Today

When the builders are in the house what can one do? No place to lock myself and hide away in my world so I had to do this in my little conservatory. Our homework for the Friday class is to paint a flower in big proportions. I am not good in painting big but I decided I would give it a go and chose my favourite flower the Fushia. I think I will paint something else tomorrow and see which one looks better lol!

Here are the hands

Well I forgot to show you her hands. Oh by the way it is a she not a he. Can't remember Pandora being a man LOL! Hands were the most difficult part of her and I just couldn't get them as elegant as Marilyn's and Judi you might as well comment on this one in French as well LOL!!. My previous doll for which I wanted suggestions of names, well I got a beautiful one from my little friend Dénia. She suggested Cerise and I think it is lovely so Cerise she shall be.

Marilyn Radzat's class doll

I have now painted the face of the doll. Oh it has been so much fun sculpting the face. I am enjoying this class so much.

Happy Birthday!

Wishing dear Dénia a very Happy Birthday. Hope you are having a lovely day! Gros bisous...

My class with Marily Radzat

This is homework from my water colour class. We were asked to paint wet on wet and build the picture up. That is the hardest technique in water colours I think. As you can see I was not very successful with it. Now the sculpting with Marilyn Radzat was bit more of a success. This is how far I have got. I know one of the ears is going off at a tangent but I have remedied that after taking the picture. I am really enjoying this process of sculpting with clay. I have never done it before so it is new to me. How am I doing? Marilyn is a fantastic teacher and I am having so much fun.

New doll

A little while ago Judi wondered where my other doll body had disappeared when I made my class doll. Well now finally it has made an appearance. It was just collecting arms, legs, face and embellishments to transform itself into this doll. I have no idea what to name her so your help would be appreciated. I thought I'd better paint this before I ate it lol!

THE WINNERS ARE........

Wooo hooo... the winners of my blog give away are...

Karol..... The fabric

Hermione.... The bracelet

Joanne Cranston..... The pendant

Sesga....... Sesga wins the surprise give away which is this ornament doll.

Congratulations to all of you. Could I please ask you to write to me with your snail mail address so that I can get these goodies off to you.

Once again thanks to all of you for your support. Have fun

Doll making class

Some pictures of my doll making class in Chennai. Again I had some very enthusiastic and talented ladies. They were so fired up that some decided to make another doll soon after the class. I am hoping they will send me a picture soon of their second doll so that I can show you. Well done ladies!

Online at last!

First of all a very big thank you for all your lovely comments. Hope you all didn't think that I had got lost in the cyber world. My Internet was down for over a week after I got back from my holiday. Very frustrating. I am trying to catch up on things but looks like I am loosing the battle at the moment. So my draw has been put back please bear with me. In the mean time enjoy some of my pictures that I took this time mainly of sunset over the city and the beach. I love the sunsets in India they are so spectacular even though they are over a hot and dusty city.

Nilgiri hills and the distant rain clouds.

Sunset near the coast.

Sunset over the city A lighted boat over the river in Dubai.

Showing at last..

Ok this will be my 199th post and the next one will be my blog anniversary. So I have decided on these blog give aways. If you want to win any of these please leave a comment. You have till the end of the month to post. I will be away for the next few weeks so you have plenty of time to leave a comment. For those who are fabricoholics the pink fabric is cotton with Batick print and the green one is a double shaded silk fabric from India. They are yum, the picture doesn't do them justice. Those who like bracelets I made this bracelet, so it is hand made and not purchased and so is the pendant made out of apoxy clay made by me. These are the give aways and then I decided that since you all are so supportive and always so very encouraging and such good blogging friends as a big thank you I have for you a surprise prize. For the surprise prize I will put all your names back into the hat again and pick one up.

Finally thank you all so much for all your lovely comments over the years and being supportive and kind and such good friends. It is really lovely to meet you all here, the old and the new bloggers and the ones that pass by. It has been such a lovely experience for me without you this blog would not have been.