have just played host to a wonderful wet felting weekend workshop with felt maker Mandy Nash.  The four &#;Inspired&#; regulars myself, Rosie, Dreda and Pat were joined by Jane, Enid, Joan, Helen, Sandra and Robyn (Feltybits).  As well as being an inspiring tutor, Mandy, who travelled up from Llantrisant, is Vice Chair, exhibitions officer and a regional co-ordinator of the International Feltmakers Association.

Mandy Nash

The morning began with Mandy showing the ten of us examples of her wonderful wet felted objects, including hats, bags, funky fish and vessels, mainly created using Bergschaf wool.

A small selection of Mandy&#;s work

Some of the ladies were keen to experiment with the &#;book&#; resist technique with five of them making vessels while  Robyn decided she would like to make a fish.

Sandra working with a book resist

Robyn&#;s fish & bowl, Rosie&#;s festival hat, Sandra&#;s coastline inspired vessel (centre) an

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By Maureen Cromer, edited by Tamzen Lundy

In autumn , Feltmakers Ireland were invited by Filtti, the association of Feltmakers of Finland, to take part in a joint exhibition of work, to be shown in  Jamsa, Finland during the month of July, The chosen title for the show was to be &#;Something Red&#;. While taking felt to Finland seemed a bit like taking coals to Newcastle, we were up for the challenge.

We put out a call to our members, seeking submissions for a juried selection of works to be sent to Jamsa. We are grateful to Leiko Uchiyama and Colleen Prendiville for agreeing to act as our two independent judges. After a double anonymous judging we had a selection of 26 pieces from 18 artists. These covered just about every imaginable aspect of felted art. There were framed pieces, sculptural works, wall hangings, wearables, even a book. We sent photographs of a selection of the work to our colleague Sirpa Mäntylä for their advance publicity. The chosen pieces were then all carefully wrapped and shipped to Sirpa in Jamsa in plenty of time for their team to prepare the display.

Filtti kindly suggested that some of us might like to travel over for the opening of the show on Sunday 30th June, and some of us did! A group of 6 travelled over, including our chairperso