After seeing the adorable dolls of pages like Bamboletta, Little Jenny Wren Dolls and Janea’s World on facebook and constantly falling in love with the little handmade friends, the crafty woman in me simply HAD to have a go at one of these darling dolls myself.
I remembered the time I used to play with my Waldorf Doll Sophia, made by my mother. I loved her.
I remember never seeing the actual process of dollmaking, since the Waldorf Doll books recommend that the child should not see the separate “body parts” of a doll, but only the whole and finished doll itself.
I started looking for online tutorials and found some very wonderful pages:
Making a Waldorf Doll, a Set with pictures on flickr
Another tutorial here, and many more that you can find when you google for waldorf doll making/ hair making tutorials.
I especially like the funky and happy look of the Bamboletta Dolls. Here is the flickr page with all their wonderful dolls.
Soooo…. after a lot of research, long nights sitting in front of the computer and a visit to my “local” Spotlight store, and after having purchased a waldorf doll tutorial on Etsy, I got started.
Oh, what a joy it was to see it all coming together.
A little friend was born. On the 20th of November 2011. Lucy her name.
Miss A. my 7 year old daughter wanted her to smile (classic Waldorf dolls do not really have a strong facial expression, so that during play the child can imagine any emotional expression), so she took her Stockmar wax crayon and
painted my (HANDMADE OVER 20 OR MORE HOURS!!!!) doll a big smile in the face. Ough!
I can tell you, I wasn’t happy and I showed it.
Now Miss A. does not like the doll anymore, because she thinks of me looking at her dumbstruck and horrified.
She of course only had the best intentions. She always only wants to be helpful and me to be happy.
So after a few minutes I calmed down and decided that Lucy had played with lipstick, therefore the face 🙂
She is and always will be my first ever handmade waldorf inspired doll and I love her.
And due to this strong memory we will never forget her Birthday 🙂