Doll-A-Day 2023 #339: A Little Wooden Girl

   I got today's doll at a doll show. She was very cheap, and I thought she was cute. She's made of wood, and jointed. 

  She has a nice face. It's quite detailed and well painted, especially with the rest of her being so simply made.

Look at those eyes.

Her hair is attached in a swirl.

She's only about three inches tall.

Don't mind my horrible nails.

Her arms and legs are attached with wire.

So she can sit and lift her arms. 

  She has a cute homemade skirt, and simple plastic shoes. When I got her she was wearing a sparkly Kelly Princess top. She needs a simple cotton blouse that will match her skirt. And a nice simple cottage to live in. That would be fun to make and furnish. I see her in a little log cabin maybe. Or a corn cob house like Miss Hickory.

  That's the doll for today. Make sure to also check out today's Twelve Days of Tammy World post, and post #340, also posted today.

Doll-A-Day 2023 #163: Betty Curtis Girl, and That Good News!

   Okay. Here we are back to the Betty Curtis kids. Yesterday we saw the boy, made by NIADA artist Betty Curtis, (and you can see their grandparents HERE.), and today we're looking at the girl.

She's a little over three inches tall.

 She has beautiful ringlets, in what is probably mohair.

Like her brother, she has a stockingette face over a molded shape.

The fine lines in her painted features almost make me think they are decals.

She has sort of mitten hands, except they are those baby anti-scratch mittens, because they have no thumbs. She also has a wire armature and stockingette legs. Like her brother and some other Betty Curtis dolls I've seen, she has a thread around her ankles that I think is supposed to be the top of her socks?

She's wearing a lace slip, and the edge of her dress is stitched on the outside, like her brother's shirt collar.

  She has little faux leather shoes.

 

 As I said, she has a wire armature, so she can be posed.

She and her brother can even sit down. The dog looks like he wants to get loose and run instead.

  Unlike her brother, She doesn't have a Betty Curtis tag. This leads me to think they were probably always a pair.

  Those are today's dolls. 

  And now for that good news I talked about yesterday. I have two pieces of good news. One is that we haven't seen much of our third cat, and Ken can't get him to come up from the basement, but yesterday I got him to! I had to go in and see my boys, and the usual two came out when I went into the kitchen. I spotted the treat container, and as I always did, shook it and 'kitty kitty'ed and called Arky by name. It only took a second, and there he was! He wouldn't come any farther than the kitchen doorway, and he wouldn't take the treats from my hand like he used to. But he did come up from the basement! And he ate a couple of the treats I tossed to him, before going back down to the basement. It's a start! He gets so wild once he manages to get down to the basement. I don't want to shut them completely out of the basement though, because if it gets really hot, they can always go down there to be cool. But he came up for me!! Yay!!!

  The second piece of good news concerns the lost camera memory cards from our trip last Fall. I brought a little tub from the house that contains a lot of little things from our trip. In it I found a memory card. I knew it was too good to be true that it was one of the cards from the trip, because I knew that I had my main card, and Ken's in my bedside table drawer. So those were the ones Ken got from the house and lost. But Ken had his computer on when I found it, and asked if I wanted him to pop it in and see what was on it. He did, and I saw pictures from our 2015 trip to England. But then I saw some from the recent trip. After we went to dinner and came back, he looked at what he had on his computer, (without the card), and there were ALL of my trip pictures from the missing card! That means I got ALL of my pictures back! Because I still have the card I put in when that one got full! (It covered basically the evening before, and the last day of our trip.) I have a bunch of flash drives that were also in the tub, so he can put them on one of those, and I can have access to the pictures, and have them saved in case Kens computer has some kind of disaster, which his computers inevitably do. So I am thrilled! It means we also have all of Ken's pictures from London on, because that's when his camera stopped working, (since recovered), and he used his phone, and my camera for some things. So yay!!!

  That's today's doll. See you again tomorrow!

 

  

The Final Dale Leroy

  Dale Leroy is finally finished...sort of. Some of you may remember seeing the beginning of the little felt fellow I have been working on.  Some of you may have been following his progress. Some of you may have no idea what I'm talking about. So here are some reminders.
'Dale Leroy',as he has become known,(named after the hypothetical little boy my mom always wanted and never had ), has a wire armature,covered with felt. He looked like this the first time you saw him.

His head is felt stuffed with Polyfil. He even has felt lips.

The neck situation looked ok when he was naked...

Then I made some clothes for him.

,,,but he looked a little stubby once he got a shirt.

Then I gave him some,as my mom called them,'big yella work boots'.

  All he needed after that was hair and a face. So here he is now,with both of those.

The fuzzy felt makes the eye lid paint look like eye lashes!

I'm not really satisfied. Other than the fact that his torso is too long and one arm is too short,I was hoping his hair would end up thick enough to reshape his head a bit. No such luck. I might try adding some more hair later.

He could use more of a nose too.

 I  don't know if I like his mouth either. Should I remove the felt lips and just try painting lips on? That's a rhetorical question, so don't bother to answer. I won't listen to anything anybody says,even though I've asked, as my family well knows. I'll probably be afraid to remove them for fear of ruining the whole doll, and just leave the felt lips on and complain.

I swear that nose used to be more visible.

"The Great Profile"  he's not.

So there is Dale Leroy. He looks a bit tall and lean to be a child,but hey,even hypothetical children need to grow up sometime.

   I am also working on the goofy faced little guy I showed you during the progress on Dale Leroy. We'll see him again soon.

Doll-A-Day 2019 #191: A Doll of My Own Making,Tiny Lady in Flowered Dress

 Today we're on Day 190! So far, so good! And today we're looking at another doll I made. She's one of my faourites.

She's under an inch and a half tall.
You may have seen her before,in a post I did on the things I make. She also appeared on Tammy World's shoulder in a World Doll Day post.

This shows you how small she is.

 But she deserved her own day.
 

The metal thing is a stand I made for her, but she's not using it.

She has loads of curls on the back of her head. I hope I'm remembering how I made those correctly, because I like the  way they look. She is made of polymer clay, and painted to look like an old fashioned china doll. She has jointed arms and legs,so her arms can be posed and she can sit down,as long as her dress doesn't push her back up!

She has a petticoat and lace pantaloons. Her shoes are painted on.
  That's Day 190. See you tomorrow for another doll.

Doll-A-Day 2019 #122: A Doll of My Own Making: Susan

  Still no camera,so we're going with something I already had photographed. Again we're looking at a doll I made myself. She's this girl.

This is Susan. Don't ask me why. I guess she just looked like a 'Susan'.

  Susan is another of the dolls I made that have a wooden head,and a felt covered wire armature.

I see her as being maybe 13 years old, and being from the 1950's.
 

She can't turn her head, but her arms and legs are bendable and posable, and she can sit down.

So I posed her next to a chair I made, but didn't sit her in it. Go figure.

She sold on Etsy,so I can't do it now!
She's small too, although not as small as some of the dolls I've made.

She has long hair,with a white ribbon in it.

  And that's today's doll. We'll see another doll tomorrow. And hopefully there will be a camera, so something new. See you then!