A while ago now onecrazywoman contacted me with the proposition to swap dotee dolls. She is making me a dotee doll with a Texan theme and I am making her a dotee doll with a Scottish theme. I’ve been making this doll on and off now for the past month and finally last night I finished.
This is Morag – she is a traditional highland Scot but a bit kooky at heart which is why she wears a traditional plaid outfit but it’s pink! She her unruly hair – she never brushes it and the wild Scottish winds have whipped it into a bit of a bird’s nest!
She’ll be on her way to join onecrazywoman’s dotee collection in Texas next week.
~ You can also find onecrazywoman as lovetoquilt2 on SwapBot.
Tags: art, craft, dotee, embroidery, felt, gift, handmade, harder than it looks, ornament, sewing
Uncategorized, art, craft, doll, dotee, embroidery, felt, figure, ornament, plushie, scotland, scottish highlands, sewing, swapbot | Jolene | 
23 August, 2009 12:12 pm | 
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This is the last piece carved from wood sourced from the NW Highlands, Scotland, when we were on holiday there earlier in the year. It was good to get something a bit different my usual efforts in Elm and Alder, and whilst I think the Cherry’s nice I think I’d like to do some more in Yew which seemed to have a really nice grain and felt good to work with (see freaky tiki).
Size (H/W/D): 8.25″ / 2.5″ / 3″
Time Taken: c. 8 hours carving + finishing
The Avenger wears a permanent frown borne from years of bravely battling against those who would disturb the peace and tranquillity of the enchanted glen whence he lives … he may well wear a permanent frown but he also wears a mask to hide it. Surely the ultimate fashion accessory for any would-be super-hero.
Most recently the avenger is to be found terrorising some over ambitious and unlicensed lumberjacks who have seen fit to invade his corner of the world, fortunately for his woodland friends The Avenger knows just the trick for disabling chainsaws and is a dab hand when it comes to dulling the cutting edge of axes …
Available to buy on Etsy
Coming soon … plant pot decor and pendants and details of our next craft fayre.
Tags: abstract, art, carved, carving, craft, handmade, head, ornament, sculpture, whittle, whittling, wood, wooden
abstract, art, craft, figure, head, scottish highlands, sculpture, wood | Alasdair | 25 June, 2009 8:17 am | Comments (0)
During our recent holidayup to the NW highlands I picked up few pieces of wood that took my fancy, a piece cherry, a piece of elm and a piece of yew – I wasn’t sure what I was doing with them when I lifted them in the wood-turning centre, although there was obviously something about them otherwise I’d have never paid cold hard pennies for them … still it was only pennies so you know.
The piece we have here is inspired in no small part by the tiki’s I keep seeing online and my own interpretation possibly reflects the fact that I’m no great fan of what seems to be a fairly prescriptive approach to these little devils, still it was a freaky tiki that came out.
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It turns out that Freaky Tiki has always been something of an odd fellow amongst his woodland friends, sporting a nervous twitch and having a propensity for forced smiles those who don’t know him so well might be forgiven for believing that he belongs somewhere on the lunatic fringe.
Of course, nothing could be further from the truth for this well read academic with a keen interest in dendrology. Indeed he spends a great deal of his time discussing such matters with Old Sam over a usually long drawn out game of chess down by the wooded grove.
Available to buy on Etsy SOLD!
Tags: abstract, art, carved, carving, craft, gift, handmade, head, ornament, sculpture, tiki, whittle, whittling, wood, wooden
abstract, art, carving, craft, figure, head, scotland, scottish highlands, tree, wood | Alasdair | 3 May, 2009 7:57 pm | Comments (1)
We’re back from our holidays both refreshed and exhausted. There are almost 600 photos to sort through; it could be some time before we emerge from the digital darkroom!
In the meantime here’s a picture of Stac Pollaidh at sunrise. The view from our holiday cottage to this hill was uninterrupted and seemed to change every time we saw it.
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We spent all week longing to climb this and thinking we couldn’t because the kids aged 5 and 2 wouldn’t be able to. Well, on the last day of our holiday we decided to see how far we could get with them and they surprised us by climbing all the way to the top, round the back and down again without complaint. It’s amazing what you can achieve with some fudge and the promise of chips and ice cream!
We got some cracking pictures from the top…well worth the hike, which took us over some very steep terrain with the aforementioned nippers…did I mention how proud of them we are?
If you are ever in the Scottish highlands with your children looking for a hill to climb then we think Stac Pollaidh would make a good choice. There’s a made path most of the way and on a sunny day at the end of a very sunny week there were no boggy bits. A map showing the path is available from Ordnance Survey.
