Thursday, January 20, 2011

A few more...

Here are the pinkie twins...

And Marcy...


And Stella...
Callie...

And Monica...

Just some more little ones...

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

More little ones

Okay well I tried to share the last post with Facebook but it tells me I can't. So I will keep posting in both places I guess.
Here are some more of the little ones I finished:

I named him Tucker...don't you think he looks like him?

This one is Jasmine - a common name for me...

And Vivian...so pretty in white...

This is rock-a-bye-baby....so precious...(I think!)

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

IDEX is less than two weeks away and...


So here is little Cupid....all tired out. And it isn't even Valentines Day yet. Guess what I made those arrows out of.....



This is Chloe...all tucked in with her dollie.

And who can resist a sleeping lady bug? I know I can't.

This one could be my own! This is the Velveteen Rabbit doll. I think his blankie looks like an old chenille blanket. But it is glass....glitter that is....

So these are four of the little things I am bringing to IDEX. A little different from my BIG dolls. But these are fun and I am hoping some of my collectors will want to have more than one!

They are sculpted with clay and then covered with German glass glitter. I guess you probably already know that from previous blogs.

I bought some glitter from www.rosemille.com. Love it! I also bought from www.germancornerstore.com. There's is fine but I think the quality of rose mille is better. The German store has more choices.

I will post more pictures another time. I have to get back to work.

Friday, January 7, 2011

I'm still here!

Okay...so maybe I will write a little.....
So much has happened since the last post.
And here I am still buried in my studio.
I had such a rich but short time with my so wonderful family over the holidays. I got to visit most of my kids....except one.....boo hoo.....well, maybe I will see her this spring!!!
Anyways....Christmas is done, Carrie's wedding is over...out of state kids have returned (and the out of country one..well, two).!
This has been a weird year in terms of my dolls. At the last IDEX show things were smoking! I had orders and was on a roll. Then spring came and it sort of started spiraling slowly down hill.
Something was wrong with the clay (Cernit). Something was wrong with my sculpting. My neck hurt, my eyes ran, my head spun.
Any decision I would make would instantly change to just the opposite.
So I took the summer off and traveled!
Well, do you know what happens when you don't sculpt for a while?? It gets even worse.
But as IDEX is still my major show I knew I had to have SOMETHING. But NOTHING was what I was getting.
But then...something happened with one of the dolls I was working on (and still not finished with)...
I started sculpting these little dolls for her (I HATE sculpting small). And dressing small things? Not for me.
Now it would'nt be fun if I told you the whole story all at once would it?