My friend and mentor, Inez Brasch
I missed posting last week, sorry. A week ago Wednesday I left for Chicago for the Windy City Doll Workshops, which just so happens to be 20 minutes from my sister Kathy in Romeoville, who I met for lunch on Sunday. I went a day early and enjoyed the quiet, room service and someone else making my bed. I hooked up with my new friend, highly talented Gayle Wray, one of the new teachers. Returning teachers were both fabulous: Dawn Schiller and Inez Brash, who doesn't have a web site of her own. There's only so many hours in a day, right?
I took Inez's workshop to make the character Roxie from the movie Chicago, played by Renee Zellweger. Well it was an intense class! Quite often there was complete silence as we layered batting and created muscles, knees, butt cheeks and such. Then we hand sewed these layers in place. Eventually we started gluing but then the "skin" layer came and I chose to hand sew rather than mess up with glue. That meant my doll never got a head, breasts, the wonderful mask face Inez had in our kit and so my doll is not worth photographing yet. I won't be touching her until after the craft show in November as I need to focus all my time on getting the new studio presentable for the craft show and make more stuff. My doll is however very neatly sewn!
I made a calendar spelling out when I work on what for the next few weeks. Today was the first day and I blew it. I went back to bed instead of changing sheets and doing laundry. I was also going to work in the studio while waiting for laundry, but instead I created fliers for the craft show. This afternoon I will help Craig get the stray items in the studio upstairs. there's odd things still there like my desk chair, a work table and the cool containers I have for supplies like paint brushes and such. Again, there's only so many hours in a day. Sigh.
For some reason I cannot control the font size in this blog. There seems to always be a wild section that wants to do it's own thing. I try resetting the font, but keep failing. If anyone can help me out here I would LOVE to hear from you!
The font size changes for me too. One way to fix it is to paint the area that you have just typed...just as if you were going to copy it. Then....Up at the top of the area were you are typing there should be an icon that looks like a small t and and big t. Click on that and choose normal type size. That might work :)
ReplyDeleteI'll see if I can remember that! Thank you. What do you mean "paint the area?
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