Oh Look!

I've been featured on Kiddlins! How fun! She's got some great kid's stuff over there, go check it out.

Oak

This little oak tree was a custom order, and I have to say it turned out just great. I don't know why she wanted a dragon fly on a tree, but it works!


I love the little oak leaves!

Wow! Look at this!!

I just found the most amazing softie artist! And I don't use the word artist lightly, her stuff is truly amazing. Nosey Nest can be found on flickr, etsy and her blog, AND she has a tutorial for this cute duck!

Isn't this lovely?

Today I'm featuring PSBBdesigns. She's on my Etsy street team and I think her work is just fabulous.


I think this is just lovely.

The County Fair!

We had a great time at the fair! I wasn't even sick this year! Yea!


Ziggys had an area for making birdhouses and the girls and I made some. They looked awesome...and then we took them home and the girls painted them. Oh my they're ugly now! That's okay, it was a great experience for them to create and be so proud of themselves!

Trendy Shoppes

I made these little cuties and mail them off with some birds to Trendy Shoppes! They should be up soon. I'm really excited. It's a brand new site and I get to be on it from almost the beginning! Plus the site owner is really nice.

*sigh* I really need to improve my pictures. I know my dolls look so much cuter in person! I'm just not a photographer, but I really want/need to be if I want to show off how cute my dolls really are. Arrrhg! It's frustrating, as a small home business owner I have to wear ALL of the hats. Some jobs I'm good at, some I'm not, like photographing. And marketing. If I could just sit back and dream and sew I'd be perfectly happy!

New dolls

I've been designing some new dolls and trying to figure out how to make my embroidery machine do the faces and attach them. Here's what I came up with.



The one on the right is my first attempt. I think it's kinda scary looking, but Willow loves it, so I gave it to her. I even let her sew up the stuffing hole all by herself. She did a really good job!
I like the one on the left a lot better. It has a much bigger head and smaller face. I really like the feet! They're just so cute!


While taking pictures of these babies, Violet insisted that I take a picture of her baby too. Why does that one look so much better? Usually my pictures are just average and the one in a while I'll get one that's "wow", but it's always on accident.