I Finished the Doll!

Tomorrow I take my car in to the shop. I called the place up, described my problem, and the man on the other end of the phone said, "Hmm, sounds like a belt." I thought, "You guys always say that!" But, a couple of other people I know said the same thing, and I thought, "Right. And how much do you know about cars?" But, I sincerely hope all three are right.

The shop offers towing, so I asked about it, and he said my car ought to still run and most likely wouldn't start smoking until right before I got to the shop. How very reassuring! (I only live a few blocks away, so maybe he wasn't just pulling my leg.) BUT, I haven't dared to start the engine since Thursday night when I jumped out to go be sick. I just really hate finding out bad things, like how much my electric bill will be, and that my car won't start at all. I mean, the man wasn't with me when my car started acting up, and maybe my word, "whoofling," wasn't descriptive enough for the sound it was making.

So, anyway, say a prayer, send strong thoughts, whatever. I'll be taking a deep breath and getting over this next hump in my life road.

In the meantime, here's my finished doll. I don't have a name for her, yet.

Um, as you can see, I forgot to rotate the picture, so I hope you don't get whiplash trying to look at her all sideways-like. But see? Boobs! This is fabric I dyed, then embellished and prepped to be the doll body. I made the face (first I made a modeling clay one, made a mold with that, then made the polymer clay face) and all the fancy-shmancy stuff hanging off her. Twisted and beaded the wires for the hands and arms. I love the boobs-- seems rather Wagnerian, don't you think?




Forgot to rotate again. Whoops. Also, it's not imperative that her hands and arms be posed the way they are. I just wanted them to show more clearly-- sticking straight down, or even slightly curved, just wasn't showing up. Oh, this is the back, by the way.






See all the beads? These are the main reason I took so long to finish the doll. I made all the danglies, and I ran out of the purple-y teardrop-shaped ones, so had to make more. Didn't have enough of the Tyvek ones, either, so I cut the ones I had in half, which actually worked out better. And the wire pieces I accidentally went crazy with, and kept adding more, and more, and more... You get the idea. For some reason, I'm finding myself heavily into spirals right now. Which will last, oh, another 20 minutes or so.



Yes, this is the same picture as earlier. I just thought it looked cool back there, like it was a picture of me talking to you. Except I don't look like the doll. Well, maybe the hips. Anyway, I had to include this even though it's a little blurry, because it shows the purple embossing powder melted onto her face. I'm thinking this doll was an experiment in purple, even though it's not what I started out trying to do. In fact, this whole thing wasn't what I started out doing, but that happens most of the time when I make something. Everything sort of evolves on its own.


Here's the back of her head. It's completely beaded underneath, with danglies hanging off all over. You can see I was having a spiral moment again.


Now I can hardly wait to start on my next beaded thing. I have the fabric ready, but still have to find the right colors of beads. I'm thinking I'll have to order them. And, I already have in mind the ones I'll be making. Color! Give me color! (But not purple. I'm purpled out, folks.)