Doll Making: A Creative Approach
Laury
1970
Submitter: This book was found in the craft section of my local public library. It’s more about artistically crafted dolls you can make at home. Really, it’s just filled with creepy dolls. I know I won’t be able to get their face out of my head when I sleep at night. Hopefully this won’t scare Mary as much as the clown book I submitted a few weeks ago.
Holly: You mean this one? Yeah, that one got her good. I get that libraries should have books about doll making, and maybe even the history of doll making. I just don’t understand why they should be almost 45 years old and filled with dark, old black and white photos of the weirdest dolls ever made. There are cute and cuddly and adorable dolls out there, I swear.
Mary: That third one looks like Miss Piggy after some kind of alcoholic bender or demonic possession.
Should have been subtitled “Voodoo Dolls for Fun and Profit!”
How sad is it that the only one that doesn’t induce nightmares is the “slum doll” made from an old shoe? That second to last one looks like a buck-toothed cross-dressing Elvis, and they all look like they are just waiting for you to fall asleep so they can eat your face off.
Or a school marm or Marian the Librarian!
I make handmade dolls and stuffed animals I can assure you they do look cute and cuddly and nothing like these things, even the baby vampire dolls I crafted last Halloween! Wish I could upload a photo as proof.
Why do dolls need chest hair? My eyes!
Big question: will Santa put a Drunken Bunny doll in anyone’s stocking?
Those bearded gentlemen look like Jim Henson.
If you crocheted the face-card kings in the right colors and put clubs, spades, etc. on their chests, they’d actually look cool.