TIME... WARP..!

I have been involved in some home-work of sorts that has taken up my time lately. Things are going well though I have to say and Im feeling great. So I'll be back to my Elf in no time.

I do have the body sewn and am in the process of stuffing it. The legs and arms are sewn also, I just need to fray check the edges and then on to stuffing them too! I will post pics of the progress of Mahdreen in a few days. She is going to be just amazing, I can't wait for you to see her :)

Love, Balance & Light to you all,

Michelle

My Lady Elf...sculpted

Well today I've gotten the sculpting done and now Im looking forward to painting her face!

It's amazing how each doll takes on its own personality as you move through each stitch. I had a small idea of what I wanted  when I began and it seems that  this lovely lady had her own idea :)) I thought that I would make a younger female Elf to go along with Zandar but  when I finished sculpting her she appears to be a bit older.

 I feel that she may be one of the Elders of this group of Elves. She will be known as Mahdreen. She is one that the young seek for the knowledge only an Elder can impart. The ways of the Elvish are ancient and very deeply guarded and can only be passed on to the young by an Elder. Mahdreen will see to it that all the young, even Zandar :), learn the ways of the Elves of this clan.

Well we have her name, Mahdreen! and we will return soon.

 Back to the the workroom...........

See you soon,   Michelle

New Elf in the works :D

Just wanted to take a few minutes to show you what I've done so far. Im now working on a female elf with my own pattern. I've drawn several and have cut and sewn 2 so far. I'm working on the head first, as I've said before this is where you find all the personality! The rest just seems to follow along and additions come together easily :)

I'll leave you with the first of my Lady Elf pictures. I'll be back sooon with more,

Michelle

A New Day and what to make, hmm

Well as I stated in the previous post there were some copyright issues. I did hear from Ute regarding this and she assured me that it was ok for me to continue to post my progress. I thanked her and let her know that I indeed was having a fun time working on her pattern.

With that said I have decided to go with my original plan before I came upon the troll pattern. I was in the process of working on my own patterns and was making a female elf of my own. I have decided to do just that, work on my own creations. I came to this decision due largely in part to the events that I've dealt with over the last year. It seemed there was always someone, somewhere, deciding what and how and when events should and shouldnt be happening. I felt like that with this episode of copyright issues. I have some knowledge of copyrights with a magazine that I was in the process of putting together many years ago. Sounds very glamorous doesnt it, it was, for a while. It was a small project that struck my creative edge and I gave it a try for a short time. I did some research for that project in the copyright arena and gained some knowledge in the process. So suffice to say that I have chosen to work on my own creations and not venture off into the land of someone else's power field.

I have enough creative energy and ideas to keep me busy for a very loooooong time so here we go :D

I have been working on a pattern for an elf, a female this time. She will be my own from top to bottom. We will start from the head and work from there. I will draw the entire doll first but won't bombard you with all the bits and pieces, just the head. Of course the head is where all the personality comes from anyway and that just spurs you on to invent and create more! It always seems to me that once I have the head in progress that the name just seems to pop into my mind. I can't wait to see what creative being comes together next.

Ok, I've got my excited, creative energy in full rev!! Im off to the sewing room (you know, I should name that too, the way people name cars :)) to retrieve my drawing inventory and continue the pattern drawing process. I will return with some good, no, GREAT ideas and a beautiful, womanly elf for all of my readers to join in the fun with! :)

Be back soon,

Michelle

Copy Right Infringement- Unknowingly posted

Hello to everyone who reads this blog. I have unknowingly crossed some copyright laws of infringement and will no longer be posting on the progress of the Ute Vasina Troll that I was working on. I am aware of copyright laws in that I should give credit to the author of work that is not my own. I have done that. I did not gain anything monetarily nor have I taken credit for the creation of the pattern or directions. I did not feel that I was holding a class as I was not showing steps or videos of my work. I was showing the progress of what I had personally worked through with Mrs Vasina's pattern.

I have written Ute Vasina and apologized for posting my work of her pattern without permission.

I honestly just thought that it would be a fun pattern to work on.

Again, My deepest apologies Ute.

Michelle

Happy, Happy.....4TH OF JULY !

Enjoy, Have a picnic! invite some friends over and BBQ :)

Celebrate,


Michelle

A Beautiful 4th of July Weekend

Well, we are off to a beautiful 4th of July weekend and the weather is cooperating nicely.

I have a full day ahead of me and looking forward to all the company and festivities. First Im off to a local art fest in just a few, and of course breakfast with my Andrea and some friends. I also have a few people coming over a little later for swimming, sloppy joes and some great fireworks provided by the Country Club that adjoins our complex!

Have a fun, adventurous and safe 4th!

Michelle

This Week seems to have..

slipped right through my hands....I seem to remember Friday and finishing Mr. Zandar (that was last week!) and then all of a sudden here I am and another Friday is upon me.

I had really expected to be in full swing with another doll but seemed to have been side tracked with pattern making. Not such a terrible diversion so Im cuttin myself some slack, :)

I've decided to hone my skills as a pattern maker and have been looking up sites, online classes and just in general, how to's. I'm pretty happy so far with what I've learned from just the how to's online. Of course my mother was well versed in pattern making and did show me how to modify patterns but not the actual process. I wish now that I had actually had her show me how to make a pattern. So a little bit of this and a little bit of that and I may come out with a do-able understanding of how to make a pattern (im hoping the pattern making genes were passed on! :)

I do have some great and exciting news to share though...I have sent my first pictures to the SDA magazine in hopes of being featured or mentioned in one of their upcoming issues! I have sent a few pictures of Zandar and also a few pictures of Ankri, she's the traveling gypsy that I have shown you in past posts. Let's all keep our fingers crossed and our eyes peeled for Zandar and Ankri (on-kree) in a future issue of Soft Dolls and Animals! That would be amazing:D

Well back to pattern making and also a new project, Im thinking a female elf, hmm, yah, I think that's just the right project for me.

Hope you will excuse the sideways view of Ankri, I tried to post it twice in an upright view and no luck, so here she is!

See you all in a few,

Michelle