Under Umbrelland

Black doll cat with moon, primitive rag cat. Cosmic cat with yellow eyes
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annapavlovna

Bear Red Hat - Stuffed With Love Buddy Bears - Friendship and Sweets
"Hello, Our names’re Anna and Kate. We’re from Russia. Annapavlovna's shop full lovely gifts. We enjoy our job very much. Thanks for stopping by to look. We hope you see something you like."
mini-bio written by annapavlovna via the etsy profile

Two Sad Donkeys

Hanna - White Tailed Female Deer, Art Puppet Marionette Stuffed Animal Felted Toy. beige neutral cream brown
"I like felt and love marionettes, and these two facts come together here in my store. And these toys are result of this love I‘ve been working in State Puppet Theater as a set and puppet designer. I’ve also been working in felted wool for about 7 years. I was born in Estonia, studied fine art in Russia, in Moscow Textile Academia. Now I live in Republic of Georgia (Caucasus), in native land of my husband. He and our three boys are the biggest friends and fans in my life. I’m also part of group of women who love to spend our “free” time together making marionettes from natural materials for our small Waldorf school puppet theater. Once a month we show our fairy tales for our kindergarten’s and school’s children. I’m inspired by nature, animals, children’s creativity, ancient rock painting and of course by art of Mark Chagall. I truly love I do and I thank God for this life I live."
bio written by Olga via her etsy profile

Kiki Mood

The little black whale - Doll decoration

happycloud

"Jenette"
"My name is Daniel Allyn Lee. I'm an artist and designer lost in the woods of Western Wisconsin. I've been working on making plush dolls and other various art and design projects for the past few years. Although, my background is in the fine arts, I've always been inspired by a variety of cartoons, comics and video games. I’m most happy when working on a creative project, sewing, painting, drawing, etc… I love thinking up ideas for fun new creatures, goofy monsters and crazy characters. I enjoy letting my imagination loose in the world of fantasy; inventing adventures for an assortment of heroes, elves, monsters and evil villains; and so, I hope you do too."
bio written by Daniel via his etsy profile
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super ninon

"Delphine Wee Pirouette"
"I just love making stuff with fabric and inventing new little creatures. I have been doing it almost everyday for the last 4 years.
I can't be bothered to make 2 things the same.....I am interested in failures, imperfections and in what is possible to obtain after some "mistakes".
I believe that sometimes a couple of button
eyes can be a lot more expressive than the eyes of many human
beings... sometimes I also make little drawings.
I enjoy the fact that when I start making someting I never know how it will come out. Oh, and I miss the dinosaurs."
bio written by ninon and taken from her etsy profile
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New projects this week

I've been pretty busy since my last post and wanted to share, with you, my newest projects!

This is the cat stuffie I made for saltybean, for our stuffie swap. I think she will love it, as I am quite happy with it, myself. I used those foam chips to stuff it with: I'm not too sure if I'm fond of them yet...

Here are two coat that I made. The first is a tribute to Twitter, on the Blythe. The "t" is much more teal-y-er than what the photo shows. "follow me" is embroidered on the back. Available in my etsy shop. The second is a yellow duck raincoat made for Lati yellow. I made it for a swap I'm doing. It's made from real raincoat material and I think it came out wonderfully. I will list it in my etsy soon. I wonder if others will fall in love...?

Wayne found some wonderful skateboard catatlogs in a dumpster, they are clean and barely even used! I chose one of them, with the heaviest paper, and made these envelopes. I already had the template, traced out several of them, Wayne cut them out for me, and I glued them together. Really funky images on them. Lot of 15 available in my etsy right now!

Next, I have these twin mermaid dotee dolls to show you. A friend wanted me to make one for another friend, so I ended up making twins and sending one to each friend! I just love making mermaid dotee dolls! I tried to make them look the same, as close as possible. They always end up smaller than what I had hoped. Next time, I shall try to use more fabric, so that it comes out bigger.

This isn't a project, so much as I just wanted to show them off! My Sonny Angels arrived this week. Oh, I just love them! I fell so much in love, that I bought four more, second hand for super cheap. I think they are just adorable, anatomically correct and all!

friday night update

Hello! It's Friday night, and I want to show you what I've been working on this past week:
I made three more stuffies for my friend's baby store. I am really happy with how these turned out. My favorite one is in the middle. It's made from upcycled fabrics (sweat pants and pajama pants).

I made this gorgeous bracelet with these wonderful plum colored glass pearls that I bought from CharmingWren via etsy. I just love the color of them & I hope someone will purchase the bracelet.

I was able to finish off this kawaii fawn dress, for Blythe, this week, too. It's made of these wonderful Valentine colored fabrics. I just love the long sleeves and the baby pom pom trim, which was hand sewn on.

I have a whole list of projects that I have to get done. I can't imagine that I'll be able to get all of them done this weekend, but I can always strive for it, right? I hope this creative kick, I've found, lasts till it's finished!
What did you create this week??

Trades with Pipercat99 & Saltybean

Pipercat99 on flickr so made my day today! she agreed to trade her white Chu chu Nikki cat for my Monomono Dal. I've been searching for a Nikki cat for a while now and am so happy to be able to trade for one!!
Also, I set up a swap with saltybean. We are going to trade stuffies! I can't wait to display one of her funky mermaids in my art studio!!
My grandmother came through her triple bypass surgury a-okay yesturday!

I made these three stuffies within the past week for a friend, who owns a baby store, The Nesting Company. Hopefully someone will fall in love with one and will buy it!

Six stuffies

So, I made these six stuffies/ plush animals for a friend's baby shop. She sells baby and maternity clothes. The store is called The Nesting Co. (or something like that) She wanted me to make some critters and see if they'd sell, in her store. I must say, that the plaid teddy is my favorite, and was almost sold before I even left the store! I think I'll be making more of these to sell in my Etsy store (in different colors), and for the baby store. Each stuffie is different from each other, some taking more work than others. Tell me which you like the best!
I often wonder, what's the point of keeping this blog? as I know there are NO readers... :*(