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Alicia's Lucias

Finally took some photos of the Santa Lucia dolls I made with the sweet little kit from Alicia at Posie Gets Cozy. Actually they never made it to the Santa Lucia stage, I stopped just short of adding the candles and such. But they are making me so happy. The kit didn't call for collars, but I wasn't able to make the tops of the dresses tidy enough so I improvised with circles of fabric. Happily,that allowed me to avoid gluing the heads on as the circles made for a tight enough fit to do without! Plus it added a further splash of color, which as you can gather, I like to do.

There were five dolls, one to be St. Lucia, with the others as her attendants. Since I never got around to giving them candles, I gave them each a tiny bouquet to hold.

For awhile they hung out in this shabby candelabra but eventually ended up under the "swatch and spool" tree, posing prettily.

More pics of the girls can be seen over on flickr, as well as a pool of others' doll pics. Kudos to Alicia for creating the most fun project ever! I might have to order some doll pins and supplies for crafting some of my own peg dolls.

My last post of 2007... see you next year! Cheers!

Jenny

New toys

Just fooling around with the new camera today, along with a spiffy new photo box thingie. So I thought I'd bore you with close-ups of Christmas ornaments... (I feel like one of those people who force you to look at their vacation pictures! Ha!)

Above is the topper I made for the white feather tree (which I'll try to remember to snap, too) Its made from three pipe cleaner candy canes with a yoyo covering the center. I made so many candy canes for the white feather tree, I had enough left over to hang a bunch on the tree in the den as well as one for each place setting and I even give away quite a few!

I also made dangly yoyo ornaments...

And Swedish hearts from red and white paper (actually that was a couple of years ago)...

I didn't make this one, its a new but vintage-looking chenille star with cool beads...

These mittens are definitely vintage, right down to the play money inside! I love the embellishment with sequins, pearls and fancy buttons.

And these are my favorites! Tiny vintage stockings, probably also meant for crisp dollar bills.

Okay, the photo viewing is over for today. Hopefully you won't avoid me now so you won't be subjected to looking at more!

Cheerio,

Jenny

Wrapping up a bit of Christmas

Sigh... Christmas is behind us now. Don't you wish you could capture that sparkly magic to enjoy the rest of the year? How about this... take one lantern from Ikea, add a soft tree, suspend a few snowflakes ala Martha, and voila...

A little Christmas magic!

Here's wishing everyone a safe and cheery New Years Eve!

Big hugs to all my bloggie buddies,

Jenny

Blink

And just like that... we're teetering on the brink of... Oops, never mind, I blinked again and Christmas had come and gone. Thought I'd fling up a quickie post to say hi, wish all my sweet, generous bloggie friends a wonderful Christmas, and share my excitement over our new plaything. Ro and I decided to treat ourselves to a Nikon D40X camera, so here is a sampling of pics taken by the family over the last couple of days, despite not having a clue how to work the thing. Um... point and click, right? Pretty much!

Merry Christmas!!!!!

Cheers,

Jenny