Marie Antoinette Doll

Yesterday i finished making my marie antoinette doll which is for sale in etsy

It has taken me many many hours of sewing each individual glass bead of which there are hundreds. it is completely handsewn throughout.

I started this doll before Ernie died, and i bet he would be pleased with the result as much as i am.

Hope you like her xxxx

ps dont forget you can click on her to enlarge the photo

IT'S BEEN A LONG TIME- Marie Antoinette

Things just got toooo hectic for me to post. My husband has been seriously ill, and what with the 3 MAMMA groups i run on Flickr, it got too much.

So what's been happening.

First i was published in the Stampington & Co 'Marie Antoinette' magazine.

This is a scan of the page i was on, i never received a copy of the magazine itself.


Next, work over in Mamma - Handpainted ATC's




A paper doll in the Mad MAMMA swap



a button fairy for the MAD MAMMA swap

I've also taken part in a 6 way JAM swap of a bird journal. template from Stampington & Co.




HANDPAINTED FOR VIV





Made for Sherry




Made for Wendy






Made for Sheila





Made for Maureen




Last but not least is a fabric bird i made as a gift to Constanza. I altered the Stampington template to give it a better shape.




I'll try and keep in touch more, if life allows it.

Take care...xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

New Year - New Marie Antoinette

After last year i was hoping and praying for an uneventful 2009. But my dear husband fell ill on New Years Eve, and so the celebrations were postponed.

I have been very busy looking after him, and so art is not quite so forthcoming.

BUT i have to carry on, because my new and exciting Flickr Group MAD MAMMA has finally opened its doors. This is a monthly Art Doll Swap that i'm running, and boy, oh boy, there are 47 members already and more arriving daily. WOWEEEEEEEEEEEEEE. Makes me feel very humble that people are actually interested in anything i do.

So here is my entry for this months challenge/swap. I set the challenge using a jointed paper doll template from Mirkwood Designs.

And guess what kinda doll i've made . go on, have a guess. you'll never believe it.

Oh alright here she is.

Marie Antoinette.
How did you guess LOL

As well as printing out the template on card, i also printed out a template on paper, so that i could use it for cutting out the fabric.

I used a beautiful grey green cotton fabric which is already embroidered, and ironed onto Bondaweb to make it more stable.

The hair was done by gluing white silk embroidery cotton in lines, trying to keep it close together. The face was part of the Mirkwood Design template, and i just coloured it in using prisma pencils.

As you can see i added a skirt as an extra, which moves, and i simply couldn't resist putting her in a pair of bloomers. lol.

I did want to give her authentic looking shoes, but i'm afraid my energy just ran out.

I've done a little bit more work to my Fabric Marie Antoinette book. I've sewn pages 1 and 2 together (or rather 2 and 3). I've cut out and ironed on the photo transfers to 6 more pages, but havn't embellished them further.
I'll try and get another page worked a bit more in the next day or two.

Til then
HAPPY HAPPY NEW YEAR. MAY ALL YOUR WISHES COME TRUE. XXXXXMARGARETXXXXX

MARIE ANTOINETTE PAPER DOLL

This is something i have been working on for over 2 weeks now, excluding christmas day lol.

My love of Marie Antoinette, just grows, and I really wanted to make a Paper Doll of her, and decided on making a trio of folded dolls.

Sixe 6" (15cm) high excluding feathers
Each doll 3.5" (9cm) wide
When opened out, 10.5" (27cm) wide.

I Struggled to get a decent photograph of the dolls, so decided to 'place' them in a photo of Versailles, using Photoshop 7.

I will add more photos, WHEN i can get a decent one.

I had real fun making this, and for once i was not in a rush to finish, as i wanted it to be right. I found it a bit of a struggle, due to lack of craft materials, would have loved to use Silks and antique lace, but funds will not allow that.

I received a Marie Antoinette Paper Doll book for christmas, so will be making more but with my own adaptations.

Hope you all had a GREAT Christmas, we did, and here's one photo to prove it.
Myself with dear hubby and my precious darling Grandson. (Oh he'll love me calling him that hahahahahahaha)

MARIE ANTOINETTE - FABRIC BOOK PAGE 2

Here is Page 2 of the Marie Antoinette Fabric Book that i am making.

Will add more to it when i sew it to page one. Was a little disappointed in the crystal beads from ebay, they are a lot smaller than i was hoping for. But that's what you get when you buy online, and unfortunately there aren't any craft shops of any kind near to me.

C'est La Vie.

I also used crystal seed beads too dotted about. I'm unsure whether to add another colour to it, or just keep it crystal and blue.

I've also made a needlecase inspired by the one that Jan gave to me. This is for my daughter who admire the one made by Jan.

I have made it in green, her favourite colour, and used a vintage image using a lady with a cat.

She is really into Art Nouvea and absolutely adores cats, she has 3 of her own.
It's just a little stocking filler, but i hope she likes it.

I was going to post the picture of it, but seeing it on screen, i realised that something was missing from it. So will post the photo tomorrow instead.

It hasn't scanned very well, and i may also add more embellishments to it. I can see some

MARIE ANTOINETTE - FABRIC BOOK

I'm becoming a little obsessed and so I decided to make myself a Marie Antoinette Fabric Book.
It will be completely hand sewn, as I feel in that way i will become part of the book itself.

Here is the first page

Approx Size
8" x 5.5"
(20cm x 13 cm)

It has to be attached to page 2 and padding inserted and an edging sewn on.

I have started on page 2 but am awaiting some lovely crystal beads to arrive, before i can do anymore work to it.

The two beautiful blue flowers were kindly given to me by Constanza. (See link to the right)

Both images were printed onto fabric using the Freezer Paper Fabric Printing tutorial that is in my Tutorials to the right.

My aim is to make each page different to the rest, using different techniques and fabrics. But all will have the plain white cotton background.

JUST HOPE THE BEADS TURN UP QUICK. I'm a very impatient person, as soon as i win something on ebay I WANT IT NOW. LOL.