woven friendship..

My eldest made herself a loom

out of a strip of cardboard.

said she wanted to make a friendship bracelet.

I think its beautiful :)

Day of the dead ... No.12

Custom orders are a HUGE part of my business...

and recently I received one for a set of nesting dolls. 

I LOVE when the customer lets me be creative.

(its really the best way to take advantage of the artists creativity. By not limiting them!)

They wanted day of the dead dolls,

Inspired by and old set I had sold years ago.

I started with the second doll

she inspired me

so I then moved on to the biggest one

and then the rest...

These new sets are quite large and all hand turned

The biggest being 8" tall and 4" wide

there are seven in all

I have a bunch of blank sets made

and ready to be painted...

mixed media native art

The natives are making art..

well, to be honest.

They are always making art.

But today we made a bigger mess of it then normal!

It's my fathers birthday soon and we decided (since it was a big one)

to do something special!

We started with blank canvas

add in paint, paper, tissue, markers, glue ..etc.

I always love when they each use their own unique styles

and this was one of those times it truly shined!

They are all so creative

and still quite different 

each in their own way!

Of coarse the finished products I dare not post.

For they have not yet been received ;)

The hardest part for them is waiting for things to dry..

we did these over two days

But the final products are quite spectacular!