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air dry clay, animal dolls, art doll, assemblage, cats, children's drawing, doll house, doll making, doll sculpting, interactive art, ladder, miniature dolls, mixed media, mother, paperclay, sculpted face, siblings, surrealism

THE MOTHER

I thought of posting this story for Mother’s day, but it sounded so repetitive that I let all summer pass before I came back to writing. This piece is called “The Mother”, and it was inspired from my son’s early…

Margarita H Maxson
September 24, 2013

braided face, button eyes, cats, cloth doll, coffee stained dolls, Folk Art doll, hand made clothes, hand painted face, hand sewn doll, ice cream, muslin dolls, needle sculpting, primitive dolls, raggedy Ann, stitched hair, stripped stockings, wool hair

A new journey: Doll making

I learned to use the sewing machine and basic handcraft skills at my mother’s sewing workshop. She used to have a production of 300 coats a week.But it was very different to make dolls. It was new for me, and…

Margarita H Maxson
April 13, 2010