Shell baskets

My most recent shell basket:

It is made of waxed linen, yellow and red cedar bark, and beargrass.

 

Clamshell Rattles-1 1/2" to 4 " across

 

Abalone Shell Baskets

  

Cedar bark, wire, waxed linen and NW sedge

Abalone shell button, about 3" across, with knotless netting

Dyed lauhala leaves, yellow and red cedar, beargrass, and waxed linen.  About  8" wide

Quote of the day:  “Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”   Ralph Waldo Emerson

Down memory lane, not in order of completion

 I thought I'd post a few of my Fantasy Figures that I've made over the years.
Below-from an article I wrote for Art Doll Quarterly- She is twined wax linen.  The face bead is by Dana Swisher.

 Summer figure

 Natural Woman is made of NW sedge, iris leaves, assorted grasses, and more.

 Winter Woman w/ birds

 Rain woman- The skirt is a basket covered w/ silk fiber.  The torso is assorted threads, and the face I made from silver clay.

 Cedar Bark Rattle

 Another rattle

 White Raven Shaman

 Raven Shaman

 Another Rain figure

 After the drought...

 Butterfly Man is sedge and wool

 Bird Transformation is one of my earliest figures.  He is sedge with pheasant feathers.

 Kitsune, the Japanese fox that can turn itself into a human shape.  Unfortunately, you can't see the illustration, which shows a kitsune leaving her home, with the human child tugging on her kimono.

 Bird Woman, made of sedge and hemp thread.

 Japanese basket seller, also made of sedge.

 Bird woman and Trekker.  The trekker has a backpack.  This is from the article I wrote.  The Trekker was one of my first woven figures.

 Fox Shamaness-  She is holding a fox mask in her left hand.

 

closeup of her dress

Bird woman and Trekker featured in Art Doll Quarterly magazine.