PRIM SHABBY CHIC COTTAGE ART DOLL VINTAGE STYLE "Priscilla"

Welcome Prim Friends, and thank you for stopping by to view my new Prim Offerings. Here we have a Primitive Shabby Chic Vintage Style Angel that I have fondly named "Priscilla". This piece would be the perfect display for your Shabby Cottage or Victorian decor hanging on the wall in your entry way. She measures 17" tall and 11" wide and 5" deep.

I have created this piece in the shabby cottage fashion to give it that vintage style. Her body is sewn from muslin, stuffed tightly, with hands that are needle-sculpted, and stained with a coffee-vanilla aging solution. For her facial features, I have sculpted and prim stitched her nose and used both paints and pigma artist pencils for shading her eyes and mouth. For her hair, I have used lots of lengths of white eye-lash yarn tied and sewn in place. Her shoes have been paint-washed in pink, baked, and sanded. I have used vintage tinsel in pink to embellish the toes of her shoes.

She is dressed in a vintage style dress with puffed sleeves and a fully gathered skirt sewn from a sheer pink dotted swiss organdy lined with pink Neolona cotton batiste. The dotted swiss makes up the bodice and the pannier overskirt edged with white picot loop trim. The empire waist is wrapped with white lace edging topped with pink rose bud trim. The underskirt is sewn from sheer embroidered organdy with pink and white floral bouquets and pink and white scalloped bordered hem. Her bloomers are sewn from the soft pink Neolona batiste, trimmed with white picot loop braid and cinched with pink pearl cording.

Her wings are made with white ribbed chenille adhered to stiff cardboard and trimmed around the edges with the pink vintage tinsel. Her halo is made from pink vintage tinsel garland and sewn to her head. She carries a white chenille star trimmed in the matching pink vintage tinsel tied to her hand with pink pearl cording.

I have given her a Prim Tag that I have soaked in the coffee-vanilla aging solution, baked and topped with a nostalgic image of a vintage greeting card showing a bouquet of vintage pink roses. I have bordered the image with clear German Glass Glitter to give it a bit of sparkle.

This piece was lovingly made by me from a doll pattern designed by Cat and Fiddle Designs.

This doll will come to you from my smoke-free studio, signed, dated and tagged with my own label.

"Priscilla"

$65

(plus travel fare)

PRIMITIVE FOLK ART GARDEN BUNNY TRIO ART DOLLS

Welcome Prim Friends and thank you for stopping by to visit my new Spring offerings. Here we have a Primitive Garden Bunny Trio. This piece measures 13" tall and 12" wide and 5" deep and is sure to be a Spring Garden favorite!

I have created this piece in a primitive fashion to give it that time-worn look with an aging process. I have sewn the three attached soft-sculptured bodies from muslin, dyed them with a coffee-vanilla stain, stuffed them tightly with a weighted base, and separate arms and floppy ears sewn to their bodies. Their faces were each hand stitched with embroidery floss and I have blushed their cheeks and ears. Along the bottom I have embroidered the saying "Joy in the Harvest of Friendships" with brown floss.

Each bunny is dressed differently. The left bunny has a jacket sewn from mint green flannel and sports a straw gardening hat. She is carrying a terra cotta wooden flower pot blooming with colorful dried florals and holds a grapevine twig heart in her hands. The middle bunny is wearing a ruffled dress sewn from an orange calico leaf print with a matching gingham bow on her head. She is carrying a brown wicker basket filled with colorful garden vegetables. The right bunny is wearing a jacket sewn from golden wool felt with a green homespun bow at the neckline and she also sports a straw gardening hat. In her arms, she is holding a little boy bunny dressed in a green checkered shirt and gold gingham pants. His face is embroidered with floss and his ears and cheeks are blushed.

I have given this piece a Prim hang tag that I stained in the coffee-vanilla-cinnamon stain, baked and adhered a nostalgic vintage image of a dressed up Easter Bunny walking down a trail carrying a basket of colorful Easter Eggs and pulling a cart with more eggs that says "Easter Greetings"......so that you can display this piece at Easter time as well as year round. I have bordered the image with Clear German Glass Glitter for a bit of sparkle. It is pinned to her sleeve with a rusty safety pin. This piece was lovingly handmade by me from a pattern created by Bunny Hugs Primitives. It will come to you signed, dated and tagged with my own label.

Garden Bunny Trio

$32.00

(plus travel fare)

PRIMITIVE FOLK ART POSIE WALL POCKET

Welcome Prim Friends and thank you for stopping by to view my new Spring Offerings. This is a sweet Prim Spring Dried Floral Appliqued Wall Pocket that is my own design that measures 8" tall, 4" wide and 1" deep.


The pocket was cut from periwinkle blue felt and was blanket stitched by hand with burgundy embroidery floss around all edges.
Colorful florals were cut from burgundy, pink and blue felt and blanket stitched onto the pocket with white embroidery floss.
Green floss is hand embroidered for the stems and leaves. The tulip and the smaller flowers have yellow french knot centers and the large pink posie has a tiny white button center. "Posies" is embroidered with back stitching in burgundy floss.

Various matching dried florals fill the wall pocket in blue, burgundy, pinks, white and green. The hanger is a loop formed with natural jute twine.

This piece will come to you dated, signed and tagged with my own label from my smokefree sewing studio.

Prim Posie Wall Pocket

$8

(plus travel fare)

PRIM GRUNGY GARDEN DAFFODILS

Welcome Prim Friends, and thank you for stopping by to view my new Spring Offerings. Here we have 5 Primitive Folk Art Grungy Daffodils. This arrangement would display nicely as a centerpiece, shelf sitter, or placed on a bureau, table or halltree. Each bloom measures approximately 9-12" tall and 4-5"wide. They would look great in your country farmhouse and would also make a wonderful house-warming gift that is everlasting.

I have created this floral piece in the primitive fashion to give it that time-worn look. Each daffodil is cut from muslin and hand-stitched with a gathered circle center surrounded by blooming pointed petals. They have been paint-washed in buttercup yellow paint and aged with my grubby solution of coffee-vanilla-cinnamon, baked and sprinkled with dry cinnamon. Each long stem is formed with twisted rusty tin wire and the tightly curled end sprouts from the center of the daffodil. The glass vase is not included in the auction. I can imagine these blooms arranged in your rusty tin, green glass or quilted container.

This piece has been lovingly made by me using a pattern designed by Tennesee Ridge Primitives.

This design will come to you dated, signed and tagged with my own label "Collectibles by Joan" which states "The Handcrafting and Time Invested in this Piece are its Own Mark of Quality".

PRIM GRUBBY DAFFODILS

$10

(plus travel fare)

~PRIM FOLK ART OLDE DOLL & HEIRLOOM BEAR~

Welcome Prim Friends, and thank you for stopping by to view my new Hand Crafted Offerings. Here we have a primitive set which includes a large Primitive Folk Art Doll with her vintage-style Heirloom Teddy Bear that I have fondly named "Bedtime Belinda". This piece measures 36" tall and 10" wide and would be perfect to display in a wooden rocking chair, or sitting on your bed or your couch.

I have created this piece in the primitive fashion to give it that time-worn look. Belinda is a one-of-a-kind, original design, as I did not use a pattern to make her. Her multi-sectional round-head body is sewn from muslin, stuffed tightly and stained with a coffee-vanilla aging solution. For her facial features, I have pinch-stitched her nose and brows, painted on her big brown eyes and red lips and outlined them with Pigma artist pencils in brown followed with a matte sealing. Her fingers are narrow and needle-sculpted and her narrow legs and pointed feet are this dainty style too. I have used lots of chestnut dyed sheeps wool curls needle-felted in place for her hair. Her Mary Jane shoes have been paint-washed in black, baked, stained and sanded. I have used tiny antique Mother of Pearl buttons for her shoe buckles.Belinda is dressed in a genuine vintage antique baby's gown featuring fine batiste that I have salvaged just for this purpose. Very detailed rows of embroidered french knots, pintuck pleating make up the front of the dress with tiny batiste-covered buttons running down the front. Fine vintage French lace edging trims the neckline and the sleeves. This dress has all the signs of years and years of aging with tiny worn places which just add to the beauty of this dress. I have dipped it in the coffee-vanilla solution to give it the nice warm brown tones and hand-gathered it at the back neckline to fit the doll.

She is holding a soft-sculpture jointed Vintage-style Heirloom Bear that I have created from brown Shaggy Felt with hand-stitched tiny black beads for eyes and a black floss nose. Tied around his neck, I have used cheese cloth for his scarf which I aged in a coffee-vanilla-cinnamon stain. I added a stained round tag marked "1708" and a rusty tin bell attached with a rusty safety pin to his chest.

I have given her a Prim Tag stained in the coffee-vanilla mixture and topped it with a nostalgic vintage image of a little Victorian girl bordered in rosey toile and a rose pink bow. I attached it with a rusty safety pin to the lace on the sleeves. The bear design was lovingly hand-made by me with the inspiration from a pattern created by Sweet Meadows Farm.

~Prim FolkArt Olde Doll & Heirloom Bear~

$75.00