Okayyyy...so, joining the Junker Jane Swap has given me DOLL FEVER!
I went to the Goodwill yesterday, and bought up some crappy cloth dolls in need of a make-over.
Using one of the dolls I bought, a tacky little "country angel" type thing, I crafted all day today and transformed her into this:
But wait! Get this: the doll started out looking like THIS: (drumroll, please!)
What would possess me to buy such a thing, you might ask? First, it was only $1.00, and second, it had these really cool little "laces" stitched onto the front of its feet. From that one detail, it knew it was meant to be re-born.
Here's a better shot of its feet; it is sitting with other dolls that will be recon-ed very soon:
PROCESS:
--I stripped the doll of all its accoutrements: cut the dress off, threw out the twig-wings (
), and generally stripped it down to its bare body. This was not hard; it was mostly held together with hot glue.
--I also washed it by hand, and put it through the dryer. Here is was when it was all clean and ready to be crafted:
RECON: I basically just crafted in frenzy all day. Here's the essence of what I did:
--Hot glue ribbons and fabric to the dolls body to make clothes.
--Paint the face with acrylic, after shaping a bit with stitches.
--Replace its arms with steel wire and seed-beads (thanks for the idea,
LovesClutter!)
--Crackle finish.
--Make and glue on "wig" made of this great yarn I got at the Dollar Store...PLUS, the yarn is acrylic and nylon, so it's VEGAN, yet looks like wool!!!
--Wrap wire to define doll's "waist" and create a loop on back for hanging.
Here's more shots of the doll. It is over a foot long; one of the pics shows the doll near large tarot cards on the wall to help with scale:
And the little shoe laces detail which first drew me to the doll, and which I preserved:
Thanks for looking! C&C and questions welcome
