Doll

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.

Fabulous dolls of Julien Martinez - written in frenglish?

Puppets of Scott Radke.

Puppets and dolls of laBeata

Who would have thought that when my daughter went off to college, she would end up taking a class with someone who does work this beautiful and close to doll-making. These puppets are so amazing… I want to see more. I am hoping that she will be able to arrange for me to meet him and see some of his work when we go down to Bronxville for her show in April.

Is this similar to the work of Hori Hiroshi?

I’ve discovered I can get pretty good pictures out of old magazines with my camera… cool!

I am listening to “To Say Nothing of the Dog”. Excellent fun! Great name for my collection- Verity.