More about yesterday’s busy day… In the afternoon, I went to the viewing at Skinner Auction House. Many dolls and so many teddy bears. If I could have left with one item, it would have been this beautiful lady- referred to as a creche figure.
I love her face and hands… well,and her dress and proportions and really everything about her!
These veggie dolls were pretty cool too.
After looking at dolls, a quick stop at an orchid greenhouse- delicious!
My friend Helen sent me this fantastic idea based on the Dresden dolls below. Print out pictures of your own dolls and turn them into ornaments! These are her Bleuettes.
hmmm… is this a way to dress all the naked (or should I call them naturists) dolls that live in my studio?
There is a link to Dresden Star Ornaments is in the Dec. 2004 issue of Mary Engelbreit’s Home Companion and they have this “make your own ornament” project. This is what I made-
I’ve spent way too much time following links trails and looking at beautiful antique Christmas decorations and ornaments.
This site is in German, but the pictures are great- and there are lots more great links on their link page…
Beautiful artwork of Mary GrandPre. Link from Loobylu.
I watched “The Thin Man” the other night. If I ever get around to making a boudoir doll, I think I will use Myrna Loy as a model!
Boudoir dolls have interested me for a while so I’ve collected images from ebay here.
Great reference site- http://home.fuse.net/boudoirdoll/
so sad- when I went to my bookmarks to look at some other sites I’d marked a while ago, they are no longer there.
I won’t have much tiime to work on the dolls in the next few weeks- costuming for Snow White will be keeping me busy. Today I have been working on finding surfaces in my attic work space… E is home from school for a month and so I had to clear my stuff out of her room. As I work on organizing the mess, I am faced with so many unfinished projects- heads waiting for bodies, naked, hairless dolls waiting for clothes. So much potential! I got a bit side-tracked in my cleaning and sewed the arms and legs on Miss Columbia. She looks much better now.
The pictures of the day are from the garden, which looks wonderful even when neglected-
This is a bush clematis that I grew from seed about 5 years ago. It grows to about 15″ tall and can be floppy, although this one is staying very upright without any support.
Iris- Madame Chereau. It is the oldest named variety of Iris (1844) and is one of my garden heirlooms. I got it from my Mother-in-law, who got it from her Mother-in-law.
Iris- “Flight of Butterflies”
Allium- “Purple Sensation”
Allium Christophii
Hellebore
Frittilaria is one of my favorite flowers. They have gotten better and better every year.
I am having to assess the winter loss in my garden- lots of places for new plantings I’m afraid…
This is a doll that was on eBay this week. Such a strange way to loose color- only at the eyes. I can only think there was mistakes made in the way the paint was applied or the doll head was prepared for painting. The interesting thing to me is that the doll still looks nice, the face is still recognizable as an Emma Adams painted face… so much better then the awful repaints I’ve seen go by on eBay.
This is a Miss Columbia style doll by Susan Fosnot. I will be taking a class from her at WOW in May. I am collecting photos of the original dolls to use as reference.
Poem on the fridge… a gift from someone?
I love this doll that was listed on eBay. It made me think of Slovenly Peter… same hairdo, I guess.