| | One amazing clay tutorial for doll making, I sure wish it was a PDF file!:
http://www.emilysfairies.com/hints/EF_Tutorial.swf
Also very cool if you are into trying dolls a new way:
http://www2d.biglobe.ne.jp/~dhnoah/make_00.htm
Great tutorial on making a wire armature:
http://themagicbean.typepad.com/the_magic_bean/files/wire_armature_tutorial.pdf
Great tutorial on doing sashiko:
http://www.purlbee.com/sashiko-tutorial/
If you need new artsy software to play with, and who doesn't? ArtRage is one of my favorites and they have a new free version out:
http://www.download.com/ArtRage/3000-2191_4-10309276.html?part=rb-watchlist&tag=watchmail_sc_name
Busy, busy week... hoping things slow down next week.
Because my oldest daughter Ramie has MS my grandson Keegan announced he wants to do the April 12th MS Walk For A Cure here in Portland on behalf of his aunt, and he would not take no for an answer, even passed on having his own birthday party in order to do the walk, so I have been fund raising for him and his mom (my youngest daughter, Karina) since she is doing it with him. They decided to try to raise $500 a piece, Keegan has almost gathered $500 worth of sponsors thanks largely to quilters all over the world, he seems to have stolen all the donations away from his mommy and she is feeling a tad sad about how little she has raised so far. WE have until next friday to get their sponsors signed up online, so if anyone chancing onto my blog wants to sponsor her, (it all goes to the same place she simply is just not as charming as Keegan is)... her donation page is here:
http://main.nationalmssociety.org/site/TR?px=4652035&pg=personal&fr_id=8131
I cannot say enough good things about the National MS Society, without their help Ramie would not be seeing doctors or be medicated. Seems people with MS are not insurable... without the MS folks she would be facing MS untreated since one neuro exam alone is over $300.... her pain meds are another $400+ a month and the Copaxone she is on runs $1800 a month if we had to pay for it. Don't even get me started on the cost of MRIs.
This is one nonprofit that does what they say they will do, and they need your support, so do thousands of uninsured people with MS like my daughter. It's a good cause and tax deductible. Minimum pledge is $5, you set the amount you want to give when you sponsor them in the walk as a one time donation. If you cannot donate yourself, please share the link with friends who might be able to, Keegan got this inspiration late in the game and it has limited the time we had to dig up sponsors compared to the amount of time the other walkers had.
Anyway, that's what I have been up to.... working tonight and tomorrow and then I get 2 whole days off! Might even get some art done...
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