Working on a new doll

I've been working on this sculpt for two weekends.  I'm such a terrible picture taker, that the pictures never look very good.  This creature will become a mermaid, once gills, hair, tail, etc are added.  I enjoyed trying to do a full sculpt, but it really shows off all your mistakes.  No hiding it with clothing.  But even though it is not that great, I am enjoying the process of doing something a little different.

Finally got a decent picture of my Dark Fairy

Here is something else I struggled with.  I made him in a class with Wendy Froud.  I tried every wing you could imagine and put him in every position I could think of, finally I put crow feathered wings on him and he came alive.  Well at least he settled down and started acting nice. 

New Doll Finished this weekend

I went to Tami's house and sat around with my creative friends and played dolls.  There are four of us that get together once a month and gossip, eat and create.  It is a lot of fun.  I finished a doll that I have struggled with for a couple of months.  The face didn't work and I didn't like the horns, so I tried redoing the whole thing.  It was a big learning experience.  Don't know if I really like him, but he is growing on me.  At first he seemed to want to be fierce, but that he became 'the messager'.  At least that is all he has told me so far.

I've been gone too long

It has been for ever since I last blogged.  Lots has happened in my life.  My son got married and the holidays were wild with all the extra family every where.  I was thrilled to be asked to join the Flying Phoebe doll club located in Hayward, California.  What an incredible creative group of folks to mingle with and trade ideas with.  Winter is coming to an end and I'm starting to feel the juices flowing into playing with dolls again.

I just finished baking a new head and then burnt the heck out of my finger pulling it out of the oven.  Note to self:  do not touch the hot wire no matter how excited you are about the looks of the head.  Then I saw a huge crack in the face.  Fingers crossed, super glue will do it's job.  I will post pictures if I can rescue him from the trash can.  Otherwise I guess I will have to hold a funeral. 

Sometimes life is just too strange and powerful

Last Sunday my ex mom in law called me (she is 93) and just wanted to chat and tell me she loved me.  There was such sweetness and sadness in the phone call that it felt like she was saying goodbye.  I thought, I must get to her house on Saturday.  Yesterday my son called me to say that he heard from his Auntie that Fanny was on life support in the hospital.  There were no clues from her normal health issues (growing old) that this was going to happen.

I spent the day yesterday at her bedside wishing I had made more time to visit.  Isn't that always the way?  So we all pray that she can start to breath on her own and we get to see again the little devlish glint in her eyes.  I know I need to recognize that she has lived a long and full life, but I selfishly don't want her out of my life.

Selected as a Froud Website Wahoo

I just got word that my blog has been accepted as September 2009 Froudian Artist of the Month. What a tremendous honor and such fun. Now I need to figure out how to link it to my website.

I'm so excited

I just found out that my grey doll will be featured in "Soft Dolls and Animals" magazine. She will be in the November issue. What a kick. I went to a cloth doll convention in Ohio this spring and the sponsor of the convention sent in 25 pictures of dolls to the magazine. I was one of the lucky ones that was picked. Wahoo! This is a first for me to actually be published. Can hardly wait to see it.