Alice

You know that this year marks the 150th anniversary of the publication of Alice in Wonderland right?

Well I thought I would make a cloth and clay doll inspired by Alice. She's a little bit quirky, to tie in with all the strange characters that she finds down the rabbit hole, and also through the looking glass.....

Many of those characters have been reproduced on Alice's apron, I hand tinted them to make them stand out nicely. Her blue cotton dress is lined and buttons at the back.

Alice's Illustrated Apron

Alice has stiffened and painted cloth limbs, a soft cloth body, and a hand sculpted Paperclay head and shoulders.

Her legs have hand painted red and cream stripey stockings, and she wears hand made leather shoes.

Alice by Dottie Dollie

Like the real Alice she's off on an adventure, hopefully I can tell you more about that soon.....

Plan? What Plan?

I really do suffer from a short attention span, and am prone to undertaking new projects on a whim, and this week's impromptu project was a total shop makeover.....

 

My cabinet shop in Go4 Market Café is a mid-century teak bureau.

 

 

I had secretly always wished that I had had a 1950's larder unit to create my shop in though, so when I came across this teak shelf unit, operation shop expansion was born!

 

 

The open back on the shelf didn't suit my needs, so Mr Dottie was recruited to help me in my makeover frenzy.......

 

I have developed an unhealthy interest in digital collage lately, so I made some backing sheets, using my vintage magazine collection.....

 

These were pasted onto a back board....

 

 

.....and attached as a back for the shelves, to house Dottie's wares

 

 

I made some paper and ribbon bunting, using more digital collage....

 

 

 ......and this morning we put the whole thing together!

 

The tote bags can now be seen on the side.....

 

.....and the cushions and stuffies are cosying up in the suitcase

 

I'm quite pleased with how it has turned out, and it gives me quite a bit more space to display my work for sale. Hope you can pop by for a visit! 

 

Now I really must get back to playing with clay!!!!!

 

 

 

 

More Dottie Dolly Doodles

Fresh in the shop today is Julie, a 1924 Dolly Dingle paper doll pin.

 

Julie is a gorgeous strawberry blonde girl, with cute black mary jane shoes, and blue stripey socks.

 

She's available with a cute blue gingham dress, with organza sleeves, and a white belt.

 

 

Or, a pink and white frilly party dress, and a posy of red flowers

 

I think that the blue is my favourite, but maybe you adore pink. If you love them both perhaps you can spin a coin....

 

 

 



Giveaway Time!

To celebrate reaching 150 sales in my Etsy Shop I'm having a giveaway.

 

Follow this  link, to be in with a chance to win not 1, not 2, but THREE great Kewpie prizes!

 

Kewpie Tote Bag, Face Brooch & Illustrated Pin

 

 

GOOD LUCK!!!