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another birthday treat …

Thursday, November 27th, 2008

Months and months and months ago, I was playing around with making soft kokeshi dolls.  The first one was okay, the second one was a little bit strange, and the third one has been languishing in the cut out stage since February. 

Abigail, in lovely daughter style, thinks any stuffed toy I make is worthy of [...]

tomten show-off

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

Yes it’s me again!  I’m just so tickled by the photos I took this afternoon of the tomtens romping through the back garden, I just had to share some …

They were very keen to get downstairs and play - even though their stuffing was still poking out!

They quickly lined themselves up to soak up the [...]

tomten stitching

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

There’s been a LOT of tomten busyness here in the Boot household.  I’ve written the instructions, Julian’s drawn the pattern pieces and designed the document’s layout.  And now I’m working on the Tomten class of 2008 - from my newly written pattern - to test out what I’ve written and see where I need to [...]

and along came blossomblue

Saturday, May 10th, 2008

okay - after a great deal of computer-thwarting which resulted in me consuming two chocolate crackles, two very crappy biscuits and a very large glass of milk, this post is brought to you by one of my lovely students, Peonie! :-)  She cheerfully let me use her Mac to shrink the photos for the post!  [...]

mellitupple the mulberry sprite

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

okay, I’m back in the saddle!
Reading my bloggy news this morning, I came across allsorts flickr montage of softies. Amongst an assortment of cute stuffed things was a gnome with a very tall and pointy red hat (why do we give such hats to our fairy folk - is it because we would really love [...]

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