off with their heads! [info]comearoundruby

another doll

6:51 pm - 06/07/2006

abby
abby is not an unhappy girl, not really. she is just very discontent. you see, what abby really wants to do is ride horses bareback in the circus. she wants pretty skirts in tulle and chalk powder on her feet. she wants the tents and the smell of cotton candy in her hair. and while this is what abby really wants to do, what she actually does is help on her father's cherry farm. day in and day out, biting her lips permanently stained from the juice, she waits and watches - just hoping for the bright coloured trailers to appear in the dust on the horizon.

(ingrediants: sculpey, paint, ribbon, hair, wire, angst)



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[info]corruptkitten 7th-Jun-2006 10:59 pm (UTC)
Lovely doll, sad story..
[info]comearoundruby 8th-Jun-2006 01:02 pm (UTC)
thank you! they've all had rather sad stories lately. possibly because happy eyebrows are trickier. ;)
[info]batchix 7th-Jun-2006 11:06 pm (UTC)
Awww... she'd be a pretty bareback rider too! She needs a toy horse. :3
[info]comearoundruby 8th-Jun-2006 01:02 pm (UTC)
she's been making sad eyes in the general direction of my my little ponies for a few days now...
[info]comearoundruby 8th-Jun-2006 01:03 pm (UTC)
thank you so very much!
[info]kawaii_addicted 7th-Jun-2006 11:39 pm (UTC)
aw I love it so much! poor abby! :(
[info]comearoundruby 8th-Jun-2006 01:03 pm (UTC)
thank you!

and by the way, your icon is absolutely mesmerizing.
[info]sassi214 7th-Jun-2006 11:59 pm (UTC)
I love her.
[info]comearoundruby 8th-Jun-2006 01:03 pm (UTC)
thank you!
[info]bubbledragon 8th-Jun-2006 01:05 am (UTC)
I love how you used the ribbon to make her 'sweater' realistic! I'd love to make dolls like this... did you learn from anywhere, or are you just awesome? I'm mostly curious about the hair - I could never get that to look right on puppets when I made them.
[info]comearoundruby 8th-Jun-2006 01:07 pm (UTC)
aww thank you very much!

i'd seen similiarly simple-jointed dolls before by other far far more talented-than-i dollmakers. and i thought that i'd like to try to make my own. the first few were rather dreadful.

as for the hair, it isn't terribly tricky. just a bit tedious. i take little sections and tie a knot in the middle. repeat. repeat. repeat. (lots of repeating) and glue the knot down the center of the head. i like that it gives a bit of a 'center-part' look.

of course i'm sure there is a better way to do the hair than i do, but i've not found one.
[info]yarngrrrl 8th-Jun-2006 01:11 am (UTC)
Love her, love her little cherry skirt. Your work is so unique!
[info]comearoundruby 8th-Jun-2006 01:07 pm (UTC)
thank you thank you!
[info]xthexlastxsongx 8th-Jun-2006 02:08 am (UTC)
beautiful
[info]comearoundruby 8th-Jun-2006 01:08 pm (UTC)
merci.
[info]abbybeth 8th-Jun-2006 02:34 am (UTC)
awww poor sad Abby .... it made me smile though, because MY name is Abby! (and when I was little I at least dreamed of riding horses, though not necessarily bareback and/or in the circus!)
[info]comearoundruby 8th-Jun-2006 01:10 pm (UTC)
goodness what is it about young girls and horses? my name is not abby and i dreamed of riding horses too! also not necessarily in the circus, i was more inclined to dream of the lipizzaner stallions.
[info]abbybeth 8th-Jun-2006 01:13 pm (UTC)
ooooh! I LOVED the Lipizzaner stallions! My parents took me to see them like twice! haha :)I was one of those that, even though I was considered to be a "bright" child, I was convinced that it would be ok if a horse would live in my room with me! (My room might be 8'x10', if that) So I settled for reading every horse book I could find from Margherite Henry to The Saddle Club!
[info]comearoundruby 8th-Jun-2006 01:18 pm (UTC)
...were we the same person? i too was wildly and utterly convinced that there was no logical reason i couldn't have a horse, and in fact i only lacked one because of my mother's obvious cruelty. not, of course, the fact that we lived in a very very small abode in the city.

and the books! eesh i think i read every book even remotely about horses my little library could offer. i was a huge fan of the black stallion series.

[info]abbybeth 8th-Jun-2006 03:04 pm (UTC)
Our parents must have talked! I too was convinced that it was my parent's lack of vision and logical thought that made them blind to the fact that a horse could obviously live with me! Were you also unhealthily obsessed with My Little Ponies, since they were your closest horsey outlet? and don't tell ... but I stil have most of my horse books! I was such a horse person (minus the obvious lack of possession/rental/remote access to horses) that might explain why now, two of my closest friends have horses ... never thought about that one! haha
[info]comearoundruby 8th-Jun-2006 05:14 pm (UTC)
oh yes, my little ponies and fashion star fillies. and the odd breyer's horse. and any horse toy from any other toy line. i had all of she-ra's horses and strawberry shortcake's etc. a rather poor subsitute for the real thing.

where you also the sort of girl who never asked for a pony? i was always quite adament that i wanted a horse NOT a pony. haha.
[info]abbybeth 8th-Jun-2006 05:28 pm (UTC)
I loved my My Little Ponies - I even had the beauty salon! I also had quite a few Breyers myself ... there's probably still some of them running around in the basement. Anytime there was a horse toy accessory that accompanied another toy, I had to have it - and I usually played more with the horse than whatever it was supposed to "go" with.
and yes, ponies were cute, but unacceptable. I wanted a horse - no substitutes!
Whenever you rode on carousels, did you always have to ride on one of the actual horses, as opposed to the random lions, gazelles, zebras, etc?
[info]comearoundruby 8th-Jun-2006 05:31 pm (UTC)
of course, who would want to ride on a stupid bear? i was always a bit torn about the zebra though, it was close and would do in a pinch if for some reason all the proper horses were taken.
[info]abbybeth 8th-Jun-2006 06:58 pm (UTC)
true, the zebra was a good stand in ... they were "horse" enough, and I was pretty fond of them anyways!
[info]poison_me 8th-Jun-2006 03:11 am (UTC)
Do you have a website where you have the rest of the pictures of your dolls? I adore them...
[info]comearoundruby 8th-Jun-2006 01:11 pm (UTC)
thank you very very much! lots of other girls (and the odd boy) can be seen lurking over at thedollings.com
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