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

wedding garden AFTER

Well, only 10 days to go and the garden has burst into bloom, just maybe a little early... i am a bit worried it has peaked to soon :( but we shall see. I'm sure SOMETHING will be flowering on the 21st; now i am in maintanence mode. And i have become obsessed with long range weather forecasts. I have no problem with rain but i hate hate HATE wind (fingers toes and everything in between crossed)...

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...

It was a long weekend and i got so much gardening done it was geat! The spring has been so warm this far everything is booming and boosting - including the weeds, thus much weeding was done ans still remains. I found this cosmo in one of my planters, the petals are completely tubular. Is this phenomenal or merely strange? It certainly spun me out. Son had a friend to stay and i got a good taste of what it would be like to have three kids, interesting...s

The fennel flan i made was a hit!! We had to eat it picnic style in the living room as my table is smothered in wedding craft - to be blogged at a later date...

If the sun doesn't come out soon i'm going to go nuts, thank christ there is a decent race track around our lounge/kitchen and thank christ for my cat... he gives me faith

The Goldfish Moon

Oh my goodness just realised it is almost 2 months since my last post! This is because i have devoted my every spare minute since then to finishing a book in time to sell at Sonny's school fair, so here is a preview:

I have just this minute sent of the final draft to the publisher, so all is underway. My only regret is that i havn't managed to save more to get more printed, it will be a small stall...