Brown Eyed Girl

I will admit to loving the early Kestners more than any other German made bisques. This young lady has been in my collection for several years. She's a big (27") beautiful Pouty Closed mouth Kestner. She wears a lovely and early brown straw bonnet with beautiful long silk ribbon ties paired with a empire waist silk dress buttoned in the back. Her beautiful brooch is a family heirloom and is a Norwegian Sølje. She carries a bead embroidered antique purse. The little toddler holding her hand is a character child by Kammer & Reinharts (mold 126, 18"), one of my favorite child molds. She looks so sweet in her original silk dress. One of the first antique dolls I bought.

There comes a time when an update is due

For a long time now, I have been wanting to try my hand at silicone painting. It has been kind of a closed book and a mystery for us who were uninitiated. The opening finally came when a lovely artist; Wendy Dickison shared a tutorial with us collectors. I bought my first kit from Emily Jameson. A sweet little baby girl sculpt called Kate. I received the blank silicone parts. Upon painting him I realized that he was a she, and I named him Joey. I finished him a while ago and finally found the time to give him hair. Joey is micro rooted; one hair at the time with beautiful dark brown kid mohair from Angela Sprott Her hair is absolutely gorgeous; fine, strong and shiny; This is how the blank kit looks like;

This is little Joey after he has been panted and given hair;

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A basketful of love

We had another baby from Lorna Miller Sands last summer.  Her name is Cammie Rose. She is, like her sisters Chloe and Dessie, an OOAK made from polymer clay.



I am a great fan of Lornas sculpting and her way of capturing the moment.

The fairest one of all....

....is my beautiful early Kestner. She is around 21 inches tall and has the sweetest face any doll could wish for and her body is early straight wrist.



 

She found friends already

Look who moved in with her; two small  kittens and a little fairy. The fairy is a Fairyland Realpuki who's name is Soso. Soso is a tiny BJD from a Korean company.

It's been such a long time now....busy with life, I guess...

Those who knows me well, also knows that I'm obsessed with dolls.....all types, that is. Bjd's  has fascinated me for a long time, so, like most doll collectors do at times; I caved in and ordered a beautiful elegant being,  from Korea. She is a Dollstown Soph B with Elf body (around (53 cm tall). Soph B arrived "Au naturel" (unpainted) and it was a pleasure to try my hands at painting (or as they say in the BJD world; Face-up) and blushing her long limbs. 

I've given her the name Elphine; suiting her well as she is an elf doll with pointy ears.

Favorite hat

I have this strange fascination for doll-hats. Strange it is, as I've never worn a hat, nor do I suit them (whenever I get brave enough to try one it generates amusements from those around....so every now and then I will comply as I like to make people smile).

This wonderful hat is worn by my big Bebe Phenix. Both the French Bebe and her hat is from around 1890. The hat was very dusty when it arrived and was treated with a generous sprinkling of odorless talk-powder. I used a hairdryer (on cold setting) to blow off the powder (a sight to behold; standing in the shower cubicle to minimize the amount of dust everywhere :D).

The gift

I first noticed the drawings around a one year ago. They hang in the corridor of our local Childrens hospital. The date on these wonderful drawings made me wonder of the "why's and who's and how comes".

I found that our local Children's hospital had been given as a gift from Sweden to Norway after the liberation in 1947. The drawings was also part of that gift. They were all made by Swedish primary (elementary) school children in 1947.