dollmania

I think I might have caused husbands all over America some financial heartache.

In my recent doll frenzy I may have been guilty of posting way too many pictures of cute dolls in one of my cloth diapering groups on Facebook. There was no malice or intent to my actions but I fear many a husband has now suffered the consequences of this idle posting. By my last count ten waldorf dolls are now on their way to new homes with mamas I infected with the doll bug.

Of course they are not alone in this epidemic. My collection seems to be growing bigger by the day. And there's another one the way...



The Girls circa early November 2012

Velvet, a 15" Bamboletta OTW

I started my own facebook group so that we could all get together and coo over dolls and enable each other's reckless abandon with hard-earned money. It's now my favorite online hang out.

My latest project, as a result of this epidemic, was to attempt to make some dolly clothes for one of the girls in the group who has just bought her first waldorf boy. She's literally obsessed with skulls, and wanted to give him a punk rock makeover. This, as you know, is a cause after my own heart. It would have been a great surprise but I'm crap at surprises so I told her I was going to do it. Side note: The selection of edgy fabrics at Jo-Ann is as crap as I am with surprises. But I did manage to find something that would work. I am cheap so after a quick google search realizing you have to pay for patterns for just about everything, I decided to wing it.

No more than one hour later...Ta Da!

 

I have to say I'm pretty impressed with myself. Now don't get me wrong, the inside of this thing is hideous and sadly since I didn't really know how to measure and put it together, there's not a hope in hell that it will zip up (mainly because I don't know how to add a zipper, but also because it's too small). The good news is I think hoodies look much cooler unzipped anyway.

 

Can't wait for her to see the finished product, and even more excited to see it on her little punk rock prince, who of course has green and blueish hair. Pretty cool if you ask me.

 

My final reflection on this project, other than I would like to make a lot more of these, is who would have thought the girl that wore pretty much nothing buy skull hoodies a few years ago would now be making them for dolls, or, more accurately, making them for online friends of people she infected with the doll frenzy bug? Next, pigs will fly and the Redskins will win a SuperBowl, which I guess is kind of a similar concept...