I've been using my Etsy store as my site for the past two or so weeks. My web provider had been laggy for over 6 months and it was time to cut my ties with them. I figured that just directing my site to Etsy would be easier (and cheaper) and more convenient for people to buy from, rather than navigating the groaningly slow site.

I've been branching out lately, doing dolls that are a bit more elaborate than usual. I fell back in love with crackling and so each doll gets a coat of gesso, then white paint, then crackle, then antique, then a sealer. It takes a much longer time but I love the richness of the delicate crackling and the depth of the antique. So that's kind of re-inspired me to take a look at my stuff and make it a bit more involved.

I love the blue-haired girl above, I thought she would sell right away but what did sell was the doll that ended up reminding me of Lisa. Whenever I make a doll that reminds me of someone (last time it was Soren) that doll is bought very quickly, I don't know why. The blue-haired girl had one long tendril that I didn't want to snip off, so I got the iron and steamed off my fingerprints ironing the tendril into a smooth dreadlock. It made me want to be all Libby and make dreadlocks for my dolls. Maybe I'll do that.



Then there are the fairy tale dolls (Cinderella and Alice in Wonderland) that I'm really into. I was pretty dedicated to fairy tales as a little girl, and I was always hunting out more fairy tales, except for Hans Christian Anderson, I always thought his stories were so sad I almost couldn't stand it. I still have an extremely antique copy of Grimms Fairy Tales that I was given in third grade, a book that my brothers covered with grafitti and which (miraculously) survived their phase of burning my books to start fires in the family fireplace. So making Cinderella and Alice was really rewarding, I'm going to work on Snow White and Rose Red as a set next. This Snow White isn't related to the other Snow White with the dwarves and the huntsman, she's just got a sister and a bear in her story and only shares a name.

Okay so ... off to work. My head hurts today.