Felted socks

It is almost autumn outside and it's getting cool outside and inside the house so our feet begs for more warmth.
Well when menage started to moan that their feet are getting cold so I decided to cheer them by making felted wool socks.
And these socks are not knitted but felted and made from natural merino wool.

Socks that are so soft, lightweight like second skin and above all warm!

That what I' m gonna do this night! :)

Let's autumn begin

What a beautiful day today. Today it is not only first of autumn but the first of September special holiday for students, pupils and schoolboys. So we congratulate everyone with this important event.
When I think about the autumn I could say it is absolutely beautiful time in the year but only in the beginning when colorful leafs start to fall. But then everything becomes gloomy. So in that case I decided to give more colors for that period of time and prepare for those gray days and dark evenings by creating something special and colorful.

                               When we make templates we start to cover it with wool.

As you see I use bright colors ( yellow, orange, and blue). This colors reminds me shiny and warm summer days.

                  Then we use warm water and pure olive soap and roll everything in bamboo.

After same time of rolling and forming these would be almost finished it only needs bottom leather sole that we attached later.

            Felted boots for little...done!

Fish, fish and again fish!

I guess i have a new/old passion or some kind an addiction.I used to draw something all my life. At school i used to do that at the margins of my notebooks or on the tables and benches (It sound like vandalism but drawings were small so i think the harm to the public property wasn't so big). After school my life was connected with creative activities ( i guess i'm an artist) and now it become more than hobby. Well at least i would like so it would be.I have noticed that i can't stop drawing fish. Everything started from an idea to participate in our town festival which is called sea festival. I live in a port town Klaipėda so every year we have this festival and every year there are huge fair or mart in the center of the old town. So about a half year ago before that festival i decided to make a collection of fish art and participate. Idea wasn't bad but main problem was that i had to work my usual work and had less free time to work with my art. Anyway i tried and tried but still there wasn't enough time to prepare. so i had to cancel my creative thoughts and left it for the future. But thing is that i haven't stopped to draw fish. Even if i don't have specific ideas about that festival i still do art of fish.  That is possible that i have mane ideas how to portray those maritime residents and i will do so until my head will be empty. SO we will see when it happens...

There i have started sixth painting from my fish collection. I know it look quite simple at the start
but further when adding more and more layers of paint it becomes much more interesting  and some kind natural. I prefered graphic art so i guess it reflects in my works because it is not just painting but i try to make bright sharp thin lines, dots or just other shapes and usually do that not with brush.

I like to draw in messy way. After many chaotic brush strokes i start to see something that i like and then i start to work much more concretely at many places of the painting.

And finally got the result, fully finished another fish in my collection. Maybe soon i will publish more of my art. Just need to let them dry and the varnish to give more shine. I love glossy paintings because they look still wet and somehow "new". So patience patience patience...