Living the Dream

My second doll:   I call her “Africa”.   I used the antique spindle from an old mill, as the base and body.  I sculpted hands and arms.  I used material for the face and washed features on the material.  I wrapped the doll with a dress made of striped material.  Then I made the lined cape of old shower curtain material with fleece material that coordinated.  I bead the cape all the way around and then attached it to the doll. I added a bead and two baubles and a hand pounded necklace that I made of gold and silver craft wire.  I made the turban of the same fleece as the lining of the cape then added embellishments to it.

I think the most difficult to do was the washing of the features.  The next difficult was sculpting little hands.  I am think to put something in her hands.  I have not quite decided yet.  An offering of some kind, a little hand woven basket, perhaps.  I have some corn husk material I saved, or I have some sisal.   It will come to me when it comes.

I am falling in love with doing this type of art.

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