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| Sweet Pea by Gloria Y. Rone |
Sweet Pea, a polymer clay doll by Gloria Y. Rone arrived in early November. She is an 11-inch girl who is excited about the holiday season and has already dressed herself in a mint green and white dress with snowman theme. She wears a white knit cap with holly leaf and berry embellishment and holds a tinsel wrapped wreath with holly berries attached. When I saw this little girl in a for-sale post on Facebook back in October, my heart skipped a couple of beats. I visited the link to Gloria's Etsy shop and pondered the purchase. Since I had recently purchased Tuesday, Joey, and Amanda, I decided to pass.
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| She looks so serious... probably thinking about her Christmas wish list for herself and others. |
A few weeks later, with Sweet Pea still available, but at a reduced price, I swooped her up. She is my first Christmas doll for 2016.
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| Adelaide is a 14-inch porcelain doll with her own story written by her artist, Goldie Wilson. |
The week before Thanksgiving, I received my first Christmas card from the highly talented doll artist, Goldie Wilson. It was the first thing I saw after opening a package from her that contained doll Christmas ornaments.
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| 9-inch Lil Girl with Doll ornaments with hand-stamped faces |
Goldie shared photos of the remaining 2016 cloth doll Christmas ornaments she made this year (all others had sold and she will not make others this year). I placed an order for the four, actually wanting six, but the two others had already sold by the time I received Goldie's emailed photos. The four 9-inch Lil Girl with Doll ornaments I purchased are shown above. They have hand-stamped faces and painted-on shoes. Aren't they absolutely adorable? I love dolls with dolls anyway, so these ornaments were a must have!
A few days after placing the order for the above four, Goldie informed me the other two I had wanted were again available. She asked if I still wanted them. Of course, I did!
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| These 10-inch cloth ornaments have hand-painted faces with painted-on shoes. The fabric used for their dresses has images of children on the front and back, which adds to their appeal! |
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The day after the second package from Goldie arrived, I received a phone call from her. We chatted about her new style of dolls. Pictures and more details about her new dolls are available on my sister blog here.
If it is a holiday you celebrate, I hope it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas where you are.
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What cute dolls a doll ornaments! Do show photos of you dolly tree or wreath. Yes, it is getting to look a lot like Christmas!
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DeleteThanks for commenting. I will share photos of the wreath or tree (if I put a tree up).
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I love Sweet Pea's face. It's very expressive and natural looking.
ReplyDeleteThis post is reminding me that when I still had a Christmas tree instead of crèches,we had tiny doll ornaments. I like your idea of having bigger dolls better though, it's so appropriate for a doll collector and must be lovely to look at.
Thanks for sharing pictures of your new doll and doll ornaments.:-)
Gloria's ability to sculpt such expressive faces is what compels me to want almost every one she makes. None of them have the typical dolly face; all look like real people, someone you might know or have seen once before in your life. Sweet Pea, while only a little girl, has such a serious expression. There are little girls like her who have seen a lot in their young lives, probably much more than a child their age should have seen. But maybe that's not Sweet Pea's story. She's just a well-behaved child looking forward to what Christmas morning will bring.
DeleteAny size doll ornament is always a delight to me. I would love to have tinier ones to decorate the small tabletop trees that I display. (This year I am only using one and it is only decorated thus far with tiny white ribbons). I usually add Barbie ornaments to it, but I was too lazy to debox those and hang them on the tree. Most of my doll ornaments require larger trees. Unless they adorn a wreath or I allow some of my larger dolls to hold them, I am not able to use most.
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