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It has been a very long time since I posted anything for you all to read. I got swept up in Christmas preparations, then someone contacted me to do a commission and I became very involved in researching, planning and executing it. It got finished in mid February and I plunged right into another creation, this time for an Art Doll Quarterly challenge. A haunted fairy tale is the challenge/inspiration. This has been the only one that I have felt the least interest in, so I decided to give it my best shot. After brainstorming on my own and with my friend Debbie, the idea of The Little Match Girl seemed the most appealing. In the story, the little girl dies (ghost #1) and is taken up to heaven by her dead grandmother (ghost #2), and I could visualize it very clearly in my mind, so I plunged ahead. I drew some sketches, had my husband photograph me holding a pillow as the grandmother would hold a child and started the armatures first. I normally begin with the head, however the pose and th