OWOH 2011 - One World One Heart Giveway

Hello everyone on OWOH!

My name is Marina and I love to sculpt one of a kind dolls. I have been sculpting for 2 years and I made a variety of dolls in many styles. Some are as complicated as ball jointed dolls and others are a lot simpler.
They're all sculpted out of Paperclay and painted with acrylics.
I have been lucky to be the featured doll-maker on Art Doll Quarterly in Autumn 2010.

For this giveaway I have made a little doll inspired to the vintage Charlottes that I'm collecting.

She is 4.5" tall, her arms move up and down and she can stand on her own.

Please leave a message for me to be entered in the giveaway and don't forget to leave your email address for contacting you in case you win. If you're reading this from the Hive, you will have to come to my actual website to be entered for the giveaway.

On Feb 17th I will use a random number generator to pick the winner.

Good luck!

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Visit my dolls gallery on

flickr.com/photos/marilenz

My first doll of 2011 - Saskia, BJD #4

It's been a rough start of the new year for me and, between this and that, I decided to even challenge myself with another BJD! -(was it an attempt to self-destruction???)-
I expected the usual problems, but it went so much smoother this time!! Maybe I start "getting  it"......
Saskia was born after only two weeks! Now I'm itchy to start a second one!

Saskia is all sculpted out of Paperclay and her eyes are my handmade ones (see tutorial in one of the older posts). She is only 8 inches tall and I really love this size! It wasn't intentional, but now I think she won't be alone in the future.
She has the finest mohair hair.
I'm quite pleased with her!! :-)

Saskia waiting to be properly dressed.....

My Alice is on ADQ! :-)

It's always exciting to be published and especially when it took me SO long to make the doll. These BJD's are no piece of cake...
Alice is on page 93 of Art Doll Quarterly (Feb/Mar/Apr 2011) and I'm very happy :-)))
Besides, it's a FAB issue! The featured artist is Ankie Daanen (amaaaazing doll maker, probably my all-time fave) and there are many other fantastic doll makers here that I'm proud to call "my friends".
This doll world is such an enchanted place and next weekend I will be in doll heaven at IDEX in Orlando (as a visitor)! My first time there..... I can't wait!!!