I love recycling!!

At last my first paper mache dol is finished...and I'm pretty chuffed about her! She is totally made from recycled material. The news print is already made from recycled paper the flower was something I crocheted a few years ago and found in my wool stash. The wood is old fire wood and little scraps of cotton was used to sew the arms on.

The plasticine used to make the form gets recycled to once its been cut out of the paper mache cast. Fun, fun to make, I'm going to make some more after market day...YIKES it's next weekend......sew much sewing going on...and some painting...better dash...lucky it's day light saving here and it doesn't get dark till 9, my brain is tricked into believing there are more hours in the day!

New things on my table

 4 little plasticine bodies and two paint tube heads!

I've been wanting to try paper mache for a while now but finding the time and space was difficult. When my ADO group decided that this months challenge was to make a doll from materials you are unfamiliar with I thought right this is just the push I need to make time, clear the table and start my experiment with paper mache. I think the last time I paper mached properly was as at primary school.Fortunately what I learned there all those years ago had not been forgotten!

The paint tube dolls was an idea i saw in an old copy of Cloth Paper Scissors..and if you know you would know that I find it very hard to throw anything out as everything has so much possibility to be re-cycled!

A close up of one of the plasticine bodies

paper mache over the plasticine figures

 close up to paper mache face. I was lucky to have a catalog from my favourite shop Lush to use for the paper mach...lots of nice colours, I'm going to try and maintain as much of the news print as possible. They are a bit more advanced as of last night. I cut them in half to remove the plasticine and I'm in the process of adding the final paper mache and attaching the limbs.

 Now these dolls are a little something special I bought the pattern from my friend Little Dirt Lane...I needed some cute therapy, lets just say I've been to the dentist way to many times this year...I needed to take my mind off the yuckiness of it all and making these little dolls was just perfect. Jess has kindly let me sell them too and if you are at the Eastside Makers Market on the 5th December you will see these little girls decorating my whimsical Xmas tree!