Cindy Lou dolls done!!! ugh!! On to Halloween Dolls!



Suessical Hairdos!




Ready to be tagged...



Completed Candy Hat

Cleaned, brushed and Dyed Mohair

Preparing for Wigging

Finally....ugh!!!  Cindy Dolls are completed ready for their tags and bags!...Wigging is a time consuming affair for ten dolls....but I think its really the point where they receive their personalities!!!   I mainly use Goat Hair because I love its silkiness and it just seems the most realistic.  Hair has always been an Issue for me!  Four kids in our family, I was the only one that had this huge head of frizz and curls that grew out and up instead of down!  Maybe that is why  I take the time to prepare and beautify the hair ...Just a weirdo thing that is important to me!!!

I buy a whole goat fleece...actually many fleeces of different lengths and textures in a natural color after the "shearing" season.  I have to separate the matted, dirty, smelly!!!  hair into bundles..wash it many times and condition it.  I dye the bundles with regular hair color....and then condition again...and de-matt, trim  and brush ...what a job!!! But I love the results and the ability to have any color and texture hair on hand. 

When the doll is complete, I cover her with plastic wrap and carefully drill the top of her head with my little walnut hollow drill...this is a great drill because it fits in the palm of my hand ...its light and I can control it.  after drilling, I coat the raw paperclay with a tacky glue...and then I start to wig her.......

OK!!!! ON TO HALLOWEEN DOLLS!!!

Art Is east coast retreat....Whoville Cindy lou dolls...moving along!!!



Whoville Hats.....




Pinwheel Painted.....







Tiny  Shiny  Coats and Sparkly Striped Pants




 


Cindy Dolls painted ...faced up...



Design Established...Hair will be last.....



So Finally!!!... These dolls are moving along at lightening speed.  Once I just sit and focus...the ideas flow and the outfit comes together. I thought for sure they'd just hang there for another year...but I seem to  work better under pressure...haha (whew!)

Anyway.... I like Candy...so I found these cool swirly mint candy molds (Wilton)....the perfect "TAM" hat for Cindy...When I think of Suess..I think STRIPES!!! and colorful...ugh...

two things that are hard for me...but I was able to put a Pink Candy...glittery shiny "Twist" to the idea...and I'm liking it now.  I Powdered up the candy molds and then used paperclay...trying to "hollow" out a head shape in each candy hat.  When Dried...I drilled a hole so that the armature wire protruding from the dolls head could go through the hat...the I made tiny whipped cream poufs from the same clay...and drilled a hole halfway through, so that it becomes a cap to the hat...hiding the armature wire.

I Created my jacket pattern...and planned it so that i could fit a wire ring inside the jacket bottom to create a crazy suess-like shape....I then created tiny clay buttons...I started from an Idea my friend Sue Milo had using paper....But I'm "More CLAY"!!!   Sue used a tiny embossing folder that has the cutest tiny buttons...she embossed the buttons and punched them out with small circle punches.  I really wanted a thicker button...so i tried "CLAY" in the embossing folder ...WHOA! so cool!!! after baking the buttons...I drilled tiny holes with the smallest drill bit and then pushed silk ribbon through, tying a knot....

The Pants were made from plain pink velvet fabric that I Stamped with a neat line stamp painted with acrylic paint...then I sprinkled with fine angel dust glitter....

Next I painted tiny shiny pink pearl ballet slippers...Gold outline...and I'm working on diamond crystal straps....

Back to work till the next post....