The Christmas Spell!

Looks like my dolls are under the Christmas spell. Today while I walked past my tree I noticed that the three of these dolls were sleeping under the tree LOL! Perhaps that is why I too feel very sleepy today LOL!.

Bad news from home

Yesterday I had bad news from home. My brother was taken ill with chest pains while away from home. It seems that Christmas time brings bad news for these past 3 years for the family. It seems worse when it is so hard to get news from far away. At least today I was able to contact and get some news. He is stable but not out of the woods yet. Just praying that he will be able to get well to travel back home to be with his family for Christmas.

Not much to say

I have not posted much lately as I have been just busy shopping and wrapping up gifts etc. The usual thing at this time of the year. Just got a moment before I go to do my chores. I am listening to Classic FM at the moment which always gives some nice music and ofcourse this time of the year there is a lot of seasonal music mixed with the other classics and I love listening to it while working away. Have a great day all

Finished my DIP

I have at last finished her. I have a bit of mixed feelings about this doll. I am not entirely satisfied with her. I thought she would look different but she did not turn out as I wanted her to. However I think I am getting better at doing the face entirely with acrylics. I seemed to be able to control my brush strokes better. I did not use gel pens for this doll's face. I only hope my cousin will like her. If not I will have her gladly back LOL! I don't know about you but I always feel a wrench when I part with my projects even if they are not good.

Walking in the air!

So here is what I am working on. She is a gift for my cousin who always encourages me, helps me in many ways with regard my dollmaking. I know he doesn't read this blog so I can post the picture here. I think he is going to be really surprised with this gift for Christmas. Hope he will like it even though it won't stand up to the competion of his really cute live dolls he has in the form of twins LOL! I am going to do paper embellishments on this one. Got a few ideas which I want to try out. This is my Christmas tree. For some reason I am just not able to take a very clear picture of this tree!

Light To Unite

Sorry I have not been posting much lately as so much is going on at home so I have not had the time. I did manage to put up my Christmas tree on Sunday and I will take a picture when I get a chance. Margaret left a comment on my blog and in her blog I came across this " Bristol-Myers Squibb - one of the large drug manufacturers with its hand in AIDS treatment medication - is donating $1 to AIDS every time someone goes to their website Light To Unite and moves the match to the candle and lights it". Thought it was a very worthy cause to mention it here.

P.S.

Oh my look Isabelle also sent me seperately these two pins!. They are gorgeous. Thank you Isabelle I love them.

Made my day!!

Today I received this lovely book from Isabelle . I am so delighted with it and want to learn carding at once to do all the wonderful projects in this book. Isabelle thank you so much for thinking of me. As I said to Isabelle that she has too much faith on my French but I am sure she will help me with translation if I get stuck. It is also an additional incentive to better my French so that I can understand the instructions. Thank you once again Isabelle for this inspiring book.

On Saturday I went to see Mary Poppins. http://www.marypoppinsthemusical.co.uk/As always I am never disappointed with these musicals. They are so well staged and performed. I had a wonderful time. If you ever get a chance don't miss it. It is well worth the money.

Paper Doll Freebie

I drew this doll but never got round to making it. So thought that you all might want to make it

Enjoy!

Toad Stool Pixie done

This was the little Christmas decoration which inspired to make my pixie in cloth. So here he is. I am going to call him Beau as inspite of being rather a tattered toadstool pixie he is still the beau amongst the toadstool pixies.

This is the infamous hat with which he was displeased when I tried to make him wear with paperclay.