Cinderella Shoes and Orange County Fair Entries

You've all seen my entries for the Newport Beach Art Exhibition, which I applied for last week. Now I'm finalizing my entries for the Orange County Fair, which is coming up in July!

I haven't prepared anything big for the fair this year, but I just finished these Cinderella slippers, inspired by the new movie:

Here's what the movie shoes look like.

Here are some more Cinderella-blue shoes. I'm not entering these in the fair, they will go straight to Etsy!

I've decided to enter my mini Ruby Slippers, which you've all seen before.

Again, the movie version.

And I may enter a pair of the bridal Louboutins, I haven't decided on these yet.

Lastly, you may recognize this wedding dress, which I will be entering in the fair as well.

I'm so excited for this year! I'm sad to be missing out on the Multnomah County Fair, which I have done the last few years and is always a ton of fun. The Orange County Fair will be fun in a completely different way, though. And the fairgrounds are huge! There will be so much to see!

Dreaming of ribbons and elephant ears,

Assunta

My Second Sculpture is Done!

 Finally! And with just over a week to spare. My boy has clothes now, and I finished off his house with a door and some windows made out of foam, and some free-form crochet flowers in the window boxes. The boy took one look at it and decided to take  nap on the roof!

This is meant to be another dream sequence, like the first sculpture, so that's why the boy and the house don't look to scale with each other. In a dream you can walk out of your house and suddenly be tall enough to reach the roof!

Here he is from a few different angles.

In the next day or so I will be filling out my application for the art exhibition and deciding how to price my two sculptures. Wish me luck! I'll let you know how it goes. Now that these are done it's time to start dreaming of a new fun project! See you next week!

I know, it's not a sculpture...

My second sculpture for the Newport Beach Art Exhibition is almost done! In fact it's so close that it seems like a waste to show you 98% of a sculpture today and make you wait a week to see it fully completed and looking only slightly different.

Instead, I decided to take a break from that to show you a sneak peak of what will hopefully be my next project.

This picture is the property of Gardiner Yarn Works.
This is what my project will hopefully look like when it's done if I do it right.

I remember instantly loving this beautiful, light and airy lace wrap when I saw it in a yarn store several years ago. I bought the pattern and yarn, and soon started to hate it, due to the sheer number of stitches, the complexity of the pattern, and how easy it was to accidentally break the delicate lace thread I was using. After having my butt kicked by this pattern (and putting it aside for a few years) I decided to give it another try. I probably shouldn't even be showing it to anyone before it's done. I may have to erase some memories if this wrap doesn't make it to completion. However, I think it's a good sign that I've already made it father than my first attempt. Here are the first fourteen rows:

I don't have any concrete plans for what to do with the wrap once it's done. I will probably keep it if I'm not sick of looking at it by then. Until next week, dream lots of light and floaty dreams and I will have a finished sculpture for you soon!

Sculpture 2: Part 4- Arms, Face, and Hair

My boy doll is coming right along! This week he finally has arms, hair, and a face! I even added toes and thumbs. 

 I made his face in pretty much the same way as the girl doll but his eyebrows and nose are just a tiny bit bigger. I decided to draw his mouth on because I was having trouble making fabric lips that weren't either too bright or completely invisible. I think I might make him some ears, too, but haven't decided how to do those yet.

Now all that's left is to give him some clothes and finish the sculpture base. The deadline for the Newport Beach Art Exhibition is at the end of the month, so I better hurry up! 

Keep following your dreams!