Sewing
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Hello Dolly!
Look…she's barely off the work table and already out exploring the world. 🙂 I just love how she turned out ~ all barefoot and spring colors. I especially love her skin tone & hair…used my trusty espresso to dye the clay! Can't go wrong with that. Plus, now she smells like coffee. ♥
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A bit of this, a bit of that…
This is the dolly I've been working on as part of the Cloth & Clay Dolls group. :) She may not look like much yet, but I'm kinda proud of her because I'm just not good with sewing! I usually have to call in back up (Mom) to help me with the sewing machine before
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Cloth & Clay Dolls
This is so exciting! I've worked quite a lot with Paper Clay and have always been drawn toward a folk-art type of doll. I think I fell in love with Nicol Sayre's dolls originally. Then recently I found this "virtual classroom" online that shows how to make exactly that combination of things ~ a folk-art
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A Stitch in Time
When I was a kid, one of my favorite rainy-day things to do was look through my mom’s embroidery patterns to find something to stitch. And I always remember our dishtowels being embellished with some cute pattern in the corners. After receiving these two books for Christmas, it seems like I’ll have some custom dishtowels
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Warm and Merry Christmas Eve!
I'm not quite back yet officially, but wanted to share this little story by John Henry Falk. You can read the story on this page, but it's so much better to hit the "listen now" button and enjoy! Ok, as long as I'm here I might as well show you the felted stocking I made:
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Do you recall?
The most famous reindeer of all? Ok, that's too easy. But what about the other names? This became a topic today and we did finally remember all of them. Now Dasher! Now Dancer! Now, Prancer and Vixen! On, Comet! On, Cupid! On, Donder and Blitzen! To the top of the porch! To the top of
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S’more please
A friend of mine used to call Marshmallows "schmoes", which I find very cute. So in honor of him – it’s a felt Schmoe! (And happily, I think my stitching is getting better – yay!) I’m also working on a little box to keep your S’mores ingredients handy in: Hope everyone had a nice holiday
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~ busy, busy, busy ~
What a great, fun & productive day! I’ve got many new projects in the works, new things that will be posted in the shop in the next couple weeks and I’ll be featured on the Etsy Showcase on Nov. 23 & 24th. It’s a whirlwind of crafty activity around here! First thing today, I finished
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Felt + Cupcake =
A wee tiny pin cushion – so cute!! I had seen these online at Jen Segrest’s shop at Etsy and thought they were great. Then I picked up a magazine at the store tonight – Sew Stylish Gifts to Make and saw that she had an article with full directions on making her Bottlecap
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Process vs. Product (and a little felt…)
I notice a theme emerging here after only 4 posts. I jump around a lot when it comes to projects! I always have 2 or 3 (or 10) different things going at once. I’ll work on one for awhile, then abandon it totally for up to years at a time. But I usually aways swing