A couple crafts from December:

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stargazercrys messaged me a week before Christmas and asked me to make four ornaments from polyclay for her boyfriend and his three bowling league team members. Their team name is "4 minds in the gutter" and she didn't want anything fancy - just the name of the team, their individual names and a couple bowling pins and ball. So I made these:




They all look the same other than the name on the fallen pin.

I made them very NON-Christmas colors by going with brown for the lanes, put on guide triangles, I felt like a banner was the right choice for the team name and the year and red string because they wear red shirts. I'm pretty happy with them. If I'd had more time, I think I'd have done a much better job, but she's thrilled with them and I can only assume they loved them.

I also made a jewelry set for my husband's oldest sister's birthday. She's really into tea parties and collects teacups and saucers and I've never made her anything before so I wanted to go all out.

Earrings:



a necklace:



and a pretty fantastic charm bracelet (if I do say so myself):





And finally, a project I made for my almost-six-year-old daughter which took several days of hand sewing and plotting, planning and using no pattern, I made this nutcracker plushie because she's completely nuts (that pun was unintentional but I'm keeping it) over nutcrackers and THE nutcracker.






I'm particularly proud of the boots because I had absolutely not a clue how I was going to do them but they're my favorite part.

and finally, his face:



And here you can see him hiding in one of my craft cabinets before the holidays (his paint was drying) because she never goes in there.




(summary: ornaments, tea-party themed jewelry set, plush nutcracker)

Thanks for looking!! :-D