5 Mice in a Mouse Box. How did it all started.

A field full of Mice, February 2015

It all started one autumn morning many years ago when I decided to make some mice for our nature table.

First Mice, born many years ago...

Marina and Marta loved them therefore I decide to made some more but this time little ones.

As it happened, these little mice were very happy indeed, sometimes they visited the big ones on the nature table but most of the time they were busy playing with the girls. 

They did everything together.

At that time, Marina had just started Kindergarten and the little mice joined too!
 I guess it felt good to her to  have some friends in her pockets.

One day she showed one of the mice to her teacher, Damian, who was delighted to meet such a sweet and clever little mouse.
 Slowly the other two came out.
 Damian became good friends with the Mice; there were days when one or two (never all), would go to spent the night with him and his family. Always promising that they will be back in the morning. 

One of Marina's mice.

Dolls for Kindergarten

A while ago I was asked to make a couple of dolls for a Waldorf Kindergarten. 

I thought it would probably be a boy and a girl but after a few conversations with the teacher she asked me to make two girls.

 I was so privileged to visit the children, I'd normally come at play time and sit carding some wool, soon enough the helpers would come, many would help me but others loved touching the very soft pure white wool that I took there for them.

 It was a real pleasure for me to listen and see them play. How a woolen sheep could come alive in a second, and princesses and pirates with big sailing boats would manifest in front of me.

The best thing is that they didn't need any complicated equipment for this. Some logs, big pieces of material, a few chairs, a stick and the Ship was there!

I noticed in the class there were a couple of very pale, rosy cheeked, golden haired girls and many with long straight black hair and beautiful different shades of skin.

Here are some pictures of the Dolls and I'm glad to say that very soon the boys will get a Gnome that their KG teacher has knitted for them!

'All in a Spin' with Dunja Roberts

On Saturday, last week, I attended the Hand Spinning 'from fleece to fibre' beginners course with Dunja Roberts from All in a Spin at Pen Y Caeau Farm in Powys.

I had a fantastic day and I learned a lot!

Dunja with two other participants

A few years  ago my mum came to stay with us and wanted to learn hand spinning, my friend Gertraud lent us a wheel and told us how to use it. I was busy  doing other things and though i loved it i didn't continue until six months ago when i started to spin with a drop spindle. After Christmas, Gertraud, another friend and I decided to meet every week and do spinning together.

 I love it. 

Last Saturday with Dunja was amazing, the course is very well organized and gives a good grounding in hand spinning techniques with an excellent introduction to different kind of fleeces and how to select and care for them.

I have always related fleeces to doll making, children and good weather. 

Now I'm starting to look at them with the eyes of a spinner too.

Wishing you a good day, 

Yolanda