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I really enjoy making things with my hands. Taking different materials and morphing them into three demensional objects simply facinates me. At the same time, I don’t have a lot of patience so I tend to choose crafts that can be done in a matter of hours or days–as opposed to weeks or months. I particularly like sewing crafts, but will periodically create using other tools, materials or methods.

This page is a way for me to share–and reach out to other crafters. I hope you will find it useful.

Interesting Opportunity

My sister, Jodie, has been given the opportunity to display some of her exquisit quilts at a Casino near her home in Michigan. She was also told that the Casino may be interested in items for their gift shop so I made these four sample bears to see if there is any interest in hand-made real fur bears. Since the Casino is on reservation property, I used a Native American theme in their costuming.

These are all 14" bears made from a mix of mink and muskrat.

All it's Quacked Up To Be

I like to try and support the good works of United Rehabilitation Services of Greater Dayton. They work with people who have disabilities and provide valuable services to clients and their families here in my home town.

Each spring, they have a Duck Regatta as a fund raiser. People sponsor rubber ducks that are dropped up stream from downtown and they float down the river to a finish line. The sponsors of the first ducks to cross the finish line receive prizes. It is fun and helps bring in funds to pay for some of the programming URS offers.

This year, they have asked local artists to donate works to their silent auction and I was asked if I would come up with something to donate. I decided to do two contributions.

The first one I call "Trading Places". I created a standard bear and then created a duck costume for him. It only made sense to then make a bear costume for a rubber duck for him to hold..

The second one is called "Duckvisors". I used purple because the URS logo is purple. It also gave me a chance to experiment with a new bear pattern.

I don't know if either of these contributions will bring much in for the charity, but I had a lot of fun coming up with them anyway.

Ruth's Dragons

My niece likes to write and she publishes some of her writing at Fictionpress.com. One of the projects she has going is a series of 52 poems (each 52 words long) about dragons. It is a cute series and inspired me to try and create a couple of her dragons.

Banana by Ruth Park:

"In the jungle there lived a bright yellow dragon with brown spots. He called himself Banana and hung around with a wild boar and one crazy jaguar. The three of them could often be found experimenting with the many hallucinogens one finds in the jungle. That is, until the cottage cheese incident."

Dragon Death Fang

Death Fang by Ruth Park

"He was the most feared dragon in all the land, but with a name like Death Fang it was kind of expected. He was huge with glossy black scales and a glare that could melt steel. You can imagine the surprise when they found him wearing a pink feather boa and lipstick."

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