Red for Project Spectrum

Sally and Willow are in play mode. I need to go bake biscuits and call my best friend from junior high to wish her a Happy Birthday.

The red bowl has its third coat on it, and then I can paint the black designs on it. I am currently sewing a red felt jumper for the 'vintage' doll pattern I drew Saturday morning. She has red-striped legs, orange wool yarn hair, and silk thread for her eyes and mouth (from a box of vintage thread and lace I got earlier this year). I was attempting a 'Raggedy-Ann' look, but I think she actually looks more like someone I worked with in Fargo. On the doll's signature I gave her my coworker's name - 'Angie' - I think she would take it as a compliment, she is a really cool person ;o)

The doll is 16" tall sretched out, and 10" seated. That is bigger than the other lady doll from last week! I still need to sew that doll's arms and legs on. Why haven't I done that already???

The red jumper has a little applique bird in white felt. I drew one in the GIMP, but for some reason, Opera (J's internet broiwser on the old computer) doesn't want to post pictures at all through Blogger :o( But, at least it is easier to use than Lynx (which is also a choice) ;o)

So to keep my post from being entirely boring ;o)

Links:

• Amazingly tiny and detailed knitted toys.
• Dacia Ray has a delightful elephant at her flickr stream.
• Pretty purple kitty
• Cute finger puppets <--knit

Saturday in Progress

No pictures today :o( My home internet isn't working yet on the new hard-drive... I think we forgot to download the proper driver at work :o( (I have wireless there, wired at home) I'm working on J's old computer. It does connect to the Internet, but doesn't have the ability to work with the camera.

Links!

• Cute three amigas.. I think they are mice? They are from Camilla Engman
• Interesting doll pattern -- She says it is posted on her blog somewhere, looking... Thanks A.lee!
• These bird mittens are too cute for words!
• So I remember -- here is the place to buy 'wool felt' 20% wool.

I am making progress with several projects ;o)

The first purple sock is at the toe decreases. I am going back to the every-other pattern from the heel for the toe. I think it will reinforce it there too..?

I went out to our local thrift store and picked up two nice large pieces of fabric. One is linen, and I think the other is 100% cotton. Another lady was there before me (I should have been up earlier!) and scored all the print fabric! I was a little jealous, but mostly scolding myself for not getting there until 10 am.

Project Spectrum

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I did find a plain wooden bowl there that is going to get new life with red enamel and maybe some black bamboo painted on it. The first coat of red is drying now, and it looks promising!

Also, an odd find that I love -- a 1950 book of French Prose! For a quarter! **happy sigh**

I have to finish putting the arms and legs on the tall lady doll. I'm not sure what to do after that -- there are several other softie sketches I want to bring to reality, but I've made so many recently! I'm not sure what to do next.

What a Day!

Apparently with our huge storm yesterday, we weren't the only ones... Memphis had a tornado :o( We finally did get our power back on at about 6 pm, and our network (of which three servers were hit by lightning!) back just before 8 pm. We run 16 websites from here - so it was quite a scramble!

Today, I walked around Paris dropping off bills (it isn't far to any of the main buildings), and knitted on my purple sock as I walked. You should have seen people crank their necks as they drove by ;o)

On to the pictures! My old machine has a new hard-drive in it, and I was able to pull pictures off of the camera today.


They are multiplying!
This is just before Sally bit Willow's ear for leaning on her!

Willow isn't quite sure what to make of these new felt friends
We pulled this turtle out of the road today near Huntingdon, TN. I put him in a field near the road and told him to stay there! ;o)

And, the girls are busy patrolling our office, (the messy place featured) making sure any bugs, leaves or bits of stray electrical tape are thoroughly investigated and pounced upon. They sound like little elephants running around here!

Knitting Content, you say?

Getting there!
Doll dress
with crochet edging

Believe it or not, but knitting does go on here ;o) I often don't believe it myself!

My computer is going in for a hard-drive re-imaging, so these might be the last pictures for the week (maybe not... not sure!) I'll be borrowing another computer for work, but it won't have the camera driver on it.

Even more varnishing to do today, and we were just up on our office roof cleaning out gutters and sawing branches. What a week this has been! J has me quizzing him on his Japanese phrases, and I have to dig into the hiragana book -- as I have been avoiding it while trying to get toys ready for the shop.

Suspense!

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Last night, something happened that was quite eerie at the time. I was in our duplex's kitchen, chopping potatoes, and started hearing this noise outside, in the shared back entry. We don't currently have neighbors, and there is an outside door that I would have heard open if anyone came from outside.

I stopped chopping. The noise stopped. I started chopping, the noise returned. Willow sat up on her hind-legs in the kitchen chair and 'prarie-dogged,' trying to figure out what was going on. This alerted me that she, too, was hearing the noise. A moment later, 'someone' started turning the doorknob on the other side -- I was scared!

It turned out to be our landlord, who had been painting in the soon-to-be-rented apartment next door, and had heard me chopping. It was quite loud, I do admit! -- a metal knife on a glass plate. He had thought it was someone tapping on the outside entryway door, or maybe even something in the basement. We both scared each other quite well ;o)

So much to do today...

two outdoors photos (large format, click to enlarge)

Willow fell asleep like this just after we got home last night. More doll work this morning. Time to make food, finish a Python program and varnish more at the garage.

Wanderland

Salamander has been studying her hiragana too hard. ;o)
Ten things I wandered upon today:

1. Owl with a bonnet on [Wee Wonderful's flickr]
2. Animals in people-clothes [Wee Wonderful's flicker]
3. felted bunnies
4. Little Birds blog
5. Knitted Kitty at Squirrel's Worlds blog
6. Mosaic hints and tips (I have some saved dish shards in a drawer at home)
7. il Bloggo blog
8. fat felt lamb
9. A primitive lion at While She Naps
10. Japanese craft stuff at Wee Wonderfuls

This is my engraving kit from college. I really want to get some copper and start some more botanical engravings. The copper shown is my first engraving. I keep it near my kit to remember how the process felt those first few times. I was playing with texture this past week on the top-right linoleum. It really isn't turning out to be anything more than that. *sigh*