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 ...

Hamster-car ... coming home !

made by Claire .... and Buster!

hamster car - doing what he does best !

a superb racig video made by Claire of absolutely small, starring chicken pants, pets and our own hamster car !

street life ....

stomp rocket, and my four daughters ... playing in our street in half term week.

in my dining room ...

a red themed 'art for the hands' mat ...



a nice cheerful blue one ...



wait a minute, whats that on the calendar?



The little-misses-february, it's us!

these two mats are ready to meet the public at the Sue Ryder Care Art Exhibition at the library for easter week ...

funny girls ...

i hate using the flash, and grabbed these shots of the girls making silly faces at daddy. i still think they are great pics, and the blurs make me laugh and seem to work, esp. when one girl is sitting still!

go on, ask me, how do i get anything done?

better get a head ....

big thanks to my hubby steve for letting me use his 23-inch head to make this little beauty ...

Butch, the cat with fangs ....

now a birthday-cat-bag, happy birthday Trinity xxx

WIP - Art For The Hands ...

do you use your ironing board as a table ?


wow, neat writing on the blackboard, i could have been a teacher! haha ... the girls like my writing and point out how steve's is a bit wrong sometimes e.g. r's with flat tops instead of nice curves ...

mary can count to three, so she enjoyed these three shiney buttons ...



you can see this mat, and another to go with it at the Sue Ryder Care Art Exhibition next month.

just chillin' .....

trying to take photos of my work with this lot around is interesting ...



matty is advising on positioning the work ...



ah, look there are my letters - my 'cold' word, to go with my 'hot' word at the fire and ice exhibition next month ...



and here they are looking a little more chilly!

cat themed art for the hands mat ....

this is tactile mat number 4, another one for june ...
i hope her friend likes it ....

juicy buttons on a lovely old plate ....

it was my grandma's plate, and ther buttons are a lovely mix of plastic glass and metal. i am applying them to some big letters to go into the next portland arts centre exhibition ... they must be finished this week ...

Raggy Rats take world by storm ...

Raggy Rat
Originally uploaded by abbydid

not really. altho i am still waiting for my copy, here is a photo my friend abby took of my raggy rat boys in issue three of stuffed. if you click thru to abby's flickr'd pic you canread the blurb i wrote, and see abby's fun work too !