Y’all, I had so much ambition this summer. We took a glorious road trip as a family, and I packed up soooooo much yarn to make soooooo many dolls. I had plans to make forty-two. FORTY-TWO!! Well, I may have made all the shoes and tutus for them, but only…
Wow, sixty dolls. I have now made sixty dancers – many different hairstyles, a variety of skin tones, unique limbs, culturally expansive… SIXTY DOLLS! I initially started this project because, as a refugee foster mom, I noticed how easily we could find pale-skinned dolls at stores, but not many that…
Wow. I was not expecting such a big response to my first round of dolls. My Etsy shop actually crashed when I launched my first twenty-one dolls because so many people tried to get dolls when they went live! Thank you for your encouragement with this project, to the many…
Our very first foster child loved to play with baby dolls. And as I watched them playing with the pale-skinned, blue-eyed baby doll that we had on hand, I thought to myself, “Whoa, that doll looks nothing like them.” So I went on a quest: to find a baby doll…
Here’s the deal: 2016 rocked me a bit. On the high notes were the birth of our third child (an especially important event after losing a pregnancy before him), working on some exciting projects, and getting used to the swing of three kids. For the low notes? The political scene…