Harpy Lady Beaded Doll

I guess you would call her my signature piece to date.....

She started out as an idea to enter a Guardian Angel contest a quilting magazine was having, but grew too ambicious for the alotted time.

Black quilter's cotten with grey swirls was used to make her body. I gave her a wired armature, with the intention of making her posable, but by the time I had finished beading her legs, her hip joint broke. So I set her into a kneeling pose.
Black polymer clay face from the Sculpty Art Doll mold, dusted with a few different shades of pigment powders.

Her hair is a black chinel yarn, and her thighs are wrapped in soft eyelash yarn.
Her wings are done in two different types of feather trim, and are still quite poseable.

If you could stand her up, she would be about 15" tall.

Gia - Beaded Tree

This is Gia.

I have a love of willow trees, if you can't tell by now.

Gia was made a few years ago, but was such a pain in the neck to make that I can't let her go just yet.

The yellow "fronds" were brown when I started beading her....but have faded over time but is still enjoyable to look at.

She has runes beaded into her trunk. She is a mix of a lot of different beadweaving types. Peyote trunk, herringbone branches, and fringe fronds.

I learned that while branches may look nice...the fringe kept catching on what was done before.

Willow Doll

This is Willow.

She's a little over 12" tall.

She started life as some wire and aluminum foil. then I built up parts by wrapping them in tulle strips. I like using tulle to form a base as it has a nice "grip" to the other layers I put on it. Then I patchworked some velvet and lace scraps over her torso and thighs, and lined the edges with brown seed beads. Her arms are uplostry cording that I wound some wire into and her hands are wire wrapped in floral tape.

Her legs are root-like wires wrapped in floral tape. She wears a train of random netted beads with leaf beads strung throughout.

She has a ruffle of greens and black seed beads around her arms. Her hair is various eyelash yarns. Her face is polymer clay dusted with pearlx powders from theSculpty Artdoll mold.

A fun doll...and she can balance on her own....but not very stable.....might have to revisit her..... But click on her to see a larger picture...it is very worth it.