Celia 03/30/2011
New. Unique. Quirky. All of these words describe my Carrot-top fairy Celia! She came in standing about 7 inches tall. I Love Love Love. Freckles. My husband, my son, and myself all have them. I find they add personality or maybe even a cute accessory to the skin! So I went into this doll saying she is going to have a ton of them. A few weeks ago I found this bright pretty much orange mohair on eBay...I had to have it. I am sort of scared of bright locks on my dolls. I feel like after I spend hours and hours on a doll... covering them up ,putting dark makeup, or in this case ORANGE hair on them will ruin them. I do feel in this case it adds to her story. Every doll has one:) Full of spunk this girl will be on auction tomorrow! March 31st for 7 days. I did not make a base for her because I felt she would look great sitting on just about anything...a china hutch, bookshelf...wherever ..without anything to obscure the view! I put her in the fairy gallery with a great song called Buttercup that captures her mood very well! I hope you like her!!!!! CLICK HERE to see the gallery!!! She sorta reminds me of the singer PINK. lol always Stefanie  1 Comment Maryanne The Minstrel 03/17/2011
Hello. Happy St. Patrick's Day!! I know most people on this day have art work that displays clovers and leprechauns! Not me..lol Most of my work is inspired by a song or lyric something that I feel when I listen to music. So I thought "hey why not make a fairy playing the harp?" well, I built a harp. That did not turn out very well. Then I made a flute since I play the flute (only fitting right?) but, that did not turn out well either. I then thought GUITAR!! yes yes a guitar!! I first made this sorta big acoustic guitar. It took me all night to design. I put my newly made acoustic in her lap..it covered her whole body. It took me hours to get her stoumach the way I wanted it and to have it covered up was heart breaking. Needless to say I scrapped that! I found this shell in one of my boxes and went from there. I then took some clay and molded it to the shell and made a hole in the center. I took a paint brush and smoothed out the inside. Ii was exactly the right size! So from there I went for it and slowly this no name fairy playing a harp became a guitar playing Minstrel named Maryanne! I spent a lot of time in the details. I hope you like her!!:) CLICK HERE for her gallery!  Change of Heart 02/18/2011
Hello everyone!! Today was a Beautiful day here in VA! It inspired me to work on my website and upload pictures of my newest sculpture. Her name is "Change of Heart". She is completely different then all of my other work. She is very cartoon like and not very realistic (something that i strive for in my other works). I love style. I would depict my style as kind of hippie but, trendy maybe a little vintage. So that inspired a brand new collection. "The Vintage Fairy Collection". I will make these fairies to fit that kind of genre! I am excited for them because they are "unique" as a good friend calls them!:) Hopefully you all like them! Check out Change of Heart in her gallery page by clicking the link!! THank you!xoxo Stefanie click here  not a blog 02/04/2011
Ok, I don't really have any dolls to blog about right now. My current two pieces are really works in progress except their is not any progress that is happening. Not for a lack of constant thinking of what and how to sculpt it!!! I have had many issue with the so called "valentines day" doll that I have been working on. I have made head after head and decide once I got to the body that the head was not right. so smushhhhh it went...on to another one! my goal was to have this doll on auction for valentines day. So we will see. The other peice is a pin-up that if she turns out well will be entering a contest for a magazine. key word "if"!lol I have already handmade the chair she will be sitting on and, at this moment she is in the same stage of the valentines day doll...only a head. So really this is not a blog but, more of a paragraph asking to wish me luck...and to keep a look out for these " Works in Progress" :) Backed up! 01/14/2011
Alright.... Since my last blog I have made three sculptures!! One piece actually was 4 sculptures all together!! So I guess that makes 6. Needless to say I have been working very hard! Since it is a New Year I have decided to revamp my website....yet again!! I am one of those people who gets bored very quickly with most things. Like one day my husband will come home and I would have rearranged the living room. This happens frequently! Even yestarday I rearranged my studio...maybe in hopes for the new inspiration!LOL. Since it has not even been a year since I started selling my work and have had this website I figure now is the time to change it and fiqure out what I like so down the road I don't have the same dilema! So you get it.:) I hope you like my new site. I feel like it's a bit easier to navigate. Especially through the Gallery area. I also feel like its a bit more me(trendy, sorta retro). I have even made a banner that you can add to your own website if you like and follow my work!! That banner is in the contact page. Instead of doing three separte blog post I am going to post all of my recent work to this one alone. I will put a few of each so you can see them better since I will not be adding them to my 2010 Gallery. My first sculpture of 2011 is in the brand new mermaid gallery!!! Have fun!! I hope you like all of my hard work!!! Luna , Raggamuffin, and The Three Blind mice were commission peices. Transformation will be on Auction in the next coming weeks! If interested in her use the contact forum!!! Always, Stefanie         Little ~Em~ 11/15/2010
 Little Em is a commissioned peice! She is soooo tiny!! only 5 inches tall! She was extremely hard to sculpt mostly the hands and feet were ...because my big fingers kept getting in the way!:) I love to sculpt fairys that look like somthing you would actually see in the woods(if they were real) small, natural, delicate. Her wings are real butterfly wings and she is covered in dried flowers. She sits in a Hut. The Hut I made from complete scratch starting from a peice of wood , two peices of ceramic and a strong wire. I had some hobbie moss and dried flowers that I used to make it look realistic. oh yes and some sparkles too!!:) I had fun taking pictures of her! Check her out in here photo gallery here!!! Essence of Fall 10/15/2010
 Finally posted to my website!!!!!!!!!!! I have had her photographed for weeks now! I spent hours getting all of the pictures ready and then.......my computer got turned off! So nothing was saved :( but, now its done. She was really just for fun. I dont think I am going to sell her. I love Fall and I really wanted to do somthing to show it! I feel like she is very pin-up .. at least her body type. She is the biggest doll I have done to date standing at about 9 1/2 inches tall most of my dolls are about 6 or 7 inches. I think of her movement (pose) as that of a leaf sort of dancing and swaying about from the tree to the ground. Softly and swifly changing the highlighted trees bare with the hint of winter on the way. This beautiful weather will only last a few more weeks and, until then I will be in awe of the all the beautiful colors floating through the wind! click here to see Essence of Fall in the Gallery!! Tear Drops 09/06/2010
 Tear Drops is her name. I was working on another fairy ( fairy family to be correct) when I had an idea for a face. I started sculpting and two and a half days later she was done!! She is crying. I handmade tears running down her face. Her posture I feel really expresses her emotion .. not only the tears. Her wings are made from REAL macaw and peacock feathers adorned with Sawaroski crystals! Her hair is wet against her because of her crying. <3 Now go check out her gallery- Click here!! Elephant Ryder-Myth 08/06/2010
 alright .........what do you think? Myth? The story is told by weary travelers...nomads in the dessert on the brink of dehydration. It is said that when your in the depths of the jungle or in the barren desert a mysterious woman is always watching over you. If you are looking she will be there but, not alone and not exactly human. She rides a massive elephant just as mysterious as herself. He is as dark as night and silent as a mouse. No footsteps to hear of, no trumpets coming through his trunk. When people describe what they have seen...."she has wings" as if she were a fairy. Men are stunned at her amazing beauty. Although not one man has ever gotten close enough to talk to her. She is said to lead these travelers home and bring them to food and water. With a blink of an eye this "Elephant Ryder" disappears! Is this tale real or fiction? she was caught on camera....go see... The Keeper of Blue 07/27/2010
 I said i would finish her today...and i did!! She will be on auction by next week! I was very motivated with her...she pretty much came out of nowhere! I had this piece of blown glass sitting on my shelf and i could not figure out how to use this thing! What sort of pose would she be in? what is her story?....then it came to me!! So here it is..... The Keeper of Blue was not always the Keeper. When she was a little girl fairy she took a walk in the woods, happily enjoying the warmth of the sun poking through the trees. After hours of strolling she stumbled in to someone. She was so fascinated by her, it was a beautiful women. She had sparking blue eyes and used them to lure her deeper into the woods. They came upon a giant blue flower made of glass. The women asked her if she wanted to take a seat on top of it, to see how it would feel. Without even thinking about it she jumped up there as fast as she could! It felt like a story to her, she was so taken by this women. As she was feeling the smoothness of the glass the women asked if she would like a surprise...without answering the women (I suppose her eyes said yes for her) she pulled from behind her back a tear dropped shaped Crystal!!! The color of the stone was hypnotizing. Blue rays of light jumped off of it into the forest and cast a glow above the treetops. "for me?" she asked. The woman pushed the stone to her and with a single touch her wings turned to stone and a sadness overwhelmed her. "HaHA" said the women. "Now you are the keeper and i am free!" the woman shouted. She did not understand why she was laughing. They woman pranced away into the woods. All she heard was the echo of laughter. Now that she understood what the stone did to her. She vowed to herself never to do the same to another. Many journeyman came to visit her. Some people actually went on treasure hunts to find the Blue stone. As they found her she turned them away saying never to come back again. So now... her excited blue eyes are sad, and stone wings will never take flight again. The Keeper of Blue is stuck in this link. | Fantasy BlogDoll Adventures,The making of, Newest Sculptures and more..... ArchivesJune 2011 CategoriesAll |
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