PLAYING WITH CLAY

Recently I joined this great doll club, ADO, check it out artdollsonly.blogspot.com

I've met wonderful serious art doll makers, lots of clay artists.

Seeing all this wonderful art, has inspired me to pick up some paper clay and mush it around.

I love primitive dolls, and made it easy by just rolling sticks and balls, and made this lovely little Tea Cup Fairy, she is joined together with ribbons. She is happy sitting in the morning sun, while I have my tea.

Thinking this isn't so hard, I made fabric sculptures and covered them with clay, smoothing seems to be difficult for me.

The mermaids are soft sculpture covered in clay

I than made clay bodies, heads, arms, and attached the arms with ribbon, added a stuffed tail

Green Pond Mermaids

These faeries are fabric sculpture covered in clay

I find clay interesting to work with, and it is fun to play with another medium, and I spent a couple afternoons laughing at my goofy faces. But I think I will stick to thread and needle, after all it is my comfort zone!

OWOH ANNOUNCEMENT OF WINNERS!

A pink moon over the Gypsy Caravan Campsite, cast a beautiful light over a party of singing and dancing, the last night of the great journey. The campfires were flickering and tambourines tinkling so much merriment, through this dreamy haze I heard the trumpet.

It was Valentine Bunny waking me up from my wonderful Gypsy dream, today is the day!

Get up, we have to announce the winners, the Country Faeries are ready to go!

The faeries crowed around the Peter Pan Hat, Spice Devil rode in on a alligator, who tried to take a bite out of the hat.

Taking care not to get bitten! Mr. Miami, pulled three names from the Magical Hat

The winners are:

Kate -- shiborigirl.blogspot.com

Catherine -- rieder@clunet.edu

Joanne Huffman -- thiemehuffman@yahoo.com

I will e-mail you all, congratulations, send me your address and I will pack up a Country Faerie

and send her to her new home

merfaerie@gmail.com

But wait, Mr Miami has to pull one more name from the Pan Hat, Spice Devil is going to live in a new house, she is excited about causing mischief somewhere new!

And Spice Devil is going to:

Caroline -- carolinescrafts@gmail.com

Send me your address

merfaerie@gmail.com

Better get a cage ready, Spice is a handful

Everyone has 7 days to contact me

Congrads to everyone, and a big thank you to everyone who entered my give-away.

Please come back and visit Central Florida, I will be having a big French Champagne Party this Spring, lots of interesting characters have been invited, also a beautiful little french faerie will be given away.

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COUNTRY FAERIES ARE PATIENTLY WAITING

Today I noticed the three Country Faeries sitting outside my window, lined up in a row on the farm posts.

We are waiting for the OWOH Give-away, we are excited can't wait to see what adventure awaits, the three little faeries sang out to me!

Two more days and Mr. Miami will pull three names from the Peter Pan Hat!

The comments on my OWOH blog will be closed Weds. the 11th at Noon Florida time.

I want to thank everyone for visiting Central Florida, and all the great comments on my blog.

This has been a wonderful event, and I am looking forward to having more give-aways in the Spring, from my French Champagne Party "Oui La La" a Marie Antoinette inspired collection of dolls.

Also, I will be pulling one more name, for this little Valentine Spice Stinker,

because the devil made me do it!

I'll be making my announcement of all four winners Thurs. 12th

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A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM

ADO's new Challenge Shakespeare, is so exciting I had to get started right away.

My favorite play A Midsummer Night's Dream, has lots of great characters and faeries, I started two characters Queen of the Fairies, Titania and Bottom the Weaver, with the head of the donkey.

The story is Puck casts a spell on Bottom to give him a head of a donkey, and Titania while sleeping has magic love drops placed on her eyelids, when she awakened,

she will fall in love with whoever she sees first, which as luck would have it," it is Bottom," who ends up being lavishly kept by the Queen.

My two sculptures are cotton knit and the bodies have been sculpted, the faces are blank, ready for sculpting and painting and a donkey head must be fashioned out of cloth.

More pictures to come as they progress.

Art Dolls Only is a great new club of very talented Art Doll artists, group chats, forums, blogs

Check it out at artdollsonlyblogspot.com

My studio Kitty Sailfish is feeling better, and is very quiet, she has stopped singing "Someday my Prince will come" YAY she will be off to the vet this week for a little nip and tuck.

TAGGED FOR THE 4TH PICTURE IN THE 4TH FILE

I was tagged by the lovely Kim's Art by the Sea, for the 4th picture in the 4th file,

It was elf dolls and the back of a faerie dress, what else would it be! All my pictures are of faeries or my cats.

Sorry Kim, nothing embarrassing in my files, my life is pretty slow these days! But it is still fun to be tagged, Thanks

I tag the following ladies for the 4th picture in the 4th file

MealymonsterLand

DubuhduDesigns

Lolaenchanted

Blackeyesuzie

VALENTINE'S DAY IS COMING, I FEEL THE CHOCOLATE MONSTER APPROCHING

It has been a while since my last post, I've been busy riding the GYPSY CARAVAN, the OWOH event had kept me intrigued with wonderful new blogs to read, and I have met and seen incredible artists along this fascinating journey. A big thank you goes out to Lisa Oceandreamer, for hosting of this spectacular event. I joined this group of Art Doll makers, ADO Art Dolls Only. This is a amazing group of artists. Members of this club enjoy forums, chats, discussions, challenges, click on the ADO badge and check it out!

Now back to Valentine merriment and Chocolate monsters! I've been trying to work, I added new dolls to my Etsy site, Sprite Faeries, colorful spindly faeries that tumble around the house, sprinkling rose petals. But the Spice Devil Girls have been running rampant through my studio, spilling pins on the floor, pulling the Kitty's tail, and hiding my tiny gold scissors. Little stinkers these devils, dancing and laughing, party central seems to be here. But not even these little Divas can spoil this week, for I will have my very first Etsy Showcase, Dolls and Miniatures, Thursday Feb. 5th "it is so exciting"

So dance the Can Can Spice girls as tiny gold winged Angels watch, clap and sing! Lets celebrate and have a wonderful time, break out the chocolate!

Except for this one little naughty Spice Devil who is the biggest trouble maker of all!

So off you go to someone else's house to cause mischief.

My FOURTH GIVE-AWAY we be this LEOPARD DRESSED DIVA

My OWOH blog will be closed for comments Tues FEB. 11th at noon EST.

and 3 names will be drawn for my give-away plus one more for this Little Spice Devil
SORRY, BUT THE DEVIL MADE ME DO IT!

Announcement of the winners on FEB. 12th, don't forget to make a comment on the blog below and get in my give-away.

ONE WORLD ONE HEART ADVENTURES OF FLORIDA FAERIES

Just under the great National Forest of Ocala and above the Parks and the City Beautiful, Orlando is a tranquil place called Central Florida. Smack in the middle of the state time stands still!

Thousands of fresh water lakes surrounded by groves of orange trees, tall oaks dressed in lacy moss, where beneath lie monstrous alligators and Great Blue Heron fill the air.

On this particularly sunny crisp day, I set off to visit some of my local friends. I stopped to share an orange with Shortie and Ute, little field trolls.

Than onto the lake front where I waved at a pair of beautiful Merfaeries with green dragon fly wings, singing lulla-byes to the restless alligators.

I walked through the orange grove and came across three little country faeries collecting acorns in their full skirted pinafores.

I stopped to chat, I told them of the One World One Heart event, where I will get to meet new friends from all over the world.

The faeries were very interested in all the adventures I spoke of, they so wanted to travel to new places. I suggested they pose for me and I took some pictures of these three lovely faeries.

THE GIVE-AWAY IS "THREE COUNTRY FAERIES"

So my blog is open to everyone who visits, leave a comment and a e-mail and FEB 12th, I'll pull three names out of my PETER PAN HAT and send three winners one of these country cuties, for a grand new life and fabulous adventures!

Thanks for stopping bye and checking out Central Florida Life

To see more of my handmade dolls click on my Etsy shop
For more info on ONE WORLD ONE HEART click on badge!

FAERIES AND MORE FAERIES

I never left my studio this past season, but my life is pretty easy these days, one child away at school out of state, young people have such busy lives, Oh, I remember that! It is nice just to enjoy the days at this slow rate. So I make lots of dolls, lately faeries, I just don't feel the mermaids until the weather gets hot again. I know the weather up north has been cold, but for us in Central Florida it is nice to put on a sweater once in awhile.

So because it has been cold,
The Big Blue Fae, Lola and Leila shook frosty crystals on my studio windows the other morning!

The yard was full of red breasted Robins, large flocks passing through on their way South to Miami, because that is where the party is!

Spring will be here soon enough, so here are a few colorful little Garden Tenders to help brighten up your day!

I will be posting my give away for the One World One Heart Event on Jan. 19th

So check it out!

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SUGAR AND SPICE, A MUCH BETTER PEEK

Sugar and Spice and everything nice, except my photo work, which believe it or not has come a long way, for me! With some tips from some of my fabulous new artistic friends we will give it another try!

Here is a peek of my Valentine dolls

Devilish Spicie Elf Girls and Sugarie Sweet Elf Girls

I will have a collection of 8 dolls in my Etsy shop Sat. Jan. 10th, early evening Florida time!

These little 10 inch dolls are made from pima cotton and paper clay

They are all hand made, all have different outfits, and personalities

Hopefully soon the camera will become as easy as needle and thread!

Don't forget to check out my blog for the ONE WORLD ONE HEART EVENT

Jan. 19th, I will post several give-aways

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NEW YEAR AND A CLEAN PIECE OF PAPER TO DRAW ON!

I never make New Year resolutions, not that I couldn't keep them, I just feel like a New Year is like a piece of fresh white paper to draw on. What will I draw? Sew?

I have so many ideas, for me it is trying to find time for all them in a short New Year.

I started working on new dolls over Christmas, getting ready for Valentines Day, I love holidays! Here is a peek of my new Elf Girls, Sugar and Spice.

I love making little spicie devil elf's, handing one of these little cuties to a friend, because the devil made me do it!

Or maybe you are a sugary sweetie!

I'll be posting a collection of 8 Jan. 10th on my Etsy Shop, so stop by have a laugh, smirk a smile!

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