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The Wee Peeple Newsletter
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To see a world in a grain of sand, A heaven in a wild flower, To hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in an hour. -William Blake
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The Dollmaker's latest painting, entitled:
As Above, So Below
The Wall of Resurrection
now appropriately adorned in Resurrected Robes of Summer Greenery..
The large-leaf plants are Angel Trumpet Trees, the vine with the yellow flowers is a wild gourd,
and that is Peppermint creeping up from below...
The huge plant encroaching from the right is a wild white night-blooming Datura.
Man of the Forest
A Special Order for Cathy Patman, who has several other Wee Peeple Dolls...
The Man of the Forest was delighted to join them... but he had to get past
The Dragon first!!!
His technique was to "befriend" the Dragon.
(matter-of-factly setting an example for Governments everywhere.)
Getting ready for the Texas Renaissance Festival
making lots of Doll bodies in advance...
A LOT of sewing required...
And the Dollmaker just flat-out needed a new machine.
She did the research. She settled on the Janome HD-1000. Why?
Well, check out this You Tube Video...
Go to Minute "1:30" where Vince Arcuri sews (a Zig-Zag Stitch)
all the way down a wooden yardstick using this machine...
The Dollmaker was convinced... nay, Impressed.
The Link on You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ql7rY9ow7pY
Sew far, the Janome HD-1000 is living up to expectations...
although the Dollmaker has not tried to sew her rulers together just yet....
Still, a lot of work is getting done without the thread breaking or the machine needing to be adjusted in any way
A big time saver, when the sewing machine is so wonderfully cooperative!
This was a good choice for a reasonably priced ($200 vs. $2000) industrial-strength sewing machine.
Dollmaker-recommended.
The
World
of
Do-It-Yourself
and her adorable little
Joyce shares her Felting Expertise by providing
Do-It-Yourself
Needle Felting Kits!
Look here! Anyone can make a darling little Needle Felted Pumpkin!
Joyce personally shows you how, starring in her own
Pumpkin-making Tutorial Video!
(See it on You Tube... or watch it right here:) The DIY Pumpkin Needle Felting Kit includes an ounce of core wool,
2 felting needles, orange, brown, and black wool, a foam base and Instructions Basically all you
need to get started:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/162572298/diy-pumpkins-needle-felting-kit-fall?ref=listing-0 Are the Kits for sale in her shop on ETSY? Why, yes:
https://www.etsy.com/shop/Gypsyharte?ref=l2-shopheader-name
And you can go "beyond pumpkins"... How about felting a couple of cool little
Here's the accompanying Ninja You Tube Tutorial:
So....
So.... now the Dollmaker wants to create KITS too!!!
The "Ravioli" Heads
A Simple 3-Dimensional
Head Style with a raised front and a flat back
Easy, Fast and Fun to
Decorate and,
(with a pin on the
back), perfect for use as a Brooch!
So, the Dollmaker got
the idea that her first KIT should be a "Brooch Kit"...
The visual
directions for assembly will be printed out thusly:
The Angel Pin Kit will
include:
One blank Ravioli Head
(Okay, some Heads will
have a face pre-printed on them for people who think they can't draw a face),
one set of wings, Lace
for the collar, yarn for a small wig,
a spray of beads, a few
flowers, a large safety pin for the back,
a scrap of fabric to
affix the pin, and Instructions.
Here's another
version with fancier wings...
Lots of variations
of these KITS will be possible.
And they will be
available in time for Christmas
at the
NOW then...
The Ravioli Heads
had a Destiny greater still...
Yes indeed! This band of intrepid Heads went on to
Inspire a whole new line of Dolls!
They are made by bending the ravioli head around to
form a neck and shoulders
These new Doll Constructions were nick-named...
affectionately....
the "Ravioli-Heads"...
but later re-named...
RoundHeads inspire
Floral Explosions!
Well, yes. The "wrapped-ravioli" Head
Construction being somewhat...upswept...
is certainly vividly suggestive of an "aerial explosion".
This Doll Style also embraces recycled
plastic vitamin bottles,
which actually give the little doll bodies a
gently rounded feminine shape....
(How about That!)
Hmmmm... It sometimes happens that the dolls resemble
the real people the Dollmaker knows......
Speaking of Awesome Women....
And
thanks for the haircut!
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