Happy Halloween Everybody!!

Lizzie Doll Close Up Picture

The doll was designed by Patti Culea and her name for the doll is Glorya. I had a fun time making her and am working on a second doll from the same pattern. I have not picked fabrics for the clothes yet but will surely post pictures soon.

Lizzie Doll

I have heard of people buying a jacket because they like the button on it. And have you seen an ad on the TV where a woman brings a faucet to the architect to build a house to match the faucet? Well I made the doll because I love her shoes so. I made 4 different pairs of shoes and then picked the green ones for Lizzie. (I have never done that even for myself!)

Lizzie wears my friend Liz' grandma's antique linen for her apron and a piece of Liz' scarf for her hair ribbon.

Doll 2, Take 2

Well, I tried putting the second picture in yesterday but could not because I think there was some glitch with Blogger. So here I go ....

Doll No. 2 Valandrial of Green Elves

Here is my second doll from Patti Culea's class. I had stopped working on her since I did not have the Ultra Solvy to make her shoes and top. I finally got to work on her last week since I was in a somber mood and wanted to do some repetitive work.

Valandrial now insists on having a tiara but I haven't had the time to make it. I had made a crown for the last one and I want to do something different and something new for this one. Maybe one of these days................

Found Objects Doll

My doll club had a "Found Objects" challenge last month. Here is my entry. I call her "Nita's Bag Doll" since I found all the components including the measuring spoons in one of Nita's bags. Nita is almost 5 and is an avid collector. Of what you ask? Well.. everything actually. The other day I opened her box of Hotwheels cars and found a couple of my bangles, 5 little pebbles, 2 beads, few marbles and of course 25 little cars. Need I say more?

The head is one of my little dolls. I had been searching for it for quite some time now and it was in Nita's bag . I used a green monster finger puppet which she must have collected from her brother's goody bag for the doll's hair. The body is a chocolate box which my husband brought from a trip to Sweden. (The chocolate was yummy!) The base of the doll is a toy plastic hamburger. Nita is patiently waiting for me to give the play hamburger back to her so she can add it to her restaurant menu. She loves to play "restaurant" with Daddy. The shiny "armor" is a controller for a spider robot which does not work. The spoons worked very well as arms.

It was a fun project and next time I won't think or worry too much about finding objects and head straight for Nita or one of her bags.

New Face, New Doll

Well, actually the body is the same only the head is different. I made another head and put on new hair. Here she is the new Valandrial. The second picture is some clever editing done by my DH.

Putting on a New Face

Practice makes perfect people say but what if it only confuses me? Here are 11 doll heads that I have made for Valendrial and I still can't pick one of them for my second Valendrial doll. Note: The doll face on the top was painted by Patti Culea as a class demo.

Some of the faces are only half done. I am trying to get a perfect symmetry here but they turn out so different and so lopsided. I think I should first get to work and finish painting the faces and then pick the one I like the most. And maybe next time I should make just one head for each doll and learn to accept it. After all I can't do anything about my own face, now can I? And I have learned to live with that!

Found the Picture

Valandrial of the Green Elves from Patti Culea's doll class.

Doll from Patti's Class

This morning I thought I should post the picture of my doll and wrote a short note about it. But what can I do when I can't find the picture! I could not even find the folder which had my pictures in it. So here I am.................