Garden Party

Isn't she wonderful? This doll was made about a year and a half ago (yep, still catching up on posting my dolls!) in a class at Art Is...You with the amazing Annie Hesse. If you ever get the chance to take a class with her, do it! She's so talented and so much fun.

Her face, obviously, is all beaded. That was fun. I'd never really done any beading before. What a way to start! I had a blast. Her hair is all different kinds of yarn and her skirt is long streams of fabric and ribbon. I use this face as my face on Facebook. She gets lots of interesting comments.

The "books" in the case she is sitting on are CDs. She's not huge!

Harbinger of Spring!

This is my latest creation. She is my "Harbinger of Spring". I made her for a challenge in my "Art Is...You" yahoo group. We do challenges once a month or so and she is for the March challenge which was simply "Spring".

The basic pattern for the angel/fairy is an epb pattern that I received as the February doll-of-the month. I love this pattern. Her hair was glued and pinned from a package of ribbon roses I bought at JoAnn's. And her garden implements came from a web site my sweetie found for me while he was looking for wood toggles for his boat.

Out of the Box

I won an Honorable Mention with this guy in a Joggles challenge a couple of years ago. The original pattern was of a jester in a box and we were to use a few bits of trim and beads that came with the pattern and to use our imaginations to make him fun. I immediately saw him jumping out of the box. I made him a body and used a dowel from the bottom of the box up to his shoulder to give his arm strength. I thought of the "Sshhh" gesture and thought that would add another touch of humor. Julie McCullough (pattern designer) said he made her laugh out loud.

This is the first doll I ever sold. I brought him to my local dance studio to show him off to the owners - great guys - and they fell in love with him. One of them made me a very generous offer which I happily accepted. Made me feel pretty proud