Am I a bad blogger? I probably are but that's mostly because I was away on holiday the last couple of weeks.
Before my vacation I was so busy and spent so much time behind my computer, that mostly I was just happy I could finally leave my screen late at night. I simply didn't feel like reading blogs and forgot to mention here I was going away for a well deserved holiday.

The day after I returned I got the flew and stayed in bed and so that's why after a month and a half I finally find the time to write my blog.

Although I brought my wool and drawing stuff with me I haven't done much crafting or drawing in France. Instead I spent most of my time swimming, reading, sunbathing, walking, shopping, talking with friends and enjoying the wonderfull meals cooked by my husband. Time flew bye, vacation is over and so now it's back to business ;(

Nothing to show from myself yet and therefore two links from artists I think are super:

Paintings by Jen Garrido, I simply love her style because of the way she's combining colors, textures and covering thinks with white paint.

Elina Saari... what can I say? To me she simply is a felting guru, I simply love her work especially the designs of her hats and if only it was possible for me to take a felting course from her.

I like to recycle and therefore I made this pencilcase out of the shoppingbags I brought home from a shoppingtrip last week.

And here's another one I made a while back and send to the other side of the world for something that turned out to be a oneway trade :(

Work from Paula Sanz Caballero, this really makes me speechless, WOW!

So much more to see here.

Although crocketing with plastic strips sometimes is too heavy for my arms, everytime I start again I somehow get addicted for a while. So here are some new ones.

The process of combining colors and materials is what's causing the addiction for me. And ofcourse the fact that something that's lost his first function and maybe would have ended up in the recycle bin is reformed into something useful again.

The cases are formed starting with a flat crocheted piece. I cut up the heavy plastic shoppingbags from boutiques in strips about 1 cm wide and fold them so the inside color of the bags doesn't show while crocheting. The way I cut them result in a very long plastic yarn. The thin bags from marketplaces are cut up in loops wich are tied together to form the yarn.

Putting the zipper in is a bit difficult because the "fabric" is pretty heavy, but on the other hand putting in the sides is more easy because of the exact same reason. Sometimes I use fabric to make the sides and sometimes I crochet the sides as well.

The tags are formed with scraps of what's left of the handle, top or bottom of the bags together with other materials I used.

I decided to start a shop on Etsy, so if you're interested in buying my work go and click on the shoplink in the menu on top or on one of the Etsy previews in the right column or click on the little preview-banner above.