Three Little Bearries!

Sorry for my absence... the flu knocked me out... November was just... well... an AWFUL month when it came to the health of friends and family. Here's to a better December!

Let's begin it with new bears!!! The pink one you've seen before, but now she's joined with two little mohair friends!!!

I like this first pic... it looks like they're comforting the pink bear :)

Raggy Rat Giveaway!

I love Raggy Rat's work... and now she's having a giveaway (click on the picture to be taken to the giveaway!):

Woof!

Here's the first dog I've ever made... he's a rather... unspecified breed... XD

He still needs a proper collar and tag!!

He stands 6 inches tall, his nose is stitched and then glossed and his face, paws and ears are shaded.

This is also the first time I've ever put steel shot in a creation, so he has quite a nice weight to him too!

Just a small snippet...

This is a line from the book I am currently reading (The Ruby Key by Holly Lisle)... I think if more people thought with this logic, the world would be an amazingly better place:

Let me set the scene up for you first:

The girl has fetched a vial of potion for an old woman who has been caged and is near death. The old woman told her the vial will bring the near-dead back to life. The girl both has family who could use such a potion, and suspects the old woman might have betrayed her... but here is what she thinks:

But the elixir was not mine. If I took it and left, the old woman would die.
...the question was not what sort of person she was. It was what sort of person I was.
I could not know her heart. With difficulty and hard work, my mother had always told me, I might know my own.

Then she gives the elixir to the old woman.

I just kind of thought that was a beautiful way to look at things.

Thimbleprim Studios Mouse Swap

If any of you stuffed animal sewers are interested, there is a stuffed mouse swap over at Thimbleprim Studios!

And, no worries about needing to get it done before the holiday rush... finish date isn't until Jan 23rd.

So, click this picture and check it out!

What *IS* the Myth of the Narwhal?

So... a few months ago I was visiting home and we were discussing creatures that had been built up to be real, but were not (think 'jackalope')... when my brother turned to me and asked, "Yes, Heather... what *IS* the myth of the Narwhal?"

Now... at first I thought he was joking, so I laughed... but then he said, ,"No, really, what's the myth of the Narwhal? You know, the mythological creature, The Narwhal?"

My brother is by no means a dummy... in fact, he's a pretty smart guy... so, at this point, I was rolling on the floor laughing. He rarely makes such mistakes... so when he does, well, I'm afraid we're the cruel sort of siblings who have to make sure he never forgets!

(for anyone wondering... the Narwhal is NOT a mythological creature!!! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narwhal )

So, for Christmas, my brother is going to be getting a stuffed narwhal, and an illustrated story, "The Myth of the Narwhal" XD

He's gonna kill me.

Here is my prototype Narwhal... I had meant for him to be entirely fuzzy, bt his tail was too small to turn... and then I kinda just liked him this way, so I think I'll make all Narwhals this way :)


His horn is paperclay, with drawn on swirl, and then coated in gloss... and I hand colored all of his spots on him :)

To sing the praises of others!

Ok, everything I have in the works isn't ready for showing yet... so I am going to show you some of, what I consider to be, the amazing quilts my Mom makes for dolls:

(click on the image to see them larger)

Quilt #1

Quilt #2

Also, I took a picture of a doll holding the scrap pin pink thingy I made... and pretty much just wanted to share them to illuminate the importance of lighting (HAH)