My blog and The Friendship Tapestry website

Today I connected this blog to The Friendship Tapestry website. Here to the left is a link to The Friendship Tapestry.

A glorious day!

My exhibition at Eyrarkot, Kjós, yesterday. The weather was wonderful !! and the fjord and mountains gave their best to greet all the visitors that came to their special day: "Kátt íKjós" "Joy in Kjós".
Here are some photos from the exhibition :-)

Guests looking at my work and reading the tiny stories with each picture.

Me and my pictures

Me and Jóhanna outside Eyrarkot. Jóhanna is a Heathen priestess and held a speach about the Old Nordic Faith, Ásatrú and the people who first settled in Iceland and the area around Kjós. They were both Heathen and Christian and all lived together in harmony. The world can learn from that today...

This is Bergþóra and me. Bergþóra owns and runs the guesthouse and eshibition room at Eyrarkot. She has made an old house into a wonderful warm and welcoming guesthouse for 10 people in this peaceful countryside, just 40 minutes north of Reykjavík. She offers breakfast and rents out the salon where we had the exhibition. If you ever want to come to Iceland and stay in the countryside, I´ll get you in touch with Bergþóra, she is the nicest person you can imagine.

More guests looking and reading.

Holtasóley or Mountain Avens is the Icelandic national flower. It grows everywhere, even high up in the mountains. The flower is small but I feel it represents the smiles of Mother Nature. She smiles to us, do we see it?

Almost there...

Saturday is getting closer and I still have a lot of things to do. But I´ve got 8 pictures ready now, so almost there.

Here is one of a dwarf I met one fine day by a lake called Kleifarvatn.
It is still raining and the wind blowing out here in the N-Atlantic. But my roses keep blooming, they are not giving up. And with those Nature´s smiles in my garden, it is ok if it rains...

All my best to you dear friends out there.
Love
Rags

My studio

My window and door to the balcony of my Ravens Nest.

We have been blessed with sunny and warm days for about 6 weeks in a row! It is not usual in Iceland to have the same weather day after day for so long and we have all really enjoyed it. Except it means we have to water the gardens and some farmers have lost some of their grass. But today makes up for it, it rains like God wants to clean the ground right through, all in one day!
But it is dry and warm in here, in my studio, my "Ravens Nest" and I have a lot to do before the exhibition. Even though it is only for one day, it takes time to prepare the pictures. But it is fun and I really look forward to next Saturday.
But better keep going
Love
Rags /Ragga

First exhibition of my needlework pictures

On July 19th I will display my stitched pictures. It is the first time I display my work since I started "stitching my paintings" so I am very excited. (and nervous ;-)

The exhibition is only open for one day but it is enough for me to start that way. I will tell more about it as time comes near. I am working on making the pictures ready for walls and ready to be viewed.

My best to you
love
Rags