Waldorf Doll Giveaway at Imogen's Garden

Lovely giveaway at Imogen's Garden. Check out her beautiful gal Peach!

http://imogensgarden.blogspot.com/

A sweet blonde gal

Lovely Trip to San Francisco

Good things come in Threes

Can't stop with the dollmaking

Olive's Doll

Patty's Doll for her kindergarten classroom - handmade sweater and shoes.

Maia's doll with crocheted dress

Sequoia - made with a crocheted cap for hair, crocheted sweater and sweet felt maryjanes

This one was for Maia's kindergarten class

More doll making fun

Yarn for doll hair

Nora's doll - dress from Cleo & Twigs

Summer's doll - dress from Crafts with Heart

Maia's dolls - Hazel has a new crocheted dress that I made from a pattern I found here.

Making Waldorf Dolls

I really got the itch to make a waldorf doll recently and I found a great kit from Weir Crafts in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It was not expensive and it came with all the supplies needed to complete on doll, including hair, embroidery thread, wool stuffing, a silk-screened body pattern and lots of instructions. Here are the heads, one uncovered to show the nose, neck and eye line.

The bodies were easy to stuff, but tricky to attach to the head. The eyes and face were also tricky, but I suppose it gets easier with practice. The hair was fun, but, again, I could experiment with sewing and mixing yarns for a long time. Now Maia has a new buddy and I plan on making many more!

A Finished Project

New book! It's called "Spinal" and it is an accordion style cloth book made from digitally designed fabric with iron-on transfers, vintage lace and lots of hand stitching.

Dang, making your own binding ain't fun

Victorian paper doll images (transfers) that I found on google :)

Cells and buttons

I scanned in fabric, thread and a few images from JB's anatomy books

Cells and spines and a little layer of silk organza

Liberated from text!

Interlude

One of the lovely fall days we had before it hit the 40's!

There are so many lovely bloggers out there and I wanted to share a couple posts that caught my eye in the last few weeks. First is Bluebirdbaby's post about toys. Yes, less is more, especially after a birthday. A big one: Happy Fifth Birthday Maia!

These next two show some pretty nifty art projects for kids:

Little Red Caboose - Projects

Lovely Design - Making autumn leaves

I confess, I am totally obsessed with Bamboletta Dolls. Although they are very hard to get they are super fun to drool over. Love the hair. Maia got one during one of the custom orders they take a few time a year. This is Hazel:

I also have a weaving piece on display in this show - Woven Images. And the Milkweed Project is assembled and is pretty cool! Glad to be a part of it. That's all for now, enjoy your Thanksgiving!

It's nearly November?

The new fall routine must have swallowed me up, whole. At least as well as blogging goes. It is true that my 8am classes pull me awake before the sun is shining and my new best friend is the pen tool in Adobe Illustrator. But the semester is half over; the kids have settled into their new routines of high school and kindergarten, and the chilly autumn wind has been blowing for a while now. Julian's soccer season has ended and Maia's 5th birthday is just around the corner.

I find myself in a new place now, concentrating more on school and less on home. John's work schedule has been adjusted and we now have family dinners together every night. I have been reading Julian's freshman english class books alongside him and we have been discussing plot and setting, themes and writing style. Maia is writing up a storm and beginning to recognize high frequency words.

We got a new roof, two weeks of hammering and nailing and now no more squirrels will winter in our attic anymore. And best of all, we adopted a new dog, a sweet, affectionate little 2 year old corgi mix named Kylee, who lounges on the couch and sleeps at the foot of our bed. The cooler weather has brought out her spunk and her timidness is beginning to leave her. She appears in Maia's drawings often with a big smile on her doggy face.

Pumpkins have been carved and costumes picked out. Soon the trick or treaters will swarm the front door and November will be upon us. We'll watch till the last leaves drift to the ground.