My New Tag

Yesterday I made a new tag for my wares at the gallery. I couldn't think what to call my "line," so I decided to call it My Stuff, as you can see.

The tag isn't perfect, but it's good enough for now. I used Print Shop and I'm not that good at using it and couldn't find the disk to let me do other stuff with it, so just used what I could get at without the disk. (It's here somewhere!!! Famous last words. )

Finished Cat

Here she is, all done. I tacked the tip of her tail to her shin, because otherwise, it just stuck out at a weird angle, like it had a mind of its own.

Yet Another Wool Cat Creature!!

I really thought this one would be a squid or maybe a pickle! But, no, it was a CAT, again!!! But she's cute and will be cuter when she has a set of whiskers on EACH side of her face. I think she'll have some eyebrows, too, and a wooly orange tail. She's made from part of a suede thrift store skirt and a felted thrift store sweater. The eyes, beads, and collar are new.

Old Doll is Dressed

I used old linens with lovely crocheted edgings for the sleeves and trim on this dress. I buy them just for this purpose at yard/rummage sales. Often they have small tears or stains, but I can work around those. These dolls were very inexpensive and always sold without clothing; girls or their mothers were supposed to dress them, like I did this one. Now this doll is ready to go back to her home, and I will eventually dress the one that is mine, and give her a new lower leg.

Across the State, In Spokane

I have spent the past week at The DKG Society International Convention in Spokane, WA. The Delta Kappa Gamma Society International is a professional organization for women educators, not a sorority. This was my first International Convention, and it was very interesting; this was a year to rewrite our constitution, and so that process was interesting, if a little involved and time-consuming. The Society has 17 member countries, and so is becoming more global every year, plus it is also becoming more involved with technology and its use for Society business, etc. It's good that our constitution can be amended, and now and then, rewritten, to reflect changing times; only 9 years until its One Hundredth Birthday! Our Founders would probably be both surprised by how much our world has changed in the last 81 years, but also pleased at how their Society continues to fulfill their original purposes.
Eastern WA, where Spokane is located, is a very different climate than where I live in Western WA. However, Spokane has been very considerate to us Westsiders (as well as to everyone else), and the weather has been nice while we're here: warm but not unbearably warm. Their heat here is also DRY, which makes it much more enjoyable than some more humid places. We have all tried to be considerate to Spokane, too: recycling, picking up after ourselves, and stimulating the local economy to the max! Thank you for hosting us, Spokane.

Hitty's Legs are Half Done

I worked on Hitty's legs in the comfort of my folding chair, under some nice evergreen trees in the complex of doctors' offices near Capital Med. Center this morning. DH had a medical appointment, and that particular doctor's office has room for five chairs in the waiting room. It's claustrophobic in there; or rather, I'M claustrophobic in there!

Anyway, I had a very pleasant time working on Hitty's leg for an hour, out in the pleasant morning air. If you have a folding canvas chair in your car, it's like an Instant Mini Vacation to set it up wherever you happen to be and work on whatever project you want to.

The leg on the left is in its original state, how it arrived as part of a Hitty Blank Kit. The one on the right is the finished one (in case you couldn't tell!!!); now the trick is to make the second leg the same size as the first. I already carved another leg (not shown) that I could see didn't have enough wood to make it the same size as leg #1. Perhaps that's why they put an extra leg in my kit. I saved that one for another Hitty. I'm CERTAINLY not going to throw it out--I worked hard on it.

Sketchbook Project

I didn't have quite the right name of the site sponsoring the sketchbook project: It is Art House Coop.com and here is site's address, in case you want more details:
http://arthousecoop.com/projects/sketchbookproject