Well it’s coming along… I really need to buy some teensier tiny paintbrushes to get better details, and obviously I am no artist. I am having a very hard time doing cute faces for the little ghost people so if anyone has any advice, it is welcome!
Spoooky haunted house!
Edited: September 30th, 2009
A spooky mess!
Right now it’s kind of a mess, but what it’s going to be … hopefully, eventually, hopefully soon! Is a ghostly, spooooOOoOOooky haunted house playset for Bella… complete with a family of little white ghosts!
She is very excited about this project and was determined to help paint. She helped paint the actual house for 5 seconds flat before she was covered head to toe in black paint. She painted the little wooden ghosts with gobs and gobs of white paint (for that 3D effect!) and when I told her how well she was doing, she kindly said to me: “I can teach you Mommy!”
More pictures to come when the spookiness has progressed a bit…
Edited: September 25th, 2009
So yesterday I was feeling like *making stuff*, and I made Bella a little shopping bag for her kitchen/cash register experience. Mostly I wanted to practice putting felt pieces together in anticipation of the felt block I’m working on. I used colors of felt I happened to have handy, and blanket stitched it (not well, but I did blanket stitch!) up.
Then, last night after Bella went to sleep, I was inspired to try my hand at painting little wooden dolls. I was inspired by lovely little dolls like these, or this one.
You can see here, the first one I did is on the left with the oddly blobby eyes. I never claimed to be good at this!
But I must say I didn’t expect all of this to be rejected out of hand by their recipient. She said she just “doesn’t like” the little green shopping bag, and the dolls are “bad and angry.”
Back to the drawing board!
Edited: June 15th, 2009
My first time jumping in to WIP Wednesday, so be gentle… I’m all new and vulnerable and stuff. This is the Lion brand baby hoodie towel, supposedly anyways. I’m not sure I’ll ever have the patience to finish it, since it is pretty borrrrring to knit. I do a row here or there where my daughter will let me.
Can one of you knitting gurus out there tell me how I’m supposed to knit past the limits of my needle size? Do I need to switch to circulars? Because circulars make my head go BOOM!
Edited: June 10th, 2009