Regular readers can skip the part where I keep mentioning my book, think I need to mention it as much as possible to keep it fresh for new readers of my blog! 
Pictures mostly today!
we take gingerbread house making very seriously!
think I need a permanent red eye reducer for all these blonds!
angel clutching her teddy bear, we love teddy bears...old mohair bears, artist made bears, well loved raggedy bears.....
Anyone who reads my blog, and I have discovered there are many more 
readers than I realized, knows I am lacking (seriously lacking) in the technical department. My motto is always just begin and it will "come to you" as you go! Not as quickly as I would like, but all other things here are peachy! My daughter Katie and her husband Joe are having a little girl in April.
I find that not only do many of my papier mache pieces remind collectors of me and my face, but now anything I do has a touch of pink. Artists so often resemble their work and how their life is proceeding shows right through. I made valentines today and photographed a sweet pink snowbaby on 2 feet of pure white snow (in my bare feet ,but I was very quick!) and the snow looks baby blue without any editing and the Valentine looks like a baby girl birth announcement!
My new valentine, I love a good old fashioned February14!
an heirloom quality Christmas tree skirt of wool for a new little somebody...such fun to design,along with images of my stork, I used many of my baby cards received by my mother, antique glass Christm
as beads and a felted wool that I felted even more and dyed the palest pink. 
youngest of 3, Susannah, with my oldest and only grandbaby Jack! We went to the zoo last week and had a freezy, frosty, foggy good time! My daughter Katie who is Jack's mom, Jack and Sus meandering through the zoo parking lot.
The response to my new book has been great! Lots of readers buy it for eye 
candy, much as I would a jewelery making book.It is available from me or Barnes and Noble online, Amazon etc. I included projects in which you don't need a mold so you may just experiment with the papier mache process as well as molds. Molds can be bought on ebay and well, it has been fun!
I had to pick which way to spell papier mache (paper) ....and stick with it! search engines , you know! I decided the fancy way, after all writing a book was very fancy for me!
If you purcha
se the book and have questions, feel free to ask me, I will try to help. If you send me a check for $19.95 , plus $8 for priority shipping, ($8 can ship up to 5 books) your address, how you would like it personalized, I will be glad to send you a book! My studio address is
820 Kurtis Drive
Elm Grove,WI 53122
Teena 
snowy winter, gorgeous! 
if you purchase my book, would you mind rating it on Amazon? that would be very sweet!
Happy holidays to mall!
some of these creations now live in North Carolina with my new friend Susan............My son, Uncle Chris, reading to Jack ABOVE!
icicles over my studio..................................
Teena
Midwest Santa
How lovely it is in Elm Grove today.Fresh snow each day makes me want to just stay in my studio and have a fire all day long. Sort of a lull in my life, before the book staff arrives(tonight), before my 70 year old elm is felled (Monday)and before my youngest daughter and her enthusiastic dog, Norman, comes to town, tomorrow.He tries to play with my old Charlie and I give him an "A" for effort but Charlie doesn't get it.
I will put up a couple of photos of ideas I have for the book, preliminary shoot ideas. I will try to be more interesting next week!
We are doing 4 seasons so I have a Thanksgiving and autumn room set up, Winter with Christmas and winter ideas, a Summer room(the hardest on a snowy day of Feb 1 and Spring with lots of bunnies, daffodils and vintage millinery. Spring is always so easy to imsagine in Feb as the days are getting longer and flower markets, even the local giant Pick 'n Save has bulbs growing in little pots. My forced narcissus have all wilted so I am going to purchase a few plus summer garden flowers.
This book has been fun and a lot of work. Have a lovely F
ebruary
.
Teena
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