Funny Duck!!

Actually, this duck is not left over from Halloween, nor is he traveling incognito. What he IS doing is holding a Hitty Face until it dries (I hope I can get it off easily tomorrow--I didn't put any plastic wrap under the clay like I usually do).  I use PaperClay because I really HATE Sculpey. I don't like having to bake it and I don't like how brittle it becomes, either. I also don't like how hard it is to wash off my hands or how heavy it is. Do you get the idea that I REALLY DON'T LIKE SCULPEY??!!

 I DO, however, LOVE PaperClay. It is light, it air dries, and although it has a tendency to crack, this doesn't matter to me because I always use it under cloth. I am also experimenting with using a face mold lined with knit cloth soaked in gesso and with just a thin layer of paper clay over that--the paper clay will be BEHIND the face when I remove it from the mold. I have used PaperClay behind my last couple Alabama Babies' faces, but I used quite a thick layer of it, and it made the babies' faces heavier than I wanted them to be, although much lighter than the plaster of paris that I first used, or the Sculpey I tried after that. Making dolls is an evolutionary process, which is one reason I like making them so much. There is no end to the things you can try and the places you can go.

Finished Sock Monkey for Hittys

He is sewn from Red Heel Sock scraps. I used satin stitch with red embroidery floss to make his smile. Although Hitty Connie doesn't look very happy, she LOVES her sock monkey.

Show and Tell Site At Doll Collectors

I posted the story of my pegwooden Jane there, and how I came to get her:

http://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/34665-another-peg-wooden-doll

Other doll makers/collectors  might like to go there and post some pictures, too. It's always interesting to read stories about other peoples' dolls.

If you Agree that Corporations are not People

I don't know what those five justices were thinking!!?? Corporations have free speech?!?!? No. I'm sorry. In MYway of thinking, Corporations can't speak at all. They are business entities that exist mostly on paper.  PEOPLE work in those corporations, but the corporation itself is not a person and does not have the same rights as a person. Corporations are mostly about money, and although some people say, "Money talks." I have never heard mine say anything, and I've never heard a corporation say anything, either.
   If you would like to help Movetoamend repeal this stupid decision, and put corporations back where they belong, as businesses not people, go to movetoamend.org/motion-to-amend and sign the petition.
   I promise I won't bring politics up often on my blog; I only bring this to your attention now because I think it is so important.

My Printed Blog Book

Here is the link for Blog2Print that I used to print a couple years worth of my blog. I LOVE the book that resulted and have vowed to print my blog every couple of years, with each successive volume beginning where the last one left off.
http://blog2print.sharedbook.com/blogworld/printmyblog/index.html?sbt=bfaed9dc7b8eec41f3f59d6676e095c51365973e&utm_source=SharedBook&utm_medium=email&utm_content=21532&utm_campaign=Blog2Print%2BOctober%2BSale%2B10.17-Blog2Print

My Jazzed Up Checkbook Cover

My plastic checkbook cover was beginning to tear at the fold after providing several years of faithful use. DH offered a leather one from a defunct checkbook calculator he once had, which I happily accepted. However, there was a problem: my checkbook now looked EXACTLY like his! That absolutely was ASKING FOR TROUBLE. So I grabbed a bottle of nailpolish I had previously used to embellish my cell phone (for the same reason of identicality-- a word I just coined.) Above you see the result. Like it?  I do!!

New View of my Blog

Blogger has several new ways of formatting blogs now. I'm trying out a new one as you can see. Let me know how you like it.