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| New Doll |
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| I love doll profiles. |
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| We made gourd dolls in the most recent doll-making class. The kids learned about gathering fabric by making a little cape for their dolls. The rock is a baby. The shell is the baby's cradle. |
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| A very fancy gourd doll. |
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| More gourds and babies and shell cradles. |
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| Twins! |
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| Sweet little hands, hard at work, making corn husk dolls. |
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| They look like they're going to a ball. |
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| I spent the day dyeing corn husks for the doll class. Aren't they pretty? I can't wait to show the little girls! |
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| My mom and daughter and I went to a doll show last weekend. I bought a bunch of broken doll heads. I was thinking of making little doll ornaments for a Christmas tree. If I start now, I'll have a bunch by the end of the year. I want to fix the Helen doll. Her pieces were glued together with some old, weird glue. It was definitely an old fix. I need to figure out how to get the remaining glue off of the pieces. Then I need to find out what kind of glue to use to piece her back together. She came on a cloth body that looks original. I'm looking forward to giving her new life. |
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| We did a self portrait challenge doll in the Maida Doll Group. It was a blast. Here I am! She doesn't look exactly like me, but she has my spirit. I had never sculpted teeth in a doll, but since I remember a very happy childhood, I needed teeth for Lainie's smile. Mom used to sew most of my clothes. I remember lots of ricrac. She always added matching pants or shorts or culottes because I was upside down a lot of the time, flipping on monkey bars and doing cartwheels. This doll was made with Dixie's IW workshop pattern. Love that pattern! |
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| On Day #2, the little doll makers used Sharpie markers to decorate wooden nesting dolls that I had painted white and sprayed with gold glitter. It was a great upcycling project. So simple! When they were finished, I had prepared some little accordion folded paper dolls for them to cut and make chains of hand-holding dolls. The girls were entranced. None of them had ever made dolly chains before. I remember doing this SO much as a child! |
