Our Creative Space...

The last time I am being driven to make goofy bags, like the tea pot bag and now, a beehive.
First some experimenting with size and type of construction.

Then, cutting hexagons with the accuquilt from hand dyed cotton.

Each hexagon is backed with interfacing all around, wrong sides together.

Cut open the interfacing, turn and iron on. This gives a wonderfully stable fabric to work with, no stretch anymore in any direction.
The hexagons can be sewn together now side by side with a zig zag stitch.

This is a wonderful embroidery sample with hand stitched bees. With the bag pinned together, I decided where the bees would be placed.

Here you can see the whole bag laid out with the bees pinned in place. In the background, the lining fabric, honey colored gingham with more bees!

The bees get appliqued with the darning foot.

And the excess fabric cut around them. Then the hexagons are all sewn together to form the beehive.

 End results can be seen here in our bagshop.

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Monday Moodboard

1. alatsupplies  2. EmelePhotography  3. AnnukCreations  4. P8iosities

Terracotta always reminds me of Summer. The plant pots everywhere and the beach pottery you find here are often this color. A warm unique color. I hope you are all having a great Summer so far!

Have a great week everyone!
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New in the Shops

Mother of Pearl Leaves Earrings

Carved Bone Necklace - Vintage Bone Flower Cameo

Shell and Pearl Rose Necklace

Handwoven Leather Bag - Native Tribal Geometry Motives - upcycled eco friendly

Live, Laugh, Love Tote Bag - Canvas, Leather and Vintage European Needle Lace Doily

Good Old Times- Vintage Doily, Cotton and Leather Bag

Sea Love Bag - Vintage Nautical Seahorse Treasures, Kiss-lock, Leather, Beach finds

Constellation Keychain / Bag adornment Black and Gold

Bird and Branch Brooch - Set of two Woodland Brooches

Blue Enamel Earrings - Enamel and Copper

Fish in a Cage Necklace - Brass Cage Vintage Fish

Stork Rescue

This week we saw a nice kind of news in the papers.

The african storks come in the summer in great numbers to the Aegean Turkish coast to nest and breed.
Most of them choose residence in the high voltage masts, resulting in hundreds of dead storks, mostly when the babies start to fly.
 

To avoid this and also the power cuts that it causes, Aydem, the energy provider for the Aegean region has started to place platforms attached to the masts but about 2 meter higher. The hope is that it will save many storks. More than three hundred of these platforms are in the planning.

Every year, a stork couple gets three to five babies. Isn't it nice?

Monday Moodboard

1. happyment  2. DUEALBERI  3. MyMonography  4. Melasha

Not a very happy mood as you can imagine, we are still feeling blue about Urchin.
Thank you everyone for your kind words and for your support these past weeks, it helped us alot or we would have been coping with this alone.

Have a great week everyone!
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Urchin

I have very, very sad news.

Remember that we were saying that both hind legs were very weak?  He could stand and take one or two steps, no more, and had to be carried outside for his toilet.

We took him tuesday again to the vet and had finally more x-rays taken. His other leg is totally out of the joint, the ligament torn. The vet said that it is no use to put it again in place, it would go out right again.

Worse news was that the steel plate that they put in the broken leg, with screws and wire, had bent in a L shape and was no good. He wanted to operate on him again and put a heavier plate in. The injured leg would be shortened.

We spent a terrible tuesday evening, deliberating what to do. We read all what we could find on the web about hip dislocation by dogs. The usual treatment is to fixate the leg in a sling for several weeks till the torn ligaments have healed. If that doesn't help, than the head of the femur is removed surgically to relieve the pain.

Of course, that all supposing that the dog has an other healthy hind leg to walk on, but Urchin's other leg was badly shattered. The vet could of course not say if he would be ever pain free.

Ah, the way that animals warm a place in your heart!
We have had to put down other dogs, of course, with illnesses that couldn't be cured. But to have to do it with a young, otherwise healthy dog, it was really, really hard.

But in the end, that was what we decided, because a life with pain is no life.

This dog has brought about so much goodness in so many people, I hate that this love story has no happy ending, I hate it.

I am still glad, though, that he didn't die in terror on that road. I'm glad he was loved and pampered in his last days, I'm glad that he was clean and well fed. I'm glad that Estella was holding him and stroking him and talking to him till he peacefully went to sleep on his bed, in our house.

He is buried in a hill overlooking the sea. He will always be one of ours.

Monday Moodboard

1. galafilc  2. BiscuitCuit  3. bialakura  4. cherrytime

Summer always means a war with grass. You need to water it to keep it green, but as you water it it grows fast, it is always a struggle :)

Urchin will be trimmed today, it is so hot it will do him good. Also some things won't go away with a bath so he will clean up nicely too.

Have a great week everyone!
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New in the Shops

Mushroom Coral Necklace - Coral, metal, solder, beach pottery - Sea Treasure Collection

Leather Sea Urchin Necklace - Leather Sea Urchin Metal Mother of Pearl

Starfish Beach Ring - Sea Treasure Collection

Canvas Leather Bag - Boho Poppy - upcycled eco friendly

Ikat Leather Bag - Boho Elephant Safari - upcycled eco friendly

Woodland Owl Bag - Vintage Embroidery, Patchwork and Leather Bag

Blue Enamel Earrings - Enamel and Copper

Apple Tree Necklace - Woodland - Glass and Metal

Beach Finds Installation - Driftwood, Glass and Metal Fish - Wall Hanging

Another update

Monday, we finally brought Urchin home. Here he is, getting what is obviously his first bath ever. It barely scratched the surface, he stills smells awful, the poor thing.

The wounds are much better, only the one at his ankle, where we could see the bone when we found him is still a bit open, so we used Betadine Scrub to wash him.

He can stand and walk a couple of steps, no more, both hind legs are very weak. he still has a very long way to go to recover.

He is totally in love with Estella.

Today he finally pooped, we were woried because he didn't before. Never knew that I would be so happy to see a dog's turd, we see enough on a daily basis. It is one more step in the way to recovery.

He lays very confortably in a room with airco, where the other doggies are not allowed and is cool and quiet. He says hello and thank you to you all.

Monday Moodboard

1. arch190  2. Skelini  3. tenderblue  4. EllaGajewskaBRIDAL

Summer has arrived for a while but the extreme heat has been here just a few days, you know the kind it feels like everything is burning.
I know that at other places summer has hardly arrived, I wish we could swap some temperature and rain to balance things :)

Today if everything goes alright Urchin will come home with us, we'll let you know!

Have a great week everyone!
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