I LOVE Color! So Color My World.

That song by Chicago was always one of my favs :)

If you look at my avatar, it is very clear that I love color. Bright color - ALL THE TIME. Some of my favorite pieces that I have made are rainbow themed pieces.

Rainbow butterfly. One of my very fav all time mug rugs

This is recent, I loved making this - the flowers are all wool. I still have some left, just message me for a custom mugrug :) Janice@mountaindolls.com

This rainbow and shooting stars mug rug is available

Do you think I like pieces with LOTS and LOTS of color? Oh yes I do, just keep going :)

Everyone loves unicorns - This is made to order. DO you NEED a unicorn? Just send me a message

Even Pastel-y Easter can have nice bright colors

Rainbow love :)

She's my avatar :)

Ok, got the picture? Seeing a pattern??

My latest garland is a baby garland, which you can see here And here...

Baby's room garland with LOTS of color and imagery

When researching crazy SEO tags and descriptions and what-not, I Googled baby's room decor. From literally hundreds and hundreds of images, maybe there were 3 or 4 images that were not gray, beige, ecru or white. Even the palest yellow was noticeably absent!

Just gray, gray, gray. Beige, beige, beige.

Mind you, I actually love gray, I make a ton of things in gray. Why? Because they photograph well! I admit it, that's why I make things in grey. Black too.

Seriously though, does no one want babies to see color. Ok I know I know supposedly they don't even see in color for however length of time. I love bright and exciting colors and I will continue to love them, even if they are not in vogue!

I used to work in a quilt store and many shall we say more age advanced ladies would come in wanting help to match colors with their quilts. Of course I am that age now haha - oh TIME you do have a sense of irony :) Some of the women would look at me in horror if I even hinted at a gorgeous deep red or blue or purple (or God forbid GREEN!) to go with their pastels or their beiges, or 30's repro. Now mind you all these people did BEAUTIFUL work, but I always liked the ones that came in with beads on their quilts or something with lime green and fuschia - that was the best! Something with pizazz.

So ok lately we have to be sedate, beige or grey, white and pale yellow. Sorry not me, I am sticking with my RAINbow colors until they are trending again. I create what I like what I create.

Even if they don't trend, and I can't sell them, I am sticking with them :) I love you bright colors and I am a loyal true friend :)

Welcome to Mountain Dolls

Thank you for joining me. As this is my very first blog post here on Wix, I thought I would show you what I am working on. As I am always working on something, I find it difficult to always share a WIP (work in progress) I just figure hey, it will be listed in a couple of days, so why bother to post something that is not done.

I think many people have varying views on a #WIP. Some people, like me sometimes, are just busy and need to get on with it. There are others who don't like to spend they're hard earned cash on something, if they don't know what's involved in the process. I think it's ok either way. If anyone ever wants to know or see how I do something, feel free to ask.

So since this is my first post, I will post something simple. I though I would make some little #crossbody #bags. I am doing a craft show next month, and I know so many people don't want to have to carry a large purse - I know I don't! While the idea of a cross body bag #purse is certainly not new, I like to think mine are fun and unique. Here is a finished one I made for myself:

The one I made for myself was just a tester really to see proper measurements and how it would go together. I am a very visual person and seeing how something is going to turn out is great. That being said, I almost never do that haha. I never, ever like to waste any fabric or anything else. I think that comes from quilting for many years with little or no money, so every little piece was used, and hey isn't that the idea of quilting?? But that's another blog for another day :)

No the one I want to sell I thought should have a bit more pizazz! I love color, hence the pizazz! :) I also love animals and flowers, so whenever I can combine lots of color, animals & #flowers, I am happy! This one will be the first one listed - when it's done of course :) It's all wool felt with cotton fabric for the lining and a hook-and-loop fastener (we're not allowed to use the "V" word ;)) I have a dog and he will get his own blog post for sure, but I thought since my son is getting an orange #kitten this week, a #cat #kitty purse is in order.

These bags have a hook-and-loop fastener, and will fit some credit cards and a small wad of cash! We know craft show people LOVE cash. I am finding though that it is quite easy to accept credit cards at a craft show. I use the #Square and it works great!

So if you have stayed with me this long, I thank you and I hope to post more WIPs very soon.