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My dolls on film

admin — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 05:46:50 +0000

I made a group of dolls (here and here) for Julie Delpy’s upcoming film 2 Days in New York last year — the movie should be coming out soon, with the dolls feautred prominently in the opening.

and you can see them in this photo here. Yea dolls!

Parental Unit Dolls

admin — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 02:37:34 +0000

Its Amals parents! Welcome to the end of the quarter, its time for doll making once again. Two parental units to accompany Amal the doll, a whole family together for the holidays.

I think I have some Picasso syndrome, I am physically incapable of sewing a symmetrical face, but now I can officially do 2 more hairstyles — long ponytail & receding hairline! I hope a get a commission that capitalizes on both in one.

Chris Rock and baby dolls

admin — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 17:07:40 +0000

2 more movie puppet-dolls, a quick turnaround — both in a few hours, impressed with my own speed. I guess only when need be…

I will make you into a doll

admin — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 08:15:22 +0000

an experiment in Prezi, my new favorite thing, thanks to a Nathan Freitas presentation last week. Stanford, you are full of good things

I Will Make You a Doll on Prezi

Adventures of Doll Kara, Postcards from Baltimore

admin — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 09:24:52 +0000

The Family of Four Dolls (with two beards)

admin — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 23:49:45 +0000

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!

Doll Workshop: Family of 4

admin — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 03:53:44 +0000

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).

Two Pandas and a Zen Face

admin — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 05:07:39 +0000

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…

Three Steeler Nation Tattoo Men Dolls

admin — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 02:59:07 +0000

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!

My Second Doll

admin — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 19:35:13 +0000

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.

The Troy Polamalu Doll

admin — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:06:27 +0000

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.

Blank Face Tongue Out Dolls, with Baby

admin — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:57:12 +0000

The Pink Face – Tongue Out Monster

admin — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:00:53 +0000

More simple faces, more tongue! Though I gave into mouthpiece-ear-limb temptations. And then there’s the plaid, rescued from a Cape Cod skirt, to go with the pink bathrobe that has gone into the tongue.

The Red Winter Monster

admin — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:33:45 +0000

This is one of my first dolls ever, my first monster. He’s from Mairead’s clothes, a red hoodie, a green-pink t-shirt, and some green sweater from Uncle Karl. Very red, very bouncy, a permanent resident of Pittsburgh.

Stuffed Magazine

admin — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 21:09:36 +0000

I found this magazine yesterday at JoAnns, and after paging through it for 15 minutes, decided it was worth the 13 dollars.

After I got in line with it, two other women decided to buy it too.

Full of bizarre, misshapen cuteness (and sometimes threatening too).

You can see some screen shots from the latest issue here at the publishers site. Here are some of my favorites!

The evil-Picasso faces are by Cynthia Patton, I love them:)

And the Pickles — they remind me of my favorite doll growing up, Super Pickle! He wore Chuck Taylors and had a cape with a big P on the back.

Mikolaj the Doll

admin — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:02:07 +0000

I made Mikolaj a doll version of himself this August, delivered successfully in Babimost in the wake of a Polish wedding. Hopefully it has taken over Poznan by now, and is making its way across Central Europe. All with a look of discontent? Or maybe insouciance.

The Jamie Doll

admin — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 19:54:29 +0000

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

admin — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 03:02:53 +0000

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

admin — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 23:30:56 +0000

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!

A Very John Waters Doll Christmas

admin — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 16:41:44 +0000