25. Autumn sends its greetings

While I was just going to the library today, I passed a low wall with lots of beechnuts and acorns on it. I ate some beechnuts* and of course I made some flowers ;)

* If you haven't tried this before, try it! They are really delicious, not only for squirrels. They taste  like walnuts but without the bitter skin. Of course you have to peel them before. And you shouldn't eat too much of them, because large amounts can be toxic.

24. Mealtime!

ood artWow... I just came home from a wonderful, heart-warming and vitalizing evening with a lot of laughter, singing, dancing and community. It was so good to see all those lovely people again whom I haven't seen for such a long time. Thank you guys for these wonderful hours!

And even the food was so good... Today's flowers show just a small part of the numerous things we had for dinner. Yummy =)

PS: Note the face in the lower left corner of the first foto (I just noticed it a few seconds ago). It was the only angry face this evening ;)

23. Bloomy beads bracelet

At times I feel full of creative energy. Then I often feel the need of making some jewellery out of my numerous beads, occupying a lot of space in my closet.

Today was such a day. I decided to make some beads on my own by winding some bloomy fabric around wooden beads. I used those to make a romantic (and maybe somewhat trashy) bracelet.

22. Cinnamon-sugar

I love to re-use old things that others would simply cast away. Today I painted an empty cough drops tin. First I used white acrylic paint as ground (I can't tell you how many coatings it took to get a smooth white surface...), then I painted some blue flowers and ornaments on it. After having decided how to use the can I wrote the words of the future content on it (cinnamon-sugar). I'm really looking forward to taking it in use tomorrow, when the colors will be dry enough.

21. Water lily

After a long day I am quite tired now. So I decided to use my list where, in the beginning of my project, I noted some ideas of flowers for days where nothing flower-like would cross my way or my mind. One of those ideas was to make an unfolding water lily by cutting a flower out of paper, folding its petals and placing the flower in a bowl of water.
It was so much fun! I have done this several times in my childhood but I think I have never been so fascinated of it like this time =)

20. Wind wheel

Yesterday I decided to use my window colors once again, which I haven't done for a long time. I painted a floral pattern in different shades of blue on a thick plastic foil to make a wind wheel. Today I folded it and tried to put it on a stick.
It was so annoying... It took so long to find a screw which was appropriate for this purpose (I didn't count the times I realized it was too short and had to take another one). And to drill a hole into that stick which wasn't too small or too big (the stick broke several times because of that). And to find  screw nuts fitting the screw.
Fortunately my mother helped me (THANK YOU!), otherwise the wheel would have landed in some corner of my room, unfinished. With her help at least I could finish it, which, nevertheless, couldn't really lift my spirits.
 
The final outcome is rather a storm wheel than a wind wheel. You have to blow very strongly to make it turn. Maybe one day I will find a way to make it turn more smoothly...

19. Sparkling stones

Yesterday I was at the 60th birthday of one of my uncles. We had a lot of fun, especially with the  decoration =) My mother helped me by making a flower her own (the second one).