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NIADA Virtual Conference

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                                               Check out the NIADA Virtual Conference.                                                                   www.niada.org

Mustang Sally

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                                                                  Mustang Sally

A Carousel of Horses

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A Carousel of Horses This small doll is balanced to stand on her own. Cotton fabric body, wool stuffing. Wired fingers. Trapunto technique in the face to lift the nose. Features created with acrylic paint, pigma pen, Prisma color pencils. Lips, eyebrows, lids, flair of nostrils and fingernails hand stitched with Gutterman’s and Sulky thread. Highlight and shadow create depth. Hair is three colors of fine mohair yarn, sewn and twisted and into a sculptural form.                                                            

Fairy Cottage

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                                                                      Fairy Cottage Ingredients for the Fairy Dwelling. A dash of transformation in simple shapes like cylinders, cones and rectangles a complex structure emerges. I ladle in creative problem solving and a pinch of illusion and a sprinkle of fun and magic. Wool felt and natural items like pinecones, twigs and assorted acorn tops with a healthy dose  of fun and magic.

Fairy Cottage

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                                                                   Fairy Cottage A small enchanted dwelling for enchanted beings. Ingredients in the recipe for the Fairy Cottage include: A cup of re-purposing post consumer….a fancy way to say ordinary every day items like cardboard, file folders and tacky glue. A dash of transformation in simple shapes like cylinders, cones and rectangles a complex structure emerges.

Fairy Cottage

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                                                                    Fairy Cottage Wool felt and natural items like pine cones, twigs and assorted acorn tops with a healthy dose  of fun and magic.

Fairy Cottage

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                                                                    Fairy Cottage  A small enchanted dwelling for enchanted beings. Ingredients in the recipe for the Fairy Cottage include: A cup of re-purposing post consumer….a fancy way to say ordinary every day items like cardboard, file folders and tacky glue.