This doll was inspired by a quote from the book, “The Eight Cousins” by Louisa M. Alcott. I snipped a bit of the text and affixed it to her front. The text reads, “I haven’t begun to show my oddities yet”. My imagination reeled when I knew that snippet of text would be the jumping off point for an art doll. I used bits of things found on my work table to construct her. Once I found the florists tube and the antique doll head the rest of the doll just came together. She lived for months without a home on my work table. I dug out an old crayon box and filled it with bits a bobs of things that were either autobiographical or items that I am drawn to. This box became her home. Her name came from two bits of paper which were glued down next to each other. The word, December, was from a calendar, and the word, doll, was from an image copied from one of my favorite childhood books. She does seem to be a bit tickled to be the december doll as she giggles into her hand.
This doll was inspired by a quote from the book, “The Eight Cousins” by Louisa M. Alcott. I snipped a bit of the text and affixed it to her front. The text reads, “I haven’t begun to show my oddities yet”. My imagination reeled when I knew that snippet of text would be the jumping off point for an art doll. I used bits of things found on my work table to construct her. Once I found the florists tube and the antique doll head the rest of the doll just came together. She lived for months without a home on my work table. I dug out an old crayon box and filled it with bits a bobs of things that were either autobiographical or items that I am drawn to. This box became her home. Her name came from two bits of paper which were glued down next to each other. The word, December, was from a calendar, and the word, doll, was from an image copied from one of my favorite childhood books. She does seem to be a bit tickled to be the december doll as she giggles into her hand.