Maddie baby

Yay! Have just heard that Maddie is settling in very well at her new home with her lovely new family! I love a happy ending...

Inky Pinky Poppet nz

I have a new business name and a shpankin' new card to go with it. I hope by putting up this post people can find this blog with poppet pics, until i can sort out some kind of real online presence. Meet my new custom made Frida, complete with coat and change of clothes... she is almost ready to go to her new home, exciting!

Dolly update

Alice in Rabbit-guise, the beginning

and now becomes a head and torso.

Beatrice's head.

More babies...

Dolly poppet babies

With every spare minute spent making my babies - human and cloth - i am not sure how i will manage blogging again, but i really want to participate in this wonderful event so. THUS MARKS THE DAY I RE-COMMIT TO SAID BLOG. Where to start? I guess i will post some dolls...

In the past my dolls have always been much more "art"; it is only recently i have started to make dolly's for kiddies. I will have to dig out some of my exhibition images. Oh how i miss those strange and wondrous days of strange and wonderful creatures and creations...

doll love

Presenting my new improved babies. She is more Steiner "inspired" now as i have put my own personal inerpretation on tradition. I am much happier with this design and have had good feedback so far, so i might make a few more and see if they sell...

Name: Adelina

Size: 30cm/ 12inch

Clothing: Halter ruffle dress and princess hat, non-removable

Stuffing: organic carded sheep fleece

Dangles

I stayed up til all hours last night cutting out all these little shapes and bits from some paper offcuts i got from a stationary shop. My hand has serious cramp from holding my rusty old scissors! This is my vision...

A sweet face

I finished my dolly, babies got a sweet face. I love the idea behind such simple features, you really could imagine this lil boy experiencing any emotion, and even with the mere suggestion of expression i still catch a glimpse of a cheeky and cheerful disposition... there will be much love and mischief between the two, i'm sure...

Embroidery

In the spirit of all things flowery, it is a very rainy day and i am working on my new "thing", an embroidery that the mother in law had tucked away in a suitcase. I am in love with the colours of embroidery floss, it's like painting with the best and most vivid thick oils.

My plants are loving this rain after all the sunshine of the last week, and it is suddenly so warm! I can positively hear them slurping up the watery goodness. A false spring me thinks, it certainly FEELS like spring, but surely not in August?!

Winter tree

It is impossible to capture with my quite sad camera, but we decorated the peppercorn tree today and it is a magical wonder and joy, makes my my heart operatic...

We made the decorations a couple of days ago. They are painted shells, walnut shells and seed pods. And theres some pretty beads we found lying around too.