When we did the stash dive at doll club last week, my friend Lois gave me a sweet embroidered baby slip and a wonderful antique, very long baby gown. The baby gown is soaking to whiten it up. I wrapped the baby slip onto this lady- it is a great scale for her. I will probably turn it into a dress for her.

I am working on new head and body designs. I am aiming for an older child or early adolescent look.

You know how when you first start into some new art form, you come to it with a freshness and perspective that is often hard to recapture later on when you know more? I made Esther very early on. I made her within 6 months of my first painted doll. I was just working- no notes, I kept none of the patterns. Very disorganized… so when I want to go back, there is nowhere to go back to. Now I’m really careful- I keep all my patterns and I also keep all the head designs I don’t like- otherwise I just keep making the same mistakes. So anyway, I’m trying to recapture this head/body look-

Here are 2 of the heads-

and here are the rejects-