January 2012

Happy New Year!
I've been having camera and computer problems plus just not ready for doll making after the holidays, until now. The following dolls are Barbara Schoenoffs little Bloom and the Santa has a felted wool head which I did a pretty good job of felting.
Felting is something that needs a lot of practice and skill and can be difficult. I don't plan to do a lot more felti

ng however because I prefer to do cloth faces.

Nutcracker 2011

Here is Drew's nutcracker for this year. I will try to surprise him. I don't think he visits my blog so hopefully he won't see this for the next few days. I am very slow getting down to work on dolls these days. Hope I can start again with enthusiam soon.

Steampunk doll

Here is my interpretation of Anneal, Steampunk doll we made in class with Barbara Schoenoff last week-end. Can't wait to see what variety we will see of this doll from all the dollmakers who were there. I didn't even know what a steampunk doll was but think I produced a good example.

Happy Halloween Paper Dolls

These are crete paper Halloween paper dolls. No two are alike. Here are two of several I have made.

NIADA workshop 2011 Denver

Enjoyed Deborah Pope's wet felting class and enjoyed the talented students who took the class. There were very nice animal heads created...I learned the technique and my cat head was not up to my standards but now I will try to make another one at home and maybe even a rabbit head. Deborah's felting art would be a better investment than the stock market. She is published all over the place and recently even went to Russia to teach.

Cindee Moyer, Street Fair

This was really an interesting class from Adele S. site. It is called Street Fair and has different technique for hair, head, Ballon. It took me some time to get hair that I liked and finally settled for the peacock green. Never again tho' this color since it looked like grass! Thus, the hat to overcome that look....Cindee's dolls are fabulous I think and she does so many different things with this basic looking doll.

Street Scene Cindee Moyer

I love Cindee's dolls. Something new all the time. I will do the legs differently next time however. I will make an opening in the thigh to stuff through unstead fo the foot. I think Cindee is a genius with simple tricks. Her dolls are well designed and easily made. This is an online class Stree Scene thru Adele's site.