Merry Christmas!! from our house to yours.
Here's a few craft projects I worked on this month. A quilting friend placed an order for the mice below to give as Christmas gifts. The pattern is from Country Stitches and it makes the cutest pincushion. I made 3 different mice and three different tomatoes. They were made out of wool.
Mice are holding corsage pins. The pins look cute and very vintage.
The label that I made for each mouse. Remember, details people, it's all in the details. My absolute fav is detailing everything. Just love it!!
These are some clothespin dolls that i made for D#2's preschool teachers, music teacher and preschool director. I can't take credit for the dolls, they have been around for many years and I did see some similar to these somewhere on the Internet, but I can't find out where. I have looked and looked. Saw them back in the summer sometime. The arms are just pipe cleaners with thread wrapped around them. I did this technique back years ago when I was making Wee Folks dolls for ornaments. I will have to post a picture of the ornaments before they are stored away for next year's Christmas. I made the apples from small wooden beads, felt leaves and leather stem. Sheet music is actual sheet music that I scaled down. It is of "Away in a Manger". The book was a large wooden book that I had DH cut in half and the peppermint is just polymer clay. I loved the hairbows, D#2 always,
always has one in her hair and plus the cloth dolls that I make always have to have one also, so I thought it fitting that the clothespin dolls should wear one too :)
Close up of director's doll and teacher's doll.
Doll for D#1's art teacher. I made her a little artist's smock, with paint smudges of course, paint brush made from toothpick and real bristles on the end. An artist's beret and a palette. I am calling these dolls "Just Like Me", because I love to customize them to fit the recipient's image.
Have a very Merry Christmas, with love,
Holly
Very cute, when do you have time to do these little details? I bet her teacher's LOVED the dolls.
ReplyDeleteI really like the mice, are they attached to the tomatoes? Also what do you fill the tomatoes with?
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ReplyDeleteAs for time? Hmmmmmm....here and there, mainly in the morning and at night. The mice are attached to the tomatoes and I fill tomatoes with sand (would rather fill with wood shavings or walnut shells-found in pet stores for bird cages) and stuffing. teachers did love the dolls. I do have some that I am making for my etsy store so stay tuned.
They are adorable, I have this old mouse pattern I need to copy and send to you, I will when our copier is behaving itself. Its adorable and is from 1980 I think. Also I finally added your blog to my links, for some reason it wouldn't work for a while. Go figure.
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