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…
I had the weirdest shopping list for a while: I was on a quest for Jesus-Colored-Yarn. Each store I stopped into over several weeks, I would peruse their craft aisle, or several yarn aisles, all in the name of Baby Jesus’ sweetly colored skin. I can’t be the only one…
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…