Monthly Archives: February 2005

Yard Sale 1

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I’ve added a new link-Yard Sale. It’s stuff I want to get rid of. I’ll trade or you can pay postage and I’ll just send it to you. I will add more stuff whenever I come across it. I have a pile of old knitting booklets that I haven’t photographed yet.

yarn

dress and heads

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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.

white dress

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-

esther

Here are 2 of the heads-

2 heads

and here are the rejects-

rejects

goodies

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I got the top family on ebay last week-

the bottom family I bought from ebay a few years ago. The biggest doll (Papa) is only 3 1/4 inches or 8 cent. I love this type of doll. They were made by women organized by missionaries in China. There are a whole lot of different types of Missionary project dolls- some very valuable now like the Door of Hope dolls. Those sell for thousands of dollars.

Today was doll club. We had a “stash dive”. People brought in stuff they didn’t want and everyone else could pick through and take what they wanted. Wow! As you can see, some people are much better at clearing out then I am.

pile

I came home with one large bag for me and 2 bags for our elementary school and 1 bag for the High School drama program… if they want it. Tomorrow I will sort through everything and wash a lot of it. I have to admit, I kept thinking- hmmm, this would make a nice kitty dress!

And here are the kitty kids, meeting everyone at doll club.

kittys

on to other projects

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I got bombed this morning by trackback spam. After erasing more then 50 trackbacks (and they kept coming in as I was erasing), I had Ben turn off the trackback option.

I’ve done some work on these ladies-

dolls in the window

I am finding it frustrating though- I am not pleased with the proportions, or the faces ,,, for now they are sitting on the window sill, watching me do other things. I went down to the grocery store before dinner and I loved seeing them in the window when I came back.

I have pulled out my patterns again.

patterns

This project is once again being led by doll hair thoughts/ ideas (like Autumn). I bought a piece of cashmere goat skin. It is very straight, long hair. I am itching to make a doll with this hair. I’ve got to figure out how to dye it successfully. I want black.
I’ve been spending some time looking at the Volks Super Dollfie dolls. There was a lot of photos in the January 2005 issue of Haute Doll magazine… a magazine I’ve never bought before- not my usual area of interest- it says on the cover- Haute Doll, the magazine for dolls who love to shop. Funny.