"Before" and "After"...

The "after" photo really captures the natural colors much better...

Off to the show next week!

Die Wachter der Hoffnung

I found this well-loved composition head and cloth body child’s doll in a recycled art shop just outside of Lancaster, Pennsylvania.  Stuffed with natural excelsior, the doll has a wonderfully tactile appeal.   

Articulated arms and legs are attached with what appears to be the original, tin and wire joints.  For the most part, the doll is in its original found condition. One of the legs is quite literally hanging by several threads! The guardian wears a

small vintage red-cross pin, which reads: “I serve” 

"The Angel of Hope"... The guardian angel resides in a repurposed and reinvented reliquary metal shadow box with a hardware cloth back.

I am showing this mixed-media doll later this month at the

Riverfront Renaissance Center for the Arts  

Repurpose, Re-use, Reinvent, Reconstruct Show   

Details of the paper maché tissue paper covering.

A reliquary is a type of shrine used to provide a “house” for long cherished relic.  The notion of treasuring items considered sacred or “set-apart” goes back to Biblical records and items such as the Ark of the Covenant. Reliquaries became even more popular in Medieval Europe, and after 1200 A.D. they made their contents visible through the use of portals or windows.
Thank you for stopping by... Daryle

Cocooning (in a chrysalis)!

I just took this pic the other day... found this metalic chrysalis 

hanging beneath our mailbox!  I believe it is the temporal "home"

of a  "Variegated Fritillary" butterfly.

It's what we've been doing... "cocooning!"

As time allows, we will post more down the road;

our lives are in "transition"... and we are embracing it!

Blessings... Daryle & Katie

Folly... Fun-Filled SALE Today!

Let the FOLLY (sale) Begin... Today!

Three of my Art Dolls are part of the folly & fun!

Please note that I am now offering to mail Overseas, Alaska & Hawaii... 

for a modest additional cost!

The Full Moon's Folly... Sale!

Well... with the full moon upon us, we are planning 

a little "fun" and a little "folly"

at The Gallery at Woodstown Whimsies!

Watch this week for some SALES on some dolls!

A Heart of Stone?

There was something about this carved stone terrapin that caught my eye (and wiggled its way into my heart)!

We found this little guy while back in Wisconsin...

He just belongs on our brick patio; doesn't he?

Our Gardens Greet Us... Upon Returning!

After nine days on the road... we returned home, to find our Datura 

already putting out early flowers and their unusual seed pods.  

Our time away with family and dear friends

was in a word: "Wonderful!"