Christine's Dolls are individually created in a sunny home studio, where antique trunks and bins overflow with natural-fiber fabrics and fleeces, with nature treasures from the garden and forest, quarries and seashore. An idea for a doll springs from a line in a poem or from a happy mix of materials or from a segment of history. The heads begin as a ball of hosiery stuffed with fiberfill, later needle-sculpted into shape. Fleeces from sheep or angora goats provide the wigs and beards. A bit of old brocade or lace or beading takes its place as the focal point of an exotic costume. Scraps of leather become tiny boots or slippers. Pods, cones, and stones, dried flowers, shells and feathers, with perhaps a touch of driftwood, find places within a pouch or bouquet or as part of hat decor.
The finished dolls keep watch over the bookshelf or fireside or sit amongst the house plants. Some rest safely out of reach, rocking gently in their own tiny hammocks. All provide a unique touch of whimsy to the homes where they reside.
See us at these Art & Craft shows!St. John's Holiday Craft Show, Pleasant St., Brunswick, ME, each year on the first Saturday in December.
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