Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!

Just popping in to say Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Like many of you I will be busy next few days. Enjoy your days with your family and friends or whatever you have got planned and see you all in the New Year

Back home

As some of you would know that I was away for a week in India and while I was there a huge cyclone made a landfall where I live. Since we live near the coast our area was hit very badly. But fortunately I was safe and so was our property but the telephone lines and the internet did not work.   One of the deep sea cable was affected. So I could not communicate easily. Now I am back I hope to get back into the swing of things. I redid my doll's face and almost finished her while I was away.
I have no pictures to show at present but will do so when I get a chance.  I had to get a small procedure done in my eyelid which is irritating and hindering me doing things but that should heal soon.
So to pass time while the storm was raging I sketched this purely to see how my new pearlescent water colours looked.. the sketch is not great but I hope you can see the rich colours of the pearlescent paints.

Struggling

I have this doll in the works and I am struggling with her. Sometimes you just can't get things right. So I have to redo the head. Hope I can finish her before Christmas 😀

That time of the year!

This year I have somehow managed to do things ahead of time. I have managed to bake my Christmas cake. ( sorry no picture) .

I have managed to decorate the living room and made it look festive so that my Santa's helper can get to work quickly😀. He has a long list to get through.

 

My Appleberry is busy picking his apples for his apple pies and crumbles and toffee apples😂

 

While the Christmas tree is merrily twinkling away in the room.

Tiny Santa sits amongst the dried nuts wondering whether they are edible or not😀

 

So how are your preparations coming on?

Couldn't resist

I just could not resist to buy these two items that were on sale. I especially love the water colours. They don't look that great in the box but when I wet the paint they come to life beautifully. The shimmer in them is really lovely and I can't wait to use them. But will I use them? I hope so as I don't want them to join my collected items pile😀.

New doll in progress

I am at the moment making a new doll. I was hoping to get the pattern out before Christmas but because I hit some snags that is not going to happen now.☹️ I am not making a complicated design as I like to think that even a beginner should be able to make it easily, but I need to get the sequence of putting it together right so that it will be easy for a beginner also. In the meantime I just made this little thing quickly as I pictured it in my mind😜. I find it funny how my mind jumps from one thing to another if something is not coming together immediately. Do you find that you digress from what you are doing sometimes if things don't go smoothly or according to plan?

My poor paper clay doll waits in the wings patiently for me to come back to her😀.

What a pain!

Google has discontinued the blogger app and I am feeling lost without it. It was so easy to post with it and it was free. Now they want us to buy an app. This one I am posting from is a trial one. Which I did not realise as it does not say that! I came to know because after a few minutes it keeps asking me to buy the app. I don't think I am going to do that until I am sure. I want to try some other apps too free ones to see if that would be enough for me. They are crafty the way they present these apps.
I have been away travelling a lot hence I have not been posting much as I have been feeling very tired and jet lagged. When I returned from my travels my garden had transform from green to several shades of gold orange and red. Felt like I had walked into a different world.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So here comes the test . Let's see if this works as well as they say it will.

 

She's got legs and a body!

Progressing slowly. She now has a body and legs 😀 I want to finish her quick but  I have to wait till October now. I don't have time to get it all done😔

Sculpting progress

This is how far I have got with the sculpting.  I have to build up the hands just a little bit more. They are tiny hands so I have to use slip to build up the hands which is taking time as I have to make sure that they are dry completely before sand papering and applying the slip. I am also waiting for some stuff to arrive. So the progress is rather slow. 

Chaos again

I started a new doll . This time I am being a bit ambitious because I have never tried my own design full clay doll. I always end up with a chaotic table when I start something new😀

I found the hands very challenging to make. Finally after much struggle I got something resembling like hands😀 They are drying now, then I will have it work on them again. I made a big mistake. I did not leave enough wire for attaching it on to the arm after sculpting. I have to put on my thinking cap to see how I can solve this problem. Otherwise I guess I have to start again😒