Nephew Devons doll

hmmm...ya know i just realized...(probably because it was my Nephew Devons 15th birthday...that i didnt remember until AFTER he went to sleep last night!!!!) , that i never put the doll that HE MADE up....so here it is! This kid is an artist...he draws and creates all of the time....just like his aunt col!!!! (i think he's a little more ahead of the game at 15!!!)

Anywaydevon is very good at drawing...he has even started a little business doingdesigns on skateboards.....this is his first doll....i love it!! We will be making more down the shore this summer.......check it out

Scotts "Dad doll"

Finally finished my brother scott"s "Dad doll". This is my dad as a kid...he's holding some string beans and a tomato because thats what he loved...his garden and tomatoes! I made him as an angel...because all of us kids know thats what he is now....helping us along on our "earthly journeys".

I know this doesn't look exactly like the picture i had of him...but he came out a little older...so this is what i imagine him to have looked like at the time. This is just for scott to have a little spirit doll when he just "needs to connect" to his dad, who loved him .... And it is also a subtle reminder to always keep a small part of ourselves child-like (just like our dad....always looking at everything in life as a "funny" thing !!) no matter where we are in our lives !!!!

Another charm group

ok...i worked a little more on charms...soldering is getting a little better!!! and i figured out another cool little soldered charm to make..... i had some leapord glass charms...they were small thick squares....i copper taped them and then soldered ....i added a jump ring on a corner so it appears to be a diamond shape . I wanted it to look a little more vintage so i used alchohol ink in gold to color the solder...to match the other things that were going on in this charm group. I also made the tiny "vintage" tag out of very thin clay that was cut out on my sissix machine....then stamped....baked...and "utee" thick clear embossed. This was a "commisioned" charm ...woo hoo!!!!