masked emotions

"Peroxide kills off the healing bugs, also,"  the doctor said.  The faces below were meant for making expressive  puppet faces. But the other day, I was trying to answer questions  at the medical clinic,  about how my 90 old father was doing.  I was sitting alongside him.   I imagine some of my facial expression -while wearing a mask- looked something like this:  

1. Normal gaze.  

2. Small centered pupils-spooky gaze!

3. Sideways glance-wary or fearful.

4. Pupils on the inside of the eyes-

   Don't ask, perplexed, or angry!

5. Pupils look like commas-alert!            Interested.

6. Up and down pupils-it's the who knows  look.

The eyes have it! 

If you check out my blog posts during the 2012 years,  I have several posts on how to embellish flat felt puppets. The above facial examples will be helpful.  

Deut. 32:2  "as the small rain upon the tender herb..."   at hollyhockjunction

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Go figure.  Puncture wound between my toes,  put there  by a knitting needle,  and I don't even knit.  Found it by accident wedged in the carpet.  That's what I get for not keeping a tidy craft room and going barefoot and not turning on the light.  Guess which "face"  I made? 

If it ever happens to you,  use soap and water and heat,  and  peroxide, but once or twice and not continually. Good bugs need to get growing again. 

Art on Dishplay

I peered in to Berta's room.  The door that faced her bed was covered with many greeting cards scotch-taped to it. Berta was propped up on a lofty cloud of pillows.
"I love all the cards,"  she said.  "Look at the cute one in the middle.  That's my favorite -  the bunny rabbit.   The cards  help me  feel better, especially the happy ones."  (Berta was a hospice patient.)

Art on Dishplay 
On a flour sack dish towel to be enjoyed every day.

Greeting Cards:  An appreciation of art in everyday life.

My sister remarked,   "I don't send greeting cards  much anymore.  They just get thrown away."    Her birthday is coming up, and in our extended family, we celebrate with cake and get togethers.   I like the old fashioned flour sack dish towels embroidered with the happy things.  Puppy critters and dancing vegetables, all thanks to Aunt Martha transfers...but,  I embroidered on this dish towel, for the sister who dances,  a  girl dancing  that was drawn by my granddaughter.

Have a Dilly Day! Greeting Card Handcrafted

I gave my brother a jar of home made dill pickles for his birthday, and tied a hand made tag around it.   (What do you give  to someone who goes out and buys what he wants?)
"This is cute,"  he said, removing the tag and hanging it on a cabinet knob.  "I like stuff that's homemade."
"Thanks!"  I said.
"I don't buy cards anymore,"  he added.   "It's a waste of money." 
"Hey, graphic artists have their place!"  I protested.

Have a dilly day!

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Some thoughts I have on that-- 
If I make a greeting card and spend as little as  half an hour on it, at minimum wage..., not to mention the idea-the design, and the supplies,  I can't afford the time it takes to make it!
So you see,  handmade greeting cards 
are also "expensive" and to be valued!

Kewpie and Crochet

Kewpie and Crochet

I ran across this crochet pattern for a Kewpie doll.  My mother said she had two Kewpies.  Didn't have a clue where she had them stored.  But remembered as kids, they were awarded as prizes at the fair. 
Originated in the early 1900's, and first made in a town in Ohrdruf Germany.   Some were made of chalk.  Hers were composition. 
I liked the knitted patterns.   5 1/2" Kewpie (copyright l982)  pocket size--the sailer girl, boy scout,  and the baseball player,  but my favorite is the peek a boo bag.  Patterns that can be adapted to the dolls of the day?