Paper Weight Dolls

You remember the pink fairy from a couple of weeks ago?  She was the first of three dolls I planned to make.  I finally got the heads for the other two sculpted, thanks to Terri Brush's encouragement through her fantastic online class.  I have to tell, you, that my mixed media art world has expanded since I took her class here in UT, and the dolls are just one example of that.

I never considered myself a doll maker.  If you knew some of my online friends from three or four years ago, or maybe longer even, they would tell you I was adamant that I did not make dolls.  Now, lately, I seem to be making more and more of them.  I love creating unusual assemblage dolls!  I think assemblage is so much fun because you have to solve how to put unusual things together.

I call these dolls paper weights because I filled the glass globes with glass decorative globs (or whatever they are called, lol) and they would make very good paper weights.  How, would you like one of these on your desk keeping your papers from wafting around in the...um air conditioning?  JK

Or, can you just see your earrings hanging from her cute little wings sitting on your dressing table?

These plaster hearts are going along slowly... mostly because I am not sure what (and they haven't told me) they will be when they grow up.

I am still playing with felt pieces...hearts are new

but cats are old.  

I got an unexpected package in the mail.  It came from my friend Lori W over in sketchbook group and she sent me a journal.  It is supposed to be a cooperative journal.  I am to do two or three pages then send it on to someone else.  Eventually, it will return to Lori and her very special Art  Camp for Women group.  

This is the beginning of my first page.  Lori...if you see this...are you sure I was supposed to have one of your journals?  And anyone else, if you want to collaborate on this journal send me your addy via my email, and I will send it to you when I am through.  

My second in line Granddaughter, KKK,  brought me these two books today, as her Mom and her knew I was wishing for a really good book to help me get through the uglies...I am talking about our weather.  We are socked in with gray cloudy foggy smoggy absolutely no sunshine...not unusual for our area really but happening way too early in the winter cuz once it arrives it usually stays for weeks!  Nothing better than a good book to escape into!  And I really have been wanting to read this series!  So, thanks girls!

And I have played on Yearbookyourself.com site before, but it is always a fun place to play so I thought I would share with you.  I really laugh at these altered photos.  You just have to take a picture, and then you can download it and the site  makes a year book like picture of you.  I think this one is so funny... I was never a hippy, I was in the group of "too late for the fifties and too early for the hippies, lol.