DIY : felted lamp

I always have a hard time shopping for a nice lamp.  And if I do like one, it's always so expensive.  So I made one myself.  I used really nice natural wool mixed with silk.  I also added some curls and a bit of green fine wool.  It took me a good part of the day to felt it because the fabric needed to be see through without creating holes.  So I had to felt it really gently.

Once I finished my fabric, I still had to make a lamp shade out of it.  Nowadays it's easy to find the material for it in specialized stores.  For this lamp I needed two large iron circles and some kind of self adhesive lamp foil.  Then it still took me about a day of putting all of this nicely together and finally ... there was light!!

Abundance!

Look what happens if you're too busy crocheting and it's actually harvesting time.  The zucchinis were huge and I gathered tons of tomatoes.  Luckily these tomatoes were just perfect for making sun dried, or in my case, oven dried tomatoes.

So I sprinkled some sea salt on them and let them bake in the oven for 8 hours on very low temperature and with the door a little bit open.

And finally I poured some very good olive oil over them.  So now I can enjoy the taste of summer whenever I feel like it!!

Still crocheting ...

I'm doing a lot of crocheting lately. These are some items I've made so far.  But I'm still in the experimental phase and having fun crocheting!!  I'm really curious what I will be using this for.

Beautiful morning!

I saw so many beautiful spider's webs this morning in the orchard.  But grasping them on a photo was harder than I expected. Sometimes you can see so much more through your lens than with your own eyes.  But the webs just kept disappearing when I looked through my camera.  At last I took one picture I liked.
I really need to learn a bit more about photography and practice a whole lot more. If any of you have some tips, they are always welcome!!