The Boyfriend Doll

I made him back in Spring on special request for a Pittsburgh woman — a doll Of a Boyfriend, For a Boyfriend.

The Jamie Doll

Upon request, a Jamie Doll! Complete with black blazer (removable for extra comfort), charcoal grey Converse All Stars, and Decemberists t-shirt. I need to make more Boy Dolls for 2010, or at least lots more dolls in sneakers. Resolution!

The John Waters Doll

The John Waters Doll was finished on Christmas, he’s finally ready for his close up.  He’s up on Etsy, ready for the world.

The Kara Doll

It is Kara The Doll!

In the general image of the great + legendary Kara herself.  Blonde, in a violet leotard(?), glasses + green eyes.

She was in my first crop of dolls ever produced, and she was supposed to be completed in time for Kara to arrive in Pittsburgh.

But!  Kara The Person got there early enough that she saw Kara The Doll filled with stick pins — particularly through the face.  The mouth wasn’t totally on — so the needle was going straight through her lips.

A little disturbing I know, but she is intact + pinless now.  A Proud Resident of Baltimore!

The Miss Mullen/Wrestling Mascot Doll

I made her in honor of Junior High teaching legend (and Number One Tom Selleck-Stone Philips fan) Miss Mullen.  But Andy, who bought her last spring in Pittsburgh, decided she was a boy librarian — and the appropriate mascot for his professional wrestling persona — Andy The Librarian.  You decide:

I sewed her several years back, she was one of my first five dolls.  I did her face on the long flight, Pittsburgh-Berkeley, the stewardess found her disturbing.  Ridiculous!  I think she’s got a remarkably pleasant face,  and her roly polyness is very pokable.

Andy had me sew her a red felt book that velcro on and off her hands — more of the librarian! — so she can enforce.

Dolls Take Paper Magazine!

I made a doll for Kim Hastreiter, the editor of the terrific Paper Magazine in New York City, after I listened to this New Yorker podcast about her during the summer.  Now, they featured the doll (full page, baby!) in the current issue of Paper, in the holiday gift guide.  See pages below.  I hope this leads to many bizarre requests, I can only dream of who people nominate for dollhood.  Nick Andopolis anyone?

A Teenage Girl from the 1970s

I just posted her on Etsy, I really love the surly expression and the pretzel legs.  But my favorite part are her blue and white canvas shoes, salvaged from The Most Hideous Homemade 1970s Striped Trousers.

The Motown Superhero Doll

I made Motown dolls a few years ago, she is the only one still around.  So I put a cape on her, now she’s superheroic.  Number 2 on her cape — she’ll be on sale at the next I Made It! Market this weekend at the Union Project.   She is a little surly.