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awww you guys....my dearest friend in the world lives in NZ.....Id go in a heart beat if I could. i love the attitude and openenss and independence that the folks from that part of the world....I actually think they are more independaNT than Americans...
Welcome Staticbear. Happy to have you join.
Be sure you take a gander at the rules.....and always remember we live for [pictures.
dilu
I love your purses, Tammy, and that they made to pages of Intercals catalog! Big time girligirl....I am impressed!
And Sue Ann your delightful Kitty bed is the cat's meow and looks so good on the catalog pages......
Ttoo bad we don't have
alternative uses for mohair......we might get Intercal's attention! :crackup: :crackup: :crackup:
Comeone you guys!!!! thinking caps back on....... 
I am feeling better so I should get a move on too!
warmsnuggymohairhugs
dilu
I push the magic button to turn on the house generator....then wonder if there is enough sun for the solar powered well pump, then curl up in front of the fire and read-mysteries and catalogs or doll mags, teddy mags and quilt mags.....I love it when the power goes out because it gives me permission to play a slug and day dream 
Bravo Tammy-and now all her friends will want them.....hmmmm....a quick and easy side business perhaps?
I had a slight detour 
....and a wasted day in the hospital 
....and not as a nurse but on the other side of the ugh bed pan 
.....so I am way behind.....but plan to catch up in the next 2 days...
I am almost done with the other challenge going on-doing something outside of our Comfort Zone
Mary love your little dollikin avatar.....so sweet-did you do her? Like the gals who re do babydolls? Such beautiful dolls they end up with.they come up with.
dilu
love the pictures
Kim
I think your kindness needs to be commented on. Thank you for thinking of Talkercollectors first.
dilu
awww hon, you get the last laugh!
How you ask?
Because you have learned to move on and keep your chin up, and you know what awaits the little hooligans, and they will find themselves on the wrong end of an insult or dirty trick,
No one gets out of life without their fair share of pain and insults and it isn't the pain that matters, but how we manage our selves through the pain.
Like Judi said, you are a lovely lady in all aspects, and WE are made richer by your presence.
Thank you
dilu
eeeeuuuuuuuuuuuu....but your right any little guy 5-12 would think this the coolest cake ever and you the bestest mom ever......
dilu
To all you poor darlings feeling punky- May you be blessed with warmth and humor and love and may you be healthy, and may all your creations turn out the way you dreamed. I am sorry you feel so rotten.....
Bad things happen, but, Suffering is Optional.....you can do this Ladies, you can get through all the stuff and bother and find joy in life again!
prayers for all, about all, may blessings shower down on all of you.
dilu
Bravo Krista,
so glad she is doing well and will be up and about and into trouble on no time. thank you for sharing your story and also for being you and caring so much for another being that cannot defend herself. 
dilu
What about a stole lined with silk satin?
Well you all have some great ideas for scraps....BUT come on you guys....thinking caps back on....lets get even more creative.....
I hope to have something new to show you, by way of Daphne's genius, and if my plan works out its easy and .............
dilu
Eileen
please post a piccy when when you finish, I love the idea of a baby bunting.....( sending hurryup thoughts to son---he's 35.hurryuphurryuphurryup!!!!! I want to make a mohair baby bunting too) 
thanks Patsy, she was my first ever from start to finish pouring cleaning, firing, paintintpaintintpaintinting and more firing porcelain doll.....I see an awful lot of mistakes in her but will keep her around to remind me..... And she was nekid, until we thought up this challenge, so it was a perfect vehicle, and the girls do like being dressed......
Kathy your fairys really are so cute! are they as tiny as I suspect? The smaller the doll the harder and more crucial everything is...godd job
Hi Lynn,
I wouldn't have been able to part with him either! He is adorable!
OK guys keep the pictures coming
hugs
dilu
Oh Connie,
Thank you for posting him again!!! He is aso cool and so many Talkers loved him that it will be good to renew our acquaintence- and doesn't mohair make great hair-its what I usually use for the gollies as well. Thanks....he is great and such a pleasure-
Remind us: How tall is your prince again?
He is such a cool nutcracker.
Every Christmas in Grants Pass Oregon the main street is lined with Nutcrackers- about 8 feet tall. yours is every bit if not better than the Artists are making them here in Oregon
Kathy: Great fairys!
Heather,
babikins are so tactile conscious....good idea to come up with something baby-friendly.....a car seat liner?.....A diaper cover, easily washed, can be made to slip on and off with soft elastic, a baby onesie and hat so that the only thing showing is that darling little face, your little one will look like you have your own little bearycubbette....
As clever as YOU are I think whatever you come up with will be fabulous.
Thanks Kassie :hug: back atcha BestOregonBud
odd this face painting business.....its fun, a very very long process, and even though she was a plaster mold, she doesn't look anything like her prototype.....I just can not, for the life of me, follow directions and have anything come out looking like the prototype. no matter how hard I try..... :crackup:
Love Mr. R and his friend....too cute together....When you make your first reallyreallyreally big sale after your show maybe you can reupholster......course the person who does it will be blown away by the 16 yards of mohair from Intercal......on second thought maybe a really nice blanket, lined with a supper tight weave denim: durrable, washable, hugable
that works....
i'm off to the studio if you feel like talking-Rick wont hear the new phone.....hugs hon (course then neither of us will get anything done....
hugs to both of you now get back to work.....
dilu
PS Rick has an egg to box up for you-after I make a plaster of paris mold.....(don't ask) and i will remember to throw in some feathers too.
What a great idea Daphne! Such a good one I am going to try it tomarrow on my winter boots....
Dilu drinks tea and so has collected quite a few teapots....Doesn't use them because the tea gets too cool: Therefore she thought a teacozy might help-and also protect the pots from the cats.....or if not that, the cats from the pots flying at them.....
this lucious mohair is from Intercal-I've quite forgotten the numbers, but it is so soft and luxerious and a delicate shade of lavendar....
There are so many ways to use mohair and it is such an easy fabric to work with-I am planning on taking a blazer and removing the collar and using the removed collar as the backing and pattern for a mohair collar. Have any of you tried this?
This little girl thinks she is going out to party....
Sue Ann makes kittytoys and kittybeds, Dilu makes doll clothing and tea cozies and wants a queen-sized mohair blanket lined with flannel. Shelli is dreaming of mohair jammies and then someone had the brilliant idea that we could actually make a challenge out of it. (Yes we know Shelli resigned, but we can't give her up yet.....it's a process, she's breaking us in gently. ) 
Which Teddytalker can come up with the most romantic, the most versatile, the most amusing, the most useful, the best use of those wonderful 1/4 yards we love to get...
Which one of you creative artists is ready to think outside the teddy box and create the most innovative Off-Teddy use of mohair?
Any Talker-takers??? Any one of you want to whip up something to share? We all love mohair so lets see some ideas that we can all have some fun with using our favorite fabric!
Here's Dilu's first porcelain doll, who thinks she is going to a HannahMontana concert.....Unfortunately porcelain girlikins are as silly as gollygirlikins.....No way she is getting out of the house with a bare tummy showing!
So we are waiting to see what you gals and guys can come up with......
Isn't it fun thinking up new ways to use a common material we all use all the time? Way to go Sue Ann!
Yes, it took me this long to learn how to use Photoshop-well, and get rid of Iphoto....but here is the ornament that Sandy created, and I think she is simply grand. Thank you publically Sandy, for such a true treasure.
Welcome back Helena,
honestly, i do believe we atre govem physical ailments so as to appreciate our creative time all the more.
Glad you made the "right" decision, you might as well make bears and have some fun in life, right?
Hope your sinuses feel better soon
gollyhugs
dilu
andrea, chocolate and shoes and handbags.....I can tell my age here....chocolatye and fabric and silk ribbons would be more my speed.
Kathy we had the card cancelled and are working with the company...we don't have creid cards, only debit. We have seen too many people damaged through over extension of credit. You all know the average family has over $10,000 in credit card debt?
YIKES
I couldn't deal with that kind of stress.....
so I totally support the don't-apply-for-every-card theory. And we also shred everything, and then it either goes in the compacter in the summer or the burn barrel in the winter......
Also we argue against the use of SSI numbers, since they are not supposed to be used for "identification" says so on the card.....we can usually talk them into a different number....or we just shop elsewhere.
If you do have a credit card purchase ask for the carbons....it will make it a little more difficult
well....happy shopping folks.....don't let 'em get to you!
gollyhugs
dilu
(wonks to you Penpen :hug: )
