Embroidery Project of Women in Afghanistan

This is a project for women who can earn a few Euros this way. Some of these artists are very young girls. I just wrote a mail to get informations how to order these things.
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Comme les femmes de Laghmani continuent volontiers de broder et que j'ai encore un peu d'énergie pour gérer le projet, c'est reparti pour un second projet d'exposition. Dans la lignée du projet "Le fil de femmes à femmes" mais avec des changements toutefois: l'organisation se déroule dans un premier temps dans vos pays respectifs. Pour en savoir plus, veuillez consulter les sites respectifs que je mets en fin de mail pour la France, l´Allemagne et la Suisse et l'Autriche. Que les participants potentiels de la Belgique, du Luxembourg, du Danemark, de la Grande-Bretagne, de l'Espagne, de la Rep. Tchèque, m'envoient un mail que je ferais suivre aux organisations respectives de ces pays.
Merci de faire circuler l'info autour de vous, auprès de vos amis artistes et donc en Europe aussi.
En espérant un succés comparable à celui du projet précedent voire encore meilleur, je vous souhaite bonne lecture. Bien a vous, pascale
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Questions can be put to Goldenberg-Freiburg@t-online.de

Back home from the ancestor cult

In old China, the names of the ancestors were written on wooden panels, decorated in red, and offerings were made, like food, wine, and incense. In this case, we were invited by the ancestors and generously feasted. And the harmony would have been perfect, if this woman me could remain quiet after some of my FIL's sentences and not contradict or debate. Can I remain silent after statements on the lazyness of some races? No. If I was able to nodd silently, there would have been no problems, but my FIL keeps talking until I give up, and peace is here again.
MIL did appreciate the rug and started looking for the best place to use it. We slept in my husband's old kiddie's room. My jaws were the parts of my body which moved most: talking and eating. The weather was dark, cold, and rainy. No walks.
I took refuge in embroidery. The upper picture shows one side which was finished already; now I made the reverse side, bottom picture. The patterns were inspired by Estonian knitting. It will be a biscornu, a pin cushion.

P.S. This pin cushion is for sale in Etsy.

Little rug finished

The little rug was finished today. The progress was slow, but there was too much happening in the meantime. Tomorrow we'll be going to my parents in law and do the ancestor cult, hit the floor with our foreheads nine times in front of the family panels. We cannot go by car because of the weather conditions, so: Out for adventure!