Are you familiar with the Salley Mavor’s wee felt folk? Quite a while ago, I fell in love with Salley’s artwork, through her book illustrations. (I reviewed her book, Pocketful of Posies, here). On exploring her artwork, I discovered her website and blog, and her book Felt Wee Folk, reviewed here. Salley’s approach to her ...

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PART 2 - Architecture: This series is about making the illustration at the end of my new picture book, My Bed. It's a cut-away view of a sleeping child, surrounded by souvenir animals from the places around the world that the book travels through. Looking at it now, the child's one room house filled with animals reminds…

In this part 3 in the Doll House Stories series, I show how I made the family of dolls gathered around the kitchen table in my newly renovated doll house. Other posts in this series: part…

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Felt Wee Folk how-to book, with extra goodies – playing cards and faux flowers Where did the wee folk come from?”Early childhood dissatisfaction may have set this whole wee folk enterpr…

I have been fascinated with the Russian Rag Dolls for a long time now. I have been collecting information about them, pouring over You Tube videos and websites that give basic instructions for making the dolls. Like any other craft, you begin to see a great diversification. I am especially drawn to the simple, faceless …

Before sharing the process of making wedding cake topper dolls for my son Ian and his new bride Liz, I want to remind you to sign up for a ZOOM Talk that I’ll be giving on August 25th at 2:PM…