My Diva All Dolled Up Challenge Entry

All Dolled Up Challenge Entry, Pen, Pencil © Diane Clancy

Paper Dolls Dance Together

I thought you would like to see the paper dolls go sideways also.

All Dolled Up Challenge Entry, Pen, Pencil © Diane Clancy

All Dolled Up: Knightsbridge, Cruffle, Jetties, Florz, Nipa, SP-Eye-Ryl

All Dolled Up Challenge

Each week the Diva puts out a challenge for folks to make their representation of her idea. This week is the Weekly Challenge #196 : Turning “All Dolled Up”. This is the last of the series of Guest Divas. So here is what the Guest Diva, Emily says this week “As the mother of an adorable four-year-old girl, my life is surrounded by dolls–stuffed dolls, magnetic dolls, story dolls, and of course, an infinite supply of princess dolls.  For the holiday season, I will be creating a tangled tree as part of a local historical society’s seasonal exhibit.  Area organizations and businesses decorate a tree based on items from the society’s collection.  I chose antique dolls for a tangled paper doll tree.  Each 12-inch ornament will have an individually hand-tangled dress.  I can’t wait to see how this tree develops!

Zentangle Enticed Me

Zentangle has become popular the last couple of years and I have been intrigued and just starting put my attention to it. I am able to be more int he flow again – whew!  So above is my All Dolled Up Zentangle Tangle ZIA. This – of course – went in a very different direction than expected! Thank you to everyone who made comments on my posts these last weeks. That means a lot to me!!

Paper Dolls

I started out by making outlines (strings) of a row of paper dolls. As a child I wanted an identical twin (or 2 identical triplets) so that I would have someone who really understood me.  I played some with dolls and such … but I had Betsy McCall.  She was not as developed as Barbie and she had only one set of clothes – a horse riding outfit.  She the stories I played were focused on what we did … not what clothes or fashion we had.  I probably had a Barbie too but the clothes and hair bug never bit me.

I also had some Colonial paper dolls with a couple of old-fashioned outfits.  I think it was a Shari Lewis paper doll also with a couple of outfits and a lamb.  I remembered the Sheri part and something to do with a lamb … and Wikipedia came up with Shari Lewis.  But what I really liked doing was making my own (very very simple) strings of identical twins/triplets and more.  I didn’t even decorate them … just cut them out so that they would have others who understood them.

I always thought I had been a twin and the other one just didn’t make it though the nine months.  But the really funny thing … when I told my Mom that once, she told me that she had always thought the same thing about herself. Wow!!  That was totally amazing to me (and she meant it).  Another funny thing, I am married to a twin too (but a fraternal twin who did not have that experience of being understood).  And I have always scooped up any reading I could about identical twins and they resonance they often have with each other.

Of course, much of the spiritual and energetic healing and information that is now so prevalent says that we are much more connected than realized.  So now I can focus on being part of and connected to the whole of the human consciousness where we are all really one.  So I no longer need to be an identical twin … but I am still fascinated by them!!  🙂

Which Tangle is Which?

I started out by making outlines (strings) of a row of paper dolls. The middle head is Cruffle.  The right and left heads are Jetties.  The bodies of the triplets are SP-Eye-Ryl.  The net between the bodies is Florz.  The floor underneath is Knightbridge and the space above the paper dolls is Nipa.  There you have it!! 🙂

I am organizing my studio again to be able to work and now only a table has tons of stuff dumped on it – but the rest is organized!! (My studio always gets filled up when there are projects in the house that need a place to dump a bunch of stuff for awhile!! LOL!!) Thank you for stopping by!! I LOVE comments!! ~ Diane Clancy

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