I thought I’d share with you some of the first dolls I made many years ago. Unfortunately, I don’t have a lot of photos especially of those I was most proud of but you will see from the photos how far I’ve progressed since those days - well, I hope you do!
She has also had a new arm and foot attached, both are slightly bigger than the original limbs but that was the closest they could come up with. They were both broken when I was a little girl. It was the day I was being discharged from hospital and my mother had bought her a new outfit which is the one she’s wearing not. I was nursing her on my hip and walked between two narrow poles, her limbs stuck out too far and as a result one arm and part of one foot were broken off.
Elizabeth then spent many years packed away in a cupboard until I was old enough to get her repaired. I guess my mother was tired of sending my dolls to the doll hospital to get their hair put back on. (I fancied myself as a hairdresser when I was very young).
Her original outfit was a blue tutu which I used to try on, it fit except I couldn’t get the buttons to the tunic to do up. It’s hard to believe I was ever small enough to fit into something so small. (When my youngest sister was born we used to dress her up in her bride doll’s dress which was as tall as she was at two years old).
This is my one and only raggedy doll, Raggedy Ann (this was my interpretation of Raggedy Ann at the time). I was going through a bit of a down time and so she was made to look a bit how I felt.
Stay tuned for the second part of this post coming next!
Take care!
Marieanne xxx
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