Adventures of Doll Kara, Postcards from Baltimore
The Family of Four Dolls (with two beards)
So I’ve got my family of 4 dolls almost done, just waiting for some tweaks, adjustments, recommendations, etc. But the bases and faces are all there, stuffed and sewn up! After a long day of grunt work yesterday, today was needle-breaking assembly day today. All the choices had been made, I just needed to put the limbs on the people, turn them right side out and stuff them til they were plump and huggable. Now they are almost fully alive!
Posted 4 weeks ago at 11:49 pm. Add a comment
Doll Workshop: Family of 4
Today has been a doll day, finally I am getting into the cut-and-sew groove. I have an assignment of a family of 4, parents and two children, so I’m laboring away. Thank goodness there are beards and eyeglasses involved! They are my new favorite ways to capture the doll personality — though eyebrows and mouth slant are still there in my pocket of tricks. Let’s hope the Doll-Flow continues on into tomorrow! They cannot all join me in California, suitcases have their limits (another fundamental law of the universe, to be added to my growing list).
Posted 4 weeks, 1 day ago at 10:53 pm. 1 comment
Two Pandas and a Zen Face
Three dolls – one green suede Zen face doll, tongue out & eyes open! And two Heart Pandas, one slightly larger than the other, but both ready to be thrown and hugged. All are now available on Etsy…
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago at 12:07 am. Add a comment
Three Steeler Nation Tattoo Men Dolls
My first Steelers Nation Tattoo Men — three barrel chested, pin headed, massive armed guys. After drawing the tattoos and assembling the bodies, here are the completed men. Each almost 3 feet tall! Long legs, very squeezable (muscle? fat?) torsos, and ambivalent faces. Now that I’ve warmed up with these basic guys, time to take a crack at the big-time tattoo men!
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago at 9:59 pm. Add a comment
Workroom, making tongue dolls
I made a whole lot of tongue face-blank stare dolls in the past Spring. Sewing tongues on the machine, ending up with a pile of pink and red felt tongues, there’s something even a little too creepy for me in all that.
Posted 2 months, 1 week ago at 11:45 am. Add a comment
My Second Doll
Made on Eglantine Avenue in Belfast, from an old purple sweater experiment that I had knitted, some basic felt from Craftworld, and braided embroidery floss, for the top part of her dress. Nothing about her is symmetrical or clean, but I cannot cut her up like I did some of my other first doll attempts. I like her off-ness, or as others would say, her handicappidity.
Posted 4 months, 3 weeks ago at 2:35 pm. Add a comment
IMMarket @the South Side Works!
It was a great day out at the South Side Works yesterday, warming weather, delicious chili from the Tin Front Cafe in Homestead, and lots of dolls dolls dolls. I am still exhausted, but my hands aren’t too bloody or clawed — plus my Charlie Batch doll is moving to Homestead, hopefully will be meeting his real life counterpart soon! Thanks to all the new owners, and goodbye to my giant businessman (who started off as Martin McGuinness, but now is the mouthless Doctor for a new Baby!).
Posted 4 months, 3 weeks ago at 10:16 am. Add a comment
The Troy Polamalu Doll
A brainflash woke me up yesterday morning. I had been planning on giving a PandaMom-PandaKid set of dolls to Lucy & Gail for their upcoming charity auction. But why not make a hairy Samoan instead? So I took a few hours in the morning, a few in the afternoon, and Troy Polamalu The Doll was born.
