davidd's A DOLL A DAY 2025

[davidd]

17 February - A Doll A Day 2025:

Yanking Rusty Staples out of a Doll Head

Yeah, I viciously ripped apart the last of those old nun dolls.

A couple of my insightful online contacts made a couple of insightful points.

One suggested that maybe the nun dolls weren't "loved" so much as kept out of a sense of obligation and that the connotations surrounding them were not positive but negative.

Another observed that using the dolls, or parts of the dolls, would offer a creative outlet, which is more use than the nun dolls have received for decades, and that either the original owners or the families of those owners no longer care about them.

Of course, one person agreed about keeping at least one of them in original condition and treasure it for what it is.

I decided to scavenge the costumes. This may have been a good move. The staples in the doll with the white costume were already quite rusty. The rust would eventually have stained the fabric. The staples were on the verge of rusting through and breaking, which would create sharp edges which might tear the fabric or rend flesh and present a tetanus hazard.

I will either donate the doll bodies to a local charity shop or list them for sale online. Perhaps somebody will crochet new outfits for them.

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18 February - A Doll A Day 2025:

Sister Gotha and Sister Taube of the Convent of the Sisters of Little Mercy

1/6-scale Nun Dolls
New heads and bodies with costumes and jewelry salvaged from circa 1950s-1960s nun dolls