Happy Valentine's Day

I thought I'd use my passport photo to wish all of you a Happy Valentine's Day....

no it's not current... only about 61 years old! I was 6 when we emigrated from the UK. We came on the French liner "Liberte". The voyage took a week. Only wine was served with dinner and even watered down I didn't like it!
My Mother woke me early on the morning we sailed into the NY harbor to see the Statue of Liberty. No Ellis Island... but we had lines to go through to get into NYC. Then my first car ride ( promptly carsick...).

A 2012 Herbie

I had a bit of "Spring's" yellow with green backing mohair left... just enough for a Herbie. So here's the first 2012 Herbie !

Spring....

Not hopeful wishing for Spring, but my newest bear. I named her"Spring" because she is daffodil yellow mohair with a leafy green backing. She stands a little over 5 inches tall and is "anime style".
Spring has a black wax over perle cotton thread nose.

She is sniffing a flower made from cold paste clay!


I have posted her on BearPile and will post her on etsy tomorrow.

JimBob.... a Valentine Cowboy with hobby horse

JimBob is 6.5 inches tall....and was made from hand-dyed mohair. I just finished posting him on both BearPile and etsy.com ... and on "artist bears" on Facebook.

I was trying for a more variegated color when dying the mohair... but I am pleased with the color! Hopefully I will be more patient when next playing with the dyes... maybe a two step process with a chance to dry in between?

keeping busy

I have been keeping busy... knitting a hat for Lili, getting my son's house ready to sell, a new bunny, two BIG bears and so on...

Here's the newly painted Master bathroom... he chose "sparrow" for the walls. The countertop is off white, the mirror white and the cabinets below are "sparrow" doors with a charcoal gray face area. We took out the 1960's hanging Spanish-decor lights and replaced them with this in pewter. Everything looks nice and tailored and fresh!

And Lili is her new earflap hat...I'm not really a crocheter so this was good practice for me in reading a pattern and following through! No, I haven't forgotten my grandson. His is next!

The bears are "Sleepy Time Gal" and Brewster and the rabbit is Peony. They are all posted on BearPile

Digby has whiskers

Gunilla thought he'd look "even cuter" with whiskers... so now he has them!

Digby the mouse

Does Digby need whiskers? I hadn't thought to add any until I was uploading him here.
He does have all the comforts of home in his cigar box hide-away... Digby is 4.5 inches tall and is cotter pin/hardboard disc jointed. His lunch, some broccoli, a tomato and a cabbage, were made from polymer resin.