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This doll is painted with chalk pastels. Its form
and position were designed to exhibit interesting positive and
negative shapes.
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Louie the Christmas Elf
Louie is an original cloth doll. His face is
painted with soft chalk pastels.
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| Anna
Anna is in her first ballet recital. She's a
little nervous but so pleased to perform in front of her parents and
friends.
She is a felted doll with machine embroidery and
machine beading.
Anna won third place in the
Felted Doll division
of the CDAA 's Celebration 2007 competition.
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Stx
Stx is a tree fairy. He is surprised that you
have seen him. Usually he is invisible among the leaves and branches of the
trees in which he lives. Stx won third place in the Photography division
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| Blind Date
All dressed up and ready to go out. Imagine him
showing up at your front door for a date.
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The Gossip
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| Autumn Oak Fairy
This fairy spends most of her time playing among
the upper branches of th eoak tree behind my house. she changes colour
with the seasons so that she will blend in and not be noticed by mere
mortals.
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Ol' Man Winter
Ol' Man winter is getting old. winter is almost
over and he's worked very hard to bring many storms and blizzards. He is
just about to blow his last storm of the
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| Witch with Red Shoes and Mouse.
She saw the shoes in a store window and just had
to have them.
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Mischievous Maeve
Maeve is a garden spirit. She was dancing among
the flowers and got carried away destroying much of the garden. |
| Matador
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Liz |
| Twirling Shirl # 1
Twirling Shirl loves to twirl. She practices
skating - especially her twirls - every chance she gets. She is confident
that she will win a medal at the next Olympic games.
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Sun Dancer
Bright colours and wild dancing are the Sun
Dancer's strategies to entice the sun out from behind the clouds.
Sun Dancer is an embroidered doll designed to hang on a wall. It was
machine embroidered from an
original design I created using Husqvarna Viking’s Professional Plus
Embroidery System software. The headdress is copper wire. The back of the
doll is multi-coloured using cotton and poly-cotton fabrics. The
embroidered hands are appliquéd on by hand using invisible
thread.
Sun
Dancer won Honorable Mention in the Professional Doll Category of the
"Everyone Loves Sulky" Challenge 2003.
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| Anthea
Anthea is a butterfly fairy. Her mother was a
garden sprite and her father was a butterfly.
Her hair is felted and her wings are
appliqued. Her dress is dyed, distressed cheese cloth.
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