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Originally uploaded by Dancing Crow.

I make dolls too.

It just takes forever to make them, because I like to experiment with fabric techniques and beading and all kinds of other stuff, plus making my own laces for boots and shirts and so forth. They are incredibly time consuming, and then I just stare at them and adore them, and can’t figure out what to do next.

This is the Shaggy Man. His vest is all stitched scraps on the front, he has a good solid belly (a fine figureof a man!), fancy pants with tons of beading, and the world’s greatest boots.

Jan 19
Originally uploaded by Dancing Crow.

I just wanted ribbons.

I also want to not be sick. Little A gave me her scratchy throat and dribbly nose, after giving it to her dad first. Maybe he gave it to me. I generally ascribe to a karmic theory of catching colds – you will or you won’t, it doesn’t matter how hard you wash your hands, or how much you avoid kissing the afflicted. If you are going to get sick, you will. If you’ve had this particular germ already, you won’t. Easy, right?

It only breaks down when I do get sick.

Hah.

Jan 18
Originally uploaded by Dancing Crow.

I made it yesterday, but my mum came out to visit for lunch (great lunch Mom!) and then I crumped at the end of the day instead of getting a chance to post it.

So here is Jan 18th, more wishful thinking than predition or observation. We’ve had a LOT of rain so far this winter, and not much snow. When I think rationally about water buckets NOT freezing in the barn, and the footing staying reasonable, and only mud and water tracked into the house instead of the salt/sand/snow trifecta, it seems like a pretty good deal. But I miss sledding, or more realistically, sending the kids OUT for sledding, and I miss the white light you get in winter, that almost makes up for how short the days are. It could be nice to have one really rip-snorting snow storm, up to the waist, snowed in for two days, etc. and then let it all melt and start the crocuses.

So much for requesting weather, eh?