OOOOOOO, Halloween!!!!

A little spooky, eh?

Well, anyway, Happy Halloweenie!!

Here's a fun photo for you- someone decorated their really cool old car.

 Here's the car in real color.  It was seen in a parking lot.

Love this color blue!

Here's my "Witchy-Two".

My Lady Lydia....

Dia de los Muertos.

Good All Souls Day to you as well.

The Goodbye Girl and Snow Day



"The Goodbye Girl"

There's a new girl in town ~ but she's leaving soon......

This is our latest creation.  We think she's beautiful!

She was inspired by the Zac Brown Band's music video of their song "Goodbye in Her Eyes".  You can see the video at:

http://www.zacbrownband.com/videos.html

Pay particular attention to the final scene in the video, as

she is leaving.

Snow Day today.  It's cold!!
Yes, it's cold!! Brrrr....!  But......

Where I sew
......it's warm, (well sort of), where I sew.

The Goodbye Girl, back detail
I told you she was leaving!
Happy Valentine's Day!

Going with the Flow-- About Lydia

Have you ever started off with an idea, and it ended up somewhere else?

That's what happened with Lydia....

Here's the story:

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Since I began making Peony, I've wanted to make a little witch doll.  I loved the book called

Little Witch  by Anna Bennett, which I read over and over in grade school.  The story is about Minix, who is a little girl, and a witch, who doesn't like her mother much- who is not really a kind witch at all.  Minix wants to be a kind witch.  At the time, I really wanted to believe in magic and wanted to fly.  I imagined flying over all the fields and houses on my way home from school, which seemd to take forever on the bus, our's being the third to last stop.  So I have an affinity for Minix and her ability to fly.

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I began designing my "little witch" doll with a definite result in mind, and most of the time, this doesn't work out.  When it comes to new designs, sometimes you just have to GO WITH THE FLOW.

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I tried to tease my little witch out, trial and error and experimentation and poking and prodding and redesigning and finally just gave up and said:

"I've got to let this one breathe life into it's own, whatever it wants to become."

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In the process, two little sisters were "born", which aren't very pretty, aren't exactly like I wanted them to be, but here they are, and I will not destroy them.  That would be like having an abortion, and that, I cannot do.  Their little lights will shine on my shelf and remind me that sometimes, I am not in charge of creation, even the creation of my own little witch doll.

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So in comes Lydia.  I only named her yesterday.  It means "noble one", and has a greek and germanic origin.  So what does the name Lydia have to do with a Mexican holiday?  I'm not sure, but the holiday is about honoring the dead in your family, and that is what I want to do. 

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I am honoring my ancestors, whose graves I cannot visit, but I know where they are.  I also feel their presence in my "playroom", whenever I am creating something new.

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So, thank you for Lydia. 

And thank you for her sisters.

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Amen.