Everyday People - Nora

First doll of my new range of Everyday People - Nora is a sunny vegan lady with a broad smile. She is an excellent yoga teacher. She is 31/4 inches tall in her chunky trainers and is poseable with 9 joints including moving head. She can sit on a chair but sadly can not sit cross-legged. She can stand by herself without a stand.

She is a portrait of my good friend and yoga teacher who really is such a positive and sunny personality. I really enjoyed making her although her trainer was really hard for me to make and it did not turn out as I had hoped. However, I was very pleased with my first attempt at a moving head which was a success.

Nora launched my Etsy page yesterday.

My Everyday People will be people I or anyone of us would have met and seen. Hopefully they will charm you and not look scary like my other characters :-) (no offence to them).

My latest 1/12th character

Tara 
(an Animal Aid activist)  

wearing a faded and frayed 1950s vintage dress (painted by me) with platted hemp boots

new doll

Just one of my new dolls in smaller scales.
A polar bear in 1/24 scale.

He is very  sad about his home being destroyed 

and that is why he supports Greenpeace.

WELCOME !!!

Hello and welcome to my new blog,

At the moment I am getting some of my new dolls ready (by tomorrow hopefully :-) to send to the local pottery shop for kilning. And making sure everything is ready for the launch of my website and basically being very excited about my first Miniatura (Spring 2011).

Today my page on the miniatura website was put up, which I am very excited about (but don't want to sound too boastful about).

Today I also received the most beautiful Romanian hemp fabric from Hemp Fabric UK and am excited to start making the dolls clothes with the wonderful herringbones, muslins, linens and so on. I love working with hemp, because it has such a beautiful and unique feel and look to it, and is the most eco-friendly and ethical fabric there is, since it cannot be grown with pesticides and is therefore naturally organic. It is also an easier plant to grow than cotton, is good for the soil and better for the growers' health. I choose Romanian hemp because it is the nearest place where hemp is grown and so reduces the 'raw material mileage'.

I will later post some photos of the clothes I make with the hemp.

Here is a photo of a completed doll (Bicycle Susie) and some work-in-progress faces.