Stitch by stitch

Yes that is what I do stitch bij stitch working on a very large Wallhanging.  For me,this is almost like meditation. Brain on zero! Just that small movement of my hands, up and down it goes. But to listen to soft clasical music is a must too. Than I feel great. And after many many hours (untill now 140 hours) I will have a large piece from 200x240 cm!
Here is a small glance

While I am working, our gallery is open and the people who come in are very curious of what I am making.

I still do not know how to finish it: in one large piece or maybe in three narrow pieces I have many options. We will see. I'm not in a hurry. At first I thought of hanging out in the next exhibition that I have late October,  but I'm convinced that the panels are not long enough. And I do not want them hanging on the floor so people could stand on it.

A surprising afternoon

Dieter my husband and I had a great afternoon last Saturday. We were invited to a reunion of dancegirls who worked with us as a show group. Dieter and I were footjuglers and also our daughter Nathaly became an artist in the show business. We started with these girls in a winter circus in a theater here in our hometown of Roermond called Cirque d'Hiver. This was a large group of about 14 girls and is 30 years ago. With a few of them we have done some good shows and now they organized this reunion for us. Fantastic how these girls grew up like beautiful ladies. With stories about life, children and business.
I was welcomes with flowers and many photos in their albums were running around. Small snacks and drinks are served. We are very greatful to meet so many good and beautiful people in life. We are really very old now, but surrounded with them made us feel young again. We had a great time. Here are some pictures of that afternoon

Reunion with our dansgirls

Vandaag gaat het weer

Wat gaat er vandaag weer? Schrijven bedoel ik normaal gesproken als je met de blogchallenge meedoet is het de bedoeling iedere dag een blog te schrijven. Maar je kunt je wel voorstellen dat mijn gedachten op 2 oktober meer bij onze dochter schoonzoon en kleinzoon in Las Vegas waren. We zijn dan ook zeer gelukkig dat het onze kinderen daar goed gaat alhoewel onze schoonzoon zich op het moment van de schietpartij ook in het casino Mandalay Bay bevond voor werkzaamheden.
We waren blij s'morgens al een tel. van onze dochter te ontvangen dat ze okay waren.
Daarna moesten Dieter en ik even naar Valkenburg naar het museum Land van Valkenburg om dat de tentoonstelling waar ik aan mee deed afgelopen was na drie maanden en ik 4 mooie werken van mij moest afhalen. Die komen het eind van deze maand in een tentoonstelling van het gemeente huis Echt-Susteren te hangen.

Winterlandschap textiel wanddecoratie

Thuis gekomen kon ik nog een paar uur aan mijn nieuwe textielkunst werken, maar ik kan niet zo lang achter elkaar werken want ik heb helaas last van rugpijn en moet na een half uur steeds even opstaan en een stukje lopen.

What to do

Time for a blog challenge again, it seems to work so why not start this month.
Not sure if I should write in Dutch or English. I come across small responses to find out what's best. So the following is in Dutch.
I have a little pain. About a week ago, I hurt my back by doing nothing really, and working on a very large wall hanging makes it very disturbing. I want to finish it for an exhibition at the townhall of Echt-Susteren, a small village in the south of the Netherlands at the end of October.

Usually I work 3 to 5 hours a day. It is all Handmade, stitch through the stitch. My work space is a big disorder, but as long as my beloved man does not complain, it's also good for me.
Tomorrow I have to go to Valkenburg, together with KC61 an artist community we had a 3 month long exhibition there in the Museum "Land van Valkenburg" and tomorrow it is time to bring our art back home again.

Small Art Garden

July 29th again.
That's how fast the time goes by. I wanted to write a few blogs this month and I did. Not as much as I would have had but better than not at all. So today I write something about our little garden. We are so lucky to have a place to go outside and enjoy flowers, scrubs and even a pond with some goldfish. But above all we love art and curiosities or even 'KITSCH' on the old wall around the garden. When we bought this house about 30 years ago, we thought we would close the garden so we had a bigger store. But fortunately we did not.

Dieters Art Wood Faces ith chandelier

Sometimes we go outside for dinner. Many times when people come to our gallery, they walk straight on to the garden and enjoy all the things that can be seen. Here are some pictures and I hope you like them.

Brass lizart

old copperpan with necklage

From above our chair with handpainted silk covert

Pond with chandelier

Little sketchbook

Today I signed up for the ultimate blog challenge. I've done that before and I think it's right for me.
Like some blogs ago to be accurate on January 16th, I wrote about my sketchbook. I've pretty well maintained and I'm glad, because by that smal drawings, often come on good ideas. Like my last big textile artwork, but I'll write more about it next week, as the opening has been in the museum in Valkenburg. But just because I like it here a few pictures from that little sketchbook which incidentally is almost full.

two small watercolors made by coby lange

made by coby lange ink and watercolor

Beautiful building

Last week we were able to visit "The Teeken Ambachtsschool from 1905 to 1908."

The drawing school was built in 1905, designed by government architect J. of Lokhorst and N. van der Schuit. The supervision lay with Dr. PJHCuypers who also left valid its influence for the design. 

Today it is the office building of the Limburg Employers Association" It is a very nice building and this time it was open to the public only for two days, because of an exhibition. We made some nice pictures from the inside.

Such nice details. Mr. Cuypers has build many churches and also the "Rijks Museum in Amsterdam" He lived from 1827 till 1921.We were so surprized by the building and forgot to take pictures of the paintings. auwah. Next time.

Small tanned book

Klein bruin boekje,
That is the title of a small Poetry book that I wrote my self. About two years ago I found on different note books, poetry in several languages that I had written now and then, and decided to make my own book. That was not so easy, I had to find out how that works. Opend some books, cut out the spine and looked how it was binded. After a few failures it worked out pritty nice. My book has a little story at the beginning and followed by 95 poems.

Here is one of them, it is called

Traveling

Traveling around the world

Music touches my heart

Like waterdrops passing by

that calling sound

It seems it never stops

no matter what age I am

waiting for wonders in

a different land

What do I want to see?

Nervous heart beat

like drums far away

getting louder every day

I've got to go my way

Following the sounds

of traveing

inspired by the music

of all different kind

It does not matter where i go

I know,it will always be there

By the way if You like to know more about this little book, please get in contact with me by mail