Summer 2025

I really need to remember I have a blog. I am busy with so many hobbies I  forget to post to this one.

Summer has been very busy with a lot of rain. Mowing has kept me buys along with putting down old carpet then mulch.It has help in areas where I can not mow.

With the hot weather I have stayed in and of course at this time of year I get in the mood to make pumpkin things.

Back in 1991 I designed and sold  craft patterns. I did one called shelf sitters because of the way they were built with a block of wood for the body they were posable. I dug out the pattern and did some adjustments using a sock and poly pellets. Pumpkin doll , pumpkin head cone decorations and some pumpkin head candy jars. The biggest one I used a strong cardboard ice cream container.

 Fun projects.The pattern front.

          

Journaling

 I have discovered a new (to me) art. Journaling. I will call mine art journaling but many call it junk journaling. I will be using some repurposed things . I have made a space in my sewing/painting room for this. I will share, what I create, as I go along.

Pumpkin head dolls

Because I had 2 round heads made I decided to make a couple of fall dolls. Fun to do. Hats made from a tattered old quilt.

  I usually make a new sweet witch doll after the 4th of july. 

This year I saw This web site   https://thehalseyhomestead.com/.

She has really fun things done with old quilts, feed sacks, and vintage fabrics. She had large witch hats and I thought instead of making more dolls I will just make hats for dolls I made this past years. Here they are.  Fun to do.  I made 6 with hats.

July 2024

 A new Americana tea cozy.Not much new here. Yard work and flowers. 

 I saw a rocking bunny online and decided to make my version.The bunny I saw had metal rockers.I do not weld so mine had to be fabric. Fun project.

 She is done. This is the doll I was working on in the previous post.I think I will call her Marian Joyce. She is another doll made using my MJ pattern. All those dolls have M and J names. Finished March 9th 2024. Her white dress was from curtains from my mothers kitchen in the 1980's. Fabric faded but the bow pattern in the fabric didn't. I always knew I would find a use for it someday.