Wishes for Christmas

Hello everybody. Sorry I have negelected my blog lately as life just got in the way and now it is almost Christmas so I thought I just could not leave you without wishing you all a

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. I will get back to you in the New Year as I am away for the holiday season. Hope you all have a lovely Christmas and New Year and very peaceful and safe one too. Shall check all your blogs when I get back.

I think she is cute

Today I was determined to finish a project. I won this free class in Connie's blog and made the doll for a friend's little daughter. I was actually going to have a different theme for her but when I started painting she started whispering to me that she wanted to be a Christmas doll. So I bowed down to her wishes and made her a Christmas themed doll. Her skirt design is all hand painted. I think it is a lovely little class and the doll turned out cute. Thank you Connie.

And the winners are......

Well here are the two winners whom I chose using the random number selector. It picked no 13 woo hoo lucky for some and it is non other than Serena who won the little elfin!! The second number was no 20 and it is Sherry Gooloe who won the wings. Oh I am so very happy for you both Congratulations. Please send me your snail mail addresses so that I can post them off quickly to you. I hope you both will enjoy the giveaways. 

Thank you to everyone who joined in to fun.

Have a great weekend.

Crochet

I have not been posting a lot lately because my computer crashed and now it is being repaired. I do have a laptop to work with but I don't find it easy to type with. Maybe my fingers are clumsy so the words keep jumping when I am typing. Anyway until I get my computer back I will have to make do with this. I have been trying my hand at making a crochet head band for one of my nieces. I did reduce the width of the head band as it was quiet wide. However somewhere along the line I think I lost the instructions for ending the headband . It was a free pattern from one of the websites and I have lost the link as well. So I have had to improvise it not very nicely. I hope my niece will overlook this and still wear it. At least it fits my head which means it should fit hers too lol! I have been doing other things too which have not been going too well ,so I will wait until I get them into some sort of presentable state to take photos to show you.

Blog giveaway

I am having a blog give away for my blogoversary. I missed it last year so I thought I shall do something for you all this year. So here are my two give aways, a little elfin for wearing as pin or just having her on your computer or Christmas tree and a pair of wings. I will choose 2winners by putting your names in the hat on the 20th of November. All you need to do is leave a comment in the comments section.

Hmmm.. freshly baked

I don't bake often and when I do I don't bake anything fancy. This is just a plain cake but it smells wonderful. I don't know how it will taste though, which is another matter lol! I felt like baking today and well lets just say it is in celebration of my blogoversary. Gosh I have been blogging since 2005! How time flies! Now I have to go and make something special, keep tuned in.

Books

Today I recieved  a couple of books that I was eargerly looking forward to. I am just loving what I am seeing in them so far. I bought them from a shop called  Book Depository who claim that they will deliver postage free to any part of the world. Personally I think they probably include the postage fee in the price as nothing comes free in this world, but having said that their price was not that much more than Amazon. I checked the doll book and in Amazon they are selling it a pound cheaper but if one adds postage to it it probably will work out the same. It is worth checking up on other books to see if you will get it sent postage free if you live abroad.

The frost got them so sad

I had bought these beautiful lilies in the Hampton Court Flower show and I had asked the lady when I should plant the bulbs. She said immediately and that is what I did. They were coming up so beautifully and I was looking forward to seeing the flowers but sadly we had severe frost this week and this is how they look now so sad. I hope they will come up next year and this has not had an effect on the bulbs. It has warmed up a bit today but I think these plants have had it.

Thank you all for your commiserations regarding my doll but yes it has gone so that is that.

The doll I miss

Recently in one of my doll club groups we had a topic going about which doll we missed the most so I thought that I would show the one which I miss a lot. You have probably seen her before. I made it for a lady who was pestering me to make a doll for her. I met her in a textile course that I was attending at that time. I usually never make a doll to sell but this lady was very persistant and said she would pay whatever I asked her for the doll. I priced her very reasonably since I don't sell dolls. When I gave the doll to her she refused to pay the money and asked to reduce the amount and started finding fault with the doll. So I said to her I will have take the doll  back if she was not satisfied. But she would not give me the doll back either and quickly put it in her bag and paid me less money and took the doll. I wish I had never sold the doll and I really regret giving this doll away.

Progress on sculpt

I made a little bit more progress on my sculpt. I am going through a huge learning curve with this sculpting as I have almost nil experience sculpting with airdry clays. I am having fun. When I upload pictures on the computer I am able see where I need to do tweeking and if I have got things fairly proportional or not. Now I am not too happy the way the right ear is positioned. I will have to go and pick Marlaine's brain again to see if there is a solution to remedy it or do I just leave it. I am so tempted to leave it as I know if I remove it I may not get it even as close to this sculpt and ruin it completely.