Stamped bookmarks by the Cherry Pie Yahoo group

Even though I usually go to bed too late every night, I love to read a few pages of a book before sleep. I often alternate the books I read (they're all non-fiction so it's not that hard) and I decided I needed to have a bunch of bookmarks to keep in my nightstand drawer so I can have one whenever I need!
That's how I got the idea of organizing a bookmarks swap with my Yahoo group!
Now I have 18 original, colorful and fabulous bookmarks!

Free shipping week at cherrypieartstamps.com

This is a bit late but there are still several days to Sunday so here's the deal:
Free shipping to all US/Canadian orders over $25 and all overseas orders over $50.
Also one nice freebie of my choice will come with ANY order.
Please NOTE: this offer is valid only for orders placed from my website cherrypieartstamps.com and NOT for orders from eBay.
This special deal ends Sunday, March 29th at midnight EST.
ox
Marina

Finished Wednesday Addams, my new dolly

I'm quite pleased with how she turned out.
She is 8-1/2" inches tall and made of Paperclay with acrylic eyes.
She is holding a black spider on her left hand.

Stamped paper dolls

Since I'm into the doll frenzy, I thought of showing here some paper dolls made by my Yahoo group. All stamps used are by Cherry Pie of course.

New doll

When I make a new doll I start with sculpting a face. I don't know who she will be until she "speaks" to me. This new face hadn't spoken for some days, but last night I heard her saying she's Wednesday Addams!
I wasn't so sure so I googled online and I found these pics of the 1991 movie with Christina Ricci and, hey, she really has similar features!

Gothic windows booklet

For those who read my blog and are not in my Yahoo group, this is a swap we organized in 2008.
I made a template for this Gothic arch so all the players could use the same size. We were 11 players and I bound all the entries in accordion fold. It turned out really neat!









The players in the order of the pages are: myself (Marina), Kathy Ronan from FL, Loretta d'Onofrio (Australia), Mary Ann Severin, Barbe Dare (Australia), Melanie Becker (Germany), Brandy Wickham from OH, Barbara Poe from FL, Carol Anderson from Australia, Janie Husband from NC, Zed McWilton from FL and me again with the back cover.

My art muse is hard at work

I haven't published artwork on this blog for quite a while, but I have actually been in a very prolific art mood and I did a whopping 14 paintings and 2 dolls in about a month time!
All in between pressing rubber and the usual chores of course.
Today I want to show you my new girl whose name is Shanna. She is made of Paperclay with vintage glass eyes and she wears a dress and stockings from the 60's.

If you want to see almost everything else I've been up to, you can click on the title of this posting and you will see my Flickr gallery.

ox

Virtual gift award

Today I got this gift from Japan. It's a virtual award. I'm not familiar with this kind of stuff but I'm following the instructions and I thank Momo for sending it!

Here are the rules:
1. The winner may put the logo on their blog.
2. Put a link to the person who sent you the award.
3. Nominate 5 blogs.4. Put links to their blogs.
5. Leave a message for your nominees.

I decided I will give this award to:
Hazel in England - http://hazel-butisitart.blogspot.com/
Fiona in England - http://magickdiva.blogspot.com/
Petra in Germany- http://petrasart.blogspot.com/
Bibi in Norway - http://bibisitt.blogspot.com/
Cina in Sweden - http://dreamcatched.blogspot.com/

Skinny Book - artwork by the Cherry Pie Yahoo group

Today I want to show off some cool artwork done by my Yahoo group. We swapped this "skinny" booklet that actually ended up being a fat-skinny one! In fact the requirements were to use at least one handmade clay piece and we all ended up with really thick pages!

Orders shipped!

At Cherry Pie's all US orders are shipped by electronic mail with a delivery confirmation and Misty takes care of it.

Then Gino makes sure that everything is brought to the Post Office the same day!

It's so good to have such efficient helpers! :-)
Maybe I'll take a vacation....

Cherry Pie's new full time employee :-)

This is Misty, 5 months old.
She is still young but I'm already training her to type. Hopefully she won't be as slow and lazy as her older brother......... :-)

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

A healthy, wealthy, prosperous 2009 to everyone!
Wished by Marina and my new little girl. Her name is Candy Cotton. She was sleeping when the fireworks woke her up last night so she grabbed her dolly and got up from bed.

Candy and her doll have glass eyes and they are sculpted with Paperclay. ©Marina Lenz, 2008-9

Have you been naughty or nice?

Hello! I hope Santa brought you everything you wanted!
Apparently I have been very naughty because he totally forgot about me........... :-(

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Hope Santa will bring you all you wish for!
oxox
Marina

Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse........

This is Gino, Cherry Pie's employee of the month!
(now you know why I don't email so often....... my typist is on another siesta break)

Dreaming of a white Christmas........ (not really!)

I like the Florida sun better!

Holiday wishes to the World!

Are you waiting for Santa?

Xmas card 2008 - version #1

This is the first version of my Xmas card 2008.
Not the definitive one.
I will post more in the next days and
the final version on Christmas day :-)

Christmas doll - Thea

Thea is my new creation, a little 9 inch (22 cm) girl made of paperclay. She is holding a Christmas ornament I made out of rolled paperclay and stamped (both sides) with the large Klimt swirls.