This is Cecily Bee; Queen of the Bees.  She's my emblem for my designs and sits watching me in my sewing room while I create.  I came with Cecily Bee from my children's initials Chloe, Emma and Courtney and B is for my beautiful mother, Betsy and apparently 'ily' is I love you ~ teenage shorthand.

Update

Dragonfly Goddess doll is on her way to Geraldine Bride!  

Glimmer the Seahorse
$30 (+ postage)

If there is anything you would like please send me an email to
cecilybeedesigns@hotmail.com
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A new day, a new doll.  

I love those kokeshi and bunka style dolls, and have been wanting to make one for a while.  

This is Kim Ono.  She still isn't finished.

She's finally finished. She was going to be in the kokeshi style but turned out to be more in the bunka style but she doesn't have a bonnet.  She measures about 17 inches by 6 inches.  She has felted hair and mary jane shoes.  Her dress is made from 100% cotton.  I wanted her to wear a kimono didn't work out. Maybe the next one will.

Bunka dolls were a popular Japanese doll between 1920~1960.  They generally have a large head with rectangles for the body legs and arms.  Bunka means culture.  They also wear a bonnet.

I absolutely love, love, love prim dolls.  I thought I would post a picture here of a doll I created for one of my daughter's friends a few years ago.

Her face and legs were hand painted.

She had a black cat that has gone walk about.   As cats tend to do from time to time ;-) .


I thought I'd post her here to give me the inspiration I need to make more.

If you would like to purchase any of these items you can pay via paypal ~

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I found these beautiful holey stones on Woodside beach, the starting point of Ninety Mile Beach in Victoria. 

 

'Aholey stone, also known as a hag stone, which is a stone with a natural (not a human-made) hole through it. Holey stones have long been carried as charms. The holes are considered doorways or portals through which someone can draw or repel energy. For example, the holey stone can bring luck or send away misfortune, bring wealth or banish deprivation, and so on. Many people look at the Moon through the holey stone in order to charge it with lunar power. Many cultures use holey stones for divination. To divine with a holey stone, the holder of the stone peers through the hole to see visions and gain wisdom.

Some fossils, such as the sand dollar, also have natural holes in them and assume the same magical qualities as a holey stone. Sand dollars have special meaning because they are natural pentacles.'  ~ from magic for Dummies