Awhile back I acquired a very special doll – no one else could see it, shoved amongst dirty stuffed animals at the thrift store as she was, but I knew. I took her home and commenced altering her appearance to match the story I could feel inside her – a sad tale of Victorian asylums [...]
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A Chair for Thornapple
Posted in Crafts, tagged decorative, dolls, painting, plants, poison on September 8, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Ci Annwn – a doll for Hallows
Posted in Crafts, tagged animals, bones, costume, creepy, dog, dolls, England, folklore, Halloween, marionettes, pagan, photos, Wild Hunt on November 4, 2010 | 3 Comments »
This years Hallows celebration involved some pretty heavy ritual where I donned the guise of the Master of the Wild Hunt (more along British folklore traditions than Scandinavian, but I digress…). As part of the costume, I made a spirit vehicle in the form of a doll – something to represent an actual spirit, in [...]
Forest Cake
Posted in Crafts, tagged cake, creative, deer, food, forest on October 27, 2010 | 2 Comments »
For a long time, I’ve fantasized about having a special cake, a cake that looked like a fairytale forest, the Märchenwald I spend so much time in (at least, internally). I finally decided to do it, figuring that my birthday last weekend was a good excuse for it. Since I didn’t feel like baking on [...]
Bone spider
Posted in Crafts, tagged bones, crafts, creepy, Halloween, spider, weird on October 18, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Another little craft project I snuck in recently, as a birthday gift for my partner (who has an inordinate fondness for spiders): a clay spider, painted with a skull, whose legs are the rib bones of a raccoon. Those bones were just the perfect shape for this, I couldn’t resist.
Small woodland dolls
Posted in Crafts, tagged art, crafts, dolls, forest, photos on October 8, 2010 | 1 Comment »
While I work on more elaborate doll-making, I’ve been amusing myself with these – small primitive dolls made by decorating simple wooden forms. My first one, a sort of invocation of winter when I was really sick of warm weather. Made from scraps of sweaters, yarn, and sitting on moss: My second one, made for [...]
