King Without A Castle

Poor Princes...

This is Mount Battie, a beautiful observatory landmark in Maine. In the severest of cold temps in January, it's so wonderful to see a warm, sunny day in Maine.

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A Piece For The Client

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Well, I have made this fun PJ outfit for my new customer and new owner of two vampire reborn dolls.

This new customer sent me a bunch of fun "reclaimed" fabrics from old (but still in GREAT SHAPE) clothes and requested I make lots of fun outfits from them.

This PJ outfit was made from an old pair of Gap PJ bottoms. It was not easy to squeeze all this out and had to creatively hide some seams in the top's shirt.

A special thank you to my reborn doll, Holly. Great job helping to show the outfits!

Made of 100% cotton fabric.
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New Outfit For An Adorable 3-9m Toddler Girl

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This outfit is a colorful pink and black with orange, red and white accents.

This outfit comes with matching panties which look adorable as the little girl crawls around on the floor.

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Finished, Gena is about 19" in length and weighs about 4lbs. She was born on January 11, 2012!





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Here's My First Attempt

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Was very unhappy with the way the mohair turned out, on my last doll. So, I did some looking and there are some really great artists whom paint the hair onto the doll and quite nicely!

Here's my first attempt at painting the hair on the Gena doll (from Bountiful Baby's website). The more the doll evolves, the more I really like her!

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More Pictures of the Air Plant's Flower

Really lasting longer than I thought the flower would. Have been taking pics nearly every day but the flower has only grown a little longer and not much different looking.

I love the purple next to the hot pink. If you look closely, you can see orange on the white. Nature really knows her palette of colors!


Unlike other plants, the plant's flowers are more like an announcement; if all goes well, in 2 months there will to be pups (usually about 8). However, these flowers are not the plant's fruit. Instead, the plant sends out pups from the bottom, much like succulents. When the pups are nearly as large as the mother, that's when they can be removed and shared with other air plant lovers! (Let me know if you are one).

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Having Fun.

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School's going well. Really am enjoying the challenge but it's a lot of work. Not at all like when I earned my bachelor's degree -- this time it seems so much harder! :)

For biology, we have to keep a detailed notebook from class lectures, homework and assignments. The good news is, we are allowed to use the notebook during exams. (and yes I do want to "save as..." just in case something happens to this notebook, but sadly, no such thing....)

Can you guess what cell drawing this is? I'll give you a hint, in the human body it's the only cell with a tail (Flagellum).

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baby Dinner Plate Hibiscus

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This pot of baby hibiscus and another pot of baby hibiscus just popped out of the soil today, exactly 2 weeks after planting. There are two in this pot so when the little guys grow their second set of leaves, I''ll be moving one to another pot. All the little plants will be staying inside and treated as house plants until next spring. Doubt they will give me flowers while inside, but will be more than ready to bloom early in the garden come next season! It's called Dinner Plate because the flowers are the size of dinner plates; around 9" or larger!

In the meantime, my mother-in-law's visiting and we are have a great time. She's going to be moving in with us soon and slowly we are getting things ready.

Made some really great rolls with poppy seeds from scratch, special today. I really shouldn't have because I have so much homework!!! Tons of reading -- Biology and Medical Terminology. TONS! I don't remember college like this the last time I got a degree. Aaaaarg! :)

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Been So Busy!

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Can't believe how busy it's been lately! No time to be nearly as productive as usual, but I did get the opportunity to make this cute little raglan pullover for a baby.

It's a free pattern from Bernat Design Studio. They have a lot of great free patterns. This one was so easy, I am going to convert it to a top-down, no seam pattern and see how it works!

This pattern calls for round needles, but because it's worked from the bottom up, the chest area and the upper half of the sleeves were finished on straight needles. If I am successful, only the opening area will be treated as if on straight needles, but once the neckline closes at the bottom, it's going to be all round from there!
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Third Afghan! Chevron Pattern

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Finally finished!!! It's a generous twin size and really cozy. It may not look like it, but all the color sections are the same 9 rows and the natural color stripes are 4. I used a size N hook.
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Felted Colorwork Mittens

Felted Colorwork Mittens, originally uploaded by CraftyPease.

Here are the mittens finished. Turned out well for a thought-up pattern,