I mean, sweetheart... It's been just a few days, ok, maybe a few days over a week since this gourd top has been sitting here and waiting for the right idea... and you've already moved in?

*Any gourd fans here?

If I post a picture of a doll I've made, the one where the doll stares at you, is that eye-contact and should be marked as sensitive content?

This is my interpretation of Veļu Māte - the Mother of the Dead from Latvian mythology. One of the most feared deities because nobody comes back from her realm. She mostly visits in the shape of an old woman.

Talking about dyeing with plants... Here is the easiest way to get a nice plant print on fabric. Toddler shirts with unexplainable stains made me try to put more stains on those shirts to prolong their life just a bit. I'm trying to use everything while it lasts and reuse, recycle and upcycle to last a little longer, waste less, buy less. I hate to throw out those perfectly usable shirts that just look terribly dirty because of plant, fruit and berry stains that happens in enormous amounts for kids who live outdoors whole summer long. Well, pretty plant stains put on shirts with the hammer stay pretty for about 3-4 times in the washing machine.

I was dreaming to hammer plants on a table cloth last summer, but I didn't get there. This is an easy way to get the juices of plants on textiles you aren't planning to wash too often. Doll fabrics, a tie, maybe... altar cloths?

It's also a productive way to release anger, frustration and agression. I hope you will give it a try.

I'm a messy crafter. In my Witch Town destruction is the mother of creation and chaos is a fertile ground.

My favourite part of doll crafting is this. Not styling or dressing up, but discovering the character, finding its' essence through colours, stiffness, lightness, roughness, flow and I dare to say vibration of the fabric and shiny trinkets. I use pre-loved, unwanted, outworn, broken etc materials to make my dolls. Those materials are donated and sometimes sent to me from across 7 seas. Sometimes the choice is between landfills and my craftroom, between announcing something a trash or it becoming a treasure again. I work with former belongings of those alive and deceased, giving them second life in my dolls. And I think it just adds value to them. It makes them special.

Sometimes it's the materials that lead the way to the finished doll, not my ideas. In that sense I myself as an artist feel more like a door, like gate for these creatures to enter the world, not the god that creates them. It's my job to serve them and find what they need, not make them exactly how I've seen them with my minds' eye. The process of making a doll doesn't happen with empty mental space, this is where inner conversation happen and I dare to call them conversations with dolls. I don't literally hear them talking (I've been asked this, so to be clear...), but that inner conversation happening while I craft helps me to find new perspectives, reminds me of my values, shows me the way, so I dare to say that dolls talk to me, materials reveal secrets and I have a lot of teachers right at my fingers. My only teachers in doll making have been dolls that I make.

Does this make any sense to you or I sound like the lady who has lost her sanity long ago?

Hi! I just joined, and while I figure this out, let me tell you a bit about me.

I'm a maker of dolls inspired by nature, folklore, labyrints of myth, mind and magic. My dolls are mostly witches, and when they leave my home, they often become altar dolls. It's been a weird and interesting journey of doll making for the past 7 years, 600+ dolls now live in homes and collections around the world.

Besides crafting dolls I'm into permaculture, paganism, self-sufficiency, foraging and neverending self-development. I'm a forest dweller, mushroom hunter, food grower and herb lover deep in the countryside in Latvia (North-Eastern Europe). All of that I might occasionally share here. I would love to connect with like-minded people, so, if you're here, say 'hi'! I hope you are somewhere here...

Woke up an hour earlier than I planned. Guess it's nice for a change to not feel super rushed to get things going for my Sunday vending. Since my partner-in-crime is away this weekend (working the NASCAR Mexico circuit), I've got to do everything myself. I didn't do any baking this weekend, so crochet, journals, wands, and other niknaks are on the table (literally). Hopefully people are in a buying mood because I really want to make some chile con carne tomorrow.

Edit : Bought the Black and Decker BCRC115-XJ 3.6V Cordless Rotary Cutter Hobby Craft Cutters

Hello all -
#Crafter's ! #YarnWitch #CraftWitch #Sewing #Sewist #Fabric
- people

- Do / have you used a pair of electric cordless scissors ?
- Does using one help with hand fatigue * ?
- Is there a particular brand you'd recommend or warn to Never Buy ?

[* Please note I mostly want to cut fabrics like light cotton and medium lycra but might also want to cut light denim occasionally]

Hi All, welcome to my new Mastadon Page, i will be highlighting me handcrafted creations

I made this outfit a while ago, and it's the same outfit I make for pretty much all my winter clothes just in different colours, but people specifically really seem to like this skirt in particular? I've always found the fabric nice enough and soft but not particularly interesting, but other people have been particularly enthusiastic about this one for some reason.

Blouse and skirt made and patterned by me

Are you an #artist, #maker, #crafter who finds fault with #Etsy's policy allowing drop-shipping? https://youtu.be/KFiZOIlEEH4

A #US friend has just joined #introduction - say hello to @shorn16 @mastodon.social #USPol #RESIST #artist #crafter #auspol

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