collected summer light

 

sweet chestnuts

                                          Forest gifts to feast on: roasted sweet chestnuts.

plant dyed reading blanket [2]

 

plant dyed reading blanket

                                           I finished my reading blanket! Left over wool dyed
                                                           with all kinds of plant dyes.                                                                     Love the warm autumnal colours, and I am happy to have a reading blanket:
                                                    especially suitable for gnome stories. 

 

Pip the Gnome's Bedtime

                                                     A sky full of stars, a trunk full of stars
                                                  and lovely soft places to curl up and sleep.

 

gnome letters

                                             The right moment to find magical gnome letters.
                             You never know if a friendly gnome will leave something special on your
                                                                       windowsill....
 

Sam and the Gnome's Red Hat

 

Wonderful soft, mossy places everywhere to read aloud or to be read to. 

 

Sam and the Gnome's Red Hat

After two days of strong wind the forest was full of gnome gifts and nature treasures!
There was no jagged scrap of a gnome's hat to be seen anywhere, all gnome hats probably remained intact during the strong wind. 

But we did find a beautiful little gnome house to leave some gifts.  

 

kabouter Thijm gaat slapen

                                           Hoera, tweede druk en weer verkrijgbaar !

Sam and the Gnome's Red Hat

 Sam's best friend lives in the middle of a forest, where the ferns and the mosses grow. After a storm, Sam finds a jagged scrap of his friends' red hat caught on a thorn. What can Sam do for his friend?

Sam and the Gnome's Red Hat

New book! I have had so much support by the making of Sam and the Gnome's Red Hat. Big thanks to the team of Floris www.florisbooks.co.uk for all the attention given to this book. Special thanks to Eleanor for everything she has done for text and story. Also special thanks to Richard for his ideas and advice for the illustrations. I tremendously appreciate their skills.