September

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flickr mosaic

10 postcards- house series, 2. boyfriend 5, 3. boyfriend 4, 4. all the boyfriends, 5. boyfriend 3, 6. big man 7- boyfriend 2, 7. postcard- beach lady, 8. postcard- girl with flowers, 9. postcard- lady with bird, 10. postcard- house, 11. postcard- pink girl, 12. postcard- rain girl, 13. night cat postcard, 14. trees postcards, 15. topiary postcards, 16. big man- boyfriend, 17. hydrangea 4, 18. hydrangea 3, 19. hydrangea 2, 20. hydrangea, 21. ff9- granny fairy, 22. ff8, 23. ff7 face, 24. fat fairy 7, 25. fat fairy 6- spring September on flickr.

Great idea Hanna!

postcards- house series

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This is what I was talking about here– the last paragraph about doing sets. Ten postcards, house with window, a face in the window. The same, but all different. This way works better for me, I think.

house series

house 1

house 2

house 3

house 4

house 5

house 6

house 7

house 8

house 9

house 10

I really need to find the manual for my camera and figure out how to adjust the setting so that the night postcards will not come out over-exposed. I hate seeing the rich colors and face details wash out… but I have an overwhelming need to post them anyway!

moo cards

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has anyone else ordered any of these cards from Moo? I ordered up my free ones, then thought, What the heck, and ordered up another 100. If anyone wants to trade, send me an email or a comment. I won’t have them for another week or so, but figured I’d post about it before the free offer expired.

and lastly- boyfriend #5

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Boyfriend 5-

boyfriend 5a

I am pretty sure the wool fabric for the suit came from Abby. So beautiful to work with.

torso

Such a sweet face, and soft too- it’s cashmere.

face

flowers

candy

boyfriend 5b

I have listed the available postcards at my Etsy shop. I am back to work on the postcards again- they are my current creative itch.

I plan on putting the boyfriends into the shop sometime in the next few days. I will post here when I get to it.

boyfriend 4

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Here is the whole gang lined up-

the gang

and here is boyfriend #4-

boyfriend 4

I had a terrible time trying to get a decent picture with the colors even remotely accurate- I ended up using my Ott light in my studio. The red background is my chair. Still, things are a bit washed out.

front

side

front detail

boyfriend 4b

His expression looks so sincere to me.

big man 7- boyfriend 2

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hmm, my numbering system is getting away from me. As I worked on the last batch of postcards, I was also thinking about and starting these boyfriend dolls-

wip men

this is the first of the 4 to get done-

big man 7

I tried a different way to make his face – I’m not sure if it looks too much like a mask? Is it weird looking? I made a flesh colored head and then added the hair and face after. In the earlier men, I made a hair colored head and sewed on a face.

face

detail of flowers and candy box-

torso

The beige check is recycled cashmere from a poncho (actually sort of a short cape) of my mom’s. She made one for me too- it was brown and white checks. I wore it in Junior High School. I still have it up in the attic somewhere- it has buttons with horses on them- I loved that when I was a kid.

and here are some pics of the others in progress-

wip b

wip c

the rest of the postcards

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I will put them up in my etsy shop later- I am still thinking about/working with them now.

beachlady

girlflowers

housechild

ladybird

pinkgirl

raingirl

this one is washed out- my camera would not cooperate.

nightcat

so here is a close-up. You can sort of see the stitching on the moon.

cat

I’ve got some more Boyfriend dolls in the works. And I want to do more of these postcards- figure out how I want to approach doing them. I usually don’t work on two separate ideas at the same time, but somehow both of these projects have got my focus right now.

okay… postcards!

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I’ve finished 4 so far- 2 trees

trees

and 2 topiary

topiary

I have some problems with the stitching puckering the fabric- sometimes it happens, sometimes it doesn’t-

close-up

this is what I am using inside these postcards. It is great- very firm and iron-on adhesive on both sides.

pellon

I should do sets of these cards- 10 (or some other random number) of each design at a time. Then I could concentrate on color, stitching and fabric work instead of trying to make each one completely different. As I was making such a big mess the other day, I was thinking that I was approaching this project all wrong. Somehow I was trying to start from a detail (my little sketches) and work out instead of having an image/ composition that I would be working toward.