{"id":265,"date":"2005-02-07T11:12:19","date_gmt":"2005-02-07T16:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/02\/dress-and-heads\/"},"modified":"2005-02-07T11:12:19","modified_gmt":"2005-02-07T16:12:19","slug":"dress-and-heads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/02\/dress-and-heads\/","title":{"rendered":"dress and heads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When we did the <a href=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/02\/goodies\/\">stash dive<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/images\/2:7:whitedress.jpg\" alt=\"white dress\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I am working on new head and body designs.  I am aiming for an older child or early adolescent look.<\/p>\n<p>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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cozy.org\/pics\/album15\">Esther<\/a> 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&#8230; so when I want to go back, there is nowhere to go back to.  Now I&#8217;m really careful- I keep all my patterns and I also keep all the head designs I don&#8217;t like- otherwise I just keep making the same mistakes.   So anyway, I&#8217;m trying to recapture this head\/body look-<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/images\/2:7:esther.jpg\" alt=\"esther\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here are 2 of the heads-<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/images\/2:7:2heads.jpg\" alt=\"2 heads\" \/><\/p>\n<p>and here are the rejects-<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/images\/2:7:rejects.jpg\" alt=\"rejects\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/02\/dress-and-heads\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}