Introduction to my first dolls

I opened this blog months ago but I never worked on it. I have had some very busy months. 2010 started on a really fast pace and it's still running. I can't believe it's already May. It hasn't been a very productive year doll-wise...... Making dolls is only one of my many interests and a night pastime. Ball Jointed Dolls take so long to make (especially when you don't know what you are doing!) that I'm down to making less than a doll a month!

Anyway, in the first posts here I want to showcase my dolls more or less in the order I made them, until I reach our present days and I will show some Work in Progress photos of my BJD's.

THEA

The first doll I want to show you is my favourite. Her name is Thea and she is the first doll I made in this size (about 9 inches). After her, most my dolls have been between 8 and 9 inches.

She is a Paperclay hard sculpt with acrylic eyes. She was born in December 2008 and she is holding a Christmas decoration.

I like to pair her with a bigger doll that I called The Winter spirit (18 inches, Paperclay and soft body with posing arms). She is holding a dove. I sculpted her before Thea.

THE CHERRY PIE LADY

In between making these two, I made a 12 inches doll that I called the Cherry Pie lady. Those who know me outside the doll world. know that I run a rubber stamps company called Cherry Pie so it was almost a self portrait :-) She is holding a Paperclay Cherry Pie.

This doll is sold.

CANDY and ARLETTE

2009 was a very productive year for me. Unlike 2010, I was stretching time to the impossible and I made a bazillion paintings and quite a few dolls too!

The first two that came to me are CANDY COTTON and ARLETTE from Bruges.

 

Candy lives in Alaska and Arlette in Oklahoma

These two girls were born only a couple days apart. I was sculpting both at the same time (waiting for the pieces to dry).
Candy was born first, my first doll of 2009. She wears a night gown, funny pink slippers and she carries her jointed dolly (2.5 inches -removable).
Looks like she woke up after a nightmare.
Arlette is a Dutch girl, a little orphan whose only friend is her teddy bear. She wear pink clogs and raggedy dress.

SHANNA

Shanna has a strange look in her eyes because she has vintage glass eyes. A flea market find. She also wears a vintage doll dress from the early 60's that I stripped off a plastic doll. The cage is a dollhouse item and there's a little birdie inside. 8 inches doll.

MELANIE

Shelf sitter. Melanie was sculpted for holding my vintage teddy bear.
I got this teddy from my grandfather when I was 3 or 4, but I believe the teddy is a lot older than me and probably from the 20's or 30's. It's only 2.5" long and all jointed.
I wanted to give a special place to this teddy and what's best than little arms to hug him?

YUKI (Boy)

Yuki means happy or snow in Japanese. He doesn't look so happy but his hair is snow white!
I gave him a Japanese name because he reminds me of those manga characters.......
He is the only boy doll I sculpted and he wears a super cool leather jacket that I stripped off a Bratz boy.

WEDNESDAY ADDAMS

 

Sold to CA

When I make a doll I normally start with sculpting a face. I rarely know what I want to do and the doll will reveal herself to me while I sculpt her.
When I made Wednesday  I had no idea who I was sculpting but I heard her loud and clear as soon as I finished sculpting her face! She was W Addams..... no doubts about it!

She is holding a spider on a her left hand.

POPPY girl

Poppy is a little happy girl. I made her for my friend Zed. She collects poppies and dolls so I wanted to combine the two things together.

My cat Misty was particularly interested in this doll and her flower......

LYDIA

This was my first sitting doll. I made her for my friend MJ who had the original idea of a school girl reading a book. The tiny book has real turning pages with colored images.

STREGHETTA (=cute little witch)

This doll was sold. She is holding a vintage glass marble - sold

ANNIE with birdie

Sold to Germany

KIMBERLY

Another shelf-sitter - sold

ULLA

A Lappi girl - gifted to MJ


MANDY

Victorian girl - Sold to Australia

TARA

Rebel girl..... gifted to Cristina

LUCKY KEYLA

Sold to Germany. She holds a lady bug on her hand.