Finishing Projects Part 3: Chair... and To Be Continued

This one is a little less exciting... It's a chair. It will be part of something grander, eventually, I won't give it away just yet. The photos aren't awesome since velvet is so good at absorbing light. I will eventually take others, but for now these will have to do. Also, for illustrative and scale purposes, here's a photo of a Tarnished Ellowyne Wilde doll (who no longer lives with me) with inset acrylic eyes courtesy of yours truly. I will post about my modified Ellowynes at some point in the future. I also knitted the dress she's wearing.

I also finished a doll I call "A Mondern Take on Snow White". I took some preliminary pictures of her and she doesn't seem very photogenic. I'll have to work on getting some decent photos of her.

Finishing Projects Part 2: Self-portrait with Blouse and Apples

Now for #2, which actually has a title: Self-portrait with Blouse and Apples (all puns very much intended). I just couldn't bear to part with this shirt... It was never very pretty, the whole lumberjack-lass meets peasant girl, theme, and when the holes that wore through where my arm rubbed against the underwire of my bras (gosh, I wish they made kelvar breastplates) after being sewn back more than once, I decided to retire the shirt to nobler purposes. And since breasts are, after all a defining feature of mine, I couldn't let the blouse be all sad and, ahem, deflated, so I recruited the help of a no-longer serviceable bra (it's an E-cup), the proverbial balled-up socks, some batting, some more magic, and voila! And then I made the apples. The whole thing is 24x18 inches. Haven't measured depth

Finishing Projects Part 1 - Eve

So here I am, hiding out in the science library, pretending to read about bacteriophage and their genomes and life cycles (will I ever, ever graduate?) and it is time to post some pictures of my newest artistic endeavors, since I have given up on posting stuff in chronological order...

Since we decided to not go anywhere over the winter holidays (I calculated that visiting both sets of parents would set us back about $2,500), I had one of my many "I really really don't feel like going to lab today" which extended into a week of full-time artwork. It was quite a revelation. I worked almost full-time and managed to finish four projects I have been dawdling with for years (literally, the years, not the dawdling, after all I do have a sort of full-time job, underpaid, and not called a job as it is... oh grad school har-dee-har-har).

So here they are: #1, my dad calls it 'Eve', for reasons quite obvious, I guess. I started the doll in the summer of 2004... By 2006 it was attached to the board... and then the tree drove me crazy for quite some time, quite the example of upcycling it is: wire coat hangers, my sister's old sweater, tissue paper, it's all in there held together by, you guessed it, magic. So finally, armed with a drill and some epoxy glue, the tree was attached, the berries were in place, the last paint touch-ups were done, and I washed my hands of this one.