Pippi Longstocking

She called me, I heard a little voice coming out of my cupboard : " Come on ! I know you wanted me to have a little naughty face, but I'm also a sweet bighearted girl ! I like this face Helen !"

  Okay ! I think you're right, you are a sweet girl and if I had a little monkey like Mr. Nilsson I would have such a sweet smile all day!

Pippi will be in my Etsy shop today.

The girl with the Dungarees will  also be in my Etsy shop 

I don't know why someone takes pleasure in ordering a doll but never pays for it. :-(


Lost ?!

Sometimes I have so many ideas I don't know where to start.

How do you choose?

I want to make a European Jay, a Gnome sitting on a cart pulled by a bird, a boy doll, a Barn owl , a white squirrel etc.

I have my patterns in front of me and keep changing my mind.

Help!

Pippi Longstocking

I wanted to make a doll again so yesterday morning I was sitting on my bed thinking of what kind of character it should be.
Staring through the window, looking around the room ( I love my bedroom,it has a Swedish feel to it) admiring my shadow puppet on my windowsill. . . . 

 Ha ! Pippi Longstocking !
I bought this marvellous shadow puppet ( and others) here :
http://isabellasart.blogspot.com/

Pippi is my one and only heroine, she is an unconventional little girl who lived all by herself in a fantastic house with a horse and a Squirrel monkey: Mr. Nilsson.
How I loved the stories! And millions of people with me !

I felt like Pippi when I was young: I had a little white Welsh Pony, my Dad was a sailor and roamed the Seven Seas and I had a Mr. Nilsson.
Actually it was a stick insect I called Mr. Nilsson and I felt sorry for him living in a terrarium so I released the little guy after a few weeks.


Every time I feel conventional and grey-ish , I just look at my Pippi shadow puppet and feel like the little girl I once was.

So a Pippi doll it is going to be!
And a Mr. Nilsson of course!
Here is my Pippi:

So far I liked her, I pinned some hair I had laying around on her head just for getting the right look.
But but I found a little black spot just under her ear, it looked like a burn hole or something I couldn't clean it so I have to make another Pippi head. . . . .