New gnomes!

Its been quite a long time since I've made any new gnomes. My mom came over to help with the boys and I used the opportunity to make a few gnomes. :) The green one was a long overdue swap gift for a friend, the blue one was a new sister gift to a friend, and the sunny flowery one is our new summer gnome. I had a lot of fun sewing the flowers on his belly.

More baby booties

So I've totally fallen behind here in baby booties. Here are two more sets to catch me up. :) The 1st pair are bunnies because this is the year of the rabbit. Now to catch up on my gnomes...

Snail booties

I thought I had posted these snail booties awhile back. These were sent to my friend of whom I threw her mother blessing. She loves the color purple. :)

Bendy Dolls

I have finally finished the bendy dolls I made for an Easter swap. They were actually a ton of fun to make. I had wanted to use our wood burner to make their faces but the darn thing has disappeared. I look forward to making more bendy people for K to play with as he kept running away with them as I was making them.

Owl Booties

Another friend in my long line of pregnant friends has given birth. Here is her Mother blessing candle lit with her untied bracelet. I'm excited to meet her new little boy and deliver his booties.

Bendy Man

This is my first attempt at a bendy Man. I found instructions for him from wee Folk (the book). He's not done. I still need to find him a smaller head, paint on a face, and give him a little hat. I'm thinking he might be the first of several bendy men for an upcoming swap.

Mushroom Baby Booties

One of my good friend recently went into labor. Here is her mother blessing candle burning...

Here are the mushroom booties I made her little one.

Bee Baby Booties

I have a lot of friend who have either just given birth or pregnant. Since November I know at least one person giving birth each month until my own is due in May. So for each friend I have been making a little pair of booties. Here is the first pair I made: http://seasonalgnome.blogspot.com/2010/11/baby-booties.html

This 2nd pair is for a friend due today:

Baby Booties

Today is one of my good friend's due dates. She is expecting another little girl. I'm excited that both our children will be really close in age. She lives pretty far away from us, but we still are able to see them a couple of times a year.

I found this great bootie pattern at the store (I think its Macalls). I made up the embroidery, however. I'm excited to get the birth announcement and send along the booties. :)

Tree puppet

I'm in charge of the upcoming online swap I'm in. We have a great theme! Trees! I've decided to make tree finger puppets. They can also stand up the nature table for summer. Here is my first one. I need to get my butt in gear to make the other 6. I've already received my first item from another person and they are beautiful! I can't wait to post them, but I'll wait till I get them all.

Bee Gnome

I've finished my bee gnome! I love his hat. I needle felted the black stripes and wings. I don't know why I didn't incorporate needle felting into my gnomes a long time ago. Anyway he is a great addition to our summer table which I've been totally neglecting. What kind of gnome should I make next?

Birthday Gnome

I made this little gnome as a birthday gift to one of K's friends. Her birthday is only 10 days after K's birthday. This is the first time I've tried needle felting on one of the gnomes. I think I like the way it turned out and am going to try and incorporate it in the current gnome I am working on.

What I've been working on

This is K's birthday crown about half finished. The crab represents K's sign (Cancer). The flowers are K's birthday flowers (delphinium), the rat (which is not done yet) is for the year of the rat. There are also going to be "rubies" across the top for his birthstone. After a million drawings its fun to see it actually start coming together.

K's birthday is next week and I am getting pretty close to being done with everything. I am almost done with is little chef outfit. As you can see the crown still has a little bit of work. Then a couple of little tweaks to his birthday banner. http://seasonalgnome.blogspot.com/2009/12/birthday-banner.html

Estate Sale find

Crocheted flowers
This is in the middle of the tapestry
Well shoot I thought I could flip these photos in this program and there is some bug in my photo program that is preventing me from flipping this. UGH. Sorry. :( Anyway the tapestry shows the four seasons.
Crocheted flowers and an embroidered little cloth.

K and I were garage saleing (which he loves to do) when I came upon these gems. This woman had so many hand crocheted and hand embroidered things that it was hard to chose what to bring home. The sale was coming to an end so they were practically giving everything away. The giant seasonal tapestry is not totally finished which I'm actually excited about. I think it will be fun to add to her work.

Happy Mother's Day

My new mother gnome holding her baby in a sling
Kalan painting a sign for mother's day

We spent this mother's day with family at our house. I made mother's day gnomes for both my mother and Casey's mother. The mother's are holding babies in slings. I love the way they turned out and now perhaps I'll attempt to make a baby backpack for the gnomes. :)

I hope everyone had a pleasant mother's day. My heart goes out to those that were not able to spend this mother's day with their child or their mother due to loss.

The Wizard

I have hardly had any time for crafting lately as K has decided that napping is no fun. Finally today though I've gotten some gnome making time! I've been wanting to make a wizard gnome for ages and just kept putting it on the back burner. Ok really I think my next few gnomes will be females. I just need to start brainstorming.

The Huntress

I finished my first female gnome. Ok well I've made other females in the past, but this was my first female gnome with hair. I wanted to make a companion to my Robin Hood gnome that actually wanted to get in on the action. Now that I've figured out how to add hair to the gnomes I think I'm going to make a bunch of strong female characters. K was excited about this one and I could hardly take her photo as K kept grabbing her and making her dance around the table. :)