Merry Christmas!

 

It’s begun to look like Christmas

 I decided not to do much decorating as I don’t get much time now a days . Also it’s hard work. I have disposed off a lot of my decorations too. Had to downsize in every department when we moved house. 

Disaster day

 Well I have been trying to make a doll but I am having such a hard time with her arms. I have never had this problem before. Could be I am just out of touch. First set of arms I blew the fingers. Second set the fingers were too thin so just couldn’t get them to turn. Third set I drew the palms separately onto the pattern . Unfortunately I didn’t notice that I had copied it the wrong way round so that the little finger was pointing up. I only noticed it when I started stuffing it. I was so annoyed with myself. Hope the fourth time will be lucky. But so much of time wasted. I wanted to get on with it and finish it before Christmas but now it is looking highly unlikely.😒

Anyway to calm myself I did another ornament from one of the pine cones picked from the garden. 

Another ornament

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I made another ornament and as you can see I added some hair to it. Thought it looked better so added some to the red one too. Next I hope to start on my unfinished doll that has been hanging around for ages. I was going to make a fairy out of her but now I am having second thoughts. I usually make a christmas doll each year so I am now thinking maybe I should make an angel. I don't think I have time to make another doll.

 

More tassel dolls

 

I think I am on the roll with these tassels😂

2 more Christmas ornaments

I am desperately trying to keep my creative juices flowing. Otherwise I just seem to get bogged down. With all thats going on around the world one just so depressed. Thank goodness I have my craft . So here is another tassel doll and a little pine cone fairy.  After we moved into our new house , we realised that we are stuck with a huge big pine tree which is in our neighbours property. Its a lovely tree but the amount of mess it throws in our garden is unbelievable. At present we are getting showered with pine leaves. Come spring we will get showered with the cones. Then the squirrels will be nibbling the pine nuts and throwing them at us🤣. There is nothing we can do as it is a listed tree , so it is what it is. I collected some cones to make something out of them . Threw away a huge bin load of cones. Seems a pity but what can you do when there is a pine cone overload 😁. Anyway here is a cone fairy ornament. I have reused stuff on it. Hair is a bits of the cone the other bits are from some old decoration pieces. I tend to collect broken bits of decoration so that I can use it on my dolls. This one is going to my doll club round robin. Hope they will like it, whoever gets it.

 

Very small project

 Just a small project. A tassel doll  that I created as a daily dose of creativity, when I am not in the right place to create something. This is very simple to make which I might put it up for our secret santa for the Christmas party in our doll club

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Some more progress

 

So I made a little bit more progress. Since I am just making it up as I go , I am learning along the way what I should have done, and what I have done  wrong 😊.  As you can see it is not perfect. When I do another one I shall know how to do it the easier way☺️

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Just a little doll house

 Just started a new project. I don’t know how its going to turn out as I am just winging it from what I have seen in the internet. There are people selling patterns and instructions but I decided to try it on my own. Hopefully it will turn out ok😀

Arum lily takes shape after a long time

 

Hello all . Hope you all are keeping well and creating  Well time has run away without my realising it. Things have been happening this end which has taken most of my time. I managed to complete this doll after a long time. It was in the back burner since 2020. I still have a tiny bit of tweaking to do. I call her Arum because her skirt is in a shape of  Arum lily . I used all the felt pieces that I had made in an online class during the Covid period from A for artistic .  Hope you like her if you are reading this. I don’t expect anyone is though as it has been a long time since I have posted