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Weeekend Gatherings

noreply@blogger.com (Wilma) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:04:23 PST

What a weekend of activity....family and Christmas sale gatherings. Yesterday the new socksillies gathered for a Christmas photo before getting ready for my annual charity Handmade Treasures...

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Winner of the Pink Giveaway!

noreply@blogger.com (Wilma) — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 21:28:19 PST

Here is Dylan who has the responsibility of drawing the name of the winner of the Pink Giveaway from last week . The names were printed on paper. folded and put into a Thomas the Tank...

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Pink Ribbon Giveaway

noreply@blogger.com (Wilma) — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:42:27 PDT

Today, 26 October, is Pink Ribbon Day. We started the morning at the community centre with my Rotary club, the Rotary Club of Wallsend-Maryland, and cooked pink pancakes and bacon and eggs (their...

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Stacker beads and Surprises

noreply@blogger.com (Wilma) — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:20:27 PDT

One day last week, I woke up early, and decided to play with some polymer clay . I had been intrigued for some time with stacker beads (ovenfried beads) and so tried to make some. I did eventually...

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Think Pink in October

noreply@blogger.com (Wilma) — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 20:29:25 PDT

For some strange reason, I have been making quite a few things in pink in the last couple of weeks. This week I finshed a little felt face brooch and a polymer and silver necklace - all very...

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New Tools, New Techniques

noreply@blogger.com (Wilma) — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 01:11:05 PDT

With the October long weekend holiday and daylight saving adjustment, I have been working in a mind "fog" today, and kept wondering what I would write about in this blog this week... it was so...

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Return of the Socksillies

noreply@blogger.com (Wilma) — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:54:58 PDT

Socksillies return to the Simmons" household! A couple of weeks ago, my daughter-in-law asked me to make a socksillie, one of my silly sock toys for her to give as a baby gift. I hadn't made...

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Felt Art Dolls - Compass Series

noreply@blogger.com (Wilma) — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 06:27:47 PDT

I have been trying hard to have my samples ready for next year's workshops and was really happy that this week, I finally finished one of my "Compass" series felted art dolls. This one , I think...

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Too Early for Christmas?

noreply@blogger.com (Wilma) — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 16:24:08 PDT

Is too early to think about Christmas ? Not for the Gumnutters Doll group! Last Saturday, our project was to make a "scrappy angel" . Obviously so called, because they are made with scraps of fabric....

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Something Blue - Pay It Forward

noreply@blogger.com (Wilma) — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 02:57:40 PDT

DUST is the ETSY "Down Under Street Team" - a group of Australian Artists, Craftspeople and Artisans who support ETSY and wish to promote independent handcrafted goods here is Australia and...

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Angels of Hope - Rotary Club Project

noreply@blogger.com (Wilma) — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 07:07:06 PDT

What a great Rotary Club I belong to! We have just started a new project to assist a local community support program for young women in crisis. It is a program which offers residential accommodation...

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Dollmakers' Delight

noreply@blogger.com (Wilma) — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 10:54:54 PDT

Porcelain and cloth dolls, fluffy and furry teddy bears, fantasy fairies and elves - the fanciful and realistic were all at the Newcastle Charity Doll Show on Saturday. While the competition...

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Samples, Sushi and a Socksillie

noreply@blogger.com (Wilma) — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 15:27:06 PDT

The title ( samples, sushi and a socksillie) is a summary of my creative activity this week. I have been trying to work up some samples for my felt workshop early next year. I am really enjoying...

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Midsummer Night's Dream Dolls

noreply@blogger.com (Wilma) — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 03:01:48 PDT

The Gumnutters' Doll Group celebrates its birthday each August with the annual "unbagging" of the "doll in a bag" round robin . This year's theme was "A Midsummer Night's Dream." This is the way it...

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Congratulations - a Winner

noreply@blogger.com (Wilma) — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 07:08:37 PDT

Congratulations Del, from DELiciousDesignz whose name was drawn from my polymer clay covered gourd - just the perfect container for such an occasion. My husband Jim was very happy to do the honours....

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Happy Birthday Giveaway

noreply@blogger.com (Wilma) — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 07:20:57 PDT

I have had such a great birthday that I want to share such a happy day with you. I am giving away from this blog one of my handfelted brooches/pins. One just like those pictured here or in my etsy...

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Featured Artist : Transient Tracy

noreply@blogger.com (Wilma) — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 20:03:22 PDT

Featuring Transient Tracy -Tracy has gone fishing up in the Northern Territory, but before she left she gave a great demonstration of her polymer clay sculpting techniques. Tracy loves to create...

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New Tastes

noreply@blogger.com (Wilma) — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 06:36:36 PDT

Ever wonder what to say when someone asks what is your national food? Is it a meat pie? pavlova? BBQ? Vegemite? We settled for a lamington , so as not to assault the taste buds too much too soon...

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Buttons and Felt

noreply@blogger.com (Wilma) — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:33:33 PDT

Not sure where the last week went? I seem have less and less time .... so the blog has suffered this week. Here are a few button and felt brooches I've made this week. Perhaps I'm just feeling old...

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Bilums, buttons and broken bones

noreply@blogger.com (Wilma) — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 06:21:31 PDT

Why bilums, buttons and broken bones? They were certainly contributors to a very hectic week for me last week. I finally got around to doing the washing from our trip to Papua New Guinea, and the...

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Home from Papua New Guinea

noreply@blogger.com (Wilma) — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:15:56 PDT

Home Sweet Home .... we had another wonderful and amazing PNG adventure ( not without incident - see later ) . Here's a summary.... The first week was spent preparing and attending the wedding of a...

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Papua New Guinea Adventure

noreply@blogger.com (Wilma) — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 01:06:17 PDT

Today, I am very excited about our trip to the Eastern and Western Highlands of Papua New Guinea . We leave very early on Monday morning, and need to have our bags packed in our friend's car tomorrow...

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Creative Workshops

noreply@blogger.com (Wilma) — Sun, 31 May 2009 05:32:10 PDT

What a wonderful workshop by renowned Dollmaker, Barbara Willis, this weekend at Anne's Glory Box here in Newcastle! Barbara's new book, Cloth Doll Artistry, is full of beautiful and inspiring photos...

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A Week of Wool and Winners

noreply@blogger.com (Wilma) — Tue, 26 May 2009 07:38:38 PDT

We have had a few days of cold, wet and wintry weather, so it seemed just right last week to create with wool. I have been making little free form pieces which I hope to transform into some of my...

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Whose Shoes?

noreply@blogger.com (Wilma) — Mon, 18 May 2009 18:34:25 PDT

Last Friday night, I made a pair of shoes ... we had a "fairy shoes" day at Hello Dollies on Saturday. There is a fantastic article in Stitch Magazine, no 50, Dec 2007-Jan 2008 entitled "Fairy...

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