happy holidays

Wishing all the best for the Holidays

to my blog-land friends :

may your days be happy and warm

(hopefully power restored in the UK, and maybe elsewhere in Canada too)

Lots of love to you all

*

(3FM Serious Request grand total 

up till tonight 9.05 pm when the Glass House opened up again :

€ 12.302.747,- )

;-)

Fair

Tired

That's what I was, after two days Christmas Fair.
(though Man helped me all the time)

(HA ... b.t.w. walking goes better now :

today without any help of the crutch !)

The start at Friday morning

My lottery for "3FM Serious Request" went well 

I will send the money tomorrow

(though it was not as much as last year)

The "request" is this year for money for the Red Cross 

to try banish diarrhea out of the lives of small children in Africa

because of the lack of clean drinking water

(money raised till Sunday night  : € 4.328.242,- )

The boy Finn was the winner

who guessed the right amount of origami cranes in the bowl !

There were 

48

(folded by our two big grandchildren,

who didn't know how many there were either,

because I had a lot of cranes everywhere in the house

which they had made months ago  ;-)  !)

Tomorrow the felted "Rainbow bird"

will go to Finn

(I phoned his mum today)

Serious Request

That is the name for a special action this time each year

by three Radio DJ's

who are living in a "glass house" for a week without food.

The benefits they get,
from people who pay money to hear special music

or is donated in some other way,

will go to the Red Cross

This year the motto is

"let's hear it for the babies"

The money will be spent to fight back

infant mortality in Africa

before, during or just after birth.

That's the charity I wanted to spend

my "Mouse-lottery" money on !

So here is the mouse

sitting on top of the Christmas decoration,

the ladybug money-box (still rather empty)

the glass jar with the felted balls

and pen and paper

to write down name, telephone and chosen number of balls !

It went very well !

There was € 111,65 in the ladybug

at the end of day two.

I topped it up till a nice round figure

and just send it off to Serious Request.

And ?

How many balls wére in the jar ???

66

(yes, just my age, ha !)

But ... because there were tree people with the right answer

I had to use a RNG

(random number generator)

At first we tried to use three felted balls,

but the "generator" didn't want to pick up any of them

so we used pieces of paper with names instead

It seemed one of them tasted very good ...

and Serena is the lucky one !

I phoned her and will bring her the mouse tomorrow.

(I was very sorry for the other two "winners"

so I'll send off a finger puppet mouse to each of them)

And the Christmas Fair ?

Two loooooooooong, but fun days

and I mostly sold to people I know !

(I was véry glad that one of the little quilts that were for sale

went to my dearest friend and former teaching-partner !

I know it gets a loving home !)

It has a name now too : "This it your wake-up call"

I sewed the little "felt-fabric" onto a canvas I painted first.

I think that's a nice solution for such small work

(though for me, textile work can easily hang on it's own)

Update on Serious Request :

when the three DJ's came out of the glass house

in the evening of the 24th

the total amount of money raised for the Red Cross was

€ 12.251.667, --