Last of the May Show & Tell

Told you we had lots of wonderful Show & Tell this month! This is the last batch of pictures.

Doreen brought some interesting young ladies (pictured above).

And our three new members from Arkansas made the trip this month! (I was busy taking pictures and missed some of the story...I think this was made in a CIFI workshop???)

The face is beaded and there's acres of ribbons & fibers.

 This is another beaded-face doll from one of our new members.

Again missed the story on these dolls, but they are very cool.

And finally - the door prize!

Made by Jayne and ever so delightful!

And now it's time to dance on out of here...until our next meeting in June!

More May Show & Tell

As we said, there was lots of Show & Tell this month! Here are a few more wonderful dolls. And this isn't all! More to come.

 Jack brought something he picked up on a recent trip. He didn't make them but they are hand made (Guatamala, I think?)

Carlyn modified a pattern we made a year or so ago in the workshop Angela Jarecki taught.

And Shirley brought some cute dolls she made from a Leslie Molen pattern.

See you soon!

May Show & Tell

It was a lively meeting with three new members to meet and lots of beautiful dolls to see! Let's start with Jean's workshop doll.

She decided not to use the "bird cage" and modified the doll by making a complete body, full length dress and high heeled shoes.

 She is so lovely!

 Her delicate hands, adorned with a bit of lace, carry Jean's trademark hand-beaded purse.

Shari brought some spring "Blossoms" (Barbara Schoenoff pattern).

Barbara made two more dolls from another favorite pattern.

Pretty in Pink!

More to come; check back!

TULSA DOLLING DAMES MAY 2, 2012 MEETING B-SEW INN

Attended: Connie, Jean, Shari, Jack, Lisa, Jayne, Doreen, Rena, Pam, Carlyn, Laura, Barbara K, Barbara D. Jennepher, Nark, Annie. New Members: Laura, welcomed & thanked, Jennepher, Nark & Annie for coming all the way from Arkansas to attend the meeting. Treasurer's statement: Financial report presented by Pam, Balance at end of April was $657.00 Old Business: June will be the quarterly meeting so we will meet Sat. June 2nd at the Hardesty Library at 1pm. Dues are due for the year and will be $24.00. Please make checks out to Tulsa Dolling Dames. Also, voting for officers during the meeting. Secretary position is open so if you want to put your name in please do. Any position is open but Laura & Pam are willing to continue with another year. June 8-9th is the Quilt Show at the Fairgrounds. Set up is Wed. the 6th. (Time pending. Laura will let us know.) Helpers needed!, Sitters Frid and Sat. 8th and 9th are needed as well. This is one of the major fund raisers for TDD with our pins and a raffle of Jean's doll. Laura will send an e-mail list for times you want to sign up to help. Please bring one or more dolls to add to the Hoffman trunk dolls that will be displayed. If you have any pins made for the fund raiser please bring them. Our July meeting will be held at B-Sew Inn on July 11th (second Wed. of the month) due to the 4th of July holiday on the 1st Wed. July 20th is when the Hoffman Callenge is due. Please see the rules on the Hoffman site. Storybook challenge is due the last of July. This is a club challenge. The storybook which was the inspiration for your doll must accompany the book. The dolls will be put into the Hardesty Library showcase for August 1st. You can give the dolls to Laura or someone else in the doll club anytime before Aug. 1st if you are unable to make it the last of July to the library. Teachers discussed: Leslie Molen, Stephanie Novaski and others. We would like to see other dolls by Sephanie as the teacher in October. Tulsa State Fair: Sept 27th-Oct. 7th is the Fair. Go to the TSF site and go to Competitive exhibits to register. We need everyone to enter, please, please, please. Our dolls are declining in numbers that are being entered and we would like the public to see what we do. Also, there is a crafters corner in the same building where we can demonstrate our art to the public by making dolls and showing how we do it. If you are interested in signing up a list will circulate for times. New Business: Discuss new things for next year. If you are interested in certain teachers let Laura know. Arley Berryhill was mentioned in the Spring. Discussion about having a teacher for a retreat next year so more people would attend and if we still want Western Hills (most people do like Western Hills still). Jack, Nark and others volunteered to check into any other suitable place in their areas. Discuss another club challenge. Think about it! Door Prize: Jayne made a 3 witches genie, which she enlarged and Lisa was the lucky winner. Very cute wall or Christmas tree doll. Show and Tell was lively and will be on the TDD blog. Please look there to see the pictures. Address is below. Next month Mary Ann has the door prize and Barbara K. has the program. Remember this will be at the Hardesty Library! We missed those who were unable to come to the Wed. meeting. Hope you are all well and hope to see you again soon! Shirley Harwell, Sec. TDD http://tulsadollingdames.blogspot.comReply to: Reply to: Bill and Shirley Harwell All Reply to Bill and Shirley Harwell Send

April Show&Tell

Since the workshop took up most of our time recently, there were only a couple of lovelys for regular Show & Tell. Hopefully, in May there will be lots more finished workshop dolls!

We do have a fun challenge coming up this summer called "Bring Books Alive."  We're supposed to make a character from a book and display it with the book in our summer display at the library. That should be fun!

Shirley has a head start. Can you guess what book these are from?

A while back, Daria went through her stash and decided to give away some fabric and unfinished doll projects. Carlyn took her up on it and re-purposed something into this blue belle above.

Barbara made this wall-doll for the April door prize and Jayne won her. Yummy yellows to celebrate spring.

Our May meeting is just around the corner. See you soon!

Another Finished Workshop Doll!

Judith is one of our "out-of-town" members and we were delighted she could come to Tulsa for the workshop.  She emailed us a picture of her finished doll.

She's beautiful! And those colors are fabulous! Great job, Judith.

Spring Workshop

Here we go! A post about our Spring Workshop with the delightful, multi-talented Ms. Sherry Goshon. (click on her name for her website)

Sherry designed a mixed-medium doll just for our workshop. She designs her own face molds and her husband casts them. Isn't it beautiful? This was our inspiration for our own projects. The bar was set high, yes?

We started with making a "bird-cage" from scratch. It was messy and fun!

 The body and arms are cloth, sewn & stuffed. It will rest on top of the cage, which works as her skirt. Keep going, you'll see how it all comes together.

In addition to the plaster stuff, we learned about working with face molds, mod-podge, and illusion costuming.

Take a few measurements, free-hand draw a pattern, cut and sew the sleeves and skirt. The body is covered with mod-podged bits of pretty tissue paper or napkins.

Sherry demonstrated drawing the eyes and painting the face.

We don't want to give all of Sherry's lessons away! You can take her classes at CIFI, her Reno or Iowa Retreats, or perhaps an online class.

At our April meeting, we had three finished dolls visit us for Show & Tell.

 This is Jack's pretty in purple lady.

 Her cage-skirt encases a real plant.

 Pam's little beauty. Her cage-skirt surrounds a lovely flower arrangement with tiny birds.

 Carlyn's pattern printed out a little smaller than it should have, but she went with it!

 Notice the bodice? How carefully she cut around the picture on a napkin for this pretty effect.

 Her imagination took over and she was inspired by the tiny waist of the doll to make her a spider-woman. Love that "Hunger Games" blue hair!

 Connie's doll is called Pandora because inside her cage-skirt is a mysterious box. Of course, she had to open it. Nothing terrible came out. In fact, we shouldn't have been surprised to discover a stash of fabric was hidden in the box!

We had a great time with Sherry and hope to see more of the workshop dolls at our May meeting. But in the next post, we do have some other Show&Tell from April to look at, so check back soon!