Working on an a small project; the Itty Bitty Felt Bear

I have been working a few things; one was my tiny little bears and a bit later on I will share this project idea with you all on how to make these little guys.
These little bears can be made on a sewing machine or by just sewing by hand; I just hand sewed this one and the stitching is a bit strange looking but that is because I wanted that way. I did the stitching a bit loose and jagged to get this effect but one not do this way I was just playing around with an idea when I did up this little bear.
I used a bit of brown felt for the bear and cotton fabrics for the little dress, buttons for the eyes and bead for the nose. I used bigger buttons just because I wanted a different look to the bear, what I am trying there is a lots of ways to make these little guys and they don't have to be just bears with a few simple changes you can make dogs, rabbits cats or what ever else one can think up. I will share the project idea sometime next week so be on the look out for how to make these little guys.

Blue Berry Bread Recipe

this recipe makes 2 large loafs of blue berry bread, and tastes wonderful with the heavy cream. The batter will mix up really quite thick but you can spread in bread pans easily. The 2 loafs lasted about a day in home!
5 cups of flour
1 1/2 cups of sugar
2 big table spoons of baking powder
1 teaspoon of salt
3/4 cups of real melted butter/or softened
1 1/2 cups of your choice of nuts, such as walnuts chopped slightly or chopped up fine depending on what you like.
4 eggs
2 cups of heavy cream
2 teaspoons of vanilla extract
3-4 cups of fresh blue berries or you can use the frozen blue berries
Heat the oven to 350 degrees, grease and flour your large loaf pans or I made this in a bundt cake pan then you will just get one large loaf
Mix up the the dry ingredients first then add the butter and nuts, cream, eggs vanilla, gently add the blues berries, the dough gets a bit thick and stiff but it will work, then after it is mixed and thick spoon into the loafs even though its thick you can work it and spread in the loaf pans. It bakes for about an hour and 20 minutes.
Let cool about 10-12 minutes for cutting with a bread knife.

Finally Writing and doing Things Again

Well I am finally writing again it has been quite a long time but things have gotten better for my heart.
I have been really busy trying to find a job full time since I have finished my online schooling but there still is way too many people out of work.
So I decided to do what is call the Saturday Market in Washington and start selling some of those crafts of mine. My wonderful husband made me some pretty nice displays for all my crafts. This Saturday I was at the market and had a few sales and I happy folks like my cloth dolls there it was fun even though it was quite windy.



We got to be in a parade for the 4Th of July and it was lots of fun! We got to take the fast little Chevy Mondza Spider. Yes Oreocookies my little baby girl even got to be in the parade and did she ever get all the attention more than the car! I just had to take a picture of her waiting to go.

Talking about the latest issue; My Heart

Big hello to all;
as you may have noticed I have not been posting my blogs lately or not as often as I used to do in the past couple of years. Well I have had some serious battles with my health and the most recent was I was in the hospital for a few days as I thought I was having a heart attack.
Thank heavens it was not but I do have some serious problems one is the heart is misfiring electrically quite often and the other is the old heart will not slow down even when I am just sitting it goes 90-100 beats and that is not good for me. I am now on a beta block twice daily to get the heart under control and later in a month I will find out what the next steps are to help this heart of mine.

I am thinking of changing the name a bit on both blogs, I had a wonderful talk with someone who explained that maybe one of the reasons I don't have any sales lately is because of the names of the blogs, they do not really tell people what I do make and I think that might be correct so I am thinking and would also like to hear from you all what might be added to or names that might be interesting.
No I have not been crafting much these past weeks more trying to get that heart to slow down for me but I will be and I will be going head strong into it again. If you have ideas for me on what to do change or make the blog names better just add your comments and I will look I may even have a contest for the best name and a free give away.

Crafting Up more Ideas, a doll from a Paper mache plant pot, aged and sealed Moth wall hanging, another Rock Cottage

I was once again busy crafting away again last weekend and I was working on a couple of things; this is one of them. A doll created out of another paper mache plant pot.
The base is the dress again accept this time I used scrapbook paper and I wadded it up and stained it so that her dress looks all tattered and wrinkled, that old worn out look. I decoupaged the head out of a small ball and some muslin which I stained with my own staining recipe. The arms and hands are cotton fabrics, along with her scarf hat and collar. Mrs. Wiggles is holding a small clay pot for adding a start of a plant. The little clay pot has been stain and sealed with a good sealer. I guess one could also add a little soil and seed and start a plant either way she turned out pretty cute for just a idea running loose in my head.



This is another rock cottage I am also working on and I am close to having it completed by this weekend. I am using acrylic paints and I will seal when I am finished. I no patterns as I am painting just ideas how I want to look or how a little might look, I am going to add some birds and maybe some clothes on the line in the back and on the sides. The last little project is a small decoupaged wooden wall hanging. I found this wonderful vintage graphic at the Graphics Fairy and just had to use it on a small wall hanging or maybe for placing by a stove and using to put those spoons and etc on. I sanded down the wooden wall hanging first and use a bit of crackle on it before adding the moth and stain and I sealed it with a flat sealer.
This weekend I plan to finish up and add these items to my store its just krazy kute productions so be on the lookout I will be adding them next week some time.

Just doing a bit of Drawing with pen and ink and Oil Pastles

A few weeks back I was just sitting watching a good movie and decided to do some drawing and this is what I drew in pen and ink using just some ideas that were running around in the old head.
I was getting back to a bit of my roots, my first love drawing, and the drawings did not come out too awful bad just using a blue ink pen. It was then I decided to go and try some oil pastels and so the last item here is what I am working on now a oil pastel of a small dog. I should have it done shortly.
It was lots of fun going back to my roots of how I first got started in crafting, I once long ago showed art work in Montana and had lots of fun attending all kinds of shows.

A New Rock Cottage Door Stop

Well I had lots of fun finishing up this newest rock cottage;I love using the acrylic paints and designing these rock cottage door stops. I think the make a room more lively as I try to create them with imagination alone. Each cottage has those famous cobwebs and spider webs; with either a person or animal peeking out of a window or if I let my thinking get a little wild who knows what else might be peeking out a window!
I try to make each one different, no patterns just what might first come to mind to create them. Each rock is washed and cleaned quite well before painting with acrylic paints and I use various sizes of brushes for the details of each cottage and a very good sealer.
A nice thing about these rock cottage door stops is they are heavy to keep a door ajar; but I also make sure to pick out those rocks that are unusual and shaped like a small cottage would be each one is never the same and I feel that is the fun of making these cute cottages.

I will be adding this new rock cottage to my store its just krazy kute Productions in a few days so that it can be purchased.