Faceless No More!

I made it to Joann's after helping at school. Thanks to Andi's suggestion, I got over my fear of embroidering the doll's face. The secret is to practice on a photocopy of her face! I think she turned out okay for the first try...she will go off to her new home this weekend.

Posted using BlogPress from my iPad

Still Faceless...

I finished her kimono, obi and zori. Then I realized that I gave away my embroidery floss...so, I am off to Joann's tomorrow.

The pattern calls for embroidering flowers on the kimono. The hard part is going to be the face...I am suppose to use beads, but, I don't want to use beads since I am giving this to little girl.

I am REALLY NERVOUS about doing a face...at least I can rip it out if it looks horrible.

UNLESS, I FIND SOMEONE TO MAKE THE FACE FOR ME...any takers?



- Posted using BlogPress from my iPad

Is there a Ninja in the house?

Um, there were 5!

Ok, it started off with just having one of Jordan's teammates over, because his Mom had to take his older brother to the Rebels tourney in Sacramento and he would have missed two practices. After Jordan and Neil decided to change plans on going to the SACBC banquet, the sleepover exploded! But, it worked out fine, except the original boy came down with a fever and missed Sunday's practice.


On another Ninja note...the other reason why I was busy last week is because I was making raffle tickets. Our tournament is in two weeks and as a fundraiser we are raffling off an iPad 2Wi-Fi + 3G. LIMITED TO 100 TICKETS! I had to Tinker with the picture to -VOID- it...sigh!

Good News: the tickets came out GREAT!
Bad News: I can't get rid of my huge Fiskars paper cutter because it has a perforating blade...and I perforated all the tickets on the dotted lines.


- Posted using BlogPress from my iPad

Oh no! no Face, no clothes!!!

My latest project...a doll...I have never made a doll before, so, this was going to be a challenge....the good thing has been, it has been super easy! I started Friday night and I assembled her body tonight, Sunday. Next, the kimono, slippers and to find someone to help me with her face.

Like my post title? I knew it would catch someone's eye!


- Posted using BlogPress from my iPad

Out with the old...in with the new!

It has been a busy week....after many of years and a new backyard neighbor...we were finally able to properly replace our backyard fence. The prior owner was renting the place and on limited income, so, she only wanted to pay a few hundred dollars...so, Jeff put in a cheap fence himself. Now with new neighbors who were willing to go in 50%, we were able to get a new fence!

The old...



The NEW material....


The new fence!



Is it silly to be excited about a new fence?

- Posted using BlogPress from my iPad