People have been asking about the Peace Dolls Project that I began a few years ago.
Here is a link to explain more about it: FAQ Peace Dolls
And here is one of my favorite Peace Angel Dolls:
Crocheted Angel of Peace Doll
by Noreen Crone-Findlay (copyright)
This simple little crocheted angel of Peace is a prayer for us to […]
Here are the links for my mixed media woven dolls:
Woven Earth Listener Angel Doll
Dame Julian and Neni
Three young spritely spirited mixed media dolls
Mixed media dolls with found objects
Tags: butterfly looms, carving doll heads, crafting with recycled materials, Creativity, designing dolls, dollmaking, dolls, eco projects, handspun yarn, how to make worry dolls, how to make […]
I am working on a new doll.
I’ve finished sculpting the head:
and have finished spinning the yarn for the doll:
My best friend gave me a bag of lovely merino/tencel:
That I spun on my wheel, then plyed with my navaho spindle:
I warped up the loom
and wove one panel that just didn’t do it for me,
So, I […]
When I was making the little cornstarch clay worry doll,
I just had to sculpt this doll head FIRST, before I could clear my thoughts about the tiny doll:
I’ve been looking at the doll head/mask for a few weeks now, wondering how to paint it.
Well, I have decided to weave a doll on my Journey Loom […]
Marcie, over at a child chosen really got my attention when she posted a comment to my posting about Esperanza.
Marcie said that she is going to be doing a posting about worry dolls. So, I have been obsessively clicking on her blog ever since. I have single handledly driven her stats through the roof! LOL!
Anyhow… […]
The ‘newspaper yarn’ has gone viral on the net…. everyone’s talking about it. Cyndi at Layers upon Layers has posted the link to it…. newspaper yarn
That inspired me to dig out my
‘Easiest Ever Knitted Angel’
that I had knitted from tissue paper that I spun with hand spindles.
I don’t like spinning tissue paper on […]
When I posted about my embroidered doll, Lillith, it made me think, hey…. why don’t I post pics of some of my other embroidered dolls?
I love, love, L O V E designing embroidered dolls, and have designed a heap of ‘em….. here’s a few of them….
I love punch needle embroidery and have been doing it […]
We’ve been wondering what to make for our nephew and his sweetiepie. We were baffled. They live in a tiny apartment and don’t like clutter. We were mulling and mulling, and got slightly put off by an earnest psychologist on telly who said some neat stuff about gift giving but also contributed to our ’stuck-ed-ness’.
So, […]
On Saturday, we had the celebration of my husband’s sister, Patty’s life. It was glorious. The music was simply celestial……..
it was a profoundly healing experience! Everyone came away feeling pure joy.
I asked Mum if she would like me to make her a doll of Patty, so she could have a huggable, holdable memory. Mum said, […]
I have a passion for buttons:
Not only fancy, schmancy, top of the line, tons ‘o money buttons, but also, plain and simple, humble and ho hum buttons.
Buttons, to me, are full of stories.
I have one of the buttons from the corduroy suit my mother wore the day she walked me to my first day […]
For the love of knitting, crochet, spoolknitting, spinning and weaving!
Written by Noreen Crone-Findlay [email] for b5media.
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