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This is a beginner’s primitive cloth doll tutorial that consists of a pattern and several videos.

We do not use clay in this one.

Key learning points:

Fabric bust

Connecting doll bust to a cone

Needle sculpting the face

Needle felting wool for hair

Making a party dress and wings

Getting an antique look

Making a banner for your doll to hold

Clickity-click-right-HERE

This painting sat incomplete on my wall for a couple months. I called it The Red Guitar because of the guitar shaped red blotch.

Why must we always search for a familiar object or form within an abstract painting?…Or it is that we cannot help but see them?

Anyways, even though I added the women (which then become subjects thus calling for my attention while considering a title),  I chose to keep The Red Guitar.

I like how this turned out. I really enjoy abstract painting…just pushing paint around and playing with the composition.

Find out more HERE.

I can’t quit listening to this…stayed up WAY too late last night listening to her…

All of these lines across my face
Tell you the story of who I am
So many stories of where I’ve been
And how I got to where I am
But these stories don’t mean anything
When you’ve got no one to tell them to
It’s true…I was made for you
I climbed across the mountain tops
Swam all across the ocean blue
I crossed all the lines and I broke all the rules
But baby I broke them all for you
Because even when I was flat broke
You made me feel like a million bucks
You do
I was made for you
You see the smile that’s on my mouth
It’s hiding the words that don’t come out
And all of my friends who think that I’m blessed
They don’t know my head is a mess
No, they don’t know who I really am
And they don’t know what
I’ve been through like you do
And I was made for you…
All of these lines across my face
Tell you the story of who I am
So many stories of where I’ve been
And how I got to where I am
But these stories don’t mean anything
When you’ve got no one to tell them to
It’s true…I was made for you

I mixed my love for old quilts and angel paintings for this one! Her dress is made out of an antique quilt top. It is so cool…with hand-stitching and just the right amount of worn-ness…and I gave her bows to match.

Find her on EBAY tonight~