Reminder: Entries for the Drawing for the featured free doll for March,(choice of Gwinn or Barrett),
closes Saturday, midnight, March 31st!!
Go to www.clothdollsbyvada.blogspot.com to enter
or email clothdollsbyvada@gmail.com.
Winner will be posted on the blog on April 1st.
Candace is now available, not only as a printed pattern, but as a COMPLETE KIT, which includes everything you will need to make this unique doll with the storage base, from the printed pattern to the stuffing. I’ve done the hardest part for you: sewn and turned the hands! Fabrics are cut and/or clearly labeled, and embellishments included. Bring your scissors, needle and threads, and sewing machine, and join the fun! Available in several dress colors, on E-Bay at:http://www.ebay.com/itm/Cloth-Doll-Kit-Pink-daisy-print-/160724139239?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item256be7bce7 the price is $29.95 plus shipping
This is Evelyn’s sister, Ellen, completed on 11/10/11. An avid quilter, Ellen heads off to her quilting club meeting, where she will put the finishing touches to her small quilt. Dressed in stylish skirt and tee shirt, her alpaca hair freshly ‘done’, handmade earrings and bracelet, necklace of threads, custom-made shoes of polymer clay, and secure on her removable stand, Ellen is well equipped, from wrist pin cushion, scissors, rotary cutter, and hoop, to a basket full of fabrics, batting, books, needles, thimble, and more, even her some-times needed ‘reading glasses’! Ellen, like all the rest of us, is a one-of-a-kind, unique personality.
Ellen obviously lives in present-day fast lane! I took her to the shop on Friday (the 11th) and she had moved on (was sold) on Saturday, the 12th.
Evelyn, the quilter, is 21 inches tall. She has her basket all packed with fat quarters, batting, and all the accessories she’ll need for her afternoon with the quilting club. She needs to put a few finishing touches on her latest small-quilt project. Her hair is wool roving, her dress made from a scarf, and she wears comfy sneakers. (Her ankles are a bit swollen from all those hours she stands at her work table, but ohh, she does enjoy it!) (click images to enlarge and see those details!)
You can now order the nativity set pattern from me (clothdollsbyvada@gmail.com) or on my new shop on Etsy:
Vada’s Doll Patterns
http://www.etsy.com/listing/82852394/nativity-cloth-doll-patterns
The CD is priced at $2o.00, with no shipping charge. Includes all nine figures.
Well, it’s ready enough for a preliminary run. 
Today I will put the finishing touches on the pattern for the Nativity set (below)!
It will be available on CD. With all nine figures included, (8 bottle-toppers plus the newborn infant), it would be a very large packet. By grouping it into several pdf files, the needed parts can be printed accurately. It will include pattern pieces for the dolls (four pages), and for all the costumes (14 pages). Plus another 12 pages of instructions, illustrated with color pictures.
This pattern is an intermediate level, requires some experience in dollmaking: faces, hair, etc.
Email me to order a copy. Make a set for your mantel! Or a great gift!
vadawesley@hotmail.com or vada428@windstream.net
A NEW STORY…about the queen of the household. You’ll find it on the STORIES page.
This is a 2 page pdf file. Zoom in for easy viewing and reading, or print, if you wish. As with all my original writing, you may link to it, but please do not re-publish it.
Your comments are always appreciated. Make them here.
Also, check out the newest pictures on www.spotandcompany.blogspot.com
Some new pictures on http://photosbyvmw.blogspot.com/
Also, Have a little fun at www.writeacaption.blogspot.com
Be sure to leave your captions on ‘comments’. Have a funny picture to contribute? (Hint: try to include an animal). Email it to me, I’ll post it for others to caption. Have fun!
Click here: http://clothdollsbyvada.com/photos-by-vada/
I have not made any new dolls this summer, so far, but made up a sort of memory book from my ‘portraits’ of those from the past few years. This book was created at the website, Mixbook. I like the options they offer. I only bought one copy, but you may ‘read’ it here: http://www.mixbook.com/photo-books/interests/little-people-big-personalities-5627601
I meant him to be named Delbert. But by his own choice, he began to resemble a certain thoroughbred racehorse trainer. Therefore he took the name Dale. I think he should get some steel-toed shoes, though.
The real Dale Romans.
Photos by Spouse, Class of 53 reunion
One of my favorite pictures, taken at a class reunion a few years ago. We members of the class were lined up for the picture, and the spouses were doing the honors. I just couldn’t resist returning the favor. I have sometimes titled this picture as “The Photographers” . ( Be sure to ‘click’ for a little larger view.) This is a scan of an inkjet print, original image was better. This was 5 or 6 years ago. Anyone know for sure?
This is Jeanne, another doll made (mostly) of recycled items.
Click here to see her story, and more pictures of Jeanne
Rain, rain, go AWAY!
Spot and Sabrina want to play.
They wake up and request that I open the door
and back off and frown at the ‘wet’ they abhor.
Enough of Sky weeping,
and Me puddle-leaping!
Lights on and cats sleeping
on the sofa all day!
Enough flashing and rumbling!
Clouds griping and grumbling!
And sturdy oaks tumbling!
Rain, Rain, Go AWAY!
Save some for MAY!
Today is SUN-day!
Well, maybe this afternoon…..???
Once in a while a girl has to just take a day off and go to the races!!
Read all about it: A day at the races on Photos by Vada, (http://photosbyvmw.blogspot.com/)
Check out Spot’s very own blog at http://spotandcompany.blogspot.com/ .
You love them and are not quite sure whether to cheer or cry when they are sold! I took Allice-Mae to the shop Thursday, and she was sold on Saturday along with Cecelia, who had been there quite a while. Cecelia was made from Arley Berryhill’s pattern, Minerva, with my addition of the moon. Stella also was adopted last week, to adorn an attorney’s office desk! Hmmmm, you just never know…..
It's a Great Day for Sleeping
Allice-Mae Dover is made of recycled items. Starting with a leg from an old pair of outgrown jeans, stuffed with plastic grocery bags, sleeves made of an old dresser scarf, doily collar, a refurbished doll wig, and a botched-up head, I un-did the sculpting stiches, and redid them lightly, then painted over the whole face and drew on new features. All-in-all, I’ve very happy with the results. Her earrings are part of a child’s bracelet. Only new materials used were the dolskin for her hands and poly stuffing for the upper torso and arms. She was fun to make, ‘design-as-you-go’, and I felt I liked her best without a lot of embellishment.
