Collage class at DollStreet by Linda Misa

Thank you for all comments and awards and sorry

Hello to my dear Friends, who takes a time to check my blog and post a comment or even reward me.
I am very, very, VERY grateful and thankful from all my heart.
Because of my back pain, I am basically away from my computer for days and weeks. I want to thank you and tell you how much your comments, awards meaning to me, but because of not being able to spend a time as I used to, I want to thank all of you, apologize that I was not answering, hopefully I'll be back soon, and say that I love you! I did a few things , whatever I could make without sitting :) and I'll post awards following the rules, I need to show off :)

Hugs to ALL,
HElen

February - month of doodling

Last month was month of drawing. I'd rather call this doodling, at least that how it started. I did a lot ( for me ) of such drawing and then I was thinking on how to make a doll out of it. Either to draw on fabric or use different textures and prints. So far, I did first. I made a doll, painted and then drew. A few pictures of dolls are coming in next post.

Beaded bracelets

OK, this month I was not doing dolls, gourds, no painting, but...I was doing some beading. I had a kit from www.justletmebead.com by Laura McCabe that was using spiral rope technique and then this rope was heavily embellished. I did the necklace but I like an idea and I decided to make some bracelets, addictive, hard to stop and because they are not as long as necklace , Oiyh, it was long, I did a few bracelets. My Mom choose the white for her Birthday present (my father choose for her) and I have the rest :)
Hugs to all,
Helen

Lovable, adorable, funny ...Sock creatures!

Last month I was on a roll creating fun, funky , huggable creatures from...socks! I have this wonderful book "Stupid Sock Creatures", you may have this book or heard about it, if not - check it out at Amazon...it fun projects and also it is teaching you basic shapes you can achieve using, manipulating socks, what fun! and instant gratification, you already guess that I love this book and have a new look at the socks :)

Hugs,
Helen

Fairy Swap

We had a fairy swap at FDA group. My partner was a wonderful Artist Jan Demetralis.
Pictures in this post are of the dolls I sent to Jan. The fairy doll I sent to her was made using...guess what?...right! a gourd :) and body built around it from polymer clay and then everything was painted with acrylic paints. As for her hair and wings - I had some feather boa that I used.
Thank you Sherry for organizing this swap!

Hugs,
HElen

Some more gourds

I like to work with gourds as you may noticed. I bought some wonderful small rounded gourds on e-bay that screamed at me - ornaments :) And it is not only to put an ornament on a tree, it can be just a decorating piece in a room.

Hugs,
Helen




P.S. Yes, they are for sale if you are interested.

Weather from October till December

Bright colors of October, snow in November and sunrise in December.
Do not think that I got up that early to take some pictures, thank you if you thought this way, no, that the time when I am bringing my son to school bus, still do not understand why they have to start at 7 am and it is only Middle school, anyway, thanks to that, I was able to capture some colors of our sunrise.

September 2007

Kids went back to school, new schedules, new teachers, the same not liking to do homework, getting adjusted to new schedules, going back to school life.
I did not do too much, a few gourds adorned with polymer clay and then covered with acrylic paints and some spirit dolls made using stick, branches from our backyard, some fried flowers, polymer clay cabochons for faces, some fabric, but most of all -some relaxation, meditation :) and fun.

A few new dolls

The doll below was made from Lotus Velle free pattern that she post on ClothDollMaking yahoo group. I like this pattern very much. Easy to put together and the fellow is the charmer. At least in my eyes :)



















This little Dragon was created from Jennifer Carson pattern "The Maned Bookwyrm". This is cloth dragon with some needlefelting (mane, and chest or stomach). But if you are not into needlefelting, you still can have a wonderful dragon. I couldn't resist his charms and created one for my son. Another dragon is at work as I have to make one for another son as well :)
And no, he is not picking his nose...



















I also was playing around and created a little Annie - The Ballerina. Her body and stocks are painted, the face - embroidered and she just making me smile with her silliness :) Hope she will bring smile to you as well.
Hugs,
Helen

New gourd dolls

I also was working on some gourd dolls this month. One of them I started a few moth ago and finally finished, a few new, one of which - I am still working on it but will show some pictures in progress.
The gourds below are finished and I posted them into my etsy store where you can see more pictures.









Gourd below is the one I am still working on. I had a few egg shaped gourds and I used one of them to create this piece. I attached the gourd to small wooden candle holder using Apoxie. I also used Apoxie to create vines and roses. I used acrylic, watercolor paints and pencils to paint the girl inside rose vignette.






Please let me know your opinion about the work. I need some feedback, please, to improve the work I am doing. All comments are welcome and many thanks for that!

Hugs,
HElen

Sitting pretty

She made from "Frowning Francis" pattern. It is muslin doll that was gessoed and then painted. I like the head design of this kitty. It has a few layers giving more dimention to the head. Similar to trapunto method but a bit different. And she is sitting on little taffeta from free tutorial that Sherry Goshon gave us. Thanks a lot for that!
I posted some pictures of the doll in progress. When I loaded pictures from camera into computer, I realized that Kitty is missing whiskers.
Off to take some new pictures :)