Talking up my etsy store

I finally reopened my little etsy shop again. I’m not making any new dolls at the moment (BUSY!!!) but I has some really cute ones already made so I dusted off my shop and put them up for your Christmas shopping pleasure! I’ll enjoy getting back to (regular) doll making after we get [...]

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Amazima Update

I haven’t fogotten you! Dolls have started to come in! Check out these new fun dolls that have shown up at my door recently! (The pictures are just a sampling from each crafter!)

These little boys and girls are sleeping on one side and awake on the other!

I’m thrilled to tell you that [...]

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Unexpected crafty time

We had planned on being out of town to meet my new little niece. But about an hour out of town, little man got ill. We had a short window to decide if it was a one time fluke or a bug we’d be exposing a newborn to. We erred on the [...]

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We interupt the good deed doing for some consumerism…

Just stopped by one of my fave crafty blogs, Make-Baby-Stuff.com. She’s got a tutorial and info on doing your own screenprints!!!! So cool!!
Now I want one. Dear Santa. Please oh please can I have a totally frivolous little screen-printing set? Ideas are whirring! That sounds a lot [...]

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Kitchen chemistry, playing outside and new toys

Kitchen experiments:
1. Discovered you can’t hurry yogurt. Just stick with the crock pot instructions. Oh well. It was only 1/2 gallon of milk. Can’t win every time!
2. Sourdough–I didn’t get the bread made, but managed pancakes using the starter! They were simple and tasty! NOTE for future: [...]

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More needle-felting fun!

Yes, I tend to go over-board with new projects.
Started a playscape last night. I have very limited colors left, and totally ran out of red and green, so it will have wait until I get more colors to finish it up. But it’s starting out pretty cute I think!

Little campfire for the gnomes:

And [...]

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And this is why I’ll never be a master at any one craft…

…I keep finding cool new crafts to try! I asked for and received some needle-felting materials for Christmas but hadn’t progressed beyond making a couple of the sample projects and a felt ball or two
I keep seeing cool needle-felted things and thinking “But *I* can make that!” Ok, I couldn’t replicate some people’s [...]

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Spotted box, potty training and big boy beds.

I finished my Spotted Box samples! Excuse the poor lighting…I need to mail them tomorrow but wanted a photo of what they looked like. It’s six multi-colored pieces of bow-tie pasta in pasta-like colors. Cuz I’m picky like that! ;P (Yes, if you can read the little insert info, you [...]

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The barn that etsy built

The barn got here! It my first big splurge with profits from my etsy store. And the perfect excuse to finally take pictures of some of the wooden animals I made Little Boy for Christmas! The painting was a joint effort, but clearly we have some learning yet…it looked good the first [...]

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Birthdays, toy safety, etsy updates

I’m another year older again. I survived. I picked out my present and I’m very excited for it to arrive! I ordered a beautiful wooden advent spiral by Holz und Spiel. I’d been waiting for it to get back in stock at my favorite online toystore, Three Sisters [...]

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