Up to my eyes in...

Up to my eyes in ...eyeballs!

I know I've been promising a few of you a follow up to my doll eye tutorial. I WILL be posting it tomorrow yeayyy! I swear I'm surrounded by eyes, it all starts out with good intentions. Taking pictures of every step..then I realize I've finished them and forgotten to take the last half of the pictures! It's an amazing time warp that happens while creating..that "zone" where time doesn't exist and creation happens in that magical flow. I've decided this is an awake dream state of sorts, but instead of 5 minutes of dreaming feeling like 2 hours, 2 hours of creating feels like 5 minutes!

Wow..I've been away from blogging a bit eh? I was a little afraid hearing of all the changes Blogger has been up to. But I must admit I quite like it! It's nice and clean and simple. Took me a minute to figure it out but I do like it much better than the old format.  

So tomorrow I will get the rest of the pictures taken and organized so I can get the tutorial posted for you, thank you for your patience :) In the mean time, here's a few things I made over the holidays.

Mother Deer and Fawn. Coffee stained and painted cloth. Pattern by "Hidden in the Attic"

Hand painted little bird house.

Dress form pin cushion with vintage buttons and lace. My own pattern.

This little imp was fun, she was made from Angela Jarecki's "Asterique" doll class.

She has a needle sculpted cloth face, that was then covered with another layer of cloth.

She's a little shy, I think she may sneak off and steal my buttons again!

~Happy Creating!

Aimee

Show 'n Tell and Thank You's

Hello lovelies! I hope you are all having a wonderful Easter weekend! This post is longggg over due. I best get it all posted before it is all outdated *grin*. So much to catch up on, so I finally got to taking pics and gathering the links I needed. Now the normal person might have done this in several timely posts..but..I never claimed to be normal ha!

First things first: The "One World One Heart" door prizes! I know a few of you wanted to see the custom ACEO I was to make along with the other goodies for the winner of my door prize Teresa over at http://ourknitalong.blogspot.com/ . So I decided to challenge myself and try to draw the four family members contributing to the blog. It was a challenge because I haven't had a lot of practice doing anything resembling a real person much less four! You can see the photos I used for reference on the left hand side of her blog. Here's what I came up with, I think it turned out pretty good :)



I have also been meaning to show off all of the goodies I won on my wonderful OWOH journey! I was waiting for all of the prizes to arrive, I know some had to travel a long way in the midst of weird weather etc. I think there is one more out there in the hands of the postal service, but I couldn't wait any longer so I will post another blog when that one arrives.

I won this beautiful glass hear necklace made by the talented Niky at http://silverniknats.blogspot.com

It's even more amazing in person, I LOVE glass!

I won this beautiful piece of altered art by Alicia at http://alteredbits.wordpress.com 

I *do* love anatomy and body parts! It fits in very well in my studio :)








Cindy over at http://plantslist.blogspot.com chose my lucky number to win this incredible "diptych". I had never heard of this before, it's the same size as an ACEO/ATC but with two parts! A "triptych" would be three parts and so on. I love this concept of bringing 3D life to ACEO art! Pictures can't really capture all the color and texture, but it's pretty amazing.

Here it is open.

I also won this cool polymer clay and beaded necklace from Iris over at http://msnovembertuesday.blogspot.com I knew I won her door prize but it was to be a surprise so I didn't know what it was until it arrived, I love surprises! Neat huh?







So that's it for the OWOH related stuff for now. Have you signed up for the newsletter for the next event?
It looks like it is going to be just as much fun! I know I'm going to try to participate again, as this was my first year and I really enjoyed meeting all of you!

Another exciting note, I was published in "Cloth Paper Scissors: Studios" Spring issue for one of my DIY organization projects.  I must say that I was completely tickled to be in the same issue with Ty Pennington woohooo! I also figured it would be a little blip on a page with several other projects..but I got an entire page!   So I better show this off, because it's almost time to the Summer issue to come out...yeah I procrastinate :) (Page. 27!!!)

Ok let's see..what else is going on...OH! I replied to a post on Maureen's Facebook page and she said I won a RAK! Oh boy! I love winning stuff! What's a RAK? LOL Now I know.."Random Acts of Kindness". I love it!  She sent me these wonderful art prints and cards.

Be sure to visit her shop HERE to see more of her fabulous art!

That's it for now..time to go cuddle with hubby and kitties!

Signs of Spring..finally!

Slowly but surely, life is returning.  She had a few false starts..Mother Nature..a few teases of sunny days followed by cold and rain. But it was enough to wake her from her slumber. 

I took this picture of this peculiar caterpillar back in November. It looked like something right out of Alice in Wonderland! I actually *heard* it before I saw it as it burrowed around moving leaves. 

Now...I have no idea how long this caterpillar remained...a caterpillar. Or how long it stayed snuggled up in a cocoon, making it's amazing transformation. But I'd like to think this is the very same one :) Lovely Luna appeared this morning!

She is so beautiful..and look how fuzzy she is!

Finally got her wings open. She stayed there all day in the sun, drying her brand new wings! 

Hope you had a great day!