I haven't done much today doll-wise. Saturday mornings my little granddaughters always come over, so on Friday nights everything I'm working on needs to be cleaned up and put away. I don't have a "working studio". My whole main floor is my "studio". I cut out and paint on the kitchen table, and sew and glue in the living room either at the sewing machine on my desk tucked into a corner, or sitting in my big easy chair. Maybe not very "professional", but that's how I've always made dolls. So, Friday evenings all the scissors, pins, needles, and dolls which stand out on the end table beside my chair all week, need to be put away out of reach of small inquisitive hands. Saturday afternoons I can take it all back out. It's like starting over from scratch every weekend!
Last night we went to Canadian Tire (car cleaning department) for another chamois for the native costumes for JID Asa and little Byuri, who are going to become two Northwest Coast native girls - either sisters, or mother and daughter. Now I need to look through all my Northwest Coast art and design books to find appropriate figures to embellish their outfits with. I've already purchased new red and black Sharpies markers to draw the designs onto the leather. I've already made both girls plain beige tights to wear under their regalia and protect them from being scratched by the doll stands. Maybe while I'm looking for native designs for the costumes, I should start making some leather footwear - some kind of native-inspired, tall moccasin-like boots. The outfits are going to be "native-inspired" and not necessarily authentic, so I do have some leeway.
Last night we went to Canadian Tire (car cleaning department) for another chamois for the native costumes for JID Asa and little Byuri, who are going to become two Northwest Coast native girls - either sisters, or mother and daughter. Now I need to look through all my Northwest Coast art and design books to find appropriate figures to embellish their outfits with. I've already purchased new red and black Sharpies markers to draw the designs onto the leather. I've already made both girls plain beige tights to wear under their regalia and protect them from being scratched by the doll stands. Maybe while I'm looking for native designs for the costumes, I should start making some leather footwear - some kind of native-inspired, tall moccasin-like boots. The outfits are going to be "native-inspired" and not necessarily authentic, so I do have some leeway.
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