Hall Table II

I finally had a chance to work on the table some more! The top is pretty much finished now (I say pretty much because I might have a flash of inspiration and want to add to it). I've added several more colors and fleshed out the pine tree quite a bit.

Sorry, the colors don't show up exactly right on here, but it gives a general idea anyway.
Next I want to add a bit of a surprise inside the drawer- you'll see....

Hall Table

Several years agot I picked up this little hall table at a garage sale for $3-. The legs were loose and it was slightly the worse for wear, but I knew that it had potential.
Here's what it looked like when I brought it home:

I painted it with a couple of coats of cement grey, then started on the background for the painting on the top:

Once I finished the background I started on the next layer.











After that I added more values of the same hue:

Next I'll start adding more colors!

(Finally) FINISHED!

So the dolly is finished! Now that she's done I'm naming her Hester.  I've added a lovely wool hat that's both wet and needle-felted and held on with a glass-topped hat pin.
















There's a beaded brooch on her lapel made of teeny glass beads, and she now has a necklace made of real dyed pearls.

Almost finished!

Dolly's almost done! She now has shoes made of leather and wool felt and a fully lined wool coat with real buttons! She also is sporting a fox pelt stole that is made of wool and lined underneath in hand-dyed silk.

And she has a friend; Anise the carrion crow.

All she needs is a couple of finishing touches and she'll be completed!

More Doll Clothes

I've finished the third layer of Dolly's clothes. She now has a cotton velvet dress trimmed in dark brown braiding, and a full pleated skirt made of wonderfully soft and thick cotton flannel trimmed in velvet ribbon.

Doll Underclothes

This morning I finished Dolly's undershirt, which go with her socks and panties ( I made those last night). For the fabric I used a used kid's t-shirt that I found at a Goodwill store. It was the perfect color, which I wanted to look kind of like old mummy wrappings. I'm especially pleased with the way the socks turned out, they will have no problem staying on, but are big enough to look stretched out and slouchy.

Doll Clothes

Some of the doll's clothes are finished. Yesterday I made a crinoline for her, and today I made her shirt.

Peaty cat was nice enough to pose with the doll for the first picture.












And Here is a close-up of the shirt, I used glass beads for the buttons and wonderful linen fabric for the shirt itself.