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| My brother, Jeff, made this beautiful cherry doll bench for me for Christmas. I LOVE it! He's so talented. He looked at a photo of a life size bench on the internet, drew up some plans, and produced this little beauty. Mom made the pretty quilt that hangs over the back. |
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| My dolls sit perfectly on it. |
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| My newest adventure will be teaching an embroidery class to a bunch of girls at my kids' home school co-op this winter. I can't wait! |
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| I just put a fresh coat of gesso on my newest Dixie IW doll. |
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| The dress fabric is some sort of vintage cotton that I found at a doll show several years ago. It's been waiting to be worn by Thankful. |
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| For Christmas, I am going to sew her a pelisse from a design that was recently in "Antique Doll Collector" magazine. |
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| Since she was completed on Thanksgiving, her name is Thankful. |
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| Thankful's first Thanksgiving is warm and sunny. |
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| She is contemplating her dress. |
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| She is made from Dixie Redmond's Izannah Walker pattern, enlarged to 150%. Tomorrow, I will spend Black Friday sewing her a dress instead of shopping. I am thankful that I don't have to leave the house tomorrow! |
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| My newest creation |
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| My mom, Martha Rutledge, made this quilt as a birthday gift for her little sister. |
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| The sleigh is Martha's fantastic thrift shop find of the week. She also made the quilts in the sleigh. |
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| My little cotton spun shard ornaments have come out from hiding to celebrate the holidays. Here's the post on how they were made: SHARDS. |
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| Every November, my kids make hand turkeys. I laminate them and hang the entire collection up to ring in the holidays. The kids really enjoy looking at the funny creations from the past. |
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| Gobble, gobble. |
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| My kids are almost 14 and they're still willing to make their hand turkeys. I love my babies. |
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| Patrick's pumpkin |
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| Allie made a feather head dress for a costume that she did not wear. |
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| Christopher was a Czech soldier. Patrick was Jack Pilgrim. Allie was ???? |
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| Allie wielding a knife |
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| I never liked the doll on the left. Here she is in 2009. |
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| Here she is now. I'm still not sure if I like her. |
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| I don't like how huge and far apart her eyes are. |
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| She doesn't want to be altered again... |
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| ...but I might not be able to resist. |
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| My mother, my daughter and I went to a doll show together yesterday. I found this darling book which features photos of John Wright dolls. I can't wait to read it to some little people! Maybe I'll force my 13-year-olds to listen to it tonight. They owe me. This doll show was especially exciting for me because I got to see dolls made by two of my favorite internet doll-making buddies - Jan Conwell and Martha Bishop. Martha's website is http://www.maboriginals.com/. Jan's is http://jdconwell.blogspot.com/. Their dolls were SO beautiful! |
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| Three little ladies - shards found in the mud - have found a home in my home. I love giving life to these shards. |
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| My newest doll - I feel so happy when I have a doll to work on. |
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| My kids are taking a home school biology class this year. For the past two weeks, they have been working on models of plant cells. So I'VE also been working on these silly things!!! |
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| Allie's plant cell |
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| This one is made of cloth covered play clay. Patrick has learned a lot from watching me make dolls. |
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| I hope that the teacher appreciates Christopher's blobs. I do! |
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| Here is one of my mom's birthday presents to me. I love the pure cherry reds and the red work sunbonnet babies. |
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| A few of my dolls are enjoying the other quilt that Mom made me. I begged her for a quilt with this color combination and I just think it's gorgeous. She embroidered the first letters of everyone in my family on this quilt - including G for Gypsy, our little rat terrier. |
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| My mom designed the pattern for this sweet pinafore. |
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| I love how the back straps cross. |
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| Little witch is ready to trick or treat. |
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| Allie has been collecting buzzard feathers all summer. She is going to make a feather head dress for her Halloween costume. To make the head band, we're learning to do 8 strand braiding. It's tricky! |
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| I just finished this little feather tree. Now I need to make some cotton spun fruit ornaments. |
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| A corner of the living room |
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| Christopher brought his cathedral blocks out this weekend. He's watching a lecture series on Gothic cathedrals and having his first French lesson next week. So he's pretty convinced that we'll take him to France very soon. He's a very hopeful boy. |
