Making Needle Felted Dogs

The Valley Doll club made needle felted dogs at our meeting on Sunday. I made a pink one to go with my pink haired Dolfie...she still needs her face painted...I am behind on that...but hey...now she has a dog...what's more important?

The pics are a little dark but I think you can get the idea.

The other dogs are vintage chenille.

Pink cuteness!

Puppy love!!

Doll Retreat With Adele Sciortino

These pics are from the January Retreat with Sisters of the Cloth...I am just getting around to unloading pics from an old camera card!

The Retreat was Viva La Carnival. We used a Carnival theme for the whole retreat...which was out in Temecula as usual.


I made name tags for the retreat using purchased Mardi Gras beads with blank white medallions. I then scanned some mask fabric and used photoshop to print the names. I cut them out and glued them on the medallions.






















This is the mask fabric.

Here are some of the almost finished dolls!

This is my Cat!

Trip to Turkey

I just got back from a 10 day trip to Turkey. It was such an awesome trip...I took over 500 photos...here are just few of them to share!



Shopping at the Grand Bazaar!

Buy, buy, buy!!!

Mom

Wedding clothes

Bread

Vendor

The Hagia Sophia

The Blue Mosque

Me & Mom

Ephesus!!

Capadoccia







The Rock Churches

Frescos

Tea while shopping in Ankara

Spices for sale

Me buying shoes for dolls!

Wendy Froud Class- Last day

Today was painting and costuming...take a look at the finished dolls!

Here is the fairy Toby made.

Wendy, Toby & me with my creation.

This is the creature that Wendy made in class!

The final doll at home.

Wendy Froud Class - Day 2

Once we finished our heads, the next step was hands and feet!

Wendy demos placing "bones" in the armature.

Next is wrapping and sewing up the body.

Now he is ready for painting and costuming!