b.b. flockling: July 2011

Friday, July 29, 2011

French Gnome Garden Faery

I have just returned from a cross-country Road Trip. It has been far too long since I have visited my childhood home in Illinois. It was thought that perhaps I might just accompany my sister on her annual journey back home.So, she and I loaded up our 11 passenger van with food, children and headed down the road one early Summer Morning.

Along the way, we enjoyed long, significant(and not so significant) conversations.While watching in awe as our diverse American landscape stretched out in front of us. And naturally, I indulged in a bit of doll making.

While working on a commission, I had a clump of Apoxie left over. Not one to waste anything, and just for the fun of it,I quickly fashioned a wisp of an armature and sculpted a body from it. . Miraculously the next day, ...amidst all the road jiggling... a sweet little French face the size of my thumb stared back at me. Then, I put the pieces away. When we returned two weeks later, some of my flowers had bloomed. Only their dried petals remainedto let me know they had come and gone. I took out the body and face...one thing led to another, and a tiny 5 inch French Gnome Garden Faery emerged. From the flowers I had missed and other things too...

Her name is Gizelle.She is so small and delicate and she tends a Garden full of Summer Memories.

If you would like to see more details, and read Gizelle's poem beautifully written by Suzanne Milson (Pixie Andrew's mom) please consider visiting her auctionby clicking on the ebay picture up in the right hand corner of this page! Oh, and before I show you a new project,please meet a young mermaid created especially for Cherrylinn.A very dear friend of hers has comissioned this doll for her 12th birthday.They both share a love of the sea and it's gentle inhabitants...