A bunny and a box ...

I made a bunny from teeny tiny scraps. I rubbed chalk into her to make her look extra old, dirty and sad ... 

Then I placed her in a box with other items and felt guilty. Poor bunny. 

Sock Rabbit

This pink bunny on my lush green lawn makes me smile! I can almost believe spring is on its way. 

She was made from 2 very stretchy socks, no pattern and careful stuffing. She was sent to my friend Helen in hospital far away. 

I'm looking forward to Easter, are you?

Hop lil' rabbit!

A new bunny, in cream fleece fabric with a sweet furry cotton tail ...

Seen here having a hop at the Portland Exlab project!

Ready ...

Are you ready for spring? It's just around the corner! You can win my Easter Bunny if you enter this give-away here on my friend's lovely blog!

My lion is ready for digitising, and will soon find himself on a T-Shirt. I added some oil pastel this evening, and that seems to have added a lot of depth.

tents!

I came down after a shower to find girls busy making a field of miniature tents, using k'nex to make the frames ...



and various things to fashion the canopy!



I longed to climb inside and relax on a pile of bolsters! Must have been last night's Charlie and Lola episode with the Bedouin tents and camels!



Then Mummy made two more bunnies ...

did you guess what i was making?

And would you like one?



After all, spring is just around the corner!




come back on Monday for news of a cute give-away!

far, far away ....

one day a little raggyrat-rabbit travelled far, far away ...



her name is Lettie, and I think she really enjoys travelling ...



and just now, like the rest of us, she is enjoying some snow with a small friend!



Thank you Lettie and Emily, for sharing your photos, it's good to see you again! keep in touch! And Happy Christmas XXX

Who is this? Someone very small ...

I am such a tease at the moment ... I have a lot of projects on the go!

The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane .... WIP

starts with a head ....

Schmancy Olympic Challenge - my entry - opening ceremonies!

bunnie is all ready to twirl her bunting - i love bunting - and to cheer on her fellow plushies, in the winter olympics plush challenge! (It is a plushies only winter olympics, after all)

i made her a needle-felted needle to brandish alot as she does her very special dance - button jointed creatures are very good and movement to music!

i will post a link when all the entrees apear on the "plush you" blog ...

wild visitor ....

usually when we have a visitor to our dorset garden i dont get to take pics, but this little guest was ver obliging as i crept closer, and even mary got quite close, saying hello! then, he was off ...

sometimes, when creatures go to live very far away ...

... they send pictures home to let me know they are ok ...

happy new bunny

at last - something small, and cute, and EASY - as easy as it can be, at home with 3 under 3 !

i have ben finding the fursuit a real challenge ...

back ....in the shop !

esther bunny and red wheeled rose are back on etsy

Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit ...

after easter and there are still time for bunnies ...


this one was given to my dear nhs midwife lynn, as a huge thankyou for lots of support at home, doing all my checks so i didnt have to get myself and young twins to clinic, especially helpful as they are shy and dont like medical places ... actually neither do i!


and this little bunny now lives in france, it was given as a present when some french friends travelled all the way back home from weymouth to france after living here a while ...

today is sunny and i am sleepy ....

Bid4bears challenge win, and a charity bunny ... bid now !

ok, just to digress from the rest of the exhibition, i had good news the other week when i won a 'survival challenge' competition on bid4bears ... this means i have a whole years free listing on the site and so bid4bears will remain my main shop untill the end of my grand prize ....

to celebrate my good fortune i created a last minute entry for the lemonade bears benefit, this wee rabbit
made from real fur, and have just listed it under the official means so that all the money for the bunny goes to fight childhood cancer ...

she starts at a poxy £5 so go along and make a bid, also, enjoy some of the other artist bears in the charity auction which will be around for the next 3 days ... THANK YOU

cat xxxxx

woolley headed - thats me!

i had to squeeze in one more blenny for my builder who is also a sea-fisherman ...
he originally asked me to make a sea bas 2 years ago and what with expecting twins and feeling sick i never got around to it. when he heared i had just made a blenny puppet he asked for a blenny softie...

how i made fins for this softie version ... below is a sandwich of 3 pieces of fabric - the lighter fabric is in the middle and you can see the stiching using the same thread in both bobbin and spool ....
three layers of scottish woollen, plus close stiching to give strength .... isnt my skirt pretty?

carefully cut between the stitching thru only the top layer of fabric to leave veins of darker fabric ...

all done on one side - now flip the fin over and do the same onthe other ... lovely isnt it ? i did it the hard way when i made the blenny puppet !!!!

his top- knots are felted woollen jumper again, all rolled up and stitched ...

this long awaited book arrived inthe post just as i finnished this fish ... what a super antidote to all this larger-then-life-marine creatures ..... i devoured its contents and then, by way of celebration, threw the rest of the wool i used for the blenny into the washing machine to felt it .... insert evil laugh !!!

the darker fabirc is shown here with colours belnded beautifully and it hasnt got too thick to work with ....
the lighter woollen is slightly thinker and difficult to sew and but has a gorgeous texture and seems to now consist of stripes ... smells lovely too :-)

a bunny was born ... i might get one more bunny out of the lighter fabirc after tweeking the pattern a bit ....

do i look like that? bunny is based on these in my new book ... he thinks he is cuter - of course ! and he's up for rehoming on bid4bears now ....