Upcycled dolls

Stuff You Can't Have: DIY Baby Head Pincushion

This was the last of my mixed media frenzy while cleaning out the studio. These teacup junk jar dolls are made of old bottles filled with little bits of joy like cracker jack prizes, small toys, marbles, buttons, beads, snippets of cloth, jewelry parts and ETC! Then they are colored with alcohol inks and you can pretty much tell the rest. Old doll heads (from dolls worn out with love), vintage silver spoons for arms and lots of other fun accoutrements.

Vintage Sleepy Eye Doll Head with Molded Curly Hair by ThirdShift

Assemblage made from altered doll parts and lots of salvaged "junk"...mustard jar, electronic parts, old hose, a car part, and wood scraps. Measures

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Explore the funny side of DIY.

Flying Tree has sold at the Northville Art House's annual juried exhibit "Small Works." I am so happy. It does feel rare to sell one of my tree structures. Flying Tree is 12" tall x 6" wide x 4.5" deep and can be viewed in the round. The collaged fabric on the base is machine stitched with a hole in which you can put your hand, if your hand is small enough. In the 2nd image of Flying Tree you can see the inside of the top piece which is discharged brown fabric with stripes. I have more in…

Barbie head wine corks

I’ve been saving up Boo’s old toys forever…..the ones that I’m sure would hit the landfill and not Sunnyside. I’m not sure what I’m going to make yet but here are some projects and art I’ve seen around that are pretty awesome:

Old paint brush dolls

DIY ornaments