Name Plaques.

I've taken all the orders I can cope with for before Christmas, but am now taking commissions for next year.
Here are a few photos of some of the latest including a tiger for Josh, and an otter for Matthew.
Thanks to everyone for your orders, it's been such a pleasure painting these.

Original paintings made into quilted name plaques.

Each plaque is hand-painted...

sewn on to two layers of felted wool blanket...

I sew into the painting to give a quilted effect.

Add some twine to hang them up with.

Here's a bundle ready for delivery.

Each one is signed and dated.

Pixies!

Each hand painted.

I'm having so much fun!

Painting and sewing...

Feeling festive.

Toadstools

.... all hand painted!

Christmas is around the corner ......

So I've been painting these little russian dolls to hang on the christmas tree.

Patchwork quilt.

Here's that patchwork quilt in more detail, it took hours!!

Time for bed.

Here's some photos I took last week with my friend Sarah's beautiful antique beds as props.
The butterflies are paper, cut from an old reference book.
The patchwork quilt I painted.

A few more things .....

 

I'm practicing putting stuff up on my blog, these are a few things I've been making recently.
Two little dogs.

Definitely good friends.

And this little fellow.
I was thinking about Tove Jansson's wonderful array of creatures in the Moomintroll books and was inspired to make up a forest animal of my own, I can just see him shyly peeping out from behind a tree.
I've made a few friends for him, others are still in my head or scribbled on bits of paper.

Here we go!

So, the children are growing and I have a little time to create, draw, paint and think.
I'm making these dolls, they are quite small and delicate, a more grown up version of a rag doll.
Each doll has it's own personality. Some wearing quite modern clothes, they look like my daughter Darcy and her friends, others look like they've wandered out of a fairy tale book.

More photos of my dolls.

Florence

Jemima

Pixie

You can read about each doll in more detail at my Etsy shop, the cupboard of delights.