Holiday Softie Awards 2007 - UPDATE

The competition closed last Wednesday and the finalists in each category have now been announced.

Voting is open until 14th November 2007. Anyone can vote, so here's the link to Softies Central where you can check out the finalists and cast your vote if you so wish!

Mother Christmas is consoling herself with a bottle of Pernod, so best leave her alone for now (pssst - she didn't get through, shhh!)

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Holiday Softie Awards 2007 - Mother Christmas

This is my traditional Mother Christmas - made from Calico cloth and Alpaca fleece.

Her dress is made from green felt and her apron is a piece of gingam fabric that I recycled from an old pair of summer trousers.

I have trimmed her apron with white broderie lace and a white satin ribbon. Her dress hem and cuffs are trimmed with Christmas themed gold braid.

Mother Christmas' hair has been needle felted using Alpaca fleece. I also used the Alpaca fleece to create a softer, kinder face. The eyes and mouth are stitched using embroidery thread/floss.

I made her glasses using silver coloured beading wire and my round nosed pliers. They are attached with a small amount of embroidery thread.

I had two more items to enter but didn't manage to get them finished on time. The closing date & time was midnight 31 October US Eastern Time (which was approx 5am here in the UK). Sadly my camera died before I could photograph the other two items (major bummer). But at least I got this little lady entered on time. I think I need to take a time management course one of these days as things are a little bit disorganised at the moment. I'll post some piccies of the other softies once I find some batteries for the flipping camera!

To see more entries, visit the Flickr HSA group page. There are 9 different categories and hundreds of amazing softies!

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Holiday Softee Awards 2007

NEWS from Softee Central: The Holiday Softie Awards 2007 are up and running (October 1st to October 31st). Anyone can enter so scoot over to SC for information, rules and FAQs if you're interested.

There are some great prizes on offer but even if you don't enter it's worth a gander - grab a cuppa and check it out!

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