Emaline, a new Ellifolks miniature mohair teddy bear is now in my Etsy shop. Emaline is 2 1/2" tall. She is wearing a handmade skirt of lace trim and a bead necklace of vintage glass beads. She has a peach-colored vintage millinery flower by her ear.
She is all hand stitched, and I dyed and shaded her red mohair. You can see her here.
I have added three new prints to my Etsy Shop.
"In the Afternoon" is a digital painting made on the iPad. It includes some of my favorite subject matter - a chair and flowers, and has a feeling of calm relaxing in the midst of some chaos. Here is it's Etsy page.
"Get Down Cat!" is a digital painting also made on the iPad. Again there is a chair and flowers. A mischievous cat is not about to give up her comfy spot on the back of the chair. Here is it's Etsy page.
"6 Doll Heads" started out as a photo of one of my original dolls taken with my iPhone. I manipulated the photo in several photo editing apps and combined six images into one iphoneography photo collage. Here is its Etsy page.
Oona Ellibeans, a little whimsical mohair doll is now available in my Etsy Shop. You can see her here.
Oona is hand dyed and shaded. She has a super big mohair head, a crooked smile, and a ffluffy mohair skirt. Oona sports cotton floss pigtails. her eyes are vintage mother of pearl buttons. Oona has hand dyed wool felt arms that are thread jointed. Her legs are purple hand dyed wool felt. Please come visit her!
Wookie, a whimsical mohair panda in now in my Etsy shop. Wookie is made of sparse hand-dyed mohairs. He has one glass eye bordered with a wool felt flower and one orange vintage button eye ringed with a red embroidered circle. He is about 4 3/4" tall and is wearing a linen cord collar with a rusty jingle bell.
You can see Wookie here. Please come visit if you get a chance. Wookie has been adopted.
I just added my first print of one of my paintings to my Etsy shop. The original is an acrylic/mixed media painting on hot press watercolor paper, done in many layers and incorporating pencil and water-soluble oil pastels, too. I will be adding more prints shortly.
I have to thank Mindy Murphy Lacefield for her wonderful online class, "Paint Your Story". If you get a chance to take it, I highly recommend it. She really gives you the tools and encouragement to find freedom in your art.
I finished a new bear. Suzette is a 3 1/4" miniature made of a hand-dyed sparse German Schulte mohair. She is wearing a pearl cotton headband with a satin rose.
She is sold, but you can see some more photos and description here in my Etsy shop.
I have added my new little Sullivan, a hand dyed and hand shaded miniature mohair bear, to my Etsy shop. Sullivan is 3 1/4" tall and is dyed a pretty ochre color. He is made of a sparse Schulte German mohair with hand shaded detailing.
Sullivan has big brown glass eyes and a distressed grey-blue silk ribbon scarf. He would love for you to visit him on his Etsy page here.
I have added a new bear and bunny to my Etsy shop. They would love for you to come visit. :)
Sadie is a 6 3/4" hand dyed and hand shaded mohair bear with glass eyes and embroidered nose, mouth, and claws. Sadie is wearing a vintage rayon ribbon headband. She is made of an aged, sparse Schulte German mohair that I dyed a dusty rose color. You can visit her here.
Olivia is a 7 " hand-dyed wool bunny with glass eyes and embroidered nose. She is made of a lovely short Schulte German wool that I dyed a nice tangerine shade.
She has long, curly whiskers and is wearing a vintage flower by her ear. She can stand by herself. You can visit her here.
Lucien is a sweet hand-dyed and hand-shaded bear made of sparse Schulte German mohair. He is 7" tall and is wearing an antiqued copper necklace with a vintage brass bell. He is in my Etsy shop and can be viewed here and on my BearPile gallery. Lucien has been sold.
Here is Dani:
Dani is a 6" panda made of hand-dyed and hand-shaded Schulte German mohair. She is wearing a linen string collar with a rusty jingle bell. She is listed in my Etsy shop and can be viewed here. Dani has been sold.
I hope you can come visit them!
I have two new critters available for adoption.
Aleph is the first of my new Min-elli series. He is 4 1/2" tall of a sparse Schulte mohair that I dyed and hand shaded. He is wearing a copper and sterling silver chain collar. His limbs are cotter-pin jointed. He is available here in my Etsy shop.
Alice is a hand dyed rabbit of a sparse German mohair that I dyed and hand shaded. She is wearing a skirt made of vintage lace trim and a vintage lace trim scarf. She is holding a vintage millinery carrot. She is cotter-pin jointed. She is available here on BearPile.
I have listed Gregory, a 9" primitive-style mohair bear in my Etsy shop. He is hand-dyed and shaded with glass eyes, embroidered nose, mouth, and claws of pearl cotton and is stuffed with a mixture of excelsior and cotton batting. You can visit him here. Gregory has been sold.
I have also listed Brioche, a sweet fluffy 7 1/2" mohair panda bear in my Etsy shop. He is hand-dyed and shaded ith glass eyes, embroidered nose, mouth, and claws of pearl cotton and is stuffed with a mixture of excelsior and cotton batting. He is wearing a vintage cotton lace ribbon scarf. You can visit him here.
I have added Thomas, a new mohair bear, to my Etsy shop. Please check him out.
Thomas is a reddish-brown bear made of sparce, distressed German mohair and has glass eyes with wool felt bordering. He has a primitive, vintage style and is hand dyed and hand shaded. He is wearing a vintage rayon ribbon scarf fastened with a vintage vegetable ivory underwear button. He is 8 ″ tall. You can see his Etsy page here.
Here is Flurrie, a needlefelted pink poodle. She is made of wool fiber. I blended two colors together for a pretty heathery pink shade. She is 2 3/4" tall and 2 2/2" long. Her eyes are onyx. She has a collar of vintage glass beads with a sterling silver leash with a felt handle and glass bead embellishment.
She is also just the right size to be a pet for a Blythe or similar sized doll and looks cute "walking on the leash" with a doll friend.
Flurrie is now available in my Etsy shop.
I like to use my drawings and doodles for inspiration for my mohair and wool critters. Here is a carved print "A Day with Walter" that I did from a drawing. This became the inspiration for a needle-felted dog, Walter. I decided to needlefelt him because I wanted to add the surface design Walter has in the print.
Here is the needlefelted version of Walter made with wool fiber. He is 2 1/4" tall and 3" long. He has glass eyes and an inner wire armature. He has details of needle-felted colored wool. I hand colored his head and body to give him a pale peachy color.
Walter and his carved print are now available as a set in my Etsy shop.
I have listed Sylvie with Dolly in my Etsy shop. She is made of a sparse champagne beige German mohair that I hand shaded. I made her silk hand-dyed ribbon flower with vintage stamens which she wears over one ear. She is 7 1/2''.
I designed and sewed her dress and undies.
I needlefelted Dolly out of cream wool. She has red and blue wool details for her face and shoes and red wool hair. She is 1 3/4'' and wears a cotton lace dress with tiny glass bead accents.
I hope you can come visit!
I just listed Celie in White Linen Dress in my Etsy shop. She is made of a soft, beige German mohair that I hand shaded. Her dress is handmade of handkerchief linen. She is also wearing an antiqued copper necklace that I made with two handmade charm pendants, one of fine silver and the other a vintage mother of pearl button. She is 8 1/2" tall.
I hope you can come visit!
I have just listed Merilotte with Elliphant in my Etsy shop. Little Merilotte holds a special place in my heart as she was hand sewn in our Paris hotel room in the early mornings of our European trip. When we got home, I decided she needed a companion and created Elliphant. Merilotte is made of a soft dusty pinky peach German mohair that I hand shaded. I made her a sterling silver chain necklace with a freshwater pearl pendant. She is cotter-pin jointed and is 2 3/4" tall.
Elliphant is a patchwork wool elephant with a vintage brass bell around her neck and little freshwater pearls on the ends of her reins. She has thread-jointed legs and is 2 1/2" tall.
I hope you can come visit them.
Pignon is now available in my Etsy shop. He is 7" tall and is made of sparse, matted German mohair. He wears a cotton lace scarf and 100% wool felt booties with perle cotton ties . He is hand-shaded and has black and white google style eyes. He is a one-of-a-kind. As you can see, he is a little mischievous. He is fully cotter-pin jointed and has a whimsical, primitive look.
Mohair momma bird Beratrice and her two sons,Lloyd, and Flit, are now available in my new Etsy shop. The design for Beratrice was taken from one of my computer doodles. I had a lot of fun designing and making her little hat. I draped felt into the shape I wanted and made a pattern from that. I used woven wool fabric for the hat that had been felted and stitched the hat by hand. The little flower on a stalk is a combination of wool felt and woven cotton and has a vintage stamen.
I just added a new digital painting print, Jane with Flowers and Bunny, to my
