Sunday Selections ~ Søndagsbilleder July 19 Colour26

This past week ... I've been folding tiny stars.
Each star is made from nine squares cut from a tea bag wrapper or an equivalent size of gift wrapper. I know what I'm going to use them for -- or at least I have an idea.

I den forgangne uge ... har jeg foldet miniaturestjerner.
Hver af dem er foldet af ni firkanter klippet ud af tebrevsomslag. Eller af gavepapir klippet i samme størrelse. Jeg har en idé til, hvad de skal bruges til.

There's something Jade green in this star.

Der er Jadegrønne felter på denne her stjerne.

I've  hung up decorative objects on our new shed.

Jeg har hængt ting op at pynte på vores nye skur.

And eaten summer candy.

Og spist sommerslik.

And seen a snake ... or maybe not.

Og set en slange ... eller også ikke.

This last one has a partially Jade green background.

Baggrunden i det sidste billede her er også Jadegrøn.

Da Vinci Revisited (Blogtober 23)

Mere papirfoldning!
     Jeg tror mine forklaringer på hvordan jeg fletter firkanter til mine Da Vinci-kugler, om jeg fletter mod højre eller mod venstre var ret uforståelige.
     Jeg flettede et par firkanter og et par halve firkanter mere, og tog billeder, sådan så man tydeligt kan se både forskel og retning.
     Den eneste forskel her er om jeg har flettet med eller mod uret rundt. Pilene viser vej.

More paper folding!

I think my explanations on making modules for my Da Vinci baubles, and doing it right-to-left or left-to-right were more confusing than enlightening.

I made two more more modules, and two half modules - the only difference being the direction of construction, clockwise or widdershins. The arrows show which is which.

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I dag er det refleks-dag. Tid til at finde reflekserne frem og huske at have dem med sig, nu når aftnerne bliver mørke - og snart morgenerne med.
Det er altid torsdagen før vi går tilbage til normaltid igen.


Today is Safety reflector day in Denmark. Time to find your reflectors from their summer quarters and put them into your pockets to use when the evenings get dark - and soon the mornings as well.
Always the Thursday before we say bye-bye to Daylight Saving Time.

Da Vinci (Blogtober 18)

Det er efterhånden længe siden, jeg har vist noget teposeflet frem her på bloggen. Ikke fordi jeg ikke har foldet og flettet, det er bare ikke blevet fotograferet. Nu havde jeg så masser af de nye, gule tebreve.
     Og jeg undskylder for slørede billeder. Mit kamera synes pludselig at det der med at stille skarpt ikke er nødvendigt. Jeg er uenig, og derfor kommer det til fotomanden snarest. Desværre kan jeg ikke tage billederne om - jeg vil ikke splitte kuglen ad igen 😉

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Much time has passed since last I told of tea bag baubles. Not because I have not made any, they just never made it to the blog. Now it happened. Unfortunately my camera has decided that focussing is overrated 😉 so please bear with slightly blurry photos. I'll do better next time (after repairs) but I can't remake these, without undoing the bauble.

15 down, three to go -- 🫖 -- 15 ud af 18 firkanter er flettet

Six of one kind, done, and 12 of another- missing three - are what's needed for a Da Vinci bauble as I imagine it.

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Seks af den ene slags (færdige) og 12 af den anden (der mangler tre) er hvad der skal bruges til den her slags Da Vinci-kugle.

Her er den så færdig, men der er stadig flere teposer tilbage i æsken. Der var helt præcist 71 styk; og jeg skal bruge 72 til en kugle. Undskyld mig lige mens jeg drikker en kop te.

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Here it's finished, but there's still more tea bag wrappers in the box. I counted, there's 71 wrappers, and I need 72 for one bauble. Please excuse me while I have a cup of tea!

Når man fletter sådan nogle firkanter, kan man enten flette dem fra venstre mod højre, som jeg gjorde til den færdige kugle, eller man kan flette dem fra højre mod venstre. Så kommer de altså bare til at se anderledes ud, som man kan se på de fem firkanter her. Når jeg er færdig - og kameraet gider stille skarpt igen - kommer der et opslag mere.

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When putting together the four pieces for one module they can be put together from left to right - as in the finished bauble - or you can do it right to left. Of course they will look different, as seen on the five modules here. When the second one is done - and the camera wants to focus again - there'll be a second post comparing them.

Sunday Selections :: July so far

Juli indtil videre :: Søndagsbilleder

Den 1. juli var jeg i en havebutik hvor der også var en pilefletter. Jeg var meget vild med de her mangefarvede kløvere, der desværre ikke var til salg.

July 1st I visited a working garden with plant sales and a basket weaver. I was fascinated by the polychrome clovers - unfortunately they were not for sale.

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Fransk sideflet - endelig fik jeg et navn på denne her flettemetode, som jeg har været betaget af i over ti år.

The basket weaver had made this basket - and I finally had a name for a weaving method that first caught my eye more than ten years ago - unfortunately not in English though.

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En af de sjove ting var en gammel murstensform. Jg kan ikke læse hvad der står, dels er det spejlvendt, dels tror jeg det er kyrillisk eller en anden skrift.

Another interesting thing was this mould for bricks. I cannot read the inscription, not even when flipping the photo. I suspect it to be written in Cyrillic or another alphabet.

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I dag, søndag var vi i kirke - vejret var mere efterår end sommerferie, og vi blev gennemblødte på vej til busstoppestedet, ca 400 meter! Men modne kornmarker er altid smukke.

Today, Sunday, we went to church. As always with the start of the summer holidays the weather turns bad, cold, windy and rain. We were soaked walking to the busstop, approximately 400 meters. But a ripe field of grain looks golden and promising no matter what.

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Irma i Hillerød er lukket, skiltene pillet ned, og der kommer et discountsupermarked i stedet. Ord kan ikke udtrykke hvad jeg mener, så jeg lader billedet her tale for mig.

Irma Hillerød, the good, organic, and so on supermarket is closed, and a discount shop is taking over. Words cannot describe what I think. I've better let this photo speak for me.

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Blomster fra vores kiwi revet ned i stormen. De er også smukt gyldne.

Flowers from our kiwi torn off in the wind. They are golden!

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Præstens krus står der her. Det står i kirken i Hillerød, og det får mig altid til at smile.

The priest's mug. This mug lives in the church in Hillerød, and it always makes me smile.

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Og der var masser af gyldne ting i dette indlæg.

This post contains a big amount of golden objects.

Grå Da Vinci-kugle -- Grey Da Vinci Bauble

     Her er først en mosaik af alle billederne af en Da Vinci-kugles tilblivelseshistorie.
Fra en æske tomme thebreve til den færdigsyede kugle.
     Nogle af vore venner drikker meget the, og endnu mere under lockdown, så ind i mellem får jeg en æske med tomme thebreve af dem. Nu ville jeg prøve at lave en kugle af indholdet i en æske, uden først at sortere som jeg ellers plejer.

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First a composite photo of all the steps in the life of a da Vinci bauble. From empty teabags in their crate to the sewn together bauble.

Some friends of ours drink lots of tea, and even more during lock-down. Sometime they hand me a crate of empty bags, and I got the idea of using the contents of one crate to make a bauble without sorting, as I normally do.

Alle thebrevene i en æske. Der er flest grå, men også en del blå, røde og lilla og så to, der ikke ligner de andre.

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All the teabags. Mostly grey ones, but also a number of blue ones and some red, orange and purple. And two odd ones.

     De to anderledes fik mig til at få denne idé. Hver firkant består af en farvet, en med en thekop og to grå.
     Og så fletter jeg da to af hver anden farve end grå: Underlig - de to øverst til højre - lilla, orange, blå og rød og resten grå. Der bliver thebreve i overskud, da der var mere end 72 i æsken.

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The two odd ones gave me an idea. Every square is made up from one coloured part, one teacup and two grey ones.
I'm going to make two of each different colour, the odd ones - top right - red, blue , orange and purple, and the rest just grey. I had more than the required 72 teabags in this crate.

Alle 72 firkanter nede i æsken

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All 72 parts in the crate.

Og så på vej ud af æsken. Man kan bedre se de forskellige farver her.

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And spilling out. The different colours can be seen better here.

Puslespil. Det virkede ikke med to af hver, så jeg foldede flere grå.

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Puzzle. It did not work with two of each colour. I made some more grey ones.

3D-tænkning og Uglemor bliver aldrig rigtig gode venner. Når man sætter kuglen sammen, mødes pludselig blade i toppen og thekopper i bunden - de mødes ikke pænt som jeg havde regnet med.

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MotherOwl and 3D thinking never did agree. Sewing together the bauble, leaves met in the top, and teacups in the bottom. Not at all how I imagined it.

Så nok engang foldede jeg nye firkanter. En helt grå til bunden ...

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Once again MotherOwl made some new parts. A grey in grey one for the bottom ..

og en med kulørte blade til toppen. Så var kuglen færdig.

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And a coloured leaves one for the top. And that was the end.

I dag -- Today

I dag er det årets korteste dag ... eller den længste nat om man vil. Solen står op klokken 8.41 og går ned igen 15.37. Dermed er dagen hele 6 timer og 56 minutter lang og vi har mistet 10 timer og 43 minutter siden vi havde den længste dag.
I dag er Ugleungerne til virtuel juleafslutning.
I dag bliver det måske snevejr.

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Today is the shortest day .. or the longest night if you prefer it that way. The sun raises at 8:41 and sets again at 3:51 pm. We have all of 6 hours and 56 minutes of - mostly murky - daylight. At midsummer we had 19 and 3/4 hours more daylight. It is a bit scary.
Today the Owlets have their last - digital - school day before Christmas holidays begin.
Today we might have snow.



I dag er jeg nået så langt med kaleidoskop-kuglen

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Today I made it this far with the kaleidoscopic bauble

Næsten færdig -- Almost there

Theposekaleidoskop -- Teabag Kaleidoscope

     I søndags så vi et lille udsnit af mine mange theposer. For i snart mange år har jeg samlet og foldet theposer. Så længe, at theposerne har skiftet udseende ikke mindre end fire gange. Her er den samme slags the - jordbærthe - i fire forskellige udgaver.
     Den nederst til venstre har jeg ikke ret mange af, for det look holdt ikke længe. Det er også den model, det er sværest at folde noget pænt af, for de grimme (eller i hvert fald kedelige) bogstaver har det med at vende udad. Der skal foldes skævt.

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  Last Sunday I showed off a tiny bit of my tea bag stash. For many years already I have been collecting and folding tea bags. For so long actually that the tea bags have changed appearance no less than four times. 

  Here is the same kind of tea - strawberry tea - in four different versions. The one on the bottom left is the least common in my stash (I had 84). The look didn't last long. It's also the model that's hardest to fold anything from, because the ugly (or at least boring) letters tend to turn outwards. It has to be folded at a slant.

     Men man kan stadig lave to forskellige firkanter med de samme led. Her er de to forskellige. Hvordan skal de så vendes?  Forskellen er ikke farverne, men hvordan de grønne blade vender.
     Et familie-rundspørge sagde at den orange firkant var den rigtige.

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  But you can still make two different squares with the same four teabags. Here are the two different ones. So how should they look?
  The difference is not the colours, but how the green leaves are positioned. A family poll said the orange square was the right one.

Der skal 18 firkanter til en DaVinci-kugle.

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It takes 18 squares to make a DaVinci sphere.

     Alle poserne, nogle af dem har før været brugt til forsøg og opgivne projekter. Men der er lige præcis nok - og 5 i overskud!

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 All the bags, some of them have been used before for experimenting or abandoned projects. But there are enough - and 5 to spare!

Så blev kombinationsprocessen og puslespillet færdigt. Nu skal der bare foldes og sys.

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 And the decision process and the puzzle was finished. Now I just need some time for folding and sewing.

Sunday Selection -- Snow and Colours

We had snow:

A bit like Narnia; don't you think?

And those three ice cold beings came visiting - they have already left again.

Inspired by HeyJude at Life in Colour, I found my kaleidoscope.

And a bunch of multicoloured tea bags for folding baubles.

Asagao-festival

Tak til Messymimi for at fortælle os at i dag er det Iriya no Asagao-ichi -- Første dag af Pragtsnerlefesten i Tokyo, Japan (sidste dag er den 8.)

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Thanks to Messymimi for telling that today is Iriya no Asagao-ichi -- First day of the Morning glory flower festival in Tokyo, Japan (through the 8th).

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  For nogle år siden foldede jeg en theposekugle, der netop var inspireret af Pragtsnerle (der på japansk hedder アサガオ (asagao), egentlig morgen-ansigt). Jeg kalder for sjov kuglen for morgenfjæs. I dag er altså en god anledning til et gensyn.
  God Iriya no Asagao!

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Some years ago, I made a teabag-wrapper bauble called just that - Morning glory (in Japanese アサガオ (asagao), which literally means morning face). A good time for a revisit of this bauble.
Happy Iriya no Asagao

アサガオ, Morgenfjæs, Morning Faces

Sunday Selections - Da Vinci Baubles

Not so much has been happening in the photo department this week. The weather has been drippy and dreary, not inspiring for photos. The only ones I took was of my dinners for coming blog posts cum rant and then the ever returning da Vinci baubles. This is what you get, then.

72 tea bags for one da Vinci bauble.

Now I'm done folding. 18 squares are waiting in the box.

And then some days later sewing happened. Now the bauble is ready to be photographed. The weather collaborated in being only slightly overcast, and good for photos.

Theposekugler igen -- Tea Bag Baubles Revisited.

Once upon a time MotherOwl made tea bag baubles. And as she adheres to the spiral approach principle* things tend to come back. Now we are at tea bag baubles again. Let's have a small flashback:

The first ones:

Big small and medium

The Japanese-inspired one -  Morning Glory:

The one with a story:

and the crazy one:

Now dear old Leonardo (via Wikipedia) inspired MotherOwl:

18 squares! I can do this!

It has a size like a snowball. It's a perfect size. Love it. MotherOwl sees more baubles of this kind in the future. MotherOwl calls those da Vinci Baubles named after the inspirator.
Did you notice the teacups?

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*spiral approach principle: Many times now MotherOwl has intended to write about this principle. It will happen eventually. In the meantime Wikipedia is you friend.