Hello all! So, even with the aforementioned lack of "doll guts" (*cough* I cannibalized a pillow *cough*)
I really, reallly wanted to make this doll. A housegirl doll. I feel kind of fixated on this sort of image right now (another symptom). It's a bit "Alice"ish, I suppose, which I genuinely didn't think of until I was almost finished stitching her "shingles" on. You know, the whole bit in which she grows to be so enormous inside of the rabbit's house, and her arms shoot out the windows?
I was really thinking mostly about my own housiness. But I guess Alice creeps in everywhere, even if I don't think about it. Don't you just love the shingles? My lord, the shingles. And the sham "gingerbread trim" aka tiny crochet-lace?
So this is the part where I say "Oh, and you can get her over here in the shop". But I am not going to say that. Nope. Because I'm going to keep her! Hooray! I really and truly have only 2 of my own paintings (the Dunce pair, for anyone who is curious!), and besides useful things I make for myself (purses, pillows, quilts) I don't have any of the really fun, decorative stuff that I make. Since it has become my livelihood, I feel terribly guilty and conflicted about keeping much of anything that technically should go in the shop. But then I look at photos of all these people's studios (especially plush + doll makers) and they have their own little friends to keep them company.
So she's sticking with me. Not to mention that she is a bit of a mini-me...I mean, my eyes are a completely mystifying color...grey/green/brown/yellow, so grey was as good a choice as any.
A girl that IS newly for sale, is this little one:
She's more of a "wear-your-scarf-as-you-make-it" girl. And she's here in the shop.
I hope to have the next round of pendants ready for sale in the next few days. I think I'm going to have two different listing-rounds, on two different days. So that nobody is left high-and-dry that really wants one!
My sweetest of peas Keith + Corie are coming to visit in 2 days! I have baking and cleaning and small projects to do, in addition to madly throwing myself and my bajillion packages on the mercy of the P.O. today (thanks again for that memo yesterday. I'm always out of the loop).
Happy Tuesday!
