I am a
Nigella
What Flower
Are You?
You said what!#*? WHAT! It's October 31st! 
I can't scare, it's not fair....
Maybe I can hide over there.
No, please no!
I can be scary just being a black cat!??
I don't like Halloween! It's not for me!
Must I.....!?!
NOOOOO......!
Panic and anxiety leads to hyper-ventilating which causes this dressed clown to pass out from fright! No silly matter but.... I'm reminded....
there is always next year....Happy Halloween! C&G Design.
These little beauties were together, folded one by one. I think they are part of a curtain as some sides were already hemmed and others weren't. Well my idea was a simple one, get a compatible fabric, something like terrycloth, and stitch the decorative panel to one side of a equal square! Wa la! Instant towel.
Hubby and I are very picky about a few things, towels and facecloths being on top of the list. We have held off for 10 months in getting something nice for our downstairs bathroom, my idea, it fit perfectly. I managed to find a durable thick flannel that didn't seem to require hemming. It is absorbent, soft, and best of all....white. I have four Angel panels and 4 quarters of fabric, just enough. Oh yes! Four matching washcloths.
I'm calling it custom. C & G Design.
Andy wears a comic page hat and if memory serves me right, the newspaper date will be somewhere around 1996.
Ann has a necklace made from wooden spools and wooden beads.
Both have facial features embroidered with wool, legs striped with ticking, and hairdos with varied red color, hand dyed by myself. The outfit is Waverly remants, putting my pair "styling".
I'm ALWAYS on the look out for the three pictured tools. Rulers are few and far in between and I've never had room for a large size mat.
Some rotary cutters are better than others, they remind me of a pizza cutter, essentially ....that's what they are, except much, much sharper.
I like the safety button and the squeeze handle. Both are a nice feature, letting go of the grip will activate the safety and then the button needs to be pushed every time you use it.
Such a time saver! Cuts cutting (pun intended) time in half. C&G Design
Jennie Adler Graves was the proprietor of the Vogue Doll company, her father died when she was 15, being the eldest of 4, Jennie gave up a education to help augment her family income. It wasn't until a "friend", who knew of Jennie's sewing skills, asked Jennie to sew outfits for dolls (she was giving to charity), that Jennie became involved in dolls. Unbeknown to the seamstress, who was inspired to dress German dolls, Jennie's friend sold the dolls/outfits to Jordan Marsh, a Boston Department store. Sometime there after"Ye Old Vogue Doll Company" began in Jennie's home.
In 1948 when sales dipped Jennie developed a 8 '' doll called Ginny after Jennie's daughter Virginia. Ginny was designed with purses, hats and snap shoes, beginning as a fixed eye doll to a strung doll with sleep eyes to a straight leg walker with molded lashes, by 1957 Ginny reached over 5 million in sales and was a permanent fixture in the doll world. In 1958 Matel tried to purchase "Ye Old Vogue Doll Company" but negations fell through. (imagine no Barbie!) By 1960 Jennie retired and the company passed to Virginia, who made Ginny in vinyl. The next successor was her brother in law, then in 1972 Vogue was sold to Tonka. Ginny suffered many changes and restructure during this time, as did all the dolls including Barbie. 1995 saw a renewed energy when the rights were purchased by a well known doll maker, Wendy Lawton. The "new" Vogue Company wanted to reissue Ginny to her rightful place in modern doll history, the idea wouldn't become true until 2004.
These are my dolls and I cherish them as if they were the composition Ginger portrayed in the first picture. They are the reissued Ginny of 2004.
I gather this was a ongoing project that combined reality with fantasy, the end result came out kind of neat.
Hubby and I teased our son about the "pink can!" The bull...insisted it was really hard! It's done with cray pas. The village looks unfinished, guess it was supposed to be.
This one is my favorite. Light, dimension and depth all in one.
2004 brought a emotional year to the Red Sox team for they'd won the World Series breaking the Babe Ruth curse. Upon finding out he was traded from the Red Sox to the Yankees, with one shake of the finger, Babe Ruth vowed the Red Sox would never win another series, it had been 86 years.
Yep, packing the t-shirt away. There's always the other Massachusetts team...... C & G Design.
The reason you see one star completed is, I needed to see if the star could be done! The cutter of my squares apparently did not use a rotary cutter, it was evident by the drawn lines on the fabric. No two squares were the same size, so no two stars would go together accurately, I got close, although less than perfect.
I began by train stitching my blocks together, you do this by allowing the feed dog of your machine to grab one pinned article after another.
It's kinda neat and if you can prevent yourself from overlapping your fabric, you will be able to work quicker and neater than sewing each one individually.
You could almost flip the rows together and stitch the other way, I didn't do this because my excess thread (where it needed snipping) wasn't that abundant. I sewed my rows together by pinning 3 and 2, then I stitched the two parts together. This is important in explaining the next photo.
Oops, I goofed! Part two (on top) needed to be taken apart. This was my second time doing this mistake.
But after stitching it together AGAIN! And placing it in the finished work area....I decided something didn't look right. Ay, iy, iy, my last stitching had another mistake that I'd copied from the one I'd finished before it! You can see little of the block in the other picture, at that point I really couldn't see this drastic error! I was careful using the little scissors, I made sure my aggravation with myself didn't effect me using my snippers, although.... I did alot of muttering while taking everything apart! LOL!
My squares made eight bigger block, I had only a few 2 inchers left over, grateful I could use them in case I needed to throw out a couple. I have only to iron and even my blocks up by trimming the sides a bit, A MUST for a square, non wavy, quilt.
One day Marcella was in her grandmothers attic playing with a spinning wheel til she grew tired of it, she curled up on a old horse hair sofa to rest.
A process of woven yarn on two pieces of straight wood, the Gods Eye was a craft I learned at summer camp.
Madame decided one rainy day, to seek and debark two long branches for her "God's eye." She brought a few smaller ones to school and even gave a finished one to the bus driver. Madame was asked to teach the Art class the ways to construct a "Ojo de Dios" or...as I told her, she could say.... AKA a simple "Cat's eye"
I don't believe the Art teacher didn't know what it was, but I'm glad Madame taught for the day....C & G Design.
My sister recently gave me a book on doll collecting, the first two pictures are from the book, specifically from the chapter on wax dolls. I don't find much information on wax construction and wax history so I was delighted to discover a whole chapter on the matter!
Dipped dolls are those with a core, usually made from paper mache'. The body parts are dipped in melted wax thereby limiting the amount of wax. Both doll method had cloth bodies with half limbs made by the same method as the head. Dipped dolls were used on "pumpkin head dolls", those dolls with fancy molded hair.
I show you a somewhat blurry picture of the only wax doll in my collection. I purchased her as is, except over the time, as she sat on my entertainment stand, part of her face/hair fell off. You can see the crack to the right side. I glued the wax to the base and will eventually melt the crack back together. My core is chalk ware, making her a modern wax doll.
As you can tell, she has lower limbs of the same wax over plaster, but her torso is made of a flowered material and stuffed rather tightly. Help me think of appropriate attire for her!
She even has a molded wax necklace! I'm thinking a 60 ish outfit.
Being a soft medium, not too many wax dolls have made it through the decades, alot have melted or been desired by rodents. 
My hubby had a shop towel roll that had a strong inner tube, that was my inspiration, little drummer was born.
It completed my series of six and I must say...these work together and we are very pleased with them.
These are my first, I still have four sets in stock.
And 4 sets of new ones. C & G Design.
