new faces

I've given the dark mermaid a new face based on the Gauguin girl.
My blonde lady has a new mouth - I think I'll adjust the eyes too

Gauguin girl

I'm very pleased with my new mermaid based on Gauguin's Tahitan ladies

Close up

I'm not sure whether I should sew the scarf so it drapes more modestly. 

Mermaids

Have had great fund doing the tails of these two ladies. I still need to get better at lips and will probably go back and redo them when I've had more practice. I am rather pleased with the hair.

Continuing with the fairy dolls. Just had to take out the eyes of my latest . They were scaring me! Will try with felt instead of embroidery. 

Tom's badges arrived for his band Puppets http://www.myspace.com/puppetsuk

Warning you may want to turn down the volume.

 I helped draw the graphic - he has coloured it up differently but I like this one.

Phew! After hours more fiddling about here at last is the finished Woodbine. What a wonderful day to spend a Sunday. I did also manage to play three rounds of table tennis to keep Tom's brain away from the screen and listen to him reciting his RS revision so not entirely self indulgent.

New project. I've started on dolls - thanks finding the blog of to a wonderful lady called Mimi Kirchner www.mimikirchner.com who makes the most fab dolls.

This is my second attempt - after alot of unpicking and experimenting. I only had mint green boiled wool that would stuff well hence we have a green fairy! Tom suggested I gave her a midsummer night's dream fairy name so she's called Woodbine - she is afterall more woodnymph than fairy. I think I'll call the next one Cobweb...

Meantime she still needs little boots, trimming on the hem and various other finishing touches.