Victory by Yvonne Howard

The second of the four Doll Street Traveling dolls has nearly completed her visit with us. Meet Victory by Yvonne Howard. Victory comes to us from North Carolina and she celebrates, well, victory with her pink t-shirt with its breast cancer ribbon, her sweet bracelet with its special charms and her pink and white sneakers and socks. These pics are from her visit to the Mountain Barn, a favorite local resteraunt. Our waitress, Stephanie was very excited to meet Victory. Stef is celebrating a year free from breast cancer and we are so very glad to share her joy.

Charms! Specifically Domino charms. Before I go further I should warn you that these are seriously addicting!

I've used mini dominos as my base. You can use any picture, or piece of picture (copyright honorable of course) and glue down to your domino. These are from "Skinny Mini Potpourri" by "Altered by Design" (www.alteredbydesign.com) which I bought at Joggles. Finish your edges with a metalic leafing pen, coat with several layers of dimension lacquer and add wires and charms. I'm experimenting now with dyes, transparancies and stamps. I'm also using larger dominos to make necklaces. Hope to post more pics soon.

My First Doll Street Visitor

...is Alexis! By Drusilla Esslinger, this lovely lady will be spending 3 weeks with me as a virtual vacation. She's already taken a tour of the garden and this is her favorite spot, the beginning of what we call the "fairy trail." Note that she came well prepared with her own camera!

Finally a doll is born

After 5 long months, I've got enough range of motion back in my hand and wrist to begin some creative work again. I signed up on Doll Street to do a Travelling Doll. Not a swap, the dolls go about and visit others in the group, exchanging gifts and sharing photos from the different locations. Great fun. My doll is off to visit Dayton Ohio and I'll be entertaining a doll from Madison Kansas next week.

The pattern for this doll, as well as the terriffic idea is from the brilliant Angela Jerichi.