Piece by piece

I looove jigsaw puzzles. Unfortunately I don't have much time nor place to do them, but I still manage to do a little one now and then. So I did a 3D one, a 540 piece globe:


It took me two hours to the continents and the islands, and four or five to complete the oceans!




Here I am - here I wanna be!


I'll just add an old photo of the largest puzzle I ever made: a 9000 piece. My apartment wasn't big enough to make the whole puzzle at a time, so I made separate left and right half. Here's one:

Aprreciating appreciation

Following my previous post, the conference is now over and my hard work was nicely awarded by my boss. He appreciated my efforts and I appreciate his appreciation :-)

NanoToy

Another project for a customer - but this time the customer was me... does this count? Anyway, I was co-organising a conference and we needed a logo. I took my son's toy (brought by Mike from New York, thank you!) on a sunny day and photographed it. I loved the sharp shadows.


Notice the symmetries of the buckyball:


Do I need to say this was a conference on nanomaterials?


Different perspective:


And the final result:

Feeling patriotic

This is a project .. for a customer. The 'order' was to make something that relates European Union and law, so my idea was to symbolize the justice balance, the libra, with a mobile, balancing the flags of European countries.

All I needed were the flags:



a fishing line, some skewers and patience. An hour later, I had this:



It took me way longer to photograph this thing than to actually make it. I played a lot with the illumination, remote flash, diffuser, flash reflection, aperture... But I'm pretty happy with the results:

Surfin' www

I'm gonna be honest and include another activity that I do in my spare time - surfing the web. Here are links to some blogs or sites I follow more or less regularly:

My girly side:
Cake wrecks - when professional cakes go horribly, hilariously wrong.
Post Secret - confessions on life, death and God.
Etsy - my place to buy (not yet sell) all things handmade.

My other side:
The Big Picture - news stories in photographs by the Boston globe.
Dark roasted blend - weird and wonderful things.
Strange maps
Rebekka on Flickr.

Who-ho-hooo

I'm ready for Christmas!!!

Well, almost. I received a wonderful package full of Michael Miller Christmas fabrics so that theoretically I can start making Christmas cards! I know it's still September and in fact way to early and too warm to start thinking about December - but nevermind. I still have to decide whether I'm going to glue the fabrics together, or onto a blank card. I could also sew them entirely. Hmmmm, tempting!







I received my package from lovely and wonderful Spice Berry Cottage via Etsy.

More boy's trousers

I was so busy sewing this weekend that I forgot to take pictures while sewing so I only have photos of finished boy's trousers. If you remember, a while ago I posted a photo of Jersey fabrics: four different fabrics and a long way to go. Well, now I finished two pairs of trousers and plan to do four more. But first the photos of the ones already made.


Almost happy with these seams:


Crazy shadows:


Of course, my son should not forget that these were made just for him!