{"id":411,"date":"2005-12-16T09:18:53","date_gmt":"2005-12-16T14:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/12\/this-week\/"},"modified":"2005-12-16T09:18:53","modified_gmt":"2005-12-16T14:18:53","slug":"this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/12\/this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"this week"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was away for a few days and when I got home, a nice pile of mail was waiting for me- The highlights were my calendar<\/a> from Camilla<\/a> and my “prize” from the Vintage Cloth Dollmaking list challange. It is a Yahoo group that I belong to. There are regular challenges- to do a doll in the style that the group is interested in, or from a particular vintage pattern. People donate “door prizes” which are distributed by choosing names out of a hat. No winning or losing. Sometimes there are enough prizes donated or few enough dolls posted that everyone gets a prize- that makes it lots of fun! The Fall challenge was to do an old style Santa. I made the wool Santa<\/a> which started me off on the whole group of wool dolls. Here is what I got in the mail-<\/p>\n

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It is a button box- from Ike Putney. What a treasure trove! I have been enjoying going through all the goodies. My personal challenge will be to find some way to use the really big buttons- they are fantastic, but not suitable for the dolls I’ve been making.<\/p>\n

I have been doing the boring stuff since the sale and being away- trying to get my studio usable again (what a mess!) and the rest of the house in some order enough to start getting ready for Christmas. Now that the kids aren’t little, I just don’t care that much about it… As usual, I am running very late on all the Holiday prep. I am thinking about cards or ornaments though and have been fooling around with a mini sweater baby-<\/p>\n

\"card\"<\/p>\n

I tried it out of fabric and now I’m trying paper and card stock. You’ll see if I get anything I’m happy with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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