Happy New Year!!

A Happy Near Year to all my family, friends and readers! There are so many awesome new year's wishes doing the rounds this year... I just want to wish you all an amazingly fun, happy, creative and prosperous 2012! Hope you all return home safe after the holidays and that this year will be an unforgettable one! I searched the net for a fitting 'New Year's' image but then I thought I'd rather share an illustration from one of my all time favourite Art Nouveau artists, Alphonse Mucha...

Dance, 1898

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Warm and fuzzy...

Circular Loom Knitting! This is such an awesome gadget I found in Pretoria. It come in a pack of four different sizes (Elle circular looms). It works like the little wooden french knitters most of us had when we were kids, this is only bigger. Do any of you remember those? In Afrikaans we called it "tolletjie brei". Directly translated it would be "spool knitting" because back in the day, yarn spools were made of wood. They hit 4 nails in around the hole and there you had yourself a little french knitter. sorry I can't remember where I got this image.

Any case, I found this amazing wool called Monet and it looks just like a Monet painting. It's beautiful in colour and in texture and this is what I made....

It's such beautiful wool, it reminds me of one of my favourite  Monet paintings, Bathing at La Grenouillere, 1869. I just want to get lost in it. For more information on Claude Monet visit: https://www.artsy.net/artist/claude-monet

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