Summer Project : Re-making my early dolls

I started making dolls in 2009.  Many of them were horrible monsters!  But I'm glad that I saved them because I am now in the process of up-cycling them.  Their bodies and most of their clothes were just fine.  I did new sculpting and painting on all these three dolls that I made 2 years ago.

I love re-doing my old dolls because I have to work around a fixed framework.  For example, this doll's head was put on wrong - turning permanently to the side.  I turned her into a side glancing doll and now I like her.

This is a doll that I gave to my mom 2 years ago on Mother's Day.  I think that I used Dixie's free template pattern to make her.  It's funny how she retains the original spirit of the doll that I first made.  I had used a styrofoam ball, masking tape, and tissue paper as the head armature.  I dug it all out so that I could sculpt with paper clay and cook in an oven.  I had totally forgotten how I had made my earlier dolls.

This is the third time that I have re-made this little doll.  It's the last time that it will happen!  She's wearing a dress from a Gail Wilson pattern...can't remember which one.  I had forgotten how cute this dress pattern was.

Three little friends!