Art&craft by Tanja

Beauty

2009-05-20T08:42:00.000-07:00

Updated Etsy shop

2008-10-24T04:03:00.000-07:00

Long time no see,right?
You know how it goes,life happens...
Well,I was busy bee lately,and made some felted things to upload to my Etsy shop.You can go and see for your self at http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5275084
I find some useful tips for Etsy,and I'm trying to follow them,so I'm uploading only one thing a day.That way I'm supposed to have more traffic in my shop.We'll se how it works.

How to use watercolor pencils part 2

2008-07-13T01:51:00.000-07:00

More food

2008-06-30T15:21:00.001-07:00

Yesterday we were at The Museum of African Art (there was bazaar in the backyard) ,and guess what,we tried few of their national dishes.
This in the picture is Egyptian meal,don't know the name,but it was OK.
We tried everything,and it was interesting experience for me.
I even asked for the recipes but nobody couldn't help me with it.
So first sushi the other day than this African everything yesterday....great,I only need to visit these places and the impression will be compete.

Here we are eating under the tree.

Sushi

2008-06-30T15:10:00.000-07:00

Sooo,I made a sushi other day,and we eat it.
I tried sushi last summer at a restaurant,and it tasted interesting,so I thought that I could of try to make it my self.I only needed to find ingredients for it.
Few days ago ,Marko and I visited new supermarket and I was so happy when I saw that they have Nori algae and fresh salmon.
So I bought it,did a little research on the Internet,and here are the results.

I wanted to make tempura too but my sister Maja offered to help me so I only gave her instructions and she made tempura,so we had a dinner together.

It was delicious.

My first reborn doll

2008-06-13T11:16:00.001-07:00

Last time when I was at the flea market,I bought naked vinyl baby boy doll.I'm impressed with all pictures and websites about reborning.This is one of activities that don't exist in here,so I had to try it.
It was a little complicated for me because of supplies (you need special paint for this,glass eyes and other things),but I did it my way (as I usualy did).I used acrylic paint,and left original eyes inside.For rooting hair I used black wool row that someone send me long time ago.
Rooting is done with felting needles like felting-stabing wool in the head(poor baby).

All baby's body is painted.First layer was draving the veins,than texturing the skin,and finaly adding ten color and blushing.I find few tutorials on Youtube, that were realy useful for me.

PS; I broked 3 of my precious felting needles while rooting the hair,but there was no way back when I started doing this.
My boy has no lashes,I had no baby lashes to add to him and thought that regular fake eye lashes were to big for him.

His name is Vuk (wolf),because if I had son his name would be Vuk but I have two girls so...

Another bag

2008-06-13T10:51:00.000-07:00

Few months ago when I joined a bag making group on yahoo,I met a lady-Phyllis Jackson- who was so kind to send me ful box of interesting bag patterns,Thank you Phyllis.
By now I managed to make only this one bag.
It's silk bag from the shirt that I bought on the flea market long ago.

How to Paint With Acrylics

2008-06-07T10:38:00.001-07:00

Here is one about acrylics.
I'm experimenting with diffeent kind of colors,and paints.

How To Stretch Watercolor Paper

2008-06-07T10:29:00.000-07:00

How to Use Watercolour Pencils - Part 1

2008-06-07T10:09:00.000-07:00

I'msubscribed to newsletter from "how to draw and paint".
Here is a video from their website.Hope that it will be usefull to somebody.

Mixed Media With Suzi Blu: Altered Board Book

2008-06-07T08:44:00.001-07:00

Look how she altered this board book.

New bags

2008-05-04T09:09:00.000-07:00

Remember when I made dimensional embroidered fabric from this book?Well I finally made something of it.Easies for me was to make simple bag.The strap is not good but will replace it ASAP.

I'm sawing lot of kids clothes,because they looked so cute in them,so I saved this Tamara's denim dress.The fabric was so beautiful that I had to make something of it.
Well, I made a bag.

It is large enough so they can use it for school if they like.

Here how it looks inside.

Here is another recycling bag.
We replaced curtains in bedroom,and this was leftover fabric.
I like this color so couldn't resist my self of making bag of it.

I like to go to the flea market,but you already know that.Bought this skirt(for less than 1$) only because I liked the fabric,well segments of it.

Few days ago I find some time and riped the skirt off.Can you imagine that I made a bag?
Find some sort of instructions on this blog: http://craftside.typepad.com/craftside/2008/03/jean-therapy-it.html
Here are the results.

This is the back side.

Of course I had to make another one,this small is from my aunt's old shirt.

It is so cute and unusual shape.

Easter rabit

2008-05-04T09:05:00.001-07:00

On April 27th there was Easter in my country.
I made this bunny for my friend's granddaughter.
Pattern is free from "kill me I can't remember" what blog.

Fairy costume

2008-05-04T08:55:00.001-07:00

Few weeks ago we went to visit some relatives.I decided to make fairy costume for their daughter.
Here is how it turns out.
I used some sheer fabric for the skirt,embellished it with ribbons and flowers,made wings with coper wire,and a wand wind free form embroidered star on top.
For the top I used t shirt and only added sleeves from same fabric as skirt.
Little girl (Milica) was so happy,I changed her in her new costume and she stayed like that all evening,trying to cast some spells on us.
She has big blue eyes so I made costume blue.

Few pictures of my family

2008-05-04T08:36:00.001-07:00

I was browsing my computer and find few pictures I thought are cute, so here is for you to see.
My family last summer on Beer fest.
(Who said kids can't come?)

Here is me playing with bubbles,they looked beautiful so I had to upload this.PS. of course the phone on my shoulder.

Marko is The Love Of My Life.

My Ivana (in white) before her prom.

This exotic dancer is Tamara,she likes to change clothes,dance and pretend she's somebody else.

Portrait in fabric

2008-05-04T08:30:00.001-07:00

I saw a book by Deidre Scherer-Work in fabric & thread....
What can I say ...I was so thrilled that I dare to try something like that..
Here is my attempt..
Tamara's portrait altered in PS and transfered to fabric.
I haven't finished it because in all my fabric stash I can't find right fabric for her hair.
Hope to finish it soon.

Ikon painting

2008-05-04T07:17:00.001-07:00

This is St. Kirjak
I have painted this for my husband's relative.
St Kirjak is patron saint of his family.It is celebrated October 12th.
In our country every family has its own patron saint .
Father of the house celebrate this day as long as he is possible,after that his (usually) older son goes on celebrating it and so on...

Here is St.Nikola ikon,that I painted for my best friend.

My father's patron was St. Petka,celebrated in October 27th.(protector of the women),and as my father has no son,when he passed away my uncle (as younger brother) ,started celebrating it,and after him his son will.
It is nice tradition,whole family, relatives and neighbors comes and celebrate (you know with food drinking,etc).
Host prepare all nice foods and drinks for this day.(You can see the picture that I made on my uncle's celebration last time).
Some people are preparing all year for this day,and there are different customs (depends on what part of country you live in).
Here is St.Petka that I have painted long time ago (it was second ikon I made,first was for my uncle).

Painting

2008-05-04T07:01:00.000-07:00

My sister Maja bought me acrylic paints for my B Day in January,so I decided to use them finally.
Bought few ugly pictures in Dollar shop (only because they were painted on canvas frames),somehow scraped and whipped original paintings and painted them with gesso.
Than I painted my pictures on them,and here are results.
In some of them you can see Suzi Blue influence but that is because I like how she paint.

I like Frida so I have made these two in honor of Frida.

This one is my daughter Ivana's portrait.
She has this golden shine in her hair.

Good night,I will collect stars while you are a sleap.

Wana be Blue Fish

2008-05-04T06:55:00.001-07:00

As I previously said I like Blue Fish designs,and I saw dress that I like,so Decided to make one like that.
My friend was pleased to pose for me in my new dress.
It is not looking that good at the picture,but I love it.
I also made wide legs pants (dark red) to wear under it.
Once I will ask Ivana to take picture of me wearing it together.

Long time no post

2008-05-03T14:54:00.001-07:00

Once upon a time I have posted something to my blog,and than there was a silence...

I had winter blues I think,cause I didn't feel like doing anything...well,not any anything,but not as much as I'm used to.

I have taken pictures of the things I have made since than and will upload them ASAP.

New hand carved stamps,and handmade envelopes

2008-01-30T09:42:00.000-08:00

As I started carving stamp for my new skirt,I decided to carve few of them (I already made a mess soo...).
I tried few simple designs and here is how they turned out.
I will use them for backgrounds in some paper projects or for stamping on clothes as I did on the skirt.
I also have made these envelopes of old maps and music sheets,and will upload them to my Etsy store.It was fun to make them.

I'm always busy

2008-01-30T09:21:00.000-08:00

It looks like I'm always busy,don't know what exactly takes my time but I always have something to do,to finish,somewhere to go and it takes me away of my art ,and posting to here,beside of all it is time consuming for me to translate everything what I want to write.
Sometimes I want to show you something and take pictures but than no time for writing and uploading pictures etc.All the time somebody is asking me for something or expected me to do something...or I'm a little disorganized.
Last few days I was sick,well I catch a cold,and it is awful,but I'm better now.
Few days ago I find great website with clothing collection-Blue Fish,(link is in side bar)and signed up for their newsletter.As you know I can't order anything from there but there is no reason not to try to sew something like their clothes,so I did.
I fell in love in one of their skirts ,and as it is really easy to sew it I did it.
My fabric was simple red shire fabric,and I wanted it to be with some print,so I made rubber stamp (used eraser that my kids use for school),mixed golden tempera with my acrylic medium (for walls),and stamped ontop of finished skirt (before inserting the elastic waist).
I love how it looks.Than I needed pants that I can wear under this skirt,so I sew one too,used some old Burda pattern,altered it and it turns out OK too.

Now I plan to try to sew the jacket from this collection (well to looks similar to this jacket but this is big step for me),I have newer sew any jacket before,at least I bought cheap fabric and if something goes wrong it will not going to be terrible lost.And of course will show it as soon as I finish it.

Package from Jurate

2008-01-23T13:29:00.000-08:00

Last two days were really interesting s for me.
First I find invitation in my mailbox to go in the post office to pick up a package from Lithuania. Few days before Jurate told me that she have send me the package but that it will take 2-3 weeks to arrive, so I was really surprised.
Than when I went to the post office they told me they have returned it to other post office. So can you imagine me, going to this other post office to find out that I can’t pick it up today and to come tomorrow in the first post office where I was before because they have already prepared it for sending there. So I finally went home and waited till tomorrow. Than in the morning went to this first post office and picked up my parcel.
All that was irrelevant when I finally came home and opened the package. All this popped out from small box. (Have no idea how she managed to put it all inside).
Last summer when she was here, we were talking about supplies, and I told her that we have no wool for felting here, well not that good quality wool and in different colors, so she said that she will send some, and so she did. She also included few interesting yarns, beads, beading needles, invisible thread, and lovely fabric with piano cats.
I consider it as late b-day present.

Lotus challenge prize

2008-01-23T13:21:00.000-08:00

Our postman ring the bell on my door today and he does that only when he have something interesting to give me. Guess what - I have received a parcel from Patti Culea. Actually this is a prize for my Lotus doll in Lotus challenge on Doll Street, for best use of color.
Patti was the sponsor in this challenge and a price is as you can see her book (signed of course) and fabric and this silk tops if I’m right.(newer saw something like this before).I could chose which one of her books I want, and I thought that her first book would be great, because I already have her second book (Di Evdokimoff send it to me long time ago, BTW it was my very first book on doll making).
I’m waiting for this parcel for a long time (all other winners received their prizes long ago), and thought that she has forgot me, but I was wrong, and I’m glad that I was wrong.
Book is great, and I enjoy reading it and looking at all beautiful dolls inside.
Thank you Patti.

More snow pictures

2008-01-02T04:25:00.000-08:00

Here are more snow pictures,for all of you who don't have any snow.
It is snowing in here for two days,so New Year is white ,shiny and clean for now.

Here are my legs in deep snow.It is just under my knees.

Look at my "neighbourhood".Notice the difference,it all looks clean when snow covers all junk they have collected.

Here is a picture of my house covered with snow.It looks better when everything is green.

Recipe for the mushroom/egg/cheese dish

2008-01-02T01:58:00.000-08:00

Judi asked me to share the recipe for this mushroom,egg,cheese dish,and here it is.
You will need 3-5 boiled eggs,500g mushrooms,300g grated hard cheese (edamer or something like this),milk ,flour,oil,seasoning,sour cream 3 dl (10 oz),and 2 eggs.
Cut eggs in slices and lay on the bottom of oiled heat resist glass pot.
Grate 150 g cheese on top of it.
In other pot make Béchamel sauce with milk and flour,and add mushrooms (cut them in slices before),boil for few minutes.Add salt pepper,oregano ,basil or whatever seasoning you prefer.
Pour on top of grated cheese.
Than grate another 150 g cheese on top of this,and finally stir 2 eggs with sour cream,and pour it on top of cheese.
Bake for 45 min. on 175 C- middle temperature (not sure how much it is in F).
You can eat it warm or cold.
Hope that you'll like it.
Enjoy.

Holiday preparations

2007-12-30T12:06:00.000-08:00

Today I spend all day in the kitchen,and girls decorated the tree and windows.
I'm so tired of cooking and baking and making cookies for holidays.I have no time for anything else creative.
Well cooking is kinda creative but it is also boring sometimes (like now).
I made 7 different kind of cookies(not all of them today),I had to make lot of cookies because girls are going on New Year party with their friends and everybody have to bring something-so they are bringing cookies.

I definitely will not going to cook for few days after this because I made SARMA-our national meal,and I made A LOT of it (I can feed small village somewhere in Africa with all the food I made).

Marko (my DH) will bring roast pork from his job (he's a butcher),and I'm going to make a delicious side dish with mushrooms,eggs and hard cheese.There will be also a salad that we call Russian salad-with cooked vegetables chicken,eggs and mayo,and also sour cabbage salad.

Also have to make a birthday cake for Tamara (on January 2nd).
My B-day is just after hers on January 3rd,but no cake I hope that there will be enough cookies.
Yes we are having company for New Year party.
My sister Maja,her boyfriend,his sister and nice,my husband's brother with his wife and my sister's friend,with me and Marko it is 9 persons.
Hope that it will be fun.
P.S. Maja is preparing more food to bring for dinner.
If I survive all this food -will write in next few days.
Happy New Year to everybody.

Merry Christmas to all

2007-12-24T12:20:00.000-08:00

I'm not celebrating this Christmas,but to all of you who do I wish very Merry Christmas and happy New Year.

My house and the neighborhood

2007-12-20T07:59:00.000-08:00

This first picture was taken from my bedroom window,it's first snow this season.

Someone once asked me how my neighborhood looks like,and I promised to send the pictures.
Here it is-my house and neighborhoods across the street in the valley (my house is on the hill).

Of course there is lot of regular looking houses near me.

Altered suitcase

2007-12-19T04:12:00.000-08:00

I have finished this old suitcase,you know I posted pictures how it looked before.

Well after all things that I did to HIM,here is how it looks now.

more art

2007-12-19T04:04:00.000-08:00

So I said that I will upload few more "art pieces",and here they are.
I will cut them out and collage them on journal pages or made them into cards or paper dolls or...or...
I'm still learning...

Mama made me a new dress

2007-12-19T03:21:00.000-08:00

Well all young ladies need a dress so I made one for Milica.I saw something like this on some website about dog's clothes.
I also made her a collar and the leash,but she still refuses to wear it.
So I was doing something...
Now I want to make her a jacket because it is cold in here.

Art journal

2007-12-18T11:50:00.000-08:00

I was surfing the net in last few days and find lot
of interesting websites and albums with beautiful
journal pages.

I had to try doing this and here are my results.
I have also find few You tube movies with different instructions for making journals (links are added in “you tube favorites” on the bottom right).
I can’t buy moleskine in here so I decided to make one but this is still in progress so I will upload the pictures when it is done.
In the meantime I’m drawing in regular journal.

Our new baby - Milica

2007-12-18T11:35:00.000-08:00

Here is our new baby.
Her name is Milica,and she is our new toy.
She likes to cuddle and sleep.
I have to be careful when I walk because she is always somewhere around me.
Can you beleive that she sleeps like this?

Here she sleeps on Ivana's slippers.

First night she was sleeping in the box.

Look how smol she is.

I'm back

2007-12-18T11:34:00.001-08:00

OK I haven’t posted for a while but I have a reason for this.
Well first I was sick than after 3 weeks doctors find out what is the matter with me and I started taking pills.Now I’m OK-well almost.
Second thing is that we have a new family member –baby kooker spaniel girl who goes all around the house doing you know what and I’m going after her cleaning you know what. She still can’t make it on the newspaper (she did it somewhere in this area).

joke

2007-12-18T07:58:00.000-08:00

Hangover
Jack wakes up with a huge hangover after attending his company's Christmas Party. Jack is not normally a drinker, but the drinks didn't taste like alcohol at all. He didn't even remember how he got home from the party. He wondered if he did something wrong.
Jack had to force himself to open his eyes, and the first thing he sees is a couple of aspirins next to a glass of water on the side table.
And, next to them, a single red rose! Jack sits up and sees his clothing in front of him, all clean and pressed. He looks around the room and sees that it is in perfect order, spotlessly clean. So is the rest of the house.

He takes the aspirins, cringes when he sees a huge black eye staring back at him in the bathroom mirror. Then he notices a note hanging on the corner of the mirror written in red with little hearts on it and a kiss mark from his wife in lipstick: 'Honey, breakfast is on the stove, I left early to get groceries to make you your favorite dinner tonight. I love you, darling! Love, Jillian'
> He stumbles to the kitchen and sure enough, there is hot breakfast, steaming hot coffee and the morning newspaper. His son is also at the table eating.
Jack asks, 'Son, what happened last night?'
'Well, you came home after 3 A.M., drunk. You fell over the coffee table and broke it, and then got ill in the hallway, and got that black eye when you ran into the door.'

Confused, he asked his son, 'So, why is everything in such perfect order and so clean? I have a rose, and breakfast is on the table waiting for me??'
> His son replies, 'Oh THAT! ... Mum dragged you to the bedroom, and when she tried to take your pants off, you screamed, 'Leave me alone, I'm married!!'
Broken Coffee Table $239.99
Hot Breakfast $4.20
Two Aspirins $.38
Saying the right thing, at the right time . . . PRICELESS

My Etsy Shop

2007-10-12T07:48:00.001-07:00

Finally I find a way to make my online shop.
My old friend Lydia, from Germany, was here for about two weeks, and made me Pay pall account and helped me to make Etsy account.
I have uploaded my patterns in PDF files for now, but will not stay only on this.
As soon as I figure out about shipping taxes I will add few more things.
For me this is great for the start, just to see someone buying something…
A link to my new shop is:http://tamaraiivana.etsy.com/
You are very welcome to visit.

Recycled jeans

2007-10-12T07:01:00.000-07:00

I like to recycle everything that is possible.
Not that I’m cheapstick but I’m sorry to throw away something that can be used in another way.
For my dolls I recycle old clothes, and it works fine.
Sometimes I recycle clothes into bags or book covers, wallets etc.
Recently I find old jeans (overalls) that were damaged with wall paint, so decide to do something with them.
On some website (can’t remember the name) I saw that group of ladies made bags of old jeans with lot of embroidery on them. I liked this project, and will try to do something like this. For the start I cut off top part, and will recycle this part into embroidered bag, but not just now. First to decide what kind of embroidery stitches to put on it, but I have already made shopping bag from legs.
It’s large and comfy. Great when I go shopping by bicycle.I have added a raggy flower, so it looks cute.

Bobbin Embroidery

2007-10-12T06:46:00.000-07:00

Not so long ago, on one of my groups, somebody mentioned that you could insert unusual thread in the bobbin and make interesting drawings on fabric.
It sounded interesting to me and I tried it. Find some golden and metallic thread, and started playing with it.
The result is not that bad –don’t you think so?

Gallery

2007-10-12T06:08:00.000-07:00

All my dolls from the gallery are at home. The owner decided to close the gallery and to do something else in there. OK, now my house is full of dolls and felted jewelry.
People in here are not that interested in crafts and doll making, so I haven’t made much profit of selling.

The clown is Alley Oops- pattern by Suzette Rugolo, from a magazine. And here are few felted rings and necklace.
My big giant doll is sitting in the corner of a dining room now, my kids made her few phyrsings- peer sings- or however you spell that, on her eyebrow, under and above the lips, and in the nose.Angel hair is pattern by Magic Threads.

Three-dimensional embroidery

2007-10-12T05:26:00.000-07:00

You know that I had a class at Dollstreet few months ago, well I earned some money than and decided to buy few books. It really was hard for me to decide what to buy because I’m interested in so many things and have limited amount of money. I have made a wish list but it was so long that I needed 10 times more than what I had. Well I started to cut down and finally managed to fit my wish list into my money supply.
One of the books was “Three Dimensional Embroidery” by Janet Edmonds.
I was amazed with cover picture, and find few inside pages on the web with also great pictures. My expectations was to find detailed instructions for all beautiful things inside,. …Well I was not totally disappointed, but it was not near what I expected.
There is few words about every picture, and general explanation but nothing to point you how to make something specific from the book.
I have to improvise and guess what I need to do. Well, never mind, here is what I made.
I wanted to make fabric for the bag –to look like texture from the cover picture from the book (It is vessel on the picture in the book).

Findings from the flea market

2007-10-12T04:59:00.000-07:00

One of my flea market findings is this old leather make up suitcase It was, as you can see, old and broken but I thought that it could be repaired and altered, so I ripped off all old fabric and started making new interfacing.

It takes me lot of time because everything has to be glued (and glue has to dry overnight), but eventually it will be done.
Here is how it looks at the moment.
I’m planning to make a collage on the outside of it but haven’t decided if it’s going to be paper or fabric collage.
However you’ll see it finished in few days (I hope so).

Flea market

2007-10-01T15:27:00.000-07:00

The other day I was at the flea market looking for something.

I never know what this something is exactly but I always find something interesting.

Usually I buy interesting fabric clothes that I can use for dolls, but sometimes I find other interesting things like old books, photos, toys that needs to be rescued, jewelry, charms, beads etc.

I took few pictures cause I thought that would be interesting for you to see how our flea market looks like.
As you can see there is lot of junk but you can always find few pieces of real “treasure”.

This time I bought some synthetic fur (for bears) and one cream mohair kind of coat (also for bears), one blonde wig ,and huge pile of blank post card size papers (maybe I will try to make some PC’s).

Fair in Backi Petrovac

2007-09-24T12:26:00.000-07:00

In August there was a fair of Slovak customs in Backi Petrovac.There is lot of Slovak people in this part of Serbia.
The lady from the "Etno art" gallery who "sells" my dolls was invited and she asked me to come with her.We were representing our town.Few of her friends came too, to help us to set our table.
It was first time for me to attend something like this,and I was really excited.
Here is how our table looked like.

They organized beauty contest. All the girls were in their national costumes and they looked unusual for me.
Their costumes are so shiny, lot of silver and gold sequins and different color embroidery. They wear to ten underskirts (one of them allowed me to look under her skirt) with lot of starch on them so they look like plastic.

I looked under her skirt.

I want to be a beauty too....

There was lot of crotchet things and embroidery on other tables,but this one was interesting.These are carved eggs,real eggs.

Under one of the tents some fisher mans were preparing fish soup,(delicious).And of course there were musicians (so I tried to ply the violin).

One of interesting tables.

I haven't sell any dolls (lot of people were looking and asking questions about them) but I had great time.

portrait

2007-09-24T10:06:00.000-07:00

Few months ago I made this portrait for my best friend.

I used PS to transform her photo,and here is how it turns out when I sew it.

Lotus challenge

2007-09-23T12:27:00.001-07:00

Winners for the Lotus Challenge were announced few days ago on Doll street.
I'm sure that it was really hard to decide about the winners,cause all dolls were great.
My doll won the price for the best use of color.
Patti Medaris Culea was the sponsor of this challenge.
She offered great prices (books and fabrics etc.) for the winners and Molly (owner of the DS) offered 100$ in cash.
My prize is Patti's book (signed) and fabric selection.(75$ worth)
Patti was so kind and contacted me asking which one of her books I want.I already have her second book-"Creative Cloth Doll Faces",(thanks to Diane Evdokimoff who have sent me this book about a year ago),and thought that it would be good to have her first book "Creative Cloth Doll Making".
All Patti's books are great,but I think that this first one is a base for all other books.(I will see am I right about that when I receive it).
When Jurate was here,she have looked at all my dolls and finally she said that most attractive for her is doll made from Patti's book.Well now this doll lives in Lithuania.

I have ADSL connection

2007-09-23T11:17:00.000-07:00

Great news,for me,few days ago I've got ADSL connection.
So guess what I was doing since that day?!
I was so amazed how pages loads fast ,I even watched few video tutorials.
My previous connection was about 35-40 Kbp and now is 500Kbp it is 10 times faster.
I feel sorry for my self for spending so much time infront of the computer waiting for page or picture to load,and when I think of all things that I wanted to see and wasn't able.
Well ,this is behind me,and now I feel happy.
Internet - here I come!

New joke

2007-09-12T12:28:00.000-07:00

I have a friend who sends me jokes all the time,so here is another one.....well few of them.

The following statements are from a book called "Disorder in the American Courts", and are things people actually said in court, word for word, taken down and now published by court reporters who had the torment of staying calm while these exchanges were actually taking place
ATTORNEY: Are you sexually active?
WITNESS: No, I just lie there ___________________________________________________________________
ATTORNEY: What gear were you in at the moment of the impact?
WITNESS: Gucci sweats and Reeboks.

ATTORNEY: This myasthenia gravis, does it affect your memory at all?
WITNESS: Yes.
ATTORNEY: And in what ways does it affect your memory?
WITNESS: I forget.
ATTORNEY: You forget? Can you give us an example of something you forgot?
ATTORNEY: What was the first thing your husband said to you that morning?
WITNESS: He said, "Where am I, Cathy?"
ATTORNEY: And why did that upset you?
WITNESS: My name is Susan!

ATTORNEY: Do you know if your daughter has ever been involved in voodoo?
WITNESS: We both do.
ATTORNEY: Voodoo?
WITNESS: We do.
ATTORNEY: You do?
WITNESS: Yes, voodoo.

ATTORNEY: Now doctor isn't it true that when a person dies in his sleep, he doesn't know about it until the next morning?
WITNESS: Did you actually pass the bar exam?

ATTORNEY: The youngest son, the twenty-year-old, how old is he?
WITNESS: Uh, he's twenty.

ATTORNEY: Were you present when your picture was taken?
WITNESS: Are you shitt'in me?

ATTORNEY: So the date of conception of the baby was August 8th?
WITNESS: Yes
ATTORNEY: And what were you doing at that time?
WITNESS: Uh.... I was gett'in laid!

ATTORNEY: She had three children, right?
WITNESS: Yes.
ATTORNEY: How many were boys?
WITNESS: None.
ATTORNEY: Were there any girls?
WITNESS: Are you shitt'in me? Your Honor, I think I need a different attorney. Can I get a new attorney?

ATTORNEY: How was your first marriage terminated?
WITNESS: By death.
ATTORNEY: And by whose death was it terminated?
WITNESS: Now whose death do you suppose terminated it?

ATTORNEY: Can you describe the individual?
WITNESS: He was about medium height and had a beard.
ATTORNEY: Was this a male or a female?
WITNESS: Guess.

ATTORNEY: Is your appearance here this morning pursuant to a
deposition notice which I sent to your attorney?
WITNESS: No, this is how I dress when I go to work.

ATTORNEY: Doctor, how many of your autopsies have you performed on dead people?
WITNESS: All my autopsies are performed on dead people. Would you like to rephrase that?

ATTORNEY: ALL your responses MUST be oral, OK? What school did you go to?
WITNESS: Oral.

ATTORNEY: Do you recall the time that you examined the body?
WITNESS: The autopsy started around 8:30 p.m.
ATTORNEY: And Mr. Denton was dead at the time?
WITNESS: No, he was sitting on the table wondering why I was doing an autopsy on him!

ATTORNEY: Are you qualified to give a urine sample?
WITNESS: Huh....are you qualified to ask that question?
And the best for last:

ATTORNEY: Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse?
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY: Did you check for blood pressure?
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY: Did you check for breathing?
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY: So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you
began the autopsy?
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY: How can you be so sure, Doctor?
WITNESS: Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar.
ATTORNEY: I see, but could the patient have still been alive,
nevertheless?
WITNESS: Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and
practicing law.

Thanks

2007-09-11T16:39:00.000-07:00

I just want to tell you that I appreciate all your visits and comments.

Another Challenge on Dollstreet

2007-09-11T08:33:00.000-07:00

Well I have finished this doll for Lotus Challenge on Dollstreet.
It's shame that only few members joined this challenge.
I find it very inspiring.

No need to tell that this is my own design...

More pictures

2007-09-09T16:26:00.000-07:00

Here are some more pictures of my doll:

"Wait for me,just to put on my other shoe"

New Mayor

2007-09-09T03:32:00.000-07:00

Ok there is a new Mayor on Dollstreet.

It's Mr.Willym Billy Bluster by Nancy Gawron.

Second place on this challenge von Dona Faustina by David Gust.

My "Wait" was third.

Now we need to send pictures of our dolls in different poses,to Molly, what I'm going to do today (I hope so).

If you want to look at other dolls who entered this challenge go to Dollstreet.

It Works

2007-09-05T14:55:00.000-07:00

WOW now I feel clever it works,now I know how to arange pictures.

Pictures

2007-09-05T14:34:00.000-07:00

After I uploaded last post I find out that you cant click on a picture and vew it resized in another window.It makes me feel stupid cause I already uploaded few pictures before and they were just fine.Now I find out why it hapends,because I draged and moved them around my post,so a lesson learned dont drag and move anything.Just to learn how to arange pictures the way I want them and everything will be fine. I will add a picture just to try something so this picture is not related to anything.

This is Filip my cousin's son

Dolls for Challenge on Doll Street

2007-09-05T07:56:00.000-07:00

As I said in previous post there were few things happening around.
I entered two dolls for Mayor Challenge at Doll Street Dreamers.

First one is life-size doll that I made few weeks ago.She is huge doll,but as it was my first time to create something like that I'm satisfied with how she turns out.

I had problems with dressing her because of her size (all my clothes were small to her) but eventually everything turns out fine.
For the reference here is a picture of my DH with the doll.

Second doll that I entered for this challenge is last minute doll - "Wait for me,- I want to run for a mayor,-just to put on my other shoe"

Somehow silly doll but I wanted her to look like that.I'm thinking of making her into pattern or a class.
Results from this challenge will be on Friday (can't wait),and you can look at other entries here:
http://www.dollstreetdreamers.com/MayorChallenge.htm

Jurate's visit

2007-09-05T07:44:00.000-07:00

Hey these past few days lot of things happened.
Well first thing first,
as she said -Jurate have visited me on Sunday and stayed till next day,when she continued her journey to Greece.
We spend these few hours talking about everything not just dolls.
I took her and Mantas to Kalemegdan-old tower in old part of Belgrade,and for a walk through center of Belgrade.

Here we are :Mantas,Jurate,me and Tamara-my younger daughter.

Jurate and Mantas are simple and kind people.Can you imagine our conversation in English which isn't our native language....well it appears that there are few words that are similar in Serbian and Lithuanian language,so we figured out that we could talk in our native languages,and not to struggle with English.
We laugh a lot and had great time.
Before they left,we agreed that they will visit again on their way home in two weeks.
She looked at my dolls and picked one for her (doll made from Patti's book Creative Cloth Doll Faces),promising to send me one of her dolls (AMF she will make one for me),so who's the lucky girl now?

I pointed her out few places in Serbia that she should visit,and hope that she will be satisfied.

Joke

2007-09-05T03:29:00.000-07:00

Few days ago a friend send me this joke so I thought I could share it with you.It made me laugh.

THE UGLY FROG

An older lady was somewhat lonely and decided she needed a pet to keep
her company. So, off to the pet shop she went. She searched and
searched. None of the pets seemed to catch her interest, except this
ugly frog As she walked by the jar he was in, she looked and he winked
at her.
He whispered, "I'M SO LONELY, TOO. BUY ME AND TAKE ME HOME
YOU WON'T EVER BE SORRY."
The old lady figured, what the heck! She hadn't found anything else. So,
she bought the frog. She placed him in the car, on the front seat beside
her.
As she was slowly driving down the road, the frog whispered to her "KISS
ME AND YOU WON'T BE SORRY."
So! The old lady figured, WHAT THE HECK, and kissed the frog.
IMMEDIATELY the frog turned into an absolutely gorgeous, sexy, young,
handsome prince.
THE PRINCE THEN RETURNED THE OLD LADY'S KISS.
SUDDENLY THE OLD LADY FELT HERSELF TRANSFORMING FROM HIS KISS.

NOW CAN YOU GUESS WHAT THE OLD LADY TURNED INTO?

COME ON GUESS!

OOOOOOOHHHHHHH COME ON -- DONT BE A POOP!
SHE TURNED INTO THE FIRST HOLIDAY INN SHE COULD FIND!!!

She's old....... NOT DEAD !!!!!

Doll Street Classes

2007-08-26T15:56:00.000-07:00

Few days ago,Molly,from DollStreet,asked me if I want to teach my Good Witch Rose class again,and I accepted it ,of course.
It is white witch what means good and kind one.She collects roses that's how she's got her name - by the roses.
This class already was on Doll Street I was satisfied with it.
Now I'm happy to be able to offer it again.The price will be lower than last time because it is second edition,but all information are here http://www.dollstreetdreamers.com/WhiteWitchAD.htm
Class begins September 27.

Something else happened today,Jurate-great dollmaker from Lithuania (http://www.bluebonnetvillage.com/jurate/gallery1.htm), contacted me today,telling me that she will be on the road with her husband in September,and will pass through Serbia,so I invited her to visit me.
It would be great to meet her,BTW it would be a first time for me to meet any doll maker in person.
In my country nobody else makes dolls (other crafty things maybe but I don't know anybody who did).My only connection with the rest of the doll world is my computer (my dear friend).

Let me see if this works

2007-08-24T09:42:00.000-07:00

I'm sending this post via my email just to see if it works.
If it works I will be posting frequently like this,with my internet connection and speed it is the best way.

Again

2007-08-24T05:54:00.000-07:00

Me again,just saw my first post and it looks great,now I know I can deal with this.

Hi

2007-08-24T05:22:00.000-07:00

Hi this is my first post here.

I'm from Serbia and English is not my native language so if my grammar is wrong -this is the reason.

I saw that almost all my friends have blogs so I decided to make one too.

Now just to figure out how it works and everything will be fine.

Here is a picture of my dolls,old and new ones,just to let you know what is this all about.

Updated Etsy shop

2002-01-02T17:47:00.000-08:00

Long time no see,right?

You know how it goes,life happens...

Well,I was busy bee lately,and made some felted things to upload to my Etsy shop.You can go and see for your self at http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5275084

I find some useful tips for Etsy,and I'm trying to follow them,so I'm uploading only one thing a day.That way I'm supposed to have more traffic in my shop.We'll se how it works.

Updated Etsy shop

2002-01-02T02:13:00.000-08:00

Long time no see,right?

You know how it goes,life happens...

Well,I was busy bee lately,and made some felted things to upload to my Etsy shop.You can go and see for your self at http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5275084

I find some useful tips for Etsy,and I'm trying to follow them,so I'm uploading only one thing a day.That way I'm supposed to have more traffic in my shop.We'll se how it works.