MAUVE BRIGHT PINK, CROCHETTED HATE, NECK SCARF, FINGERLESS MITTS

Went to a local market to show off more winter gear was a very blowy, cold windy day on the top car park at Park Beach Plaza at Coffs Harbour. Not many stallholders or people came up was more warmer down in the carpark sheltered by the buildings and trees... I learnt something quite interesting people who endured cancer treatments and lost their hair found this type of hat very interesting giving me more ideas on hats to be different. Wearing wigs was very uncomfortable but these hats were very smart and comfortable. I will create more with a wig look about them. It gives me great pleasure to create things that bring great comfort and make people look good as well.... the scarf is like a collar and very soft around your neck it has acrylic and wool blend. The embellishments are of course acrylic giving it a more sharper look....and of course the fingerless mitts just enough to keep you warm and you can do write on paper, feel what your touch and still be warm those very cold days especially in the early mornings and late evenings when the coolness creeps ....They look cool on and you can wear it however you wish. The hat has a long section like a ponytail with a tassel and don't forget the ear flaps you can even put a button on or order it with buttons on.... how cool is that for that cold weather and when you party inside you can wear it how you like...

SCARVES THAT ARE DIFFERENT

Vintage Fluffy Scarf Handmade by me into a frontal design...with Tassels. Colourful in Autumn shades, soft and warm holding the heat in on a cold day. Wear it anyways you wish very fashionable! Set off with fringing a FASHION STATEMENT!

Lovely mobius Vintage Hats turban style but into a hat with brim. Crochetted large flower with leaves that are bendable. A collar scarf with wild loops and crocheted tie with tassels to pull up to the neck to keep warm. Wool blend acrylic blue tonings, scarf can be worn as hat band as well.... can be worn different ways and stored away in a bag easily when on the move..

WINTER HATS, SCARVES AND MITTS

Now with the ordeal all over I have been getting back into it I have created some winter gear

Hat with crocheted flowers, leaves on side flaps with platted sides hanging ends with tassels. Collar scarf covering your shoulders and a tie at the neck.

side and back view you can see the work on it ...leaves are bendable to how you wish to have your look...nice and soft you can roll into a bag when weather changes .

WASTING MY TIME

That's just it I have been wasting time trying to please people with no avail. I had to fix up an old doll
German Doll it had a star sign at the back... Horror story it is! I brought it home it was in a garbage bag she had nothing else to put it in.. took it down to the Barn where I had my German books to identify the markings.. I put it in the corner on the floor under the table thinking it was safe and went the next day to Sydney to do a show.  When I got home she rang me to ask if I started the doll, I had forgotten with many other things to do!! Days went by looking every niche and rooms everywhere nowhere till hubby picked up a garbage bag from the floor as he cleaned the barn.

I FROZE there was she was in pieces the head that is .... the head was poured in paper mache instead of porcelain, which was strange and very thin.  I just didn't do anything I was just so ill, so many tiny pieces. People just looked at me and told me to give her back. I just couldn't do that!  It took me months of patching up with PVA glue and toilet paper would you believe.  The whole of the front face was in pieces, the back of the head was held on with the wig which was so matted and glued to it.

When I got the head together with the air dried clay I then pulled the wig at the back off and glued it together which I already had glued together to hold the front while I was glueing it together. It came together so cracked up but in at least it was together I had to put a layer of the paper clay over the head to hold it together, so I could sand it smooth for painting...

well finally together with air drying paper clay smoothed over, sandpapered then rubbed and rubbed to get it smooth. Hours and days of work... not smooth do it again and again. Also painting over it with a wet brush making sure there are no bumps .

Nearly smooth still a couple of bumps showing so a lot of rubbing with a cloth and glass smooth sandpaper,

Final result I put a hat on here to protect her matted hair, do not wish to touch her anymore after that dreadful experience but she's so smooth eye lashes and eyebrows done, and the lips a quieter red so as not to show any descrepancies. Her right leg was in pieces it was with paper clay after putting the pieces of leg together a lot was missing so had to sculpt it out too. The hat is silk 2 rows of smoking and a row edged with old lace.. it will hold the hair in place which I made a paper mache pate to give it a little height... If the doll was mine I would have made a wig and reset the style. I put red flowers on the shoes to embellish I did have her on a wooden stand and a cellophane protective box over it to keep it from any deterioration but the lady did not wish to have that...She wanted it to sit in a chair in her loungeroom... Maybe the previous breaks on it had a lot to do with what I had to endure??

At least the final story SHE'S ALIVE AND WILL DO A NUMBER OF YEARS MORE!  I couldn't charge the lady for the misfortune and she didn't want to pay much for the leg break which was why she came to me. At least I learned a lot from this experience.....Broken WORSE than my post on OLD AND NEGLECTED. She wasn't neglected just a dreadful accident that she fell on her face!! Well now not a sign scratch or graze? I just can't believe I did it!