jamfancy

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I made these Button Holes for the “Modern Gentleman” for Paul for our most recent anniversary

for me I made this star headband as something to go with my very glittery and very early Birthday present.  Its a bracelet and necklace all in rhinestone, shiny.

How dapper are we both going to be this Christmas? : )

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Christina

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Just got my little Geisha ceramic back today, I think those stripes are making her my new favourite

and I put a new Geisha print in the store “Candy Apple”.  Ive gone green mad by the way, if its green, I seem to love it.

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Christina

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Here are the latest batch of ceramic girls home at last

the pierrot that had an eye accident and ended up with a patch

The black eyed girl and her bird and key

and lastly the first of the Girl Hero’s to go 3D.  There were a few hairy moments, but I got there in the end and here she is standing up!

another one is due back next week, only two weeks of class to go though, so Im panicking to get more done

thanks for looking

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Christina

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This is my next ceramics piece, its a cheeseboard, shaped as a bear skin rug, the little girl sitting on the rug is actually the lid for the very small olive or dip container on the bear.

You can sort of make out the little container in the middle of the bear rug in this picture

For now she is living on my sideboard in the dining room, one of the problems if I keep making these things is what to do with them!

I am dying to bring out the cheeseboard though next time I have visitors, not sure if it will impress them or worry them.

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Christina

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Well after doing ceramics for about ten weeks now I finally got a finished piece back today, its such a long process, you make the figure, then its fired, then you colour it, then fired, then glazed and fired, I felt like so much could go wrong, so Im really happy to have her back and in one piece at last.  It was really weird colouring her in as well, she looked so different before the firing and the glazing changes the colours again.

Anyway, here she is, my little deer girl

she has a tail

I took her out into the wilds of our backyard too, her natural habitat

Im hoping to get back my next lot of work next week, its a bear rug, with head, as a cheeseboard, he has a little sort of raised dish in the middle for olives or whatnot and the lid is a little girl that sits on the bear rug.  Hope she survives her glazing.

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Christina

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Finally I am showing off my Nathalie Lete ceramic dogs!!!  I love them to bits and never thought living in Australia that I would be able to get my mitts on them, but this wonderful store called Kleins Perfumery in Brunswick Street has them!  Not to mention many other very hard to find Nathalie Lete items.  So now they are Mine (add maniacal laugh).

How cute is it that they come with their own little ceramic bones, and how odd that the blue one is a girl and has nipples……

Here is the full view of my lounge room mantel, its nigh on perfect I think once you add the Fawn Gehweiler glass painting and a dome

and people say “possessions” don’t make you happy?  Its working for me!  Wait till I show you the plates, bedspread, melamine breakfast set, and the little pill boxes.  If only I could get the lovely couch from Anthropologie.

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Once again Paul got some very odd things for Valentines.

He was very chuffed with his little mascot bandit chef

and got a good laugh out of his “Farty Boy Hero” as well

I liked Farty so much I made a print of him too, I think it is the awkward, embarrassed post fart stance that makes him lovable even if he is smelly

My gift is still waiting to come into stock, its from the brand Mother, I hope it does come back in, I fell in love with the back of this dress, it seemed rather Jane Austen to me

Hope you all had fine Valentines Days!

Thought I would share one of my favourite Japanese brands Muchacha

I think they may have started out as a brand for kids clothes, but now, wonderfully, they do kiddy size and adult!  I have about three of their dresses now and a wonderful big doll as well.

Look at all the cute for this season.

This one above is a brooch, Im a bit tempted to get her……

Pop over to their website for so much more!  I could barely choose which things were cutest, I didnt even get into the hats*L*

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Christina

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Just finished off this bunch of girl Hero’s as a slightly late entry to the Japanese Luvable Huggable for this year

There is Grumpy Girl Hero

Sensible Girl Hero

and Reading Girl Hero, who might be a little sister or something

I made little tags for them as well in case the Japanese people were wondering what they were all about

I hope they find nice new homes in Japan, and I think I may have to make a few more.  I tried a new way of attaching the neck so they are nice and non-floppy and I think an “Eating Girl Hero” and a “Gothic Girl Hero” are on the cards as well.  I even think I may do a little boy, “Windy/Farty Boy Hero”?

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Thought I would share some of my favourite D-Bros products, they seem to be spreading out a bit from Japan, but as usual a quick rakuten search will help you to find them as well.  The products are always so clever and beautiful, I have these butterflies on my wall.

I have this one too, but Ive never quite known what I want to do with it, I seem to be keeping it for “something special”

Their cards are gorgeous, its a sort of paper doll and the card acts as the scenery

You have probably seen these fruit shaped memo pads around, but I love the way they come packaged as actual fruit

Im not really sure what these are, but they look like biscuits and that is enough for me

These are card story boxes

Optical illusion glasses

and these very sweet bookmarks

Just looking at all these clever pretty things makes me feel better.