We have a dragon amongst the faeries!

Well...this is the first of hopefully many more to come. As always there is a massive learning curve when following a pattern and how to make it your own.

This little guy is supposed to have legs and arms...but I like the almost seahorse design he ended up to be or maybe he's a distant relative to Ogopogo!! I love the spikes going from the top of his head down the back of his spine. The nose shape is definitely seahorse though.

The pattern only called for one stuffing area...this will be changed as it was too difficult to get the stuffing all the way to the tip of the tail without ripping the fabric. I think the tail is way too long (but then if I had another space open to stuff I might not have been so frustrated). I love the fabric I chose but it did have a little bit of stretch to it which did become iffy when I had to turn him inside out. I will definitely look for just straight cottons for the next one.

The sewing on of the wings will take some work. The pattern called for them to just be glued on which I for sure do not agree with.

I originally had him without eyes but the hubby said he needed eyes. With the colour of the fabric I was hoping that the clear orange eyes would somewhat show up better than pure black ones. If these little guys are to be sold though, I will have to actually stitch eyes using my cross-stitch floss otherwise he will need to have a disclaimer warning for small parts for children.

For a first attempt...I like him :)

3 in 1!!

A triple wammy at the post office today :)

I will update all three parcels on this one post (laziness, perhaps.....it is almost my bed time!).

Parcel #1.... from megacharms (ebay). As this vender sells their items in bulk I thought to save money this would work perfectly. I order two sets of 25 of both the beehive and the pear charms. The beehives are exactly the same as from my previous order (different vendor). The pears on the other hand are just weeeeeee tiny things. Not sure at this stage of the game if they will be usable for the wine glass charms or not.

Beehives....

The Pear.....now I have attached a picture of the new 'baby' pears and then one with the original pear for a comparison. As you can see, they are very tiny!

The next parcel was the Eggplant ribbon from balsacircle (ebay). As expected it is quite a bit darker than the Plum ribbon but in all fairness the Plum ribbon is sheer. When held together in the sunlight the outer edge of the Plum ribbon is really close to the same shade as the Eggplant. Final decision, I love the Eggplant ribbon and it goes fantastically with the sheer Plum ribbon...so I will buy both!! Now as I haven't been able to find the Eggplant ribbon in anything else but a double sided satin, I might go and try to get a wider size (this one is 1/16 of an inch). I have only attached photos of the two styles of ribbon together, as the Eggplant remains to look almost black when photographed.

The final parcel that came in today was....the scrapbooking paper from mch1069 (ebay). I am really pleased with it (though I wished it was not a matte finish). I did go ahead and order the last two sets that were available (prior to this parcel arriving) as the colour and style are now out of print. I think that the paper will make a wonderful addition to the whole marketing scheme as it does have both the Eggplant (and Plum) and Antique Gold colourings on it. 

All in all....a wonderful day to check the mail. I must say that with the exception for the size of the wee little pear charms I am thoroughly happy with all of my purchases.