What if?

What if when you woke up this morning you only had the things in your life that you thanked God for yesterday?

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Four Aces - The Complete Series

Can you tell I had fun with this?
Pattern now available on my PatternMart Page
or check out my Pattern Page for more information.
If you don't want the complete set, INDIVIDUAL CARD DOLL
epatterns are also available if you don't want to make the complete set.

5th Birthday Celebration

Please join us for our 5th Birthday Giveaway!

Feb 29th @10:00 pm edt - March 20th

Fabulous prizes handmade and donated by our members

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Key To My Heart

I love the look of hammered copper so I had fun creating my faux version.

Listed on EBAY

Tomato Soup, Pies, Puddings and Bread Crumbs

For these recipes and information, visit me at
Edna at Home

Merry Christmas!

It's raining and dark outside today, but the Christmas tree lights are twinkling in the living room and in my studio/nest.  The stockings are hung with care while visions of family and good food dance in my head.  I want to thank you all for your wonderful friendship.  My Internet Family are very dear to me.  Wishing you a very MERRY CHRISTMAS and a most blessed and peaceful NEW YEAR 2012!

To my Liberal Friends:

Please accept with no obligation, implied or explicit, my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low-stress, non-addictive, gender-neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the religious/secular persuasion and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all.

I also wish you a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling and medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar year 2012 but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures whose contributions to society have helped make America great. Not to imply that America is necessarily greater than any other country nor the only America in the Western Hemisphere. Also, this wish is made without regard to the race, creed, color, age, physical ability, religious faith or sexual preference of the wishee.

To My Conservative Friends:
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

I love wool...

In the mid 80's I taught myself to do porcelain baby/children dolls.  It was fun at first, but then became boring as these reproduction dolls were cast from molds by others and you glued on a wig.  I really wanted a doll with more character.  In 1991 I purchased the annual edition of Santa Claus magazine by Better Homes and Gardens and was *smitten* with the old guy and his beautiful wooly locks!  Thus my doll making journey began and my quest for my own style.  I have since switched from porcelain to cloth dolls and what a wonderful adventure it has been...with still more to come if the good Lord is willing.....

Here's how I clean Wool: From the tip end, pull your ringlets apart and get as much vegetable matter out of each strand as possible. Have the end tips all going in one direction and put them in a small open mesh bag (one like fruit come in from the grocery) I only do one batch at a time so it will fit into one of those plastic shoe boxes. Lay your bagged wool in the shoe box and fill the box with HOT almost boiling water. The hot water will break down the lanolin that is in the wool. Let sit for 20 minutes. DO NOT SWISH IT AROUND OR YOU WILL HAVE FELT! After 20 minutes put another plastic shoe box on top of the wool and pour the water out, pressing with the second shoe box to get the water out. Add HOT water again, then a few drops of Dawn Dishwashing liquid. Let sit for another 20 minutes and press the water out the same way. If you wool does not look clean, repeat this process with the Dawn until it looks clean. (If will look darker while it is wet but will dry much lighter) Once your wool is clean, add HOT water, no soap to rinse. Let sit about 10 minutes and press the water out. You can add two or three drops of fabric softener to your last rinse. Press the water out, take out of bag, put on a towel and press the water out with the towel. Seperate the strands and let them dry on the towel or paper towel. Mohair is much easier to wash as you can swish it around with your hand instead of putting it in a mesh bag. You do not have to worry about mohair felting while you clean it.

Life and Knitting...Same Principles

Start with a plan

Follow the pattern

Count your blessings

Be patient

One step at a time

Correct your mistakes

Love what you do

Give thanks

Enjoy the fruits of your labor

Begin again

Not A Creature Was Stirring Christmas Mouse Pattern on CD

This is for a PDF PATTERN on a CD and NOT A FINISHED DOLL.

This sweet 9" mouse is painted muslin fabric. Mouse is reading The Night Before Christmas book, wearing it's gown and night cap, soon to be dreaming of visions of sugar plums. Great for Christmas decorating or remove the book and leave it out all year. This pattern is fun to do, so make a whole family of Mice! Patterns, painting and sewing instructions. Also includes instructions for book and pattern envelope. My designs are simple sewing/painting and designed to be printed on regular 8-1/2" x 11" paper. CD & Jewel Case.  United States Postal Service - Priority Mail Shipping is to the UNITED STATES ONLY    Now listed on EBAY

Happy Thanksgiving and a SALE!

I have put the lids on my paints, the cover on my sewing machine, closed the door to my studio to hide the mess and put one of those yellow *crime scene* tapes over the door.  I am off to the kitchen to prepare goodies for Thanksgiving and take a couple of days off from creating.  I wish each of you a most blessed and peaceful THANKSGIVING.  We have so much to be thankful for!

BLACK FRIDAY SALE!
25% OFF of everything, including finished dolls, only in my PlumThicket Prims ETSY shop.  Sale starts at 6am until 6pm on Friday, November 25, 2011.  You will need to use code BLACKFRIDAY2011 at checkout in order to get your discount.  All epatterns will be shipped by me to your email address within 24 hours.   See you there...  http://plumthicketprims.etsy.com/