The long hot summer
It has been far too long since I posted my doings here. Where to start? I am showing three of my dolls in the co-operative gallery where I am a member- Kawartha Artists' Gallery and Studio here in Peterborough. Two dolls are in the banner for my Etsy store and one is the Snow Queen that I created for a readers' challenge in Somerset Studio magazine. I also submitted an article on me and my dolls to the local newspaper, which brought me some (modest) fame and a patron who now owns two of my dolls. One (actually two) is the doll that is in Art Doll Quarterly, The Little Match Girl. I'm glad they are moving on to other homes. They need to be out in the world. At the beginning of August I took part in a Waldorf-style dollmaking workshop given by Fabiola Perez-Sitko, who divides her year between Terrace Bay on Lake Superior and her home town in Mexico. It was held in the Toronto studio of Monika Aebischer, who runs The Olive Sparrow and also is a Waldorf dollmaker. We worked at