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| Mother possum left 5 babies on our fence and in the pear tree last night. |
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| I finished re-doing the boy from this pair of dolls that I made in 2009 for my mom. They are named Irvin and Frances Jeanne. |
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| Awesome ball of pond scum that my daughter, age 13, collected in the local swimming hole yesterday. She says that she's going to turn it into roving and felt it. Talented child. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Three little friends! |
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| Olive stole this dress from a beautiful rag doll that my mom made over 25 years ago. Her arms and legs are from Dixie's IW pattern, blown up to 200%. She's a BIG girl! She fits into a 12 month toddler size dress. |
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| This is the first time that I have ever painted in oils. It's much different than acrylics. But I really think this doll looks just like my other dolls, all painted with acrylics. I keep thinking that I must be missing something special that I could be doing with the oils. Maybe I should take an oil painting class. |
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| Olive and little Daisy June |
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| These three dolls are teaching me techniques for crackling. I used One Step Crackle and Gail Wilson's antiquing medium on all three. |
