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Erica

May 18, 2005

Here she is at long last – my newest doll. Her name is Erica and, like me, she is a surly brunette (notice that she is giving you just a hint of a smile). Her body and shoes are made of wool felt (oh how I love wool felt!). She has a cotton calico dress and lovely brown yarn hair tied in pigtails with two satin ribbons. Her shoes have little rose shank buttons on them. She can sit up on her little bottom. And, of course, she is so nice and surly. (click on the photos to make them larger)

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Erica out on the porch.

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With a garden bloom.

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A detail of her stylin’ shoes.

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Comments

  1. myra says

    May 18, 2005 at 3:45 pm

    She is so sweet and her shoes are wonderful! Thanks so much for visiting my site, I love yours, its so full of crafty goodness!

  2. jenn says

    May 18, 2005 at 4:03 pm

    she is too sweet. I never have good luck making dolls. they always come out with very grumpy faces. yours seems to have a lot of personality!!

  3. Bertha says

    May 18, 2005 at 4:44 pm

    The shoes are just fantasic! She’s lovely! And yes, I have also become obsessed with wool felt. Amazing stuff!

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