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Sunny the Tuxedo Cat, Original One-of-a-kind Folk Art Doll by Max Bailey

Sunny the Tuxedo Cat, Original One-of-a-kind Folk Art Doll by Max BaileyThis is Sunny the tuxedo cat, named for his happy disposition and his round yellow eyes. Sunny is a good-natured and obedient cat. He’ll always come when he’s called if he feels like it.

Sunny the Tuxedo Cat, Original One-of-a-kind Folk Art Doll by Max Bailey

Sunny the Tuxedo Cat, Original One-of-a-kind Folk Art Doll by Max BaileySunny’s favorite toy is a painted wooden car. He got it for Christmas and hasn’t parted with it since. It has porthole windows in the front, and little passengers in the back. When Sunny grows up, he wants to be a fisherman, or maybe a taxicab driver.

Sunny the Tuxedo Cat's Toy Car by Max Bailey

Sunny the Tuxedo Cat's Toy Car by Max Bailey

Sunny the Tuxedo Cat's Toy Car by Max BaileySunny is 13 inches tall. He’s wearing blue and white striped overalls with a big sun blanket-stitched onto the bib with orange embroidery thread. It matches the sun on the hood of his blue and orange car, which is 3 and 3/4 inches long.

Sunny the Tuxedo Cat, Original One-of-a-kind Folk Art Doll by Max Bailey

Sunny the Tuxedo Cat, Original One-of-a-kind Folk Art Doll by Max BaileyHe wears a bright yellow shirt with blue collar and cuffs, and white undershorts with blue polka dots. His socks have blue and orange checkered tops, and his little kitty feet are covered by brown lace-up boots. His arms are button-jointed. When he raises them you can see his black toes, and the white tufts of hair that curl around and in between them. His paws are needle sculpted.

Sunny the Tuxedo Cat, Original One-of-a-kind Folk Art Doll by Max Bailey

Sunny the Tuxedo Cat, Original One-of-a-kind Folk Art Doll by Max BaileySunny is an original one-of-a-kind work of art, created from my own design and pattern. He is made from 100% cotton fabric which is sewn, stuffed, and completely hand-painted with acrylic paints. I sculpted the front of his face from paperclay, which I smoothed into the fabric. His wiry whiskers are made from stiffened pearl cotton, threaded through the clay before it dried. Sunny is meant for display only.

Sunny the Tuxedo Cat, Original One-of-a-kind Folk Art Doll by Max Bailey

Sunny the Tuxedo Cat, Original One-of-a-kind Folk Art Doll by Max BaileyHe is signed and dated, and sealed with matte varnish for protection and preservation.

Sunny the Tuxedo Cat, Original One-of-a-kind Folk Art Doll by Max BaileySunny can sit up all by himself. His white-tipped curly tail supports him nicely. He can also sit on a chair, or stand with a doll stand. (Chair and doll stand not included.)

Sunny the Tuxedo Cat, Original One-of-a-kind Folk Art Doll by Max Bailey

Sunny the Tuxedo Cat, Original One-of-a-kind Folk Art Doll by Max BaileyUpdate: Sunny and his toy car have already been adopted. Thank you!

Sunny the Tuxedo Cat, Original One-of-a-kind Folk Art Doll by Max Bailey

Sunny the Tuxedo Cat, Original One-of-a-kind Folk Art Doll by Max Bailey

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New Spring Floral Cat Prints

I’ve been editing and re-editing the digital files for these cat paintings all afternoon, fiddling with the color, comparing them to my paintings, printing, then printing them again, and again. Above is “Laurence with Primroses and Daffodils“. There are some hyacinths in there too. I even sneaked some Johnny Jump-ups into the corner.

This one is “The Guardian“, a champagne-colored cat overlooking a garden of magenta hollyhocks and pink cosmos. I used to have bunches of these growing in my garden. My flower beds here are already overcrowded and I need to expand them in order to fit more varieties of flowers in at all.

Both these paintings are done in acrylic on canvas. “The Guardian” was my first acrylic painting. I’ve printed these in miniature so I can mount them on poplar wood. I’ll be rummaging through my paint tomorrow, trying out colors to coordinate with the images to paint onto the sides of the wood blocks.cat prints can be found on our website.

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Weekend quilting

Over the past couple weekends, I’ve been catching up a little with my quilt projects. Above is my progress so far on my (mostly) blue and yellow quilt. I’m assembling it as I go it won’t get out of control.

This is the latest block that I did for this weekend’s class.

These two blocks are from Lori’s class. I’ve got three more blocks to catch up with on that quilt. We are now at the putting it all together stage, or some of us are 🙂

I was also repotting my African violets and saw their bowls and pots made an interesting color combination that I might want to use for a kids’ quilt design I’m working on. I’ve wanted to put a free pattern, or set of patterns, on my site, for charity quilts. I’ve been looking at the Project Linus sites in particular, working out the preferred sizes and materials. I have my drawings done, but I haven’t made up my prototypes yet. I also need to figure how to make up the PDF files and put them on the site.

My experiments with color these past couple weeks expanded to my hair color as well. I’m seeing what life is like as a redhead now. I’ve been blond all my life, except for a brief period after birth when my hair was black, oddly. But since it fell out and the blond grew in, I’ve been blond. I’ve only been out and about a couple times since the change, but I have noticed that women I have never met before seem to feel quite comfortable walking right up to me and asking me for advice, so far on such things as calcium supplements and the age-appropriateness of certain articles of clothing. I’m wondering if I suddenly look more knowledgeable. It’s a little startling, but kind of nice.

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Rosa the Rose Flower Fairy Baby Original Art Doll by Elizabeth Ruffing

Rosa the Rose Flower Fairy Baby Original Art Doll by artist Elizabeth Ruffing

Rosa the Rose Flower Fairy Baby, Original Art Doll by artist Elizabeth RuffingRosa the rose flower fairy baby art doll is a handmade original, one-of-a-kind art doll, handmade and hand painted by artist Elizabeth Ruffing.

This is Rosa. She is a baby rose fairy.

Rosa the Rose Flower Fairy Baby, Original Art Doll by artist Elizabeth RuffingWith her pale yellow rose petal hat, Rosa can nap in the garden without being noticed.

Rosa the Rose Flower Fairy Baby, Original Art Doll by artist Elizabeth RuffingShe can sit in the flower garden and watch the butterflies, hummingbirds, and bumblebees.

Rosa the Rose Flower Fairy Baby, Original Art Doll by artist Elizabeth RuffingThey accept her as one of their own, with her periwinkle butterfly wings.

Rosa the Rose Flower Fairy Baby, Original Art Doll by artist Elizabeth RuffingRosa has hidden button joints so she can move her arms and legs to express herself.

Rosa the Rose Flower Fairy Baby, Original Art Doll by artist Elizabeth RuffingShe has a sweet profile, with little pointed ears.

Rosa the Rose Flower Fairy Baby, Original Art Doll by artist Elizabeth RuffingRosa has an oak-colored stand that lifts her in the air so she can practice flying, and leaping.

Rosa the Rose Flower Fairy Baby, Original Art Doll by artist Elizabeth RuffingHer doll stand slips in behind her hand-quilted wings.

Rosa the Rose Flower Fairy Baby, Original Art Doll by artist Elizabeth RuffingRosa the rose flower fairy baby original art doll is entirely handmade by me, Elizabeth Ruffing. Her body is made of 100% cotton, from my own pattern, and is hand painted with acrylic paint. Her bottom is weighted so she can sit nicely.

She has an antique reproduction baby face cast in papier mâché. Her ears and head are hand sculpted from paperclay. Her rose hat is made of fabric flower petals, joined together with paperclay.

Rosa is approximately 7 inches tall when seated, and approximately 9 inches long when lying down. She is approximately 11 inches tall while hovering on her stand. Rosa the rose flower fairy baby is a work of original art is meant for display only.

The Fairy and The Dove watercolor painting by artist Elizabeth Ruffing, on hang tagRosa the rose flower fairy also comes with a hang tag. It is signed as well. The picture on her hang tag is “The Fairy and the Dove,” printed from my original watercolor painting. The image goes very nicely with Rosa’s mauve onesie, her yellow buttons, her pale yellow rose petals, and the butter-colored spots on her wings.

Rosa the Rose Flower Fairy Baby, Original Art Doll by artist Elizabeth RuffingUpdate: Rosa the rose flower fairy art doll has been adopted. Thank you!