Halloween is coming!

Top Hat Girl with a "Halloweenie on a Stick"

So I am really rolling with this years Halloween dolls....Top Hat girl is almost done...I have to finish her "Little "Halloweenie on a Stick" baby! The babies hat is a dyed silk cocoon and it will be more designed like a pumpkin....it also needs to be "stepped up a bit" with  embellishments and silk ribbons! 

She is paperclay really sanded and polished smooth ....with a soft body that has a new "Cool" armature inside...My friend Heather Brauner,  Dollmaker Perfectionaire!!!  taught me last week...I love it...you kind of build a little "cage" on the body...it shapes the body better...and the clothes seem to lay nicer!  THANKS HEATHIE!!! Check out Heathers site from my favorite  blogs  list. I will post a picture of this armature next post for the next doll.

Her top hat was made from premo clay over a wide metal  tube to create its shape..., I  "triple thicked"  it to match her Shiny Patent leather shoes!  This hat was inspired by my good friend Cindy Sowers...Millinery Extrordinaire!   You can check out her site in my favorite blogs List....A Dolley A Day!  (Love that name.....)

Chickie Corn Girl is complete...her clothes are Tea, Coffee, cinnamon stained, and her hair is wild and has braids and fabric strips weaved into it! 

Her Chickie Corn hat and all of the hanging chickie corns are made from yellow, orange and ivory polymer clay.  Her Trick or treat pumpkin is a silk cocoon dyed orange, and decorated with vintage findings ..... I decopauged a "Tiny" vintage picture I found on the internet..My Very Creative friend, Sue Milo (from the Milo Files!)  gave me the idea after we both decided the pumpkin was sweet...but Boring!  That extra step  made the pumpkin  come to life..Thanks Sue!

Last Bon Bon Babe Chocolate! Start of Halloween Dolls!

I completed the last Bon Bon Babe...she is a Chocolate Bon Bon!  The striped fabric reminds me of a fancy candy wrapper, the ones that are twisted on both sides ...so I tried to make her have a Puffy "Wrapper" type dress.  I stamped a  tiny harlequin design with distress ink on pale yellow fabric, and it appeared gold and matched the striped dress....Like A "miracle" !  Stamps are such a cool tool...allowing you to design your own fabric! 

Her Chocolate hat was formed with two tools.... I found a kids PLAY DOUGH set with some cool "sweets" molds.  One of them was this candy with a "Dallop" shape on top.  I put a sheet of chocolate colored clay in the mold, and then used one of my "Cupper" balls to squeeze the clay and form this perfect little hat!  I used Texture squeeze paint for the chocolate drizzle...then glossed it with Triple thick...adding tiny handmade polymer candies and a silk ribbon bow. 

She has "Candy jointed arms too! I created two strawberry topped chocolate beads in between two filigree bead caps...I added some silk ribbon to match her dress. 

And now its time to start some Halloween fairies!  I pulled out all of my halloween prints, I tea stained most of them for a "Vintage " feel....  I found a very cool piece of Vintage Black and Orange striped  Velvet ribbon...I can't wait to use it!