Look at my boots!

Well like good old Gnome tradition I wet-felted her boots and hat.
She is very proud of them!
She insists on wearing an apron ( where else would she put the little snacks for tiny animals) and a long skirt.
All I have to do now is sew the apron and maybe embroider her hat.
I"ll think there is a Gnome father waiting for her. . . . .

The cutest Gnome Girl

She is a little bit shy, and embarrassed ( she doesn't have toes yet) but she let me take a picture.

Okay little Missy, I'm going to work on your outfit!

Little Gnome girl

Ha! There she is, exactly as I had in mind!
Now she gets a body!

Third little Owl

The third little Owl is finished and looking quite nosy!
Yes little one, this is your home for now and these are your new friends.

The Barby-mice are a bit cautious. . . . . .


p.s. I have to make a little gnome woman now, post will follow.

little Owls

Here are the little Owls. . . .. .

Owls !!!

I'm in over my head with owls!
This is today's Barn-Owl, last week I made little owls.

Pics of the little owls will be here tomorrow !

Crazy carpenter

I so love woodworking! I don't have a shed or other place where I can work so I can only work outside in my garden ♫ when the weather is fine ♫
The weather isn't that fine at the moment and I feel like the winter is never coming to an end . 
And I wanted to make a little desk, I've made one before but my daughter stole it :-)
Can't find a photo of it but here are some other things I've made ( If the weather was fine I would have made more and more of these, hence Crazy carpenter)
The last picture is of a cardboard clock I made for my daughter

Girl with birds !

The birds came this morning and landed on her hands!

Making a felt doll part 3

When I came down this morning, the girl and her friends were waiting for me at the kitchen table !

They were very anxious to see what kind of clothes I had in mind for her.

Well, she is a bird girl so a natural looking feather-like outfit with little boots to walk in the forest would be awesome!

And there she is !!

Oh wait little Ginny is as smart as her mother Barby !!

I forgot to sew the "Pip's Poppies" label on her back !

All we have to do is wait for the birds to come ( the weather was very bad, I think they show up tomorrow)

doll making part 2

As promised, part two :

I've cut and sew the parts, here you see them with the plastic joints I use for the arms and legs.
Now I have to turn and fill them and put the joints in.

That's done! Her head is sewn on but she looks a little unhappy.
She is pointing out that I haven't give her toes yet!

Look I've got toes! She is smiling now!
Lets give her a hair......

Yes this is you !
I always have to try different colours of hair, believe it or not but they have a very distinguished personality and they need the right colour!

  This is a bird-girl!!

Tomorrow she gets a nice outfit and some birds to accompany her......

Making a felt doll part 1

I'm going to show you how I make a felt doll.

First I make the head, if the head turns out good, I make the body.
I don't particularly like making the body but if I like the head I can't wait to make her/him a body.

Front of the head.I'm checking the profile

The head is sewn together and now I needle felt a small pompom to fill in the nose.

With a invisible ink marker I draw the features

 I'll paint the features with Gesso first

Time for a cup of coffee and a stroopwafel-cookie, in the meantime the gesso will dry.

I paint her features with acrylic paint and Pastel

Here she is, she has come to life and I gave her ears immediately, cause I wanted  to tell her how sweet she is.


I can't wait now to make her a body, tomorrow I'll show you!

Magic Lady Sophie

Sophie is a witch !
Haha she truly is, she knows everything about herbs and cures and the moon and  life etc.
And and and a very gifted artist!
Give her wool or felt or anything to make yourself pretty and she succeed.

 Gorgeous bags !

Jewellery !

Cold hands Cure

Hamster cribs.. . . . . . .

She sells all her beautiful stuff here : http://de.dawanda.com/shop/Sophies-wild-woolens
Oh and by the way, she is my sister :-)
You can find her Blog : sophiesvoices here ---->