more peg doll fun

the girls played for days after making these dolls.

houses were built.

and yes that's right, even too busy to get out of their pj's..... all day I tell you, all day.

heart palpatations

Yes this is giving me heart palpitations I am stunned by this woman's work, any one who creates stuff like this, which is so completely ridiculous, and, and well beautiful, in my mind, I am totally in awe of.

I would love to feel free enough to go there, to think this stuff up and to actually do it.

Hats off Nina Katchadourian

spontaneous peg dolls

and that glorious winter afternoon sun

Happy Winter Solstice

pants

some yummy pants although the model is definately the star here

and this autumn inspired mobile from Arkie's kindi, i love that it looks like it is growing out of the wall, kind of antler like.

ned kelly needs some guns!!!

on a lighter note

crafting with kids

more to come..

collage

something i have often been intruiged by and wanted to have a go at is collage. and seeing the work of peter clark here is well very inspiring.

Finger Puppets

a pirate

and his girl

next i'll be attempting a Ned Kelly puppet, stay tuned..........

freaky

a little bit of making going on, albeit a little freaky.
she started off a bit disco all night dancing kind of wired and well pretty freaky by the end of the night

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I think i need freaky to cope with this everyday

i actually had to do all these dishes so i could make dinner, it was intensly difficult to get started and i spent most of the afternoon in pain just thinking about it, yuk, and each time i let it get this bad of course i swear i will keep on top of the washing up.....

but this was nice.

and so was this,

snatching warmish days at the beach, it almost feels like stealing, too good to be true.

WIP

The current WIP, "embroidery" I use this term loosely as I don't really have any knowledge of embroidery. I have seen this done with kids drawings and love it, and doing it is so rewarding.
I love retracing Arkie's drawing, I am actually feeling it rather than just seeing it, which allows me to "see" it in a different way.

Those mad eyes and crazy mouth, so so cute, and I am really looking forward to retracing those wayward arms...

And something for me! these chicks look so cool in these dresses, although somewhat more petite than moi! My grading skills will be put to the test when I attempt this!

Back

so he's back

with his mate

and promply wrapped up by his desperately happy family!!!

lost

this beautiful little boy is lost, and i really miss him. i am willing him home, hoping he's just gone walkabout.......5 days.:(

good bad indifferent

i finished off those bunnies, made some cute labels and mosied down to the shop in town i had planned to put them in.

This one, who has already gone off to a good home:)

so i was inspired to actually use my etsy shop again and added a doll!
A tattooed wind girl!

i think i would yodel with joy if someone actually bought her.
then to top the day off a very talented friend offered to help get a portfolio of my work together to present to prospective buyers..yaaah

this is fun found here, via Red Current

And then there were 3

yes and we have arms, i'm quite excited with my new arms, just a hint of an arm really.

i got to use some of the felt i made ages ago

i think they have very cute little behinds too.........

bunnies

the begginnigs of the bunnies.

these are for easter, i'm hoping to get them into a shop locally and they'll arrive easter sunday sitting on an egg in some kids basket, and we'll all live happily ever after.

to do list

i have been inspired to do a to do list, actually hoping to actually to a to do list.

here goes.

make some better tags for my hand made stuff, I do make my own tags but they are generally made the night before a market or sale and would really like to get more creative with this and was totally inspired by these from bugheart.

make some bath bombs, just cos, inspired by these, a great tutorial

make some easter treats for my girls, it would of course be too easy to go and buy some generic thing i know they would love, but aghh,

some bunnies also need to be made,

and that is all

lots of sewing going on

well so much for blogging more, geez I'm not real good at this.

anyway I have bee sewing quite a bit I have georgous little a-line dresses, mostly vintage fabrics, buttons,from my own pattern.

,these will fit 1 - 2 years as a dress and top.

these will fit 3 - 5 or 6 as a dress and super cute over jeans or shorts.

I have some sweet little skirts, size 3-4 at this stage, from a vintage pattern.

I played around with making a cape for my nephew, ( what do you make 3 year old boys), well the cape looked smashing all shimery and fancy, hope he likes it!

I'm toying with the idea of entering the next big thing competition, maybe with some felted goods, perhaps a scarf, or a purse?