Found a little time this afternoon!

Well, I found a little time this afternoon so that I could get my April challenge done before the Patch meeting on Wednesday evening. At the March meeting we exchanged brown paper bags with a variety of items in them. If you brought a bag, you got to pick a bag. Well, my items from the bag I picked are in the left photo. Right away I saw an Indian maiden. I used a small banana gourd for her body and a jewelry gourd for her head. My brother had some hair extensions that I swapped some stuff for and by sewing some of it on a ribbon and attaching that to the "head" gourd, I got a beautiful head of hair that I braided. To use the beaded strand, I had to take some apart and retie. That worked out very well for her necklace and around the back of her leather robe. I cut out a space in the front of the body to fit over her moccasins. I did not use the heart with feather. It just seemed to big. I made a drum from the bottom piece of the banana gourd that I cut off and attached it all to a slice of rock that I had in the cabinet from the days when we used to go to the Tucson Gem Shows. All in all, for my first gourd doll, I am quite happy with the results.

Could I get a few more hours, please?

There just are not enough hours in the day, is there? I went to my first gourd festival in Casa Grande on Friday and there are just so many things I want to try. I can combine gourds with polymer clay (yeah!) as well as beading and other things I already do. I loved the jewelry some of the artist made using gourds. I took a wood burning class a couple of weeks ago and really enjoyed that. I burned a humming bird and then painted the design. So by painting in that class, I had an idea of what kind of paint I wanted to buy while at the festival. I also picked up a couple of wood burning pens. I also found a book of designs and one for beading on gourds, so now I need to find the time! Happy crafting!