Supplies and Inspiration

This is my inspiration for my new project. (the lady on the right). I have not yet chosen the male i want to do. I have chosen her because she embodies me the most of all the guests in the book. A little bit medieval and Wicca. I adore her sleeves, and riding on a broom with a cat? Well I love cats!


This is my stash of designing supplies, pencil, rulers, cardboard, paper scissors, foil and a notebook. I do not do drawings as such but measure out directly on cardboard the basic shapes i need and go from there, Luckily enough cardboard is easy to get, and also recyclable. The foil is used to make shapes with that i cannot do with cardboard.
This is how i start to make the basic figure. Later on my supplies change when i do the clothing, this is by draping, i will show you that when i get to it.
I know already the size of the doll i want to make and go from there.

Cat Garden

These pictures are of our cats' garden enclosure. They have a plastic dog kennel that used to belong to our little dog Joe. The entrance/exit from the cat flap in the window of our dining room/lounge is made from our guinea pig hutch, the garden has cat friendly plants including cat nip and cat grass. They have fake grass from Clark Rubber, and it all sits on a concrete base The frame and the wire was from Bunnings and it was made in about a week by the whole family. This way the cats can get some fresh air and be safe too. All the plant pots have solar garden lights.
If anyone has any ideas on how to add climbing equipment without taking away light and space, please leave suggestions.

Alice in Wonderland

This is one movie I am so looking forward to seeing,
I adore the creativity that they do together more detail can be found here
I love the quirkiness and the lavishness of the costumes, the hair, face and make-up. This will be the must see movie for me.

Dolls House Continued

Dining Room Table.
Bed flat against the wall.


The stairs.

Flat lounge chair.

Lounge chair folded out.
Enough on this project for the day, I will keep you posted on the final thing later.

Fold up Dolls House

What is this?


and this?

It is a work in progress.. A fold up dolls house that is going to have fold up furniture.

At the moment it is just in the preliminary stage. The walls, floors and roof are made using cereal packet cardboard, too flimsy for the final product. It needs more furniture, No kitchen or toilet yet. the doors are not finished but i like to share what i have done right now.
The bed is made, the shower, a lounge chair and a dining room table. The stairs are done too.
It all folds up like an old fashioned Christmas tree decoration. The inspiration for this is my idea of portable and post able. (i want to send it overseas). The furniture is attached to the walls using velcro to enable you to move them around. It all joins together using the clips or hooks you find on trousers.

The Perfect Match

This book called The Perfect Match by Wayne Anderson This is one of my favourite illustrators, I just love his drawings. This particular book is the inspiration for some felt dolls i am making, This is a wedding story and a flip book that can change to over 8,000 guests and at the back it has a poem and pictures of 14 honoured guests, and the perfect couple that when they come together they form a perfect heart, The Perfect Match.

I have been thinking about this for some time now, and next year a lot of our thoughts are on weddings. My nephew in February, my daughter in April, and my niece in September. Very very busy and so exciting.

Our Pets now Passed

This first one is Puddy, Puds for short, (When the kids were little they thought it funny, (He is a puddy dog, not a poody cat).He was a German Sheppard , Labrador cross. Very very gentle, Loved his tummy and his ears rubbed. Bought from a market in Bundoora which has now closed.
This is Joe, He is a terrier cross with a bit of everything, who had just the biggest grin, He had a crooked paw, was cross eyed, and just LOVED Puds heaps, followed him everywhere, Puds used to dig dips in the garden for joe to sit in, so that when the wind blew, it would pass over him and he would not get cold. Joe was bought a little while later to be a companion to Puds, Also from the same market.

This is Jake. Jake got his name from my mother Joan, and her husband Mike. Originally i was going to use the first two letters from my mum and the last from her husband but that would have made him Joke. He was bought from a friend down the road. Their cat had kittens born in the back of a bus that they had in their garden. I picked the kids up from school one afternoon with him in my pocket. He was the runt of the litter and cost us 3 second hand Barbie dolls. He was a wonderful boy.
All three of them have now gone, but they were with us for about 16 years, and all passed away within a couple of years of each other. They were all runts of the litters, (i have a thing about the most needy). If i was to buy a Christmas tree it would be all twigs, i am sure of it.