Calico Cats

I love cats and make pretty good muslin cats. I was recently asked by a customer if I could paint one of my cats to look like her calico cat as a gift for her mother. I've painted cats with splotches before -- calico cat style, so I said sure. She emailed me a photo and it turned out to be a long haired cat and I had no idea how to do that. I played with it a bit and did lots of experimenting. I thought about every painting show and video I ever saw, and to my surprise, my "Juno" is a pretty good impression of her "Juno". She liked it enough she ordered a second one for herself.

Black Snowmen

I recently wanted to make a special gift for a friend who collects BLACK DOLLS ONLY. I visited the website of another friend who I knew makes them, because I had no idea what they should look like. Sue from Rabbit Hollow Prims had some cute ones and after I saw them on her website, I was able to turn one of my white snowmen into a black snowman for my friend. If you click on him, you can make the photo large for better detail. Isn't he just the cutest?

SNOWMEN

I've been making snowmen ever since Halloween and wanted to share. Some of these are still available at Country Spirit in Tomah Wisconsin. Most of them have Christmas tree lights or candle lamps that light up. They range in size from 24" to 52" tall. My favorite is the little guy on wooden skates (top row left side).

The snowman in the top right photo shown has a hobby horse style red nosed reindeer just visible over his shoulder. The pattern is available at The Prim Pattern The snowman with the swag of greens is dripping with icicles (click on the photo to enlage it for better detail.)

Halloween

For Halloween, we get together with our neighbor's family and "haunt" and scare this part of town. I had to share a few of the photos..........one of them is me....can you guess which?

It was only 32 degrees and very windy so the witch had a winter coat under her shawl.


This person is sitting under a table with her head poking through.

Needle Felting

I just found the best place to learn how to needle felt doll hair. Cedara (Tracy Dun) of Thru the Attic Door covers the subject perfectly.