tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-263155172024-03-12T21:14:35.622-04:00rivermade~a(rt)work in progress~sørenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09492290397757673453noreply@blogger.comBlogger62125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26315517.post-85429310270523261862012-07-05T17:14:00.002-04:002012-07-05T17:14:57.087-04:00Writing has moved.I moved my writing posts to another semi-anonymous blog. If you want to know what it is, email me or comment and I'll *probably* tell you. I'm airing laundry but not quite brave enough to own my past that openly yet.sørenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09492290397757673453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26315517.post-24699371149725244442011-04-20T10:44:00.002-04:002011-04-20T10:58:37.490-04:00we interrupt my dollar store crafting...I have to post this doll who I have finally completed after at least three years. I had made her parts but I couldn't seem to position her head and arms correctly, and she sat in a box until this week.
She is mostly a pattern that I can't remember the author of and need to look up online... but her head is my original creation.
Her name is Indigo... but she is also Oshun, the Yoruba sørenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09492290397757673453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26315517.post-36941816948323421272011-04-16T16:48:00.006-04:002011-04-16T18:11:23.104-04:00have some (just a little) angst with my Dollar Store CraftsSo I won this box of stuff from Dollar Store Crafts. (this picture is from them.)
See that package in the center with the black-and-white thing? That's mine, mine, mine... mwah-hah-hah!(It was the weirdest thing - as I was filling out the entry thing, I knew that I was going to win... I didn't know there would be over 600 entries(!) but I just knew.)
And now I get to play sørenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09492290397757673453noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26315517.post-22325696053998240652010-02-04T09:10:00.016-05:002010-02-04T09:24:55.533-05:00Scanning woes and art plansI've been making lots of art, really - it's just that you can't see it yet.
I want to spend time *making* it, not scanning it, uploading it to flickr, and then writing about the process of it!
But I really want to document it beyond just having a sketchbook of it, so eventually I really will get around to it.
Although this week I have a major sucky cold and it's sapping all my energy beyond sørenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09492290397757673453noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26315517.post-57135216043829041772010-01-31T10:10:00.002-05:002011-04-13T07:23:18.591-04:00a quick blizzardActually, this isn't about the blizzard.
It's a quest... to stop music on blogs.
To be more specific, music on blogs is fine... but I think it shouldn't play automatically.
Players should start IF the person looking at the blog wants to listen and hit the play button.
I know, one point of a blog is that you can do whatever you want and if someone doesn't like it, they don't have to read it sørenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09492290397757673453noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26315517.post-55307539285593347552010-01-13T09:50:00.001-05:002010-01-13T09:50:48.928-05:00entry formatting...?!!!I am SO confused - in my browser, different entries of mine have different amounts of spacing between the lines of type.
I think it happens when I post an entry from flickr, vs posting through blogger, but I'm looking at the page source, and the html & css, and I see NOTHING that would explain it!
In case anyone reads this blog and is better at that stuff than me, can you tell me where that sørenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09492290397757673453noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26315517.post-22885561518550989382010-01-13T09:21:00.007-05:002010-01-13T09:47:06.052-05:00Remains of the Day Book
Here's one of the pages from the book I made in the Remains of the Day class I talked about in the last entry. If you look at it on flickr you can see all of the pages. These are just the background for adding photos and writing... I like to write a lot in my books, so I'm sticking in more envelopes for me to fill with writing on cards and notebook pages.
The idea of these journals is that the sørenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09492290397757673453noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26315517.post-82320621584520380552010-01-08T09:00:00.007-05:002010-01-13T09:34:46.493-05:00Creative Experiments!I don't believe in making resolutions, but I want to start updating my blog more, because I've been making lots of art that isn't getting shown to anyone.I've also been spending too many hours looking at other people's blogs and their art - which sometimes leads to happy discoveries like this one.Daisy Yellow is AWESOME. There are so many great ideas, inspiring art, links to follow, etc. that yousørenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09492290397757673453noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26315517.post-7797184766439638552008-04-15T09:21:00.004-04:002008-04-15T09:28:55.605-04:00Abundance TotemI need to update more frequently! Sorry about that. Is there some easier process than the eight-million-steps that I need to do to get things from my camera to blogger?Anyway. I made this Abundance totem several years ago now, when I discovered the Connecticut quarter. That's it, on her abdomen, that big, beautiful tree.This is to remind me that Abundance comes in many forms.And also, that every sørenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09492290397757673453noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26315517.post-59330574199476370952008-03-01T08:47:00.006-05:002008-04-15T09:36:40.490-04:00They say it's my birthday/Good Dreams Angel...and I'm getting a new CAMERA! So I will now be able to take pictures of my new stuff. But in the mean time, I thought I would start posting some of my older work that hasn't been blogged.(I've been knitting a lot this winter, and haven't taken very good pictures, but I will eventually make an entire knitting post.)So this doll is the first doll I made when I discovered that there were people sørenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09492290397757673453noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26315517.post-69980491386167231402008-02-05T16:50:00.002-05:002008-04-15T09:36:16.196-04:00unfinished doll This doll is in progress. It was meant to be a valentines doll, then I gave it green hair and decided it was a christmas doll, but now I'm thinking I might make it pink and go back to the original idea.And it will get arms, which aren't there yet.An original pattern by ME. sørenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09492290397757673453noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26315517.post-38816069980118560322008-02-05T16:45:00.001-05:002008-02-05T16:47:41.044-05:00lellerphant bag for the meedle seester's birthday, made from a felted sweater. Sorry for the dark photo.Felted flower (a separate pin) directions from Betz White.Purse directions here: dabbled.org sørenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09492290397757673453noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26315517.post-61287522527538882572008-01-27T08:44:00.000-05:002008-01-27T09:14:19.364-05:00i'm alive! ALIVE! and here are some pictures.Two presents from patterns from other blogs!I like that little blog connection even if these people don't know me.These were presents for my friend Meganwho I've known online for ages and ages and who I first wrote to because I was so in awe of her beadwork.The gingerbread man pattern is from Elsie Marley. I painted the icing on with acrylic because I didn't have rickrack.The thread holder sørenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09492290397757673453noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26315517.post-43318453239225447942007-12-30T11:43:00.001-05:002007-12-30T11:45:09.004-05:00Suddenly I saw it. Every time I do a craft show, someone (or several someones) comes up to me and says "do you know that all of the dolls you make look like you?"Sometimes I am offended if they are particularly ugly.I never mean them to look like me.This one, when it was done, I kept looking at its face and thinking, MAN, I am so sick of this face I keep drawing.Then I held it up to the camera - it had to be my sørenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09492290397757673453noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26315517.post-11783955905005149012007-12-20T10:33:00.000-05:002007-12-20T11:03:19.165-05:00Busy busy busyThere is a lot of crafting going on over here, but I can't really SHOW it yet! Here is an older doll, I think from last year, for your holiday blog enjoyment.Ok, I really have to get back to work. Things happening today are all coming from Instructables, for The Boy, things like a bike seat cover for protecting it from the rain, and a Cholula Holster (that one is sort of a joke, but only sort of)sørenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09492290397757673453noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26315517.post-82485652057247103422007-12-14T08:21:00.000-05:002007-12-20T11:05:23.710-05:00All I want for Christmas is...A Ravelry for sewing and crafting. Can't someone programming literate make a Ravelry-type website for sewing project organizing, pretty please? I have soooo many projects I want to do and I can't keep track! I like it that all the things I want to knit and crochet are at least in a list now, even if that list is, um, over a hundred things long.Here's a picture to keep this post from being boring,sørenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09492290397757673453noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26315517.post-24261355855010697032007-12-10T10:45:00.000-05:002007-12-13T07:08:53.733-05:00too cute to poke!This here doggie is a pattern from the awesome book Art Doll Adventures by Li Hertzi. He's a pincushion, but how could I possibly stick anything in this smiley guy?I love this book - the idea behind it is to take images from other cultures and build them into new creations.... and do lots of playing and experimenting. This dog has beading, embroidery, fun fur yarn, an old dog license tag around sørenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09492290397757673453noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26315517.post-54524675931373141752007-12-08T12:01:00.000-05:002007-12-10T07:47:06.191-05:00This Little PiggyGreetings if you are visiting me from Sewmama! My blog has never had very many readers and it is my goal for next year to build up some online blog community.The Boy(friend) is obsessed with pigs - he told me that the only thing he wants for Christmas is a real live pig, which sadly wouldn't work out very well in our apartment. However, I made this one for him from the adorable (and free!) Wee sørenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09492290397757673453noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26315517.post-29965025128375439612007-12-07T07:37:00.001-05:002007-12-09T17:17:22.057-05:00Believe AngelI sincerely apologize that my camera isn't working, only my webcam, so you're not getting any nicely focused and bee-yew-tee-ful pictures right now, just whatever I can hold up. I made this angel for my Boy's mom Jo Ann. It looks huge in the picture but it's maybe five inches tall. It has a little hanger on the back so it could be a tree ornament or hang on the wall or I guess even get pinned to sørenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09492290397757673453noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26315517.post-22178345281668312222007-12-03T07:06:00.000-05:002007-12-12T07:23:33.552-05:00Snow Day! And Handmade Holidays!I didn't want to do this because I haven't decorated my blog like all the people who have been featured, so I feel a little silly. but I'm celebrating that it's snowing right now and I'm lighting my pine-scented proud-locally-made Yankee Candle and lighting all my light strings and answering some of these questions to get me in the right mood.It's funny, I was a little grumpy about the whole sørenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09492290397757673453noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26315517.post-61529554407704220952007-12-02T06:23:00.000-05:002007-12-02T06:24:10.032-05:00and here's a countown for beader-types...Every day in December a new thing at http://www.suzannecooper.com/christmas/calendar.htmlsørenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09492290397757673453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26315517.post-86011589007115798912007-11-30T06:52:00.000-05:002007-11-30T06:55:59.284-05:00holiday clipart downloadsIf you're a paper-arts-type, you might be interested: starting tomorrow Lisa Vollrath will post a new printable-thing-a-day over here. They'll be gone at the end of the month, so get 'em while they're hot!sørenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09492290397757673453noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26315517.post-86912133028630414362007-11-18T07:12:00.001-05:002007-11-18T07:12:45.112-05:00Mei's Mouse.I made this mouse for Mei's birthday. The pattern is from ottobredesign.com somewhere, but I made it in velvet - NOT a good idea, which I knew, but I hoped to overcome... and managed in some parts. In others, well, Mei, he may need some patches eventually! :)sørenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09492290397757673453noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26315517.post-8212410949919040772007-10-12T07:16:00.003-04:002007-10-12T07:16:20.775-04:00anemoi palmsand, the palms!sørenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09492290397757673453noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26315517.post-42611574276762976442007-10-12T07:16:00.001-04:002007-10-12T07:16:02.551-04:00anemoi backsTADA!!!!! I know, just a webcam picture, not a good one, but still, they're DONE!!!!!I can't knit the same thing twice, so I had to do them in the opposite colors.sørenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09492290397757673453noreply@blogger.com1