Chocolate fairy

Finally!!
The Chocolate fairy is complete! I changed her original "strawberry blonde" curly hair do to darker straight pigtails....she became more "alive" for me with this hair! The techniques that i learned from the Diane Keeler class were a long slow road!!! Summer is a little difficult to be creative...but i got through !! This doll helped me to see what techniques i need to work on ...and what changes should be made for my next doll. Dont get me wrong...I am happy and excited about this doll.....but I know the errors Imade...and I will work on them for the next doll!

Fiber Textile class with Pearl Moon

This past weekend our doll club was lucky enough to be able to have Pearl Moon from Australia teach for a weekend. Pearl is a phenominal fiber artist and fabulous sculptor who displays her textiles on the doll form. She taught us as many techniques as she could in a weekend. We worked from nine in the morning until abouth midnight both days!!! We were on "creative overload" !!!! but we just couldnt stop working!!!

Most of the work was Free motion machining using different techniques with collaged fabric, fiber, paper, paints, foils and even sewing into "nothingness" ! What looked crazy in the beginning became beautiful works of fabric art for every student! It was an amazing weekend....and we even got a few extra days with pearl to shop for more "ART" stuff...and play with clay and stamps....

Also, we had a short visit from Gloria Winer ! Gloria (GLOWIE) brought her latest "Male form" doll.....he was fantastic!!!!

After the weekend was over ... I really felt fulfilled and thanked Pearl for the wonderful gift that she gave to all of us!

The attached photos includes some of Pears textile dolls and a picture of gloria with her latest "Male" doll....awsome!!!!