A Mustache Man Start and Container Veggies

Things have been quiet in  my studio.  I got the urge today though to go back to the basics and make another mustache man.  He'll be wearing overalls (made out of the blue and white fabric pictured above).  I think the urge came while shopping today and spotting a man with a curly-que mustache, the really great kind of curly-que mustache in which the mustachee uses some sort of waxing product to get the curl to stay.  He was older too, with a gray mustache and I can't help but think how sweet it is that an older man puts so much effort into his facial hair.  It's just sort of nice.  Oh the little things.    

And pictured above is my container vegetable garden, which I am beaming about.  The terra cotta and red container both contain radishes and the green and white container is growing some cucumbers.  I have no idea how tall these plants are going to get, and I can't imagine the cucumber fellow being able to bear the weight of cucumbers, but I am so excited to see what happens.  I talk to them every morning and apologize for my container gardening naivete, and then I ask them if they need anything besides some water, and they politely don't request anything else, so hopefully they will live on and yield me some salad ingredients!  

Have a lovely week, and I'll update you when my mustache man is complete!

Hello There.

Sorry it has been so long.  It was even hard for me to find my blog after letting so much dust fall on it.  The blogging gods are definitely frowning on me.  This Pink Cheeks is a special request from a lovely woman who made me blush when she described how much her daughter liked Carlos Jr..  She has a bun in the oven and wanted a Mary Poppins doll for her daughter to give as a gift to her brand new, yet to enter this world sister, which I think is completely sweet.  I did Mary Poppin's body weeks ago, and then for some reason I got stuck in a sewing funk.  I was stuck.  It was like being waste-deep in tar.  Mary Poppins kept staring at me with her button eyes, sad and arm-less.  Every day I would come home from work and say, "Today is the day I sew Mary some upper limbs!"  Then, I wouldn't even be able to exert enough sewing energy to plug in the machine.  I kept imagining how the musical would have been if Mary Poppins was arm-less, and how she would have had to hold the handle of the umbrella she floated down with in between her toes and it made me so sad.  But, today Mary demanded at me that I suck it up, take a spoon-full of sugar and sew her up some arms!  And I did!  Woo!  

In other news, my husband, Joseph, finished his MFA degree!  I am so happy and proud of him (and also excited that he finally has time to do laundry again).  I wanted to include some images from his thesis show for you to Ooooooh and Ahhhhh at:

Enjoy the sunshine!  

The Pleasantly Plump Stylish Ladies Complete!

The Stylish Ladies are done!  I don't know which is my favorite, the senior lady or the tiniest one with the bee-hive, but they all sort of make my giggle.  They will be up in my shop shortly.   

The dance that I mentioned in my previous post was intensely fun, though none of my photos were post-worthy, sorry.  It's a shame too because one of my most favorite clients wore this dress from the eighties that had the most emormously puffy sleeves you could ever imagine.  It was completely great.  

So, has mother nature gone completely mad?  I don't know about where you are, but by me there were flurries!  I am boy-cotting though.  I WILL not wear my winter coat any more!  No sir.    

What My Saturday Looks Like

My Stylish Lady Matryoshka dolls are going to need another day for me to finish them up.  It makes me laugh that I am calling them "stylish" and currently wearing black tights with white shoes.  I am all dressed for the Stone Belt spring dance.  Joseph (husband) made a comment before that I am not so good at style "from the ankle down", otherwise I wouldn't have Googled is it okay to wear white shoes with black tights just to be sure I was in the clear, which I am definitely not.  I am not, however, a "shoe" person.  I don't have any alternatives, so I am just going to wear them and pretend that I am "fashion-forward".  I am very excited about the dance, regardless of my fashion no-no.  I never went to a prom, and even though most of my friends say I didn't miss much, and then they recite the horrible-ness of it all, I think a prom-nightmare-story is better than no-prom-story at all.  But now, finally(!) a decade later, I get to redeem myself at the Stone Belt dance!  Woo!  

I will update you tomorrow on Monday with pictures of the event, the shoes and the finished matryoshkas which will be up in the shop then! Enjoy your Saturday!  

Stylish, Pleasantly Plump Lady Matryoshka Dolls

I had fun with this one, and I look forward to the others.  Matryoshka dolls have such a great, humble shape---plump in all the fun places.  This particular Matryoshka Doll added a belt to define her waist (she learned that from What Not to Wear).  Despite having a great time last night painting and drinking tea, I am battling off a grumpy mood today, it came over me like a.....(insert quirky metaphor here, I can't think of one).  Mother Nature is not offering me up any help because it is gray and soggy here, so she's probably a grump too.  Perhaps the two of us should get together and eat cookies to try to lighten things up.  

Beatrice

Beatrice is a spring fanatic.  She has little tolerance for the color gray, and gets quite grumpy after the last fall leaf has fallen off the trees and the branches are all bare.  As soon as the weather becomes bearable, Beatrice is outside preparing for Spring.  The first thing she does is collect pine cones and buy up crunchy peanut butter from the shop.  Then she gets to work making and hanging her bird feeders on all the tree limbs that are starting to sprout buds.  She's pretty sure that she is personally responsible for the rising bird population in her county, but she doesn't mind.  Next Beatrice tends to her flower garden which features every color in her 100 colored Crayola crayon box.  The colors are important because Beatrice is an organic-enthusiast, and she refuses to dye her Easter eggs with food coloring.  Instead, she makes dye naturally with her flowers, and they come out quite nice.  The children in her neighborhood are so in awe of them that they don't even complain about the lack of chocolate inside of them at her annual-organically-dyed-Easter-egg-hunt.

Beatrice measures 12" tall while siting, and her legs measure 6 more inches.  She is 8" across and made with super soft fleece, brightly colored spring fabrics, vintage and non-vintage buttons, denim, felt and polyfill.  She can sit up all on her own and looks ever so lovely on a shelf.  She has posable arms and dangly legs.

Beatrice is up for sale in my Etsy shop!

Not Ready Yet...

But definitely tomorrow!  In the meanwhile, listen to Lisa Hannigan who is amazing, and sews all of her own lyrics for her album cover!  I'm a little in love.