Arts of Delight

In the past few months, I have been staying home, as ordered, and working on my dolls. Heading up to my studio has been such a joy, it helps balance out the disruption of most of the rest of my life. I am the kind of person who spends a lot of quality time having coffee with friends, and having this social contact removed has been very hard. I use the time freed up to look at dolls online. My interest has been caught by Tudor dolls (thanks, Tudor Tailor), primitive cloth dolls (   thanks ofclothandhand), more Izannah Walker research (thanks everyone, you know who you are) and all the Waldorf doll posts on the Facebook MakeAlongGroup hosted by Astrid of Little Doll House and Fabs from Fig and Me. Of course, I am inspired to make some of these kinds of dolls. So far, the Tudor doll is waiting for me to take up my Fimo again and sculpt heads and arms and feet. I have made Tudor dolls in the past, so the costume is not a problem. What I have discovered is that for me, it is more appealing