What’s on my table today…

I’ve been working on making a baby Luntian. Here’s the results of that…

See this large, here.

Wasn’t very happy with the first one so I made a new one last night and finished it today…

Next up, painting.

Off to bed I go. Good gosh, its 5 AM! Good morning.

Happiness!

Updates from the burrow…

That’s what we call our little flat by the woods.

I realized I haven’t been posting on this blog. I’ve been busy working on my art blog. So here’s what I’ve been up to these past weeks…

* I changed the url of my old Creaturesmith blog into http://storydoll.wordpress.com.
* Wrote a post explaining what my mystery project was… A New Beginning.
*Posted the new masthead and logo for Story doll.

My prince had his birthday on the 2nd Wednesday of the new year…

Last weekend, I finished the “enchanted Boat”. Here’s what it looks like with the feet painted…

See it large, here. WIP photo, here.

Here’s what my table looked like early this week…

Today, as soon as I’m done with this post and cooking dinner, I’ll be painting baby Lun.

See this large, here.

So I’m off to do all that.

Happiness!

Inspiration

See WIPs, here.

Truly inspired and inspiring work! Thanks to Dubuduh designs for posting this on her blog.

Now on to baking!

Happiness!

Mathilda Lightfoot

I has these unfinished dolls from two christmases ago. I brought them with me when I left the Philippines and promised myself I was going to finish them as soon as I can.

Well almost two years later I was able to finish one of them…

See this large, here.

See this large, here.

I stayed up until this morning to finish her. This evening I made her wand and a carpet bag. No respectable and reliable nanny should be without at least a carpet bag as I’m sure Mary Poppins would agree.

I made her for my sister whose at a loss for a new nanny. I hope Mathilda will be able to help her find a new nanny and fill in every now and then.

I have three more dolls to finish. There’s also some huge amount of baking for food gifting this Christmas so this’ll be a busy week. Photos later when I can.

Happiness!

The Faith box

Thanksgiving was a big frenzy. Cooked lemon garlic with herb butter turkey, pumpkin pecan pie with bourbon sauce, sweet corn mashed potatoes, gravy and stuffing. I made turkey curry with the leftover and have more turkey leftover to work with this week, too. No photos of this, sorry. Will scrounge around for some and upload them when I find them from family members’ jpg stash.

Meanwhile, up at the tree house where my rabbit hole is, more pages and characters have emerged from the story that is continually unfolding when I started on making Luntian.

Here are some photos of Lun (short for Luntian, pronounced as Loon-tea-unh) and her fae friends…

See this large, here.

Here’s the box I made for them. A neighbor gave us this vintage typewriter case and I altered it by adding decoupage, paint, pale pink fleece like material and vintage trimming.


See this large, here.
The small round container contains some artifacts that is part of Lun’s story. Will reveal more as the story unfolds.

Here’s some details of the case with the dolls inside…

I’ve named the wee ones as…
Gumamela, poppy flower in Filipino, is the flower fae. Pronounced as goo-muh-meh-luh.
Tago, Filipino word for hide, is the squirrel. Pronounced as, tuh-gho.
Liit, Filipino word for small, is the mouse.

Meanwhile, I’m working on the other characters and one of the major backdrop of the story. The Apoxie clay arrived last week. I’m very excited to try it!

Christmas decoration and bird feeding preps are underway in our burrow. Will upload more photos soon.

Happiness!

More characters…

A story has unfolded along with the dolls I’ve been making these past several weeks.

I finished new characters…

See it large, here.

See it large, here.

See it large, here.

It snowed this early this week. We played int he snow until my fingers grew numb. It took all of 15 minutes. LOL!

Pardon the blurry snowoman. My camera seem to prefer the trees over my busty snow person. Hee!

I’ll take better photos of my new dolls in the next coming week. Stay tuned.

Meanwhile, have a great rest of the weekend.

Happiness!

More WIPs…

We switched ISP this month. That’s why i haven’t uploaded new photos in the last 2 weeks.
We finally got the new phone line and DSL installed this afternoon so here are some of the photos of the stuff I’m working on…

Here’s what the painting looks like after I finished painting the details on it…

I finished the painting and the door that’s made of polyclay. Here’s a photo of it in the background…

See this large, here.

Here’s a photo of the flower fae before I painted and finished her…

I’ll upload more photos later in the week. I’m still working on her wings which are leaf skeleton imbedded in resin. I broke one of them so I have to make another set. Ice Resin™ takes 3 days to dry so her wings won’t be ready until later in the week.

Here’s the Squirrel fae…

See this large, here.

I’m working on the mouse fae. More photos soon. Stay tuned.

Happiness!

WIP: Luntian’s backdrop

Asthma’s been bad this week. Its taken a lot to accomplish anything this week. Still though I managed to do this…

Click on the photo to see the notes and see it large, here.

Initially, it was supposed to fit an existing frame but now that the tree branches have hardened and painted, that frame no longer fits. I’ll have to come up with a more suitable frame anyway.

Now for the rest of the tree foliage. *taking a big breath* I better get started before I realize how much work its going to be.

Right, on I go then.

Happiness!

Luntian

Her name is Luntian. It means, green, in Filipino.

It took me a while to work on her dress. I wasn’t really sure who she is yet until I worked on her hair. I preferred red hair for her but somehow she seems to want green hair instead.

See this large, here.

See this large, here.

Working on a background story for her. I think I’ll have to finish the background and props before I can finish her story.

Stay tuned.

Happiness!

WIP: My first polyclay doll

My first polyclay doll…

See it large, here.

I’ve made trial heads last year (of which one survived) but this is my first full doll using polyclay. I’m still getting to know the medium and learning its quirks. Its an exciting adventure. Sometimes when I’m having difficulty with it I find myself missing cloth but challenges are merely an opportunity for learning. So forward I go.

I was actually making another doll that I drew a couple of days ago but it seems this is a new one. She just needed to be made. I’m still figuring out who she is. Stay tuned for her completion.

Happiness!