November 16, 2006

On the drawing board


Here is a peek at April - yes, that's her name. I have been working on a calendar for quite awhile now and am almost finished. The idea was sparked by the love of paperdolls both of my children (and I!) have. We have made our own, played with old ones of mine, cut out new ones given as birthday presents and well, the idea of dressing in wallpaper scraps from the stash I bought from applehead.typepad.com earlier this year started it all in motion. But where does the time go?
April is splashing in the rain and well, the last month (March) is still on the drawing board waiting to be finished. December 1 they should be ready to go!

The word for the day is ... rise ... as in rise above the drivel, making a good loaf of bread and get up and go!

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

Susan! Please say you will have this calendar printed!!! I love the idea of a paperdoll a month - how charming! (I want to be first on the list for a copy!) And this little lady is so sweet and ready to sprout with the April rains...
p.s. did you get my kit yet?

Susan Schwake said...

yes, i will ulla!!! indeed, that was the idea back in april... :-)
but it is on the boards and should be available by Dec. 1.
YES i got your kit, just now when i came to the gallery!!!!
going to open it.

Anonymous said...

love april! what a fun wallpaper dress. isn't that a fun thing to do? wanted to have my niece and nephew over for a weekend this month, but ran out of time. now they'll come before christmas once i'm back from bristol. we'll be have a fun art weekend. maybe make some paperdolls as well? but don't know whether julius will be up to that haha

One Crabapple said...

I love April and my inspiration is on the "rise"...(ahem okay okay ...I know)

oh I really do love April and you know I have wanted to do a calendar too.

Lots of work !

Bravo!
Love, S.

Anonymous said...

ooooo cute!!!! I LOVE IT

Anonymous said...

I am so excited!!! Now I NEED a Susan Calendar!!!!!

Anonymous said...

Great idea, Susan.

Anonymous said...

Thank you so much for sending me the link to see April...she is just wonderful and I do so love to see where my paper ends up....I am also making dolls at the moment for an ATC swap so it was very inspiring to see yours..

Anonymous said...

April is the perfect name for this little beauty! I love her!

Marymuses and The Duchess said...

Oh, I like April. Kudos, she rocks!

Anonymous said...

Well, I've decided that I'd like to have a life-size version of that dress/coat.