out tha door

i made some new animals, posted them this AM on etsy, and one has sold already! wow! the lighter, smaller kitten up there, is going to live with a new family.

begonia the bunny here is one of my favorite animals ever. it's gonna be hard to give her up, but i hope she finds a happy home too!

i have a backyard-garage sale next weekend, and an outdoor fair the weekend after. i'm looking for a more creative solution than the regular 10x10 pop-up display tent. in my mind, a fabulous fringed umbrella just shows up at my door. for free. wouldn't that be nice?

New Egglings!

Just made some mini-birds and put them in plastic Easter eggs...I'm calling them Duckie Egglings of course!

Check my etsy site for more info!

attack!

(two of my favorite stuffed animals ever! Cat and Crow, both will be available at my sale on the 10th!)

well my fingers have been healing and returning to their normal color since the great grouting incident of aught-eight. they are still really tender and the middle right finger keeps bleeding, but for the most part, i've stopped wearing a million bandaids.

the installation is now going to take place on saturday the 9th. then, on the 10th, is my show at the VFW in uptown. we've gotten over 50 vendors signed up, and i've been adding info to the blog and am going to be making a map for folks to take home, so no one has to worry about their contact information being lost! brilliant, eh?

i'm also making duckieuglings.com buttons for the show. i am going back and forth about selling them or giving them out. each animal gets one attached to their back with the price tag fastened to that, and if anyone buys jewelry i'll give them one too. but should i sell the other ones for like 50 cents or just give them to folks for free? i just don't know!

lastly, i'm bringing two of my gumball machines to the sale, and loadin' them up with M&M's. YUM!

New Uglings!

Well I had a fantastically productive couple of days here, and I whipped out a bunch of new Uglings.

Visit my etsy.com store and check them out!

Barnum and Bailey, monkey siblings, available separately are pictured here.

productive day

well i've been extremely crafty today. i have gotten three birds, one kitten, and three cupcakes done. but the library is closed, so you will have to wait until tomorrow for photos, my dear readers.

in other news, one of my pumpkin heads was to go to a good friend of mine, but when i pulled Lenny the Lemur out of the bag (see below), she fell in love with him! so i will be posting another pumpkin head doll soon.

and i finished a doll/bird set, a wee pumpkin head riding a crow, and found a perfect half-round cage at the Goodwill for them to perch inside, but i think it's going to be a going away/birthday gift for my friend Ed. we'll see.

i have to teach a class tomorrow on glass pendant making. i generally don't sleep the night before a big event like a class or demo. let's hope, if i can't sleep tonight, that i at least spend the time making more birds. ha!

Pumpkin head and new birdie

Penny Pumpkinhead is available at my etsy shop, and so is Raymondo the Robin.

I'm having so much fun making these little stuffies. I can't wait to get home from work or the college to sew, sew, sew! I am needing to re-stock my sweater supply too, I'm almost out of several colors, and almost through with my favorite stripe, seen on Raymondo's legs.

Just a quick little photomontage of a new bun, and a photo I took last year of a lotus from the rain garden at the Como Zoo.

More tomorrow, I'm going home and sewing up a bunch more buns tonight!

Work from the weekend

Alrighty well I'm going to try to get a personal blog going again. Wish me luck.

I won a considerable amount of cash again at poker, so I went and bought some canvasses at Michaels as well as a book on artful blogging, and the DVD for 300. I basically then just holed myself up in my house (barring the trip to the Uptown Art Fair with my folks) and worked.

Here are two wee rabbits, with painted-lace wings and embroidered faces. They are about 3 inches tall, made from recycled sweaters.

They'll be going to I Like You on Wednesday, along with a few other small stuffies.

Here's the detail from a collage/painting that I did. The bird's wings and bodies were made with bleach-painted construction paper, I used a scrap that was lace-printed for their beaks and legs, and the 'nest' is part of a vintage photo-holder that I got from my gram.

I'm not 100% happy with it yet, but it's getting there. I'm thinking I'll add real branches to the bottom where they're painted, right now, which you can't see in this photo.

Lastly, here's a collage/painting, once again, in a vintage frame. Still needs a title, I'm thinking,

"Muffy the Explorer. Got off the couch, did great things"