Little Googly Doll

Here is a new eleven inch doll I made.  She has a cloth body and head hand-sculpted by me in paper mache; she is inspired by the "Googly" dolls which began to be made around 1903.  The Googly dolls were very popular.  Side-glancing eyes had been on dolls for many years before the Googlies, but "googly eyes" are even larger.
 

Googly dolls are so fun.  I am planning to make her some sisters and maybe put a few up for sale on Etsy. 

Larger doll head

Working on sculpting a new head!  I sculpted her over a ball of taped newspaper with a dowel up the middle. 

She's coming along. 

Hair Supply

Stocking up the Hair Department...

I've been in the mood to get mohair. (ha) I looked around Ebay but then ended up at -- Etsy!  There I  found a half ounce of beautifully clean locks of Suri alpaca, from a young Suri alpaca.  People are selling the locks off of their baby alpacas, in rural California.

The locks I bought turned out to be more reddish in person than I anticipated from the picture.  They are so soft.  At another site, I bought mohair roving, liking the flaxen color.  The Suri alpaca is a lot softer and silkier than the mohair roving (right). 

Then I bought a huge amount of human hair at a doll show.  Probably at least twenty ounces.  It would make very special dolls I am sure.  One of the samples I had to weigh as I was curious.  It is dark brown and so much heavier than the others.  It weighs almost five ounces; an equivalent amount of other hair types weighs 1.8 ounces.  I wonder what the lady (or man) was eating. 

Hm, well,  I guess it's like using mohair off another living creature, right???   So far I have only put it into separate bags.  And stowed it in a dry area.