Tiny Handmade Mermaid Dolls

Almost every year I make hand dyed ornaments for sale at the Boulder Handweavers Guild sale. These ornaments are actually tiny little cloth dolls. Each one is cut out of a tightly woven cotton cloth, sewn on my 1948 Singer 15-91 and then stuffed with polyfil. Then each one is hand dyed, painted and beaded. Depending on what the ornament is, other embellishments such as hair or wings are added. While these are quite small, each one takes quite a bit of time to make. The other day I noticed that it took 4 hours just to sew and stuff two mermaid ornaments. I don't know how long it then takes to dye, paint, bead and hair them yet, but I know it's quite a while. Here are 4 new mermaids I just finished:

Mermaid 1

Mermaid 2

Mermaid 3

Mermaid 4

Kitty Fairy and Mermaid in Shop

I recently added a kitty fairy and a mermaid to my Etsy shop. Kitty is here and the mermaid is here.

The Boulder Handweaver's Guild Sale

I've been busy as heck getting ready for the Boulder Handweaver's Guild Sale, which will be in Longmont, Colorado from this Wednesday until the following Tuesday. I even pulled some items from my Etsy store for it.
I modified the style of a few of my items and also added a few new styles. The Kitty Fairies, which were brand new to the FootHills Holiday Art Mart a few weeks ago are also being entered in the Guild Sale.


The mermaids and fairies have had a hair style change from previous years beaded hair and now have long flowing locks made of a beautiful art yarn.


And I've added a brand new design - a horse:


There will also be dragons, fish, dinos, moons, and of course cats!

The Boulder Handweaver's Guild Sale.

More Experimentation with Water Color Pencils

This time I decided to use the pencils to deliberately show lines and strokes in the watery background of a mermaid picture.

This painting is another ACEO - 2.5 x 3.5 inches in size.
It's not easy painting this small!

A New Mermaid in the Store

I finally finished my little mermaid and uploaded her to Etsy. She mostly blue and green with a touch of purple and has little swarovski beads for her bosom. Her hair took me hours and is a combination of size 15 and size 11 seed beads. She's barely 4 inches tall including the hair.