Monday, April 20, 2009

Spirit Dolls By DLynne Art Dolls

Spirit dolls have been made been made through the ages by different cultures around the world and are thought to bring love, joy, good health and prosperity to their owners. They have been made to celebrate occasions and for rituals; to give to friends and family and other loved ones as gifts or to hang in your home or car or to just hold for meditative, healing or comfort purposes.

Sometimes spirit dolls do not have faces, but I like faces on my spirit dolls. So here are few of my newest 'art doll' creations. I am in the mood for some spiritual art work and I am also giving my new sewing machine some action.

They are cloth dolls with clay sculpted faces. They are about 6" tall. They are adorned with hand dyed cotton scrim, feathers, beads and a small tiny clay spirit doll face charm. I am glad I bought a "stuffing fork". Life is good when you have a stuffing fork to stuff cloth dolls! Never thought it would help that much, but wow - these are fun! the small things that make me happy eh? :-)

Look for these in my Etsy Shop this week and maybe a few more new ones by the end of the week. See More of my spirit dolls

Wise Woman Spirit Dolls



Sunshine Spirit Woman and Gentle Leaf Spirit Woman



Gypsy Spirit Woman

6 comments:

  1. These are all soo creative. The gypsy spirit is my personal favorite so far.

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  2. Love Spirit dolls! I'm like you, when I make them (and I haven't in years), I would also add faces.

    These look great Denise

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  3. WOW!!! I'm blown away! These are FAVORITES!!! You should be in Art Doll Quarterly for sure!!!

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  4. Holy Smokes!! I am REALLY loving your spirit dolls - they truly have such great ... spirit ... in them. Stunning. ... personally, I really like that these do have faces.

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