Teddy Talk: Creating, Collecting, Connecting

Hi everyone,

I just want to let you all know my new studio gallery will be opening soon. We will have art sculpted figurative dolls, artist bears and an assortment of marionette characters which will included humans, bears and other creations.

My Studio Gallery & Marionette Theater will be putting on performances for the local community at the Reed Opera House. We are very excited about this new venture. I say we because, I can not take all the credit for all the work when I have a wonderful group of people at the Reed Opera House and a local theater performance group that will be working with me to create all this fun!

We will also be featured in a few magazines and I hear our local broadcasting station is coming by. 

This has been a very busy venture for me with all the creations to make and studio step up, but it has been a wonderful experience and I am looking forward to the performances and all the activities that I have planned.

Thank you to everyone who has sent me messages and all your kind words. I am very touched and appreciative to each and everyone of you.  You know who you are.    :hug: 

I will be posting information, videos and hope you come by and join in on the fun!
Exciting and fun times I hope to share with you all.

Cheers
kassie

Thank you everyone. 

Thank you Robert. The costuming was the hardest part for me. I am not that experienced with sewing clothes. It took me awhile to get it in my head on how to create it the way I wanted. Each different colored piece of fabric was cut out in the shaped strips and then sewn together. It was a brain tees-or.

Hi Beth, I am glad you like him.  Thank you so much for your kind words. I do truly enjoy sculpting and I am always rewarded when others enjoy my work. Thank you. 

Hi Tami, Thank you    :hug:

Hi Angela, Thank you  I did see some of them and they are beautiful works of art. It must be very hard on the judges to have to pick from so many amazing artists. I would not want their job.

Hey Maria, got your email hon.    :hug:  :hug:

hey Sue Ann,  thank you friend. I do look forward to next year and I am always striving to the next level, so I have already got my design done for next year. In the mean time I have so many things ahead this year.    :hug:

take care everyone.
kassie

Hi Tami, Thank  you hon.  Your dolls are wonderful too!!! I really like your Mr. pumpkin. and of course  your Fairy Doogles!!

hugs kassie

Hi Natascha,

Thank you so much.  I am glad you like him.   

kassie

Hi , I am trying to get a hold of Maria Collins and Christine Healey (Real Deal Bears)
If you are still here, email me.
Where are you??
Loved to hear from you both. 
:hug:  :hug:  :hug:  :hug:

hugs kassie

Hi Tami, thank you so much.  I did see the winners list today.
I did not win this year, but this is ok.    There were a lot of wonderful entries this year. Amazing pieces!!! Being only in my second year in sculpting figurative pieces, I feel honored to have been selected last year along side so many talented artists who have been making dolls much longer than me. I look forward to next year!!!

here is my entry - some of you may have seen him already. These are his professional photos.

hugs and cheers
kassie

I wanted to ask if anyone that was at the IDEX if they heard or has the DOTY list by change? 
Me still waiting.....   

I would appreciate it.   

kassie

Congratulations everyone!!!!  :clap:  :clap:  :clap:  :clap:  :clap:

Awesome!!!!! Well Done!!!!!!  :dance:  :dance:  :dance:  :dance:  :dance:  :dance:

Love this time of year!!!!

kassie

Gorgeous creations everyone!!!!   
Wow.... I would not want to be a judge and have to choose. It must be very hard to pick from so many amazing pieces. They are all beautiful!!  :clap:  :clap:  :clap:  :clap:

kassie

Hi Jen,

I do charactor dolls as well. You can see my work threw my links. I also have a doll posted in the show case section here on TT.

kassie

Another - Huge congratulations to everyone who entered, was nominated and won!!!!!

:clap:  :clap:  :clap:  :clap:  :clap:  :clap:  :clap:

kassie

Congratulations Paula,  :clap:  :clap:  :clap:  :clap:  :clap:  :clap:

He is a beautiful bear!!!! 

kassie

Congratulations Tami,  :hug:  :clap:  :clap:  :clap:  :clap:

Well done girl!!!!

hugs kassie

Congratulations Terrie,  :clap:  :clap:  :clap:
They are beautiful!!!!!

hugs kassie

CONGRATULATIONS, Maria dear friend!     
:hug:  :hug:  :hug:  :hug:  :hug:  :hug:  :hug:

I am happy dancing for you    :dance:  :dance:  :dance:  :dance:
hugs kassie

Hi Lisa,

That is an amazing toad!!!! He is so proportionally correct!!! Fantastic!!!    Love the stones on his back!!!

kassie

Hello Carolyn, Thank you so much for the compliment and yes I am feeling much better. Thank you :-) Now I am playing catch up on all my work. But love it! It is so nice to be back to work. Kinda scary there for awhile to think I may not have been able to work again.

Hey you Wendy, How are you doing girl? I have not been chatting much these last few months. I miss talking with you. Oh, thank you for the compliment hon. It means a lot!! And congratulations on your much deserved success my friend. I am so happy for you. Happy Dancing for you. Me will get a Puddle one day. I love your new Dragon!!!!

hugs Kassie

Hi everyone - thank you al for your kind comments. I am pleased you like him. Thank you. 

Hi Maria hon, thank you dear friend. I am glad you like him. I am so BETTER!!!! Go read the other post you are talking about. yuppy yi a!!!!! Now I can get this guy finished.

hugs kassie

Congratulations Tracy - You so deserve it!!! I am doing the happy dance for ya.  :dance:  :dance: Well, in my head at lest. *grin*
cheers hon. - oh and I am looking forward to seeing your new design - :-)

kassie

Hello everyone, Sorry for my delay in replying.
Thank you so much. I am very happy you all enjoyed him.
To my dear longtime TT friends( you know who you are) hugs and Luvs.
Tracy hon - you are a dear!  :hug:  :hug:

Thank you everyone.  :hug:

kassie

Hi Aleta, I so miss visiting you here. It is nice to see you and your new work. Love this idea!! Clever you.    But your bears are always beautiful and exquisitely done!!   

cheers my dear
kassie

oh Tracy hon, what can I say that I have not already said. I love your little bears!!!!! This one is so beautiful!!!!
His little face just makes me smile.   

hugs kassie

Now it is my turn to say WOW!!! I am so touched by all your comments. Thank you so much.  :hug:

Hi Kellydean -  Lisa Litchenfels and Mark Dennis are my favorites too!!!! Lisa's fabric scultures are mind blowing!!  She is truely a master of her trade. I love her work. Have you seen her newest? Jeanne. She is just amazing!!! Mark Dennis is also a master. Hopefully I will be able to attend the Doll & Teddy Expo next year and will look forward to meeting him.

hugs kassie

Hi ya Tracy, I just wanted to pop in and say - oh my -  I     this little guy!!!!
but then I adore all your little ones. You go girl!!!!!

hugs kassie

Hello fellow tt talks,

I just wanted to share my latest. Hope you enjoy.
My pictures are not as good as I would like them due to a light box problem, doll is too big for my light box. I hope to get him completed and take him to my photographer very soon here.

description:

This art doll is designed after 1648 and 1657 skomorokhs who where in Russian, in Old East Slavic, were medieval East Slavic harlequins, i.e., actors, who could also sing, dance, play musical instruments, and compose most of the scores for their oral/musical and dramatic performances. The skomorokhs appeared in Kievan Rus no later than in the mid-11th century, and the frescos in the Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kiev are there to prove it. The Church often railed against the skomorokhi and other elements of popular culture as being irreverent, detracting from the worship of God, or even downright diabolical. The skomorokh art reached its peak in the 15th-17th century. Their repertoire included mock songs, dramatic and satirical sketches called glumy, performed in masks and skomorokh dresses to the sounds of domra, balalaika, gudok, bagpipes, or buben (a kind of tambourine).

This is a 22 in doll, from boots to hat is 27 in- sculptured head and hands with a soft sculptured body with pose-able body inner-skeleton armature designed by me. Neck, arms, wrists, elbows, knees, ankles, spine, etc., all joints move in the motion of a human skeleton. Spin bends and rotates, as well as knees, ankles, wrist, shoulders, elbows complete motion in legs and neck turn; tilt from side to side, up down and turn side to side.

His head, hands are hand sculptured from puppen clay and his suit is hand made from the finest velvet and silk, as well as his velvet boots, with silver accessories. He will also has a face mask hand made from puppen clay.

This doll has a 4hx5x8 mahogany wooden music box, the music is a 30 teeth mechanism that plays a russian song– which will put the total height of this doll display to 31 in. He has a jester type sceptre. Also he will be accompanied by a domra and Buben – playing instruments. (still being made - picture is included)