Using dismembered plastic parts from old dolls and other toys, artist Freya Jobbins assembles these exceedingly strange portraits of people and pop culture icons. Chances are when viewing these you fall firmly into one of two camps: the highly amused or the highly disturbed. Regardless, it’s hard to deny the incredible amount of labor that goes into each piece, from the exploration of form and the use of color to make each anatomical amalgamation. More

Fixing messy doll hair and removing surface dirt from your doll is easy and works on almost any doll, old or new. All you need is some plain lotion, shampoo, and conditioner.

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Is there anything more precious than a child's laughter? As a parent I sometimes wish children remained children forever. That's not going to happen so I want to see as much happiness in their lives as possible.Here a few ideas we've come across that will brighten their - and your - lives. While some of these projects will definitely need a parent's help, others are just fun regardless of the way they turn out. Enjoy!

Marie-Antoinette schoentjes...en tevens naaigereitjes... De schoentjes kosten 19,50 per stuk Dit roze schoentje is VERKOCHT Dit schoentje is nog beschikbaar 19,50 VERKOCHT! Marie-Antoinette doll blauw kost 125,00 De blauw doll is VERKOCHT Dit naaigereitje staat in mijn nieuwste boek Marijke's mooie mijmeringen. Ze kost 85,00 Half doll 85,00 euro

Fashionably dressed wooden doll known as 'The Old Pretender Doll', made in England in about 1680

De ingerichte Trousseau Workshops | 29 Mei 2012 | 22:50:58 Vorige maand liet ik de Trousseau zien die ik tijdens een workshop van Wim van Soest had gemaakt. Een leren reiskoffer van fijn leer en bekleed met stof en van binnen nog erg kaal: Afgelopen week was het vervolg van de workshop: het aankleden van de Trousseau bij Stineke van Atelier "eenoptwaalf" in Sliedrecht. Er waren twee opties voor de aankleding: een babypopje of een popje met pijpekrullen. Het laatste was de bedoeling eigenlijk( dat had ik vooraf aangegeven) maar bij het zien van het babypopje veranderde ik toch mijn keuze nog deze dag. Ik had al wat babyspulletjes ooit gemaakt ( zie vorig logje over de Trousseau) en dat zou leuk staan. Op de workshopdag zijn we begonnen met de Trousseau te voorzien van kant, het popje aangekleed, het spiegeltje erin gemaakt ,het beertje geschilderd en van een jurkje voorzien en een begin gemaakt met het babymandje. Tussendoor heerlijk gegeten en veel tippen gekregen over de aankleding. Stineke had een doosje klaar gezet tijdens de workshop met allerlei spulletjes voor de aankleding...makkelijk om het er zo bij te pakken en aan het eind van de dag mee te nemen. Rond 5 uur ging ik met een prachtig popje en geen kale reiskoffer naar huis om het verder thuis af te maken. Eénmaal bezig met zoiets krijg ik steeds meer ideëen . Zondag had ik eindelijk tijd om er aan te beginnen....van het één kwam het ander...eigen spulletjes erbij gezocht voor de nieuwe ideeën, passen en meten, schilderen, strikjes maken. Tot vanavond aan toe zelfs toen ik het idee van een handdoek met badeendje kreeg bij het vullen van de lade...dus geel badeendje roze schilderen, parelmoer nagellak erover en ja toch nog een beetje te roze...dus het laatste stukje zijdelint gebruikt om een piepklein strikje te maken. En ja nu is die af en helemaal naar mijn zin........ Op reis is dit babymeisje van alle gemakken voorzien Een fopspeentje met spuugdoekje, de fles en billenzalf, De rammelaar, luiers in de lade en handdoek en badeendje. En voor de finishing touch , een kammetje en borsteltje, haarolie en haarlotion....en daarna lekker spelen met de knuffelbeer! Ik ben er ontzettend blij mee en ik kan hier echt uren naar kijken ..... ik kom er nu achter dat ik geen enkel babyminatuurtje gebruikt heb wat ik de eerste keer liet zien....had toch wel alles meegenomen op de workshopdag en ook thuis er steeds bij gehad...zo zie je maar al werkende komen er steeds andere ideeën!

I managed to wash all their little faces, waking them up with visions of steaming bowls and freshly cut fruit. Up they went, out of the blankets and dented pillows, and in a wee row, they started getting ready. One, two, three, four, five…yes there you are, six, seven, eight, nine, ten…where are the

Image Courtesy of Wikipedia.com As you all know I absolutely love dolls of all kinds, shapes, and sizes. However, while doing my research on the "The History of Faceless Dolls" I read an article about Penny Wooden Dolls, like the doll pictured above from Wikipedia.org, and fell in love with them. According to Wikipedia.org, " Peg wooden dolls also known as Dutch dolls are a type of wooden doll from Germany and the Netherlands. They originated as simple lathe turned dolls from the Val Gardena in the Alps. These dolls were sold undressed. Young girls would then make their clothing from scraps of fabric." "Other similarly constructed wooden dolls, using a jointing technique where the arms and/or legs are attached to the body with pegs, are some of the oldest surviving dolls, and were made worldwide. Sometimes a peg wooden doll's arms or legs are locked together by the jointing system, so if one arm is moved the other will move. An advanced form of peg joints is where the body pegs are "split" and attached separately allowing independent movement." I was intrigued by the picture, shown here, and wanted to know more. So, of course, I had to do some research. Here's what I found. Page 146 of the Information Please Girls' Almanac by Alice Siegel said this about Pennywooden Dolls, "These are English dolls carved out of wood. The joints are moveable and fastened by pegs. These are also know as dancing dolls." My question was whether Peg Wooden dolls and Penny Wooden dolls were the same thing. I had to find out. According to an article on eHow.com entitled Penny Wood Dolls History by Christy P., "Penny wood dolls were known by a variety of names, including peg wooden dolls, penny woodens and wooden poppets. These dolls typically resembled wooden clothespins with simple peg joints." So now we know they may be called Dutch dolls, peg wooden dolls, penny wooden dolls, pedlar dolls, and tuck comb dolls. There was a Grodnertal Wooden Peddler Doll that sold for thousands of dollars on the Rubylane.com website. According to her description she was a spectacular example of a Grodnertal wooden pedlar doll. There was a Grödnertal Carved Wooden Doll, ca. 1820 on the PBS.org WGBH Roadshow Archives website here. This doll was appraised at several thousand dollars and was a tuck comb doll due to the little comb on the top of her head. So now we know they may be called Dutch dolls, peg wooden dolls, penny wooden dolls, pedlar or peddler dolls, tuck comb dolls, Grodnertal Wooden Peddler, and Grodnertal carved wooden dolls. Image Courtesy of Frills, Frocks and Fancies Blog The doll pictured above is from a wonderful post on the Dolls from the Attic...Mis Muñecas blog, which I absolutely love, about Grodner Tal, "Tuck Comb," Peg Wooden Dolls. This post is filled with information on these dolls as well as a ton of beautiful pictures. If you would like to read this post please click here. According to this post, "From the home industry of the Groden Valley, Grodner Tal and South Tyrol, came the little peg wooden dolls. These are some of the oldest surviving dolls. Although the term peg-wooden refers to a jointing technique the term came to be synonymous with lathe turned dolls from these areas of the Alps. They were the inexpensive play dolls of generations in both Europe and America." "Most of the dolls had combs carved into their heads-hence the term Tuck Combs. Their heads and bodies were lathe turned as one piece and had simple peg joints, but the larger dolls had ball joints and even swivel waists. They had elongated graceful proportions, nicely carved details, painted slippers and sometimes with wood pendant earrings." "The hair is usually painted with curled bangs. Once painted and varnished they were ready for whatever adventures their little owners could conjure up. They are often referred to as German Tuck Combs, probably because they were sold in the German Nuremberg Toy Market, and sometimes incorrectly they are called Dutch dolls but this was a mispronunciation of the word Deutsch." This was confirmed by a excerpt from the Early North American Dollmaking: A Narrative History and Craft Instructions by Iris Sanderson Jones in 1976 which said, "Long before the American Revolution, Grodner Tal doll salesmen carried great containers of toys and dolls into Italy and Spain. By the Civil War these dolls were known to English children as "Dutch dolls," probably the same distortion of the word "Deutsch," or "german," which occurred with the "Pennsylvaia Dutch" in the United States." So, now we know they aren't actually Dutch dolls, but mispronounced Deutsch Dolls. This means they've been called Dutch aka Deutsch dolls, peg wooden dolls, penny wooden dolls, pedlar or peddler dolls, tuck comb dolls, Grodnertal Wooden Peddler, Grodnertal carved wooden dolls, Grodner Tal dolls, and Grodner Tal peg wood dolls. According to the Wood Dolls article by By Denise Van Patten, Doll Collecting Expert, on the About.com website, "Dates of Production Of Wood Dolls: As mentioned, wood dolls are known from ancient times. Italian creche figure examples are known as early as the 1500s (very rare) and English wood dolls from the late 1600s and early 1700s are quite rare. English wood dolls are more plentiful from the late 1700s and early 1800s, and German Grodner Tal and Peg Wood dolls are from the 1800s. A cottage industry created peg woodens well into the 20th century, and there are artists today still making wood dolls." We learn from an exhibit on the Illinois State Museum website that, "Berechtesgaden, Grödner Tal, Oberammgergau--Peg-wooden Dolls - In several German-speaking areas of central Europe, the making of wooden dolls with peg jointing became an important part of the local economy. Most of these dolls were made in the mountainous area surrounding St. Ulrich, which was part of Austria until World War II, and is now part of Italy. In this area, called the Grödner Tal (Valley), wooden dolls and doll heads were being carved as early as the 1700s. By 1800, about 300 wood carvers in the Grödner Tal were making dolls, and sales agents took their work all over the world. The farm families living in the mountains spent their winters making dolls in a wide range of sizes from local wood, mostly pine. Most of the attention was put into the head, which required the most skill in carving and painting. The peg-jointed wooden bodies allowed for movement of the arms and legs. Peg-wooden dolls were also made in the forests of Thuringia (a northern area of Germany) and in the Berchtesgaden and Oberammergau Tyrolean area. Craftspeople making these dolls were also working in England, America, and China, but the quantities produced could not match those of the Grödner Tal. The Verlagers in Grödner Tal were important middlemen who organized production, purchased dolls from the carvers, stored them, and marketed the dolls for export. By 1873 almost the entire population of the Grödner Tal (3,500) were involved in the doll business, and one Verlager had thirty large showrooms containing millions of dolls." There is an utterly adorable children's book published in 1895 entitled "The Adventures of Two Dutch Dolls and a 'Golliwogg' by Florence K. Upton" that is visible on the Gutenberg.org website that is so charming you have to read it. I loved the story and the adorable illustrations. If you would like to know more about the author, Florence K. Upton please click here. Image Courtesy of Theriaults.com The TWO GRODNERTAL WOODEN DOLLS,MOTHER AND SON,WITH ORIGINAL COSTUMES shown above were listed on the Theriaults.com website. Here's what they had to say about them: According to their description: "TWO GRODNERTAL WOODEN DOLLS,MOTHER AND SON,WITH ORIGINAL COSTUMES - Lot Number: 78 - 9" (23 cm.) Each is all-wooden with one-piece head and torso, dowel-jointing at shoulders, elbows, hips and knees, the woman with black painted hair decorated with highly- stylized spit curls and tuck comb, elongated throat, and tiny centered painted features; and the boy with short black hair, suggestion of sideburns, painted features. Condition: good, unrestored, costumes are original albeit frail. Comments: Grodnertal, circa 1830,the dolls were featured in Ackerman's Dolls in Miniature. Value Points: both dolls wear their original stylized costumes." How beautiful are they? Are you in love with penny wooden dolls, too?

I was lucky enough to score over 60 doll parts for making molds and dolls with, many are very old and vintage! Many of these when they broke at a factory or doll site, were discarded and used in planting, gardening, to insulate walls and more. I could never throw away a broken doll, they can be re-made into dolls, restored or molded to make new dolls for all to enjoy. Here they are in the raw form, so you can see all the details and distress they ensued over time!

...in true squirrel fashion i love to collect things.....i harvest old toys, rescued critters, vintage material, paintings, china....anything that catches my eye......here are my lovely peggy dollies - i like to try and imagine their former lives and the little girls who loved them.

photo by Mark Cartwright While digging at a construction site in the Grottarossa district of Rome in 1964, workers found a sarcophagus with artifacts and

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Emma 2009 shows the young Emma playing with her dolls underneath a table and a grown up Emma fingering her dolls on a fireplace mantle. Up All Night Studio at Etsy sells handmade reproduction of dolls that were typically found in early 19th century European and American households. "Head, hands and feet are constructed of a durable composition clay. The primitive body is made of muslin. The entire doll has been treated to a stained and antiqued finish. Hands and feet are attached with ecru ribbon, the arms are unstuffed and attached to the dress separately. All clay parts on the doll are hand sculpted using no molds." Antique Bisque Dolls: This Collectors Weekly site discusses antique bisque dolls. Blaise Castle: This site features a history of toys. Faith's Regency Doll Ballgown Wooden Doll Hants Web: "Her head and body are made from one piece of wood, which has been turned on a lathe and then carved. The separately-made legs are jointed at the hips and knees. Although her hands are delicately crafted out of wood, her upper arms are made of either soft linen fabric or kid leather, attached to the torso. For her eyes, the doll maker would have carved diamond-shaped holes into the head, and then added drops of blown glass. The wooden parts of her body and head are painted with cream-coloured paint, over a coating of gesso (a mixture of plaster of Paris and glue). Less fine dolls of the period were only painted on the face and neck. The painter’s final touch is to add her eyebrows, lips and cheeks. She has a wig of real hair." McCall's Wooden Peg Doll: These dolls were also popular during the era.

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Remember apple head dolls - an early American craft that became popular again in the 1970s? Here, find out how to make these shrunken apple dolls!

Little cutie hand tinted post card from Japan.

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Vintage pieces of quilts doilies linens and trim equal one little angel ornament and the beginning of a choir... Joyfully,