I have had a good start of the new year. My first order is ready to be delievered. It is a symbol of the Northern Lights made as a head with two faces in sparkling colors. It is going to be sent to the very northern part of Scandinavia as a present for a 70 years birthday.
Then I have had my first course this year and the theme was little singing birds. I worked myself with this new theme in the autumn knowing that I wanted to teach this very trained groop first. They made so many different nice little birds and it was a pleasure to see the birds "grow".
Right now I have a student from Austalia in my studio, where I teach her sculptural figures. It is such a nice and different experience to have only one person to teach.

This wonderfull Kingfisher was made by Kirsten Lund at my latest course

Doll of the month this January is a snowman - even though we have not any snow at all, so he reminds us of last year at the same time where Denmark was buried in snow.

Read more: Doll of the Month - January 2012

Friday was a very cosy day at my workshop. Together with my neighbour shop, who is selling spiritual books and special gifts, I had arranged a day, where we invited people to come and take part in different funny and surprising things. It was not just because we wanted to atract more customers but more to have a nice and different day- and it certainly was. Every half hour someone got a gift or had to read a note with fun words and there were different kind of things people could try: Needling a woolen heart, braid a braicelet with licourice wire!! , try to draw a star in an impossible way  and so on.
The whole workshop is now ready for Christmas -full of Christmas-pixies and many different Father Christmas figures together with all my felted animals and birds.

The troll has got the red Christmas hat on

Needling a heart requires deep concentration

Josephine is needling a heart

Doll of the month is a real Scandinavian Pixie as we see them all over this time of the year. My studio is starting to get filled up with them in the show window, on the shelfs and hanging from the ceiling.

Read more: Doll of the Month - December 2011

I have finished my last course this year and the theme was to make the face of Father Christmas. The students learned how to build a face and then they worked with the technique I call watercolor felting. On the pictures below you can see a very, very good example on, how we without beeing aware of it, make faces that are alike our own face. I must though emphasize that none of the other faces can be used as an example like Ulrikkes

Here you see how much Ulrikkes Christmas girl looks like herself in all details.
She was not aware of that fact untill we told her.

Lisbeth in deep contration.

The face is nearly finished.

Father Christmas ready to go home.

 

 

Here she is - doll of the month - a little delayed but at last she got her clothes on. First the stockings, then the underpants and at last the red dress and the long sleeved blouse.

Read more: Doll of the Month - November 2011

This last part of October has been very very busy!! mostly because an organisation had arranged a feltseminar builded on me giving a Power Point lecture followed by 3 different felt workshops.
It was very nice to meet all those interested people at the seminar and a privilege to tell about how I work with the needlefelt. 
The 3 different workshops were planned after the lecture, but all the participants had chosen my workshop, so we arranged that my good felt friend Merete Stoltze helped me with my workshop and that made it possible that all the participants could go home with each their little funny theatrefigure.
After that I today have taken things down from my latest exhibition, I will now concentrate on finishing "Doll of The Month" for November.

The doll of the month is this little bird that is made in a series of birds that I am working on right now. It has been like entering a quite new world to make these little singing birds.

Read more: Doll of the Month - October 2011

On the Danish version of my website I have a list with the courses I give here and I have experienced the last years that English speaking coursists find this list and sign for the courses I give here in Denmark (in Copenhagen). It is always nice to have guests from abroad and I use to manage (with good help from my Danish coursists when I don´t find time) to translate enough to make it possible to follow the course. On my last course Nazret from Ireland joined the course and two Sweedish girls too. It always adds an extra dimension to the course to have participants from abroad.