Thanks to Kelli for offering the Friday Show and Tell – click on the image above to see the other blogs who are participating.

I started making dolls in the mid-seventies. I made cloth dolls to sell at a few places around town. Then, one Saturday morning, I was out looking for ceramics and wondered into what could only be described as a truck garage behind this rather dilapidated house – and a whole new world was opened to me – porcelain dollmaking. I’ll save the whole story for another post, but I eventually got to the point where I produced my own line of original dolls. These are a few of them.

This is Allison. She’s about 24″ tall and most everyone who knows me and has seen her says she’s “me.” Well, most artists work tends to look like them, but I have always appreciated it that a friend said Allison was my “soul.”

This is Kayla. When I was creating these three dolls I wanted them all to have a different look – so she became the redhead in the group. Perhaps I somehow tapped into the Irish heritage on my father’s side when I created her.

And the last of these three is Tessa. She is such a “pretty” doll and has such a peaceful air about her. I always think that she’s daydreaming about being out by a babbling brook and maybe reading a book.

It’s been awhile since I did any dollmaking, but my goal for 2009 is to get back into it. I no long have my kiln so won’t be doing porcelain dolls, besides, there’s just so much heavy lifting and such with having to make molds, pour the dolls, etc. So, I’ll be working on getting back into doing dolls made of polymer clay and I would also like to learn how to make felt dolls.

I’ve got my studio almost finished. My son will come over this weekend and help me put up the shelves I need. Then all I’ve got to get is a comfortable chair for one corner and decide if I’m going to put a dresser I have in there or go out and get a new one. Or maybe I should go out to the resale stores around here and see what I can find.

Thank you for stopping by – and I’d appreciate a comment if you have a moment.

Sandra