Little Autumn

I finished little Autumn a couple of days ago and have her listed on eBay. Her auction starts tonight.

Pics of Wowl & Bullet Retry

Here are the pictures. It's so weird how they didn't show up before. I had loaded them from my drive onto my blog using Picasa. I've had this problem before when I did that. This time I loaded the pictures into my web album.

Hailey & Licorice

I just put the finishing touches on Licorice, the little black cat, this morning and snapped a few pictures of him and Hailey, my first ever doll. I had quite a bit of trouble turning those tiny fingers. She's 4 way thread jointed and was completely hand-sewn, save for her cape. I brought out the sewing machine for that one. I rarely use it as it usually devolves into ranting and raving and cursing at the sewing machine. When my sons were little, I would always sew their Halloween costumes. They both knew when to take cover when I brought that thing out. My youngest says that's when he learned his first cuss words. However, it went fairly smoothly, this time. I found that the more I did on this doll the more little props I wanted to make. She has a paper clay witch mask, a broom and a polymer clay jack-o-lantern treat pail with goodies inside. It's kind of funny, too, how I started with a pattern and ended up using none of it. I never was very good at following directions.

I'm out of Wool!

I just finished this massive turkey. He's nearly 16 inches tall and 19 inches wide. He took over a pound and a half of  core wool. He has 9 different hand dyed  colors in him.  He's so big that used up my entire supply of  core wool and 2 ounces of  brown  llama wool. He  cost over $60 to ship him to my customer in the states.  I believe he is my largest felty to date. I named this fellow "Chief"/ 

Pictured below "Chief" is a  doll that I've been working on.  I wanted to learn how to do pressed and mo lded felt. I thought it might come in handy for chimp faces and a few  other things. I checked out several books from the library on doll making by Susan Oroyan and bought a kit from Susan McFadden on ETSY. http://www.etsy.com/listing/73591500/vasalissas-doll-kit I promptly destroyed the paper clay mask and  sculpted my own with the generous supply of paper clay included in the kit. It's also a good thing that she included more felt as I've destroyed a few body parts. A seamstress I am not! I've got her body completed and am working on costuming her. I thought I'd do a witch's costume for the Fall. We'll see how it turns out.  I can't wait to get my core wool that I've ordered and get back to my comfort zone. Lol

Mrs. Thomasina Tittlemouse & Babbitty Bumble

I just finished these two yesterday and have them listed on eBay.  Mrs. Tittlemouse's little dress was kind of interesting to recreate.  I had to paint white stripes on pink and blue fabric. At first, I thought I wouldn't like it. But I like the way it looks painted just like in Beatrix Potter's illustrations. I t hink next I'm going to make Mr. Jackson, the toad.

My Latest Creations

Little Red Riding Mouse, Bullet & Wooly Thoughts

I just finished this little mousie this morning. I revisited an idea that I had done about a year or so ago. I was inspired by a recent blog post from 1 Inch Minis by Kris. This blog has some very wonderful tutorials on miniature crafting.  I wasn't too thrilled with the pine needle basket with my previous little red riding hood.  And these little baskets were fun and fairly easy to construct and a whole lot better looking.  Also my old red riding hood had apoxie sculpt feet. I really like the polymer clay ones better.

Finally here are some recent pics of Bullet in his favorite pass time, napping.  He really has improved a lot. But his poor little feet are still very tender and recently had to go to the vet for an ear infection. He really hates the goop we have to put in his ear. He sees me coming with that stuff and he runs.

Thirdly, I recently found out about a practice used on Merino Sheep in Australia.  It seems some Australian Sheep ranchers  remove whole portions of skin on their Merino sheep without using any ansesthetic.   The process is called Mulesing. The reason given for this horrendous practice is to prevent flies from laying their eggs in the folds of skin near the tail.  But there are other solutions to this practice, such as breeding only smooth skin merinos,  shearing twice a year and so on.   So from now on I will only buy Merino wool where mulesing isn't used.