Finished!!

She's done! Finished, wrapped and ready to go - tomorrow.
I'm still not sure I like her, or indeed who she is or what she's supposed to resemble, but the feeling of actually finishing something is remarkable!!

Oh, Christmas Tree!

YES!! got the decorations all up yesterday

and I confess,

I do quite like this fuzzy photo!

Not quite as long!

Crikey - who's this!

Yet more lack of co-operation!! I was aiming to make a librarian for a member of staff who’s leaving at work, and then decided to make a school girl, representative of one of our pupils, then changed my mind totally and came up with this!!

She's not quite finished, as I've added a base and I'm going to make some books, to try and get back to the library theme..... not sure it's going to work!

She was originally based on this free pattern that works well.

http://glitteringdolls.tripod.com/Glittertowndollys/id15.htm

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Napkin Doll

I've been experimenting recently with Judi Ward's Napkin Doll pattern which can be found by clicking the link below - it's a fabulous pattern and I've enjoyed using it enormously.

http://judisdolls.com/napkindoll/index.html

OH! What a difference a change

of hairstyle can make!

This doll seemed to have a mind of its own, and when finished we couldn’t resist naming it “William” as it somehow looked too much like a boy not to!
I did start to wonder after a while quite what the transformation would be with different hair, and curiosity got the better of me, the result is shown beneath!

This is the NEW look!

THE CRAFT FAIR.....

The craft fair wasn’t a massive success, although on a positive note, I made enough money to cover the cost of the stall. I sold this fairy doll, shown below - designed from Judi Ward's Napkin Doll pattern, a bear and 3 small snowmen, spent two days with my sister in law (who I rarely see) and took time out from the monotony of housework!

The Stall!

Yet more delays in posting!

It's been ages, since last posting and I have NO excuses that I can think of, but here's a brief update on what I've been doing!

Craft Fair

I really can't believe I'm actually finally doing one again next weekend- haven't done one for about 10 years or more, still it's given me a few frantic weeks of creativity!

Built myself this rather large "staircase" as my daughter calls it, to put things on...

I'm going to be sharing a 6ft stall with my sister in law, so this just about gives me my allowance.. I'm going to be selling some of my dolls, some bears and snowmen.... fingers crossed for some success!

Knitting again!!

Yes, more bears for the Motherbear Project.

This time I reduced the needle size to 31/4mm and I'm using lightweight stuffing in the hopes of keeping the postage down - good news, it worked!

These 5 bears were posted a few days ago for HALF the price of the last lot!

Online Class

Having signed up for the free online class offered by Linda Misa, to make sporty Sam, more than a few weeks ago now, I decided to finally make a concerted effort to get finished.

It was soon quite apparent I that the Sam I was in the process of making was going to be a girl, so I added some boobies, changed the shirt slightly....and she now sits patiently wating for me to find her a pair of boots, as my numerous attempts with paperclay sadly failed!

It was a great class and I would strongly recommend it!

Whoops!!

It's been ages!! Months in fact since I last wrote anything and despite my good intentions to update regularly, life has conspired against me.... or other things have simply just got in the way - really no excuse at all.

I'm swapping dolls again! I recently completed my first ever raggedy doll - she's the top one with the blonde bunches, and was actuallyquite pleased with the result - I swapped her for the lovely doll beneath created by Pat Doyle, who makes fantastic dolls.

Knitting....

I'm also STILL knitting for the motherbear project and have totally lost count of the number of bears I've sent - here's a truly rare picture of me taken by my daughter (mainly rare as she's actually managed to get my head in this shot!!) and was requested by the motherbear project for their website

Two posts in ONE day!!

Just to prove it's possible, either that or I've got too much spare time.............. and I can confirm it's not the latter!!

I finally finished my goth challenge doll today. Admittedly not the type of doll I'd normally choose to make, but she came out ok in the end!
Here she is with her small goth bat baby!

And here's a close up of their faces...

Whoops!!

It's been ages since I last posted and I really can't believe how much decorating I've been doing!!
Finally we found a willing plumber/handyman to do the necessary to convert this horrible area that actually looks much better after the washing machine and tumble dryer have been taken out, into THIS, much more desirable and useful room!

Ah, you can see that I'm now fully moved in -the washing basket is full-as usual!!

I was lucky enough to have extra lino over.... so then moved on to decorate the porch... and then the kitchen looked a mess......

I think I HAVE finished painting for a few weeks!!!

Here's Pippi!

Started as a spontaneous alternative to doing anything more useful, I offered to make my daughter a doll to accompany the book we're reading that I bought her for Christmas.

Once I'd actually started to make her, Terri then asked if she could make one of her own..... So here is my effort and below is the one we made together!

Where did Christmas go?????

Well there's certainly no sign of it left in our house! Decorations came down swiftly on New Years Eve and took a lot less time to take down than to put up!


I've done a bit more knitting for the Mother Bear Project - didn't realise quite how much until I looked in my box! - I just wish postage costs weren't quite so high (especially at this time of year!!)