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Kentucky Crafted: The Market Sneak Peek 2

February 12, 2016 By Rebecca Leave a Comment

See all these little guys and more at Kentucky Crafted: The Market. I’ll be at booth # 256!

Filed Under: Animals, Announcements, Clowns, Features, Sneak Peeks, Spring Tagged With: #kycrafted, clown, deer, gnome, kentucky crafted, kentucky crafted: the market 2016, Owl, panda, raggedy ann

Woodland Santa and his sweet Companions

October 13, 2015 By Rebecca Leave a Comment

This is my newest holiday Santa and I have to tell you I am smitten with him! I love the sweet company he keeps but my favorite thing about him is his color palette. Some special details about this guy: he’s big! Santa measures 19.5″ tall. His deer measure 10.5 inches tall (excluding antlers) and are 9.5 inches wide from nose to tail. I’ve used real deer antler buttons on his under robe! These were hand-crafted from a fellow artist her in Kentucky. I met him at the Minnie Adkins Day show I did back in July and as soon as I saw these buttons I knew I would use them on a Santa. This felt like the right Santa. It adds to the charm of this woodland fellow! Santa’s sweet annie garland that he holds in his hands also contains two small bird feathers. I think these add such a nice touch to the woodland theme. But it’s also a small detail that you might not even notice right away. The wool used for Santa’s beard and hair is my favorite type of wool! I think it’s just so soft and appealing. It adds such a nice, old world touch to this charming fellow.

Please enjoy the many photos I took of Woodland Santa #248!

Woodland Santa is currently available in my Etsy shop.

Filed Under: Animals, Christmas, Dolls, Features, Recent Work Tagged With: Christmas, cloth dolls, deer, numbered dolls, reindeer, woodland santa

2015 Woodland Art Fair

August 7, 2015 By Rebecca Leave a Comment

(Click the pic above to be taken to the Woodland Art Fair web page.)

In exactly one week, I will be setting up my space for the Woodland Art Fair in Lexington, Ky. This is my 2nd year participating in this event. I had such a warm reception last year and am really looking forward to the weekend! In preparation, I’ve been working on new pieces and will have a good selection of wonderful little people and critters available. Today I’m working especially hard on some sweet sculptures to share during the Woodland Art Fair.

AND…I’m really looking forward to the food. Is that wrong of me? If it is, I guess I don’t want to be right! Crank and Boom ice cream, my current obsession, will be available during the fair as well as Goodfella’s Pizza, which is a little slice of heaven! So if you stop by my booth, don’t be surprised if I’m in the middle of my blackberry buttermilk ice cream! Oh, it’s to die for–like the last bite of blackberry cobbler, when the ice cream is melted.

These are some sneak peeks of the pieces I’m working on today (and will be working on this weekend!).

If you visit, I’ll be in booth 219–the same location as last year. I’m near the bandstand. On the map below I’m in the upper left hand corner. Just click on the map to make it bigger or to be take to the Woodland Art Fair map page.

Work in Progress! It takes a lot of little steps until they are complete!

Filed Under: Announcements, Features, In The Studio, My Appalachia, Sneak Peeks Tagged With: deer, fall ornaments, Halloween, In the Studio, pig, raccoon, sculpture, sneak peek, Woodland Art Fair

A Santa Army.

December 16, 2013 By Rebecca Leave a Comment

You don’t want to mess with Santa. No, really, you don’t. Don’t let those rosy cheeks and kind eyes fool you. He has an army on his side– a whole slew of Christmas characters and woodland creatures who have his back. It could get messy…and glittery. It’s best to just be nice to the man in red and his cohorts.

Here’s a whole batch of Santas and some of his best buds. They’re my last Christmas dolls for 2013 and they’ve made their way to my Etsy shop. (Click the photo below to be taken directly to my etsy shop.)