Alright, I know it has been more than a week since I blogged but I have been really busy both at work and at home

I have put listing new dolls to my shop on hold till May 1st. I would like to make some changes, spring cleaning and such, so Etsy is on hold for a while. But that doesn’t mean I stopped making dolls, in fact I am going forward with full power, for the last couple of mornings I made heads. (You see some of them at the picture above and you also see my itsy bitsy tiny sewing machine, that’s right! I don’t have one of those big/commercial type ones, I use this small machine for everything and so far so good… Also I love its color, nice pretty baby blue) Tomorrow morning I will cut and sew the body parts and stuffing will be done on the weekend. I stopped by and got bunch of new fresh springy fabrics and I have lots of new ideas for the clothing, we are still not in to the spring yet here in Michigan but I am definitely in the spring mood

Making dolls is not an easy thing to do, I am sure if you ask another doll maker she would tell you the same thing. I don’t even remember how many times I stabbed my self with the needle. Some times I covered it with a band aid and continue working, other times it hurt so damn much I had to stop working. But I never had this kind a booboo (as Lara would say - picture on the left) before… I was pulling the string to make the eye line tight that’s when it happened. OUCH!!! It hurts! Oh Well! I love making dolls

I also would like to share happy news on behalf of my dear friend Astrid of karlchen-puppen. She too is going forward with her doll business. This is the kind of news that made me smile all day. I love it when good things happen to my good friends. Way to go my Friend! Congratulations!!

Oh! Here is her blog about the good news!

Finally spring is here… I think,

I mean I would like to think so. It’s still cold in the mornings but we had beautiful afternoons, sunny days for the last few days…

But one thing I learned about Michigan winters is that you never know what’s gonna happen, it may snow in April, May even in June! Well, I have never seen snow in June but I have friends who say, it happened! So you never know *sigh*

Anyway

I would like to talk about a friend today whom I met thru Etsy Chats, her name is Ferda aka Filo Fashion and she knits the most beautiful shrugs, scarves and neck warmers.

The reason I feature her in my blog not only because I love her work but because she has something from me in her shop You see, I offered my design skills to her and was glad to hear that she would be happy if I designed a banner for her shop

I just love the way it turned out!

Check out the lovely banner and her wonderful hand knitted items in her shop… Who knows you might even find something you like

Happy Tuesday!!

Oh! BTW, it was a nice weekend and I was able to assemble the 12inch doll and started another 15 inch, this one will have blue eyes and brown curly hair. I just need to sew some outfits than they both will be listed on Etsy

Thank God it is Friday

I hope to finish a 12 inch doll this weekend. I already made the head and stuffed the body; all I have to do is assemble the doll and sew the outfits for her. She will have wavy brown/red hair and hazel eyes.

I took some pictures of the process of head making, I think other than dressing the dolls head is the most fun part of making a Waldorf doll.

That’s all for blogging today, it has been a long week and I can not wait for the weekend!

Hope you have a nice one too!

Oh! Btw, Caitlin is waiting for a nice person to adopt her at Etsy!

Cheers!

Do you snack all day long?

If you do, than you are like me. I bring lots of snacks to work, wasa crackers, cookies, fruits, cheese… I have wanted to sew some snack bags for myself and Lara but never got around it, I mean how hard could it be to sew a square piece of fabric? Especially for a seamstress like me! But nevertheless I never got the chance to do it until this morning. When I got up this morning and started to prepare my lunch and snacks I thought that was enough and I should make snack bags for myself today. So I went in to my sewing room found my unbleached cotton cut some squares and got some images of fruit, traced them in to papers to make them templates, sewed the bags, put the templates in traced the fruits on to fabric with a non toxic fabric marker and VOILA! Some nice snack bags for myself took me half an hour to do it. Tomorrow I’ll make some for Lara’s snacks

happy tuesday!

She is done Wo hoo! I am so happy the way she turned out. She has jointed arms; I like dolls with jointed arms more than sewn in ones because that makes the doll more interactive She will be up on Etsy as soon as I have good pictures of her.

It was a nice weekend. Rained a lot so we didn’t leave the house, that gave me the opportunity to clean my house from top to bottom, everything is organized now even my sewing room LOL. As soon as I finished Caitlín I started another doll, this time I would like to use my painting skills on the clothes may be a flower or two or just paint my logo on a shirt or something, I have not figured that out yet…

 I am almost done with my red haired doll. She just needs some clothing which I  already started to make. I hope to finish her this weekend and list her to my shop.

I am going to name her “Caitlín”. Caitlín is a popular Irish name and since she looks like an irish girl with red hair and green eyes, I think the name will suit her well  :)

I got up earlier than usual this morning and got a lot done I cut and sew a white shirt for Caitlín and layed out the fabrics that I am going to use for her. I’ll go for green and brown colors to match her eyes. I am going to make a reversable dress with shoulder closer and  a pair of pants or capri -I have not decided on that part yet. I also cut the fabric for bloomers. (I love bloomers I even made some for Lara, with cute ribbons to wear under her dresses. I think they are cuter than panties.) I also cut and sew 2 body parts for the upcoming dolls both will have wavy hair to have some variety in my shop. 

I hope to get all done this weekend. Also I am still thinking about my second shop, I know I really do not have alot of time to spare but I think it will be a nice to have something where I can paint

I had a dream about my home town in Turkey last night; it was a happy dream but I woke up feeling sad and broken. I am homesick! I miss my family but more so my mom, even though we talk on the phone at least half an hour every week, it is not the same… I miss having a morning coffee with her and gossip, going out to bazaar with her, preparing meals, sewing, knitting… oh! I guess I should stop now; I am getting more homesick…

If you have your mom living close by than you are lucky, please give her a hug from me but if you are living far away and see your mom once or twice every year, than you know how I feel and give her a call, if your mom is sick right now, than may God help her, be with her to get better or sadly if she passed away may GOD have her in the heaven by his side.

And if you are a mom yourself hug your children more tightly, that’s what I am going to do when I go home today

Elmo loves you, hi, hi kiss, kiss (laugh)

This is the sound stuck in my head for the last 2 days…

Lara loves Elmo.

We have Elmo books DVDs plush toys and now we have Elmo live!, Even though I am tried of hearing “Elmo loves you” over and over again I can not tell you enough how happy Lara is. She takes him everywhere, hugs him, dances with him if you haven’t seen Elmo live yet, he is very interactive, he can sit and tell you a story, when he fells down asks you to get him up and when you do, he thanks you, he dances and asks you to dance with him, he plays little game like stop and go while he dance… well what can I tell ya, who ever designed this toy, did a very good job

If you would like to see Elmo live here is a video on YouTube

On the doll front; it was finally sunny 2 days last weekend and I was able to get some pictures of Magie, she is up on Etsy.

I got a lot done this weekend; a custom doll has been shipped to Chicago and started another one to list on my Etsy shop. Remember the orange yarn in my previous post? Well, one of my friends suggested that a doll with green eyes would look beautiful with a hair like that so I took her suggestions. I also started a cardigan too. This time I am knitting stripes, I just love the colors on this cardigan and am sure it will look gorgeous on my upcoming red haired doll…