Random tidbits

Our blog was mentioned in Robyn Coburn's wonderful site, All Things Doll.  Look for us in August's posts.  Here's what she says about how and why she puts her list of doll links together. 

What's new out there in the many splendored world of dolls?

A new place to visit every day, I hope, chosen by me, just because I like the look of it.

How cool is that?  She liked the look of us.

Also, go look at Andrea's PictureTrail site to see pictures of her playdate with an indigo dye kit from Dharma Trading Co.

And lastly, Cyndy Sieving has the schedule for Artistic Figures in Cloth 2011 posted.  Go check it out!

Cindee Moyer class

In August, several members of our club got to attend a special one-day class with Cindee Moyer.  She had created a doll, "Weighing the Possibilities", for the River City Figurative Artists' Guild, and it sounded so cool when they told us about it at our May luncheon that an encore presentation of the class was arranged and 10 lucky Indy ladies made the road trip to Cincinnati.

In a perfect universe, those who got to go would send pictures to the poor blogger who could not go... but as it is, you'll have to hop over to Katie's blog to see her created fabric and her elegant finished doll, Isabella.  Then we'll wait for our next show-and-tell.

Our day at Walk in the Park

We had a wonderful time at Walk in the Park -- it was NOT 98 degrees this year and it only rained for those couple of minutes (a brief but very exciting few minutes!).  People did buy some dolls, too, so our economy seems to be slowly returning to normal.

Here's our tent, complete with our club logo sign that Leslie rescued from her house flood two years ago.  I love our sign, but maybe we also need a banner to go across the front edge of the tent -- what do you think???

Of course, sales are only a part of why we do this art fair. We also get to talk to people about our club and our dolls, especially the classes we get to take.

For example, here's a doll from our Dancine class with Fran Parrigan Meehan, a Candlestick Diva by Arley Berryhill, and a Pop Up Puppet by Kathryn Walmsley, all made by our very own Julie G.

Here are some tassel dolls made by Katie and Jude in (and after) a class with Cyndi Mahlstadt.

And our 'display corner' has another Dancine, a Morris doll made by Andrea in a Barbara Schoenoff class, and Martha's Duchess doll made in Adele Sciortino's class, just to name a few.

All of the best pictures from the day are in the new slideshow over in the right hand sidebar - try it out!

Katie's new blog!

Our prodigiously productive member Katie has started her very own blog!  It is already gorgeous, with a great banner featuring some of her beautiful doll faces, so go check it out.