The summer show season has been keeping me BUSY! I have been stitching and painting up a storm this past month.
After sending Alice off to a new home, I needed a new friend, so I quickly stitched up Dorothy Gale of Kansas. As my family knows, I'm something of a Wizard of Oz fanatic, and I passed that on to my daughters. I think Emily and I have both memorized the movie and the soundtrack, plus I've read the books by L. Frank Baum, Baum's biography, and all manner of book on Oz memorabilia. I don't know why I hadn't created a Dorothy doll sooner!
On Sunday Rob took me to an estate sale out in Oregon City. He had gone the day before (while I worked away on my paintings back home). He knew I would love what they had, and OH. MY. GOODNESS! Was he ever right! The woman who had lived in this house was an accomplished seamstress, costumer, and member of the Antique Automobile Society. I found frothy Victorian frocks and millinery flowers, pieces of elaborate beadwork trim and laces. The silks and cotton lawns were so delicate and fragile that most were falling apart, but they were perfect for some angel/fairy dolls I've been wanting to make. When we got back from the sale I went straight to the studio. Here is Garden Angel Number 1:
The Salem Art Fair and Festival is this coming weekend, July 19-21. I will be there in my booth, #39. Come by and say hello, and meet these new dollies in person!
xoxo lulu
After sending Alice off to a new home, I needed a new friend, so I quickly stitched up Dorothy Gale of Kansas. As my family knows, I'm something of a Wizard of Oz fanatic, and I passed that on to my daughters. I think Emily and I have both memorized the movie and the soundtrack, plus I've read the books by L. Frank Baum, Baum's biography, and all manner of book on Oz memorabilia. I don't know why I hadn't created a Dorothy doll sooner!
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Dorothy looking very farm girl on the picket fence. |
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I found some perfect vintage buttons from my collection that Grammie gave me. Red for the field of red poppies, and a large faceted green button for the Emerald City! I love the loosely spun yarn for her braids - and estate sale find. |
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Sweet gingham and a floral-birdie print! |
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And Toto, too!This past weekend was particularly productive in the painting department. It was wonderful, especially considering that I haven't been feeling too painterly for quite awhile. Suddenly I was in the mood! I finished two small faces, started four 10 x 10 canvases, and two 16 X 20 canvases! Here are one of the 10 x 10's and the 16 x 20 that is finished: |
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"Ich kann die nicht fragen, Mama" |
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"The Stars, the Moon, and the Angel" |
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Garden Angel Number 1 |
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This is one of the millinery flowers I found at this past weekend's estate sale. |
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Fabric collage details - I love adding these little touches! Isn't the sparkly lace pretty? This angel's arms are made from a tattered silk slip from the 1920's. |
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She was just going to have wool curls, but when I saw the flower spray on her head I love how the leafy stems looked like pert pigtails! |
xoxo lulu