Thank You to The Empire Quilt Fest !!!

Welcome to all those linking here from The Empire Quilt Fest... http://www.empirequiltfest.org/ I am very happy to have been selected as the Special Exhibit in your show! I have some exciting things to share in the next month, so keep posted. I invite you to join my blog as a follower! There's a Doll Give Away in the works!!!!

Closer photos of The Flapper

And they call her The Flapper

She's on her way to a new home dressed up for a night on the town!

Treasure of the Gypsy entry is done!

It's on it's way to the show as I type... I'm calling it Riders at Carnival. It's 22 x 24 x 10, Two riders and two Gypsy Vanner horses, my own patterns.

Hoffman Challenge 2012 Traveler

The Mermaid School entry made Traveler status in a hotly contested race for this year's Hoffman Challenge 2013. It's always exciting to come up with an idea and submit it, then chew your nails for a long time waiting to hear if your entry was accepted! Travelers are shipped via trunk with 14 dolls to three trunks in all to various shows throughout the country for a year. So I guess I will have to make another mermaid tableau to submit to Art Dolls Quarterly?

Doll Baby

"Doll Baby" is a 'healing doll' made for my sister in law, Shelly, and is based upon my late husband, James' baby photos. I used my husband's hair (he was vain of his long, beautiful hair and wanted me to have it for my doll making) and a pair of my husband's pajamas to make the boy's clothing. His name comes from what my husband called me and what my sister in law's father called her: "Doll Baby". Description: He has silk gauze over my own modeled paper clay mask attached to a weighted stuffed cloth head and body. He is a life-sized newborn 19 inches long and weighs 6 lbs stuffed with alpaca and glass seed beads. His body is my own design and his cloth over clay face is done similar to the method Susie McMahon uses. He has a watercolor face, eyes and body, varnished for archival purposes, human hair felted on and wired hands which can be posed to grasp your finger. He can sit and has loosely jointed limbs so he has movement like a very young baby.