It's been awhile!

My life has gotten so busy and not much fun lately.  And I have purchased zero new dolls in two years!  Yikes!  And hardly any craft time.  But hopefully it'll get better soon.  Here are some photos from recently just for fun.

Kitten from work, soon up for adoption.  

Sunrise on a September Monday morning.

My goats, lounging.

A fairy house that Olivia made in our back woods.

Doll Sewing and Random Pretty Things

My old camera finally died.  It was just an inexpensive Canon Powershot camera with minimal frills but it always took good photos!  The shutter button quit working, so I decided to get a new one.  It's a more powerful Canon Powershot SX520 HS and it has more functionality, a bigger lens, and takes nice photos!  Here are the first few I took:

Littlefee Ante in a new dress made with fabric I received in a swap:




Devon Marie (Little Darling by Dianna Effner, painted by Nelly Valentino) [I think this photo would have come out better against a lighter background. The face of the doll is a little washed-out.]


And here I was interested in seeing how the macro focus function does and got some beautiful photos of the mums I was using as a background.  Any of these photos can be clicked on to get the larger version at Flickr.

Some summer projects and photos

I've had a busy summer with not a lot of project time, but the pouch above was made from Bonnie and Camille's Daysail fabric with a pattern from Amy Sinibaldi's book Sweetly Stitched Handmades.  The embroidery is my own design.




This potholder was made for my kitchen and it's from a vintage pattern.  I made it with Dishie yarn from Knitpicks, which I have found to be the BEST worsted weight cotton ever!



This little kitten was fostered and adopted out of our clinic this summer.  He was a cute one!  If anyone knows anybody in need of a cat to adopt, I'm currently fostering five or six lovely adult cats.  :)




My garden has been a flower bonanza this year, but also sort of weedy!




And lastly, this fabric needs to be made into something!  It's Bloom and Bliss and I love the colors.  The print scale, for the most part, is perfect for small projects like doll dresses but also for larger ones.  This is a fat-quarter bundle but I may need to get yardage of a few prints, too.

Fair Swings

Fair Swings, a photo by elizabeth's*whimsies on Flickr.

Oh, this photo makes me miss the summer. I took this with my cell phone at the New York State Fair last summer. The swings are antique and painted so beautifully. They made such a pretty picture against the sky.

I photographed the Ferris Wheel, too.

Brr!

This was the scene in upstate NY this morning. It's so pretty!