Doll

I have been working on these guys, bit by bit… as I do the fiddly bits on my bird girl doll. (Right now I am pressing down her center hair part- I have to wait ’til this dries before I go on and give her a haircut.) It is always a challenge for me to do a face that doesn’t resemble me or one of my children, but I have some ideas that need faces of other ethnic groups… so I’m working on it. The one in front is finished for now and I am working on arms and legs.

The marketing part of the art/craft business is what I am really bad at… I work away and I am running out of space for my finished dolls- I really have no clue how to sell these dolls. I tried out some of the doll specific shows, but what I do is so different, they might as well have been invisible. I have contacted a few galleries, places I was connected with when I worked in clay, but they wouldn’t even consider something called a doll… makes me want to come up with a new name! So, today I send out a few more enquires…

…so we are thinking about/planning a trip to Vancouver for a vacation. The last week of August. Any great places I might miss if I’m not clued in? I’ve never been there and know nothing about it- this will be fun!

After spending a few days doing dutiful daughter stuff, I needed to buy myself a present… I stopped at Wright’s Factory Outlet on the way home from Connecticut on Thursday. Oh, what fun!

I couldn’t resist this ball of yarn- I have no idea what I’ll do with it, but I love these colors.

I made a new wig while I was away. Sorry this picture is so bad… in this picture the wig is pinned on and has had a first trim. I will decide what to do for a hair-do when the wig is properly attatched to the head.

This is the wig off the head.

This is the inside of the wig right now. I was able to use some of the things I learned at my wig-making workshop that I took at WOW!- specifically around the bangs and part area.

This is a close-up of the part. I cut through the wig-cap and brought the yarn up from beneath so that the hair in the part would not have any stitches showing. I need to sew or glue a piece of fabric to the inside of the part to close it up again. It needs to be tightly closed to look right.

This is a close-up of how the pieces of yarn are attached. They are sewn on individually.
I used all wool felt for the wig cap and a very fine wool yarn for the hair.

I made some great headways on my trashcan / recycled bag project… for one thing, I discovered that my parents newspaper arrived every morning in a beautiful red bag! They also had other color bags around the house that I could use. And I collected more bags from some friends down there… oh those Connecticut bags- so superior to Massachusetts bags! So I am back in business and hopefully getting more ideas for the next bag project…
I am trying to make dots in this section…

many thanks!

I can’t tell you what a thrill it was to receive birthday greetings from my blog posting! Thank you, thank you! It really made my day.

… for 3 days, and unfortunately not at some great vacation destination… I’ve been down in Connecticut again, helping out with Mom and Dad. There are no easy, neat or obvious solutions when your parents are failing.
I brought down several projects to work on and was able to make some progress between dealing with various messes and mini- disasters.

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a complete make-over…

Before

After

The doll is wrapped in a towel rag to protect it from random paint mess. I’m going to have to work on the nose a little more. The problems pop out in a photograph, when I can’t see them at all when the doll is right in front of me.

and trying out some hair-do options…
draping my cut wool yarn.