Yesterday I had a craft day with Beth, it has been way too long since we did that.
She worked on vintage paper journals, and I pixied up some unloved dollies.
See what I mean? Not the best. They deserved a makeover.
I worked on all four at once, going back and forth between them as I let glue dry. My first step is always cutting away or pulling off clothes. I try to salvage what I can. In this case, the white dress received some trimming and overlays. The green gown lost its skirt and the bodice was redone as a blouse. And that wonderful, but too country-cutesy pink silk? I used it to craft a dress for the tiniest doll.
Doesn’t she look pretty in it, with her matching pink hair? (It’s yarn)
This is a detail from the white gown. It has sequined bridal satin glued onto it and a net overskirt.
You don’t see much of the original dress, but it made a good foundation for the new, more fairy princess frock. Typically, I don’t keep the hair as is, but I kinda liked this headful. She only needed a posy crown to add a new look instead of ripping it all off (hair comes off easier if you use pliers) and starting fresh from a bald dome.
The green, velvet gown felt like a good beginning for a flower fairy. I had some vintage, velvet and sequined leaves to fashion a skirt for it. I dyed her bloomers and glittered her shoes, then added teensy weensy velvet flowers. She might look more like autumn than spring, but she does look more like a fairy than a faux Elizabethan doll at least.
It was a happy day, chatting with a buddy and creating little sprites from discarded dolls. And heck, I even got to play with some of my new beads too, it was quite a fruitful afternoon. When I finished these gals, I made a dozen gemstone bracelets to finish off my time in the studio.
I could use more days like this, it was good for me. There doesn't seem to be enough hours to get done what needs to be tackled, so now I’m off to make price tags for Good Juju.
Which is high on my list of most hated and put off chores - like taxes, which is also on my to do list for the next couple days.
Those fairies will be on my desk as I work, and I could lie to myself and say something uplifting like “their delightful spirits near me will make my chores more tolerable as I reminisce about our lovely crafting get together.” But that would be a whopper of a lie, because nothing makes taxes or price tagging not suck.
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