I’ve been on vacation! It was wonderful to spend time with my hubbie and 3 kids & I am feeling very inspired and have a big new pile of gorgeous fabric~ YIPPEE. Back to catching up on emails and orders and other stuff for now 
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Back from getaway!
July 28th, 2010Updated posts
July 4th, 2010I can’t believe I just removed the name of the doll ‘Valentine’ from the post title… for getting spammed a lot. *SIGH*
Strawberries
July 2nd, 2010
strawberry doll
Strawberries… mmm… fresh from the garden or wild, they’re all good! This summer I am hoping to transform my season table into a strawberry land. Above is a picture of a strawberry doll that will join the yet-to-be-made strawberry themed dolls I’ve been working on. We’ll see where I get with it all…
Poppy and Poppy Peg Tutorial
June 23rd, 2010
Poppy Dollhouse Doll
Each year I have a field of wild poppies that springs up in my yard, beautiful orangey-red flowers that bend and sway in the breeze. I’ve made a Poppy dollhouse doll in similar colours available for sale: http://www.etsy.com/listing/49524351/dollhouse-doll-poppy .
On the same theme I made a free project for a poppy peg doll:
~Make this Poppy Peg Doll~
Here is the link: poppypegdollpdf . Happy Crafting!!
DEER FAMILY PATTERN
June 15th, 2010
Beautiful Deer Family
Many years ago I made these deer, then I offered them as a kit where I had done the English translation and now I have the honour of carrying the license. YIPPEE!!! This means I can also offer the pattern alone, which I have been asked for over the years. Find the pattern in my BDC etsy shop: http://www.etsy.com/shop/BearDanceCrafts
These darling fallow deer are made with wool felt and stuffed with wool. This deer family is so super cute~ to state the obvious!
She’s Got Huge Tracts of… Wool Felt
June 2nd, 2010While I was looking at my pile of wool felt (partly pictured below) I was reminded of the ‘huge tracts of land’ joke from a Monty Python film. I am often asked if I carry larger pieces of wool felt and the answer is most definately YES. Huge tracts as it were! Wool felt is amazing and wonderful to work with and incidentally so are the people who order it for their projects!! Over 75 colours now!! http://www.beardancecrafts.com/wool_felt.htm
Huge Tracts of Wool Felt
Spring Yard
May 29th, 2010
poppy budding
Every spring we let the yard go wild in the back, especially around the playhouse, where a patch of poppies grow. They are so airy and blow and bend with the spring winds. And the colour!! It is amazing… I can feel a poppy doll or two coming on!!
Above is a poppy budding and below one that is out.
poppy
Here is a shot of the playhouse we built for the kids a few years ago. The kids helped build it too, with hand split shakes and the whole nine yards. It has a little tower inside, a trap door in the floor and a slide. The wysteria is just starting to bloom which hides the playhouse a little and gives it shade in the summer.
playhouse
Pippi Longstocking
May 19th, 2010
Pippi Longstocking
It seems to be taking a coons age to finish and list the kits, but here is a sneak peek at Pippi Longstocking from Atelier Pippilotta that I have translated. Pippi is one of those endearing storybook characters that both children and adults adore, not to mention dress up as at Halloween!
You’ll find a ton of beautiful kits on www.beardancecrafts.com, Pippi coming soon!! Personally I can’t wait!!!!!
Doll Fun
May 11th, 2010
Fruit Is Fun!
Making dolls is something I have loved doing for many many years… but I confess I have been having serious amounts of fun making clothes lately. Above is Summer Sweet which I just listed today on www.woolhalla.etsy.com . Her dress and undies are made with a gorgeous 100% cotton with a fruit and heart print. Yum!
Flowers for the Table
May 11th, 2010
My daughter picked these in our yard for the season table. Fruit tree blossoms with some fireweed (purple) plus a token tulip and daffodil. It would have been nice to add more tulip/daffys but the local deer that cruise by ate most of them!! They are in a plain glass jar with a gorgeous rainbow dyed playsilk .