OK...OK... I'm awake mom!

Alright I have been bad & lazy & playing with my blythe dolls far too much these days!!! (Fionna Skye, Ruby Cate, Sophia Grace, and Lulu Belle send thier regards!!!) So getting back at the helm is in the spring air!!! I have several creations in the works! & they are divine looking girls if I must say so myself! there are a couple of lovely ladies who are familar faces (my favorites of sorts.... I try not to pick favorites but but darn they are cute!) and a few new and some that have just been lurking in the shadows waiting for me to introduce them!
My my where are my manners!!! at any rate I have a few I can show off today..... Can you tell they are dieing for SpRiNg to have sprung??? (these lovely ladies went to a swap~ however they have some friends who are about to emerge on the scene they will first be announced on flickr and make thier appearance on ebay! somewhere towards the end of this week.... I Hope!)

I am also in the "experimental stages" of pickling these lovelies...... so they may accompany you and see the world! But I don't know as of yet if I have it all quite right! Hmmmm they are tricky little ones and it's hard to get them to sit quite right when they are wiggleing so much! I may have to wait & see when they are right between that place where they are awake & asleep so they will be more inclined to let me work!!!! But here's the girl who gave me a fight! Mercy! she was a tough one to pickle! but still isn't she lovely just the same? Hopefully I shall have some answers soon so these wee little ones maybe on thier merry way! (to ebay that is! you''ll have to watch my flickr for a heads up though..... you'll only have 5 days once they come out to play!!!) these look to be most promising too! she looks far better than her captured reflection......

Oh what is a girl to do!?!

Oh NO! it's your lucky day???

Pay It Forward
Yellow fairy bug Queen http://www.thefairyyellowbugqueen.blogspot.com/has invited me to take part in this Pay It Forward challenge.Why not!!!! I am willing to play! I will send a handmade gift/thingy/something to the first 3 people who leave a comment on my blog requesting to join this "Pay It Forward" exchange. I don't know what that gift will be, and you may not receive it tomorrow or next week, but you will receive it within 365 days, that is my promise! And truthfully, it will probably be later than sooner! The only thing you have to do in return is "Pay It Forward" by making the same promise on your blog with a link back to me. So basically, if you comment I'll send you something crafty that I'll make! Once you sign up, copy and paste the above paragraph on your blog, and three other lucky people will be the recipients of your handmade work. You must post this on your blog to be eligible.

Going out with a bang!!!

Hello everyone! Yes, unfortunatlyy I have not kept up my blog I've been bad ! However, due to alot of unfortunate events (divorce for one) I have been tied up & trying to get my life in order so I can start a brand new year. Fresh starts are my hope for 2008!!!!!

The little ladie on the left I made in honor of little miss Sophia who would have been 5 this year, she is my christmas angel, and heaven's keeper! so I appropriatly named this piece "Heaven's keeper" for this little angel keeps the heavens bright replacing and shining the stars so they always shine bright! and she is off to her new mom as we speak!

(she is a paper & plastic doily collage in a antique frame I did a rust treatment to!)

Also introduceing "Winter Solstice" she has star shine in her hair and glorious wings of olde she is a sweet little paper doll creation (of which I have one left to sell IF anyone is interested! please email me!) her arms and legs are all jointed and she is a original creation and one of 4.

My other sweethearts are my Queenie Belle tags! (One is up for grabs here! green floral) Her regalness dons a crown and a very pretty dress!

(All my work is paper collage with bits & pieces thrown in a few scribbles maybe some glitter or gold gel to make it look just right!)

and lastly I have my little snow fairies! aren't they quaint??? all snuggled in thier large stocking caps making sure we get all the prettiest snowflakes ever. They are gentle little girls who just like to play! they can adorn just about anything and look thier best! (two available~ midnight stars & old white scribe)

Well, my friends I'm sure I will have more later. I I will try to be more fluent with my blogs in 2008!!! OUT with the OLD & in with something new!!! and if I don't get the chance I would like to WiSh EVERYONE the happiest of NEW YEARS!!!! May this be the year of better things!

~All Hallow's Eve~

Ok kids! How can Halloween Not be a favorite holiday!!! I am into the obscure scenery of what the day has to bring so how could it not be the first thing that popped into my mind for my zetti postcard?! I'm hoping that all 5 ladies are enjoying thier girls!

~gRaCeFuL bAnTeR~

OK. I'm back! my life has been one nasty ball of wax lately so I have kinda been MIA! but then I'm never thrilled around the time my birthday hits! It's all rather sucky so I figure if I hide all of it will just go away & not find me! I know wishful thinking right!!! Does it take on a bad meaning when your cat dies on your birthday??? I'm sure that it probally means I'm cursed!!! NOW that I can contest to!!! Well kids I will write more later when I feel more chatty it's just one of those days for me right now...... Enjoy!

ahhhh It's a run by tagging!

I was tagged by http://www.sarahogren.blogspot.com/yesterday. Here are the rules…..1. Link to your tagger and post these rules.2. Share 7 facts about YOU: some random, some weird...all devastatingly interesting.3. Tag 7 people at the end of your post and list their names (linking to them).4. Let them know they've been tagged by leaving a comment at their blogs.
Facts About Me.
1. I like to quote movies..... terrible habit! but didn't you just LOVE that in "mrs. Doubtfire"!!! (see post header! was run by fruiting! LOL.)
2. I’m terrified of Sharks and snakes & whatever is larger than me on the foodchain!!!
.3. I like using 50 cent words, like chiaroscuro. it so confuses the hell out of people! which brings me to the fact that I also now get corrected by my 19 yr old who is one of the few who isn't baffled by benivelent ways! (she also has been charged with gran·deur! because it rubbed off on her at a very young age..... 5 yrs old & she could use the BIG words properly even if she didn't quite know their meaning yet!!! my friend & I at the time, use to try to out - word one another! What can I say we were weird! I still like to do it from time to time!)
4. I am the most normal person in my family...... (as long as you don't ask the 19 yr old!)
5. I have an earned BA in Professional Photography ..... yet I had a portrait studio (yes, past tense HAD.... 6. Loved to shoot weddings HATE the mean and manipulative people! don't get me wrong not everyone was that way but you get a few a year & that was more than enough!!! the more money they have the less they also want to pay you & the more they want you to do! ~ Enough said!!! I do miss the fun & full of life Great people I have met though....)
7. I Loved my childhood & wish it was still that way for my girls.... however, there isn't much innocence left in this world anymore! makes me so sad!

OK. time for torture! Hmmmmm

Alrighty then!
1.) http://www.jenniferconway.blogspot.com/ Jen Conway!

2.) http://www.faeryyellowbug.blogspot.com/ Hi Norma!!!

3.) http://www.zanymayd.blogspot.com/

4.) http://birdandflowerpaperdolls.blogspot.com/ Elaine

5.)http://starlitnest.blogspot.com/ Alison

6.)http://faeriewindow.blogspot.com/ Lori

7.)http://kimandliamsblog.blogspot.com/ KIM!

have fun!!!! (((Smiles)))

vIsItInG fReInDs......

Still another web is weaved and we are walking across the dark intense terain of the land of forgotten dreams where nothing ,like real life, is anything but seemingly obsured..... still we must go out to visit our friends who reside in this strange land, for no one can live alone without any visitors , you silly thing..... First, Gertie who has just done up her hair for our visit.... isn't it just so divine..... you have just the right touch! What a beautiful flower! Oh my dear you look rather stunning today! if I could only look as divine it would be a even happier day!

Next, Stella this young'n loves to leave her hair down ! Watch out for that sweet little bee! Oh dear me! bUzZ bUzZ bUzZ........

go away you silly thing

it's time for tea and what a lovely day

for the likes of it too!

Sometimes us girls just have to let our hair down sip a cup & sit back and enjoy the cool crisp day! OoOoOohhhh! I can see it's better weather ahead! if only it would just get here and not pass us by so quickly!

and for those of you who like my versions of Gertie & Stella visit my flickr page for the ones to be traded or sold! & give them a shout as well! & I hope to see you back real soon!