Performing Pony needs your vote ...

please vote for her here, and enjoy all the other Plush-team challenge pieces too ... Bring on the clowns ...

Getting ready to prance!

I am making some attire and plumes for this little pony - created as part of another plush team challenge.

goat - vote - round two!

and so I made my goat all steampunk, for an etsy-plush-team challenge, and we would both love it if you would go and vote for him in the final round of the competition - it's goat versus blimp!

click thru to see all of him, and if you want more pics here, just ask XXX

plush-team steampunk challenge piece ...

remember when I teased you and asked you about this magical clockwork bag, and the bottle of stardust, too?



well they belong to my goat doll, now fully dressed and ready for inventing adventures, and not to mention getting a few votes here - on the plush team blog...

you can read more about my ideas behind this piece here, in the Plush Team Etsy shop. I had a great time deciding what do do with a selection of tiny watch parts, and think they made good buttons on his fancy waistcoat!

I think goats are rather eccentric beings anyway, perhaps it's the beard and sideburns?



I realised how much I enjoy making little gadgets myself, creating goggles from suede 'blind' fabric, real suede and some thin gold coloured 'pleather' along with some hand tinted acetate lenses to keep out the glare!



i would love it if you would vote for my goat doll, the prize is a handmade piece of art! You can vote for one steam punk character, and one plush gadget too xxx

WIP - goat doll ... in need of clothes!

The basic goat doll is now finished, heat to toe, now he just cries out for some fantastic steam punk gadgetry and of course, something to wear!



some metal, and machine-like buttons helped me to joint him, and I made his limbs and face from a lovely Harris tweed ... don't tell the Harris tweed people I felted it in my washing machine though!



all four limbs are very pose-able, of course, and he appreciated this as he bent to crop my lawn ...



and sat back, to enjoy the spring sunshine!

WIP - goat doll ....

I love plush team challenges, the latest one is a steampunk theme!



the categories were characters, or gadgets and I went with characters ...



been poking around in my fabrics looking to create suitable steam-punk attire for this goat character ...



and i picked up some pretty little cogs for embellishments ...

another fun plush team challenge ....

these amazing body parts were made and sent to me by Rowan of OUT OF THE FRAME, fame! i was impressed, i cannot crochet, or knit ...



so i took some of the green fur Christina Ward sent me,some of Rowans scraps and while eating her candy with the fuzzies came up with this ...



The children named her Ingrid Monster, Ingrid Ennerver, to use both her names ...



Cute, or just strange? good fun to make! find a challenge today!

More on Flowers the Lion ...

I have been teasing you a lot recently, so here, with his story at this link... is more about Flowers!

look out for an opportunity to vote in the latest Plushteam Challenge, soon!

Flowers the Lion - who is he?

Another Superb plush-team challenge ...

P is for "Pyew! Pyew!"
Originally uploaded by Don Solo

this time for a plush weapon, long range short range or fantasy! as i love Flash Gordon, costumes and sets I looked around for some props, and also found this great steam punk paint job on flickr ....

here is my challenge entry...

sadly hubby called it a hair dryer for a lot of its development, then when i took the photos, said it looked like i was trying to get paint off my walls with it .....

sigh ...

not seen the back of Ganesha yet ....

My sock-Hindu-God Ganesha would like your vote again! he and his ratty steed made it through the first round of votes and you can make him champion by following this link to the Plush Team mythology challenge ...

VOTE NOW !


and you can also see more of him when you get there, by following my name to his listing in the plush-team shop...

another plush team challenge - 40 years since woodstock 69

"Among the countless iconic images to come out of Woodstock, one that stands out is that of a colorful micro-bus painted with all the symbols of the peace-and-love generation that has become known as "Light."

Light was a group that included a singer by the name of Robert Grimm, who would later become one of the Four Seasons. It was Grimm who commissioned Dr. Bob Hieronimus to turn the band's drab tour bus into something more ... say, magical."