First of all in regards to the laminated paper doll orders: Our shipment of laminate is expected to arrive by May 10th and that's when we can begin to laminate your dolls and process your orders. We will be contacting you this week with confirmations. But in the meantime, this....I made myself a new doll for my personal collection and became totally infatuated with her, which is a little bit out of character for me. You see, I love making dolls a lot more than I like playing with them, but there is something special about this doll that brings out a giddy little girl in me. I've been playing with her for days now; changing her outfits, washing and styling her hair, making her jewelry, taking pictures of her, keeping her close on my desk while I work so that I could gaze onto her face and even putting her to bed at night.....Jesus.... My behavior is starting to scare me a little bit, because it goes against my principals on appropriate artist to artwork relationship. It's possible I might be regressing back into childhood as a result of work-related stress. I hope I don't go completely insane. I'm having such a good time though!

The other unusual thing is that I really love this bonnet on her, and I'm not generally a big fan of a bonnet-on-a-doll look. It's a bit too cliche for my taste. This bonnet however, felt so right when I put it on, that it seems to have been made only for her. It was in fact, submitted for 2010 birthday contest. I appreciate this gift even more now!

I've had this face for over a year now, but I haven't made a body for it until a month ago. It was a just a practice face for the first Lily doll and I kept it as china-paint reference to work from. It spent all this time on the bottom of my 'not-quite-right' drawer, only to emerge as, what I now consider, to be one of my loveliest dolls.

She is so pretty that i can't get enough of her. I think I'll make her a white tea dress from some lace I got in Paris last year. Not that I have time for such self-indulgent distractions.