Midsummer Night's Dream

      Well, our second vendor event looms over us; it starts at noon tomorrow.  The theme is "Midsummer Night's Dream" with an emphasis on woodland creatures, renaissance costuming, fairies, magical (?) critters, and other things found in Shakespeare's time, and specifically, his play of the same name.  

     Our first event on the 4th of July resulted in sales even better than our highest expectations!  We were so happy, and immediately came home and made a few additional wizard gnomes and critters better suited to this theme.  I want to share a few of those with you in this post.

     First, the wizard brothers who are also known for their haberdashery, including the weaving of marvelous and magical coat trims.  

 

     Then there's the sleeping gnome cat, napping until the fairies arrive.  Her fur is so incredibly soft and a smaller version of her inspired a bidding war at the earlier event so I had to make another one!

     Finally, there's the head wizard who's been traveling, having left home headed for the Midsummer Night Faire.  He travels with his apothecary of magical potions and is in charge of all things mystical at the Faire.

     

     That's it for this post.  Have a wonderful midsummer day and Happy Crafting.  NanaConnie

Craft Fair in 2 Days!

      We're so close to the first of our scheduled vendor events, this one on the 4th of July.  The event is somewhat "local" but not actually in our city.   Since our particular location in the Central Valley of California tends to be one of the hottest spots in the valley, we're happy to be traveling an hour away, up into the foothills of the Sierra Nevada where predicted temperatures will be about 85F when home town will be over 100F.  :-D

     We've been putting the finishing touches on our inventory of gnomes and critters, and I just wanted to take a moment to share with you two more cute gnomes and some of my sis-in-law's hedgie critters. 

     Critters first...  

Aren't those adorable?  They're about 5.5 inches high.

Here's the first one she made a few weeks back, about 4.5 inches tall.

     And here's my last gnomes for this event.  I'll probably make a few more between this event and the next one on July 13 (also up in a different part of the foothills where it's cooler - yay!!) but these two are the last ones before the event on July 4th. 

Done with purple felt and gray fleece.  About 7" high.

Made using all burlap, including burlap trim. 9" tall.

     I won't be posting again until after the event so let me wish all of you a wonderful 4th of July celebration and please be safe and sane.  Happy Crafting.  NanaConnie