Final Pan

Pan's face paint and hair are by MadamMauMau.

Pan's horns and body paint are by Christy Johnson.

Find the album of finished pictures here:

http://imgur.com/a/Oz2MV

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See the Pan at the UFDC Doll Fanciers' show on January 10th.

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The Pan is a DollinMind (DIM) Minimee head and horns, a Soom Super Gem male body,  Soom Shoshon hooves, and Dollzone claw hands.

UFDC Doll Fanciers' Show

The UFDC Doll Fanciers' Show will take place on January 10th at the Long Island Upsky Hotel.

  110 Vanderbilt Motor Pkwy, Hauppauge, NY 11788

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I will be exhibiting Beauty and the Beast as well as Alice in Wonderland.

The Pan will play the part of the Beast.

Peyton will be Beauty.

I hope to see you there!

The Pan

The Pan has finally been completed.  See him at the UFDC Doll Fanciers' show on January 10th.

The Fairy House

Here are the pictures of the Fairy House which I built many, many years ago.  I donated the Fairy House this weekend to the UFDC Doll Fanciers' show for their raffle.

Congratulations to Lauren who won it!  I hope you love it as much as I did.

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A Note from Redastor

Redastor, Yves Manning, is an Ozian Queen.  When one encounters her fabulous work, one is instantly transported along with the often strange creature she has created through the gates of far-off, hard to glimpse, Fairyland.  Yves is a master of whimsy and wonder;  she is a constant delight to me as a friend.

As I prepare for this year's UFDC  doll competition, I ponder Yves' words of encouragement. The other night, we were talking about making art for the masses.  We believe that our responsibility is to make it be thrilling and transportative.

As I hold it dear, I thought I would share her reply with you.

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There is just not enough fairy tale in this world, you and I QC are really story weavers, secret children still wandering in our magical realms of enchantment.
The blue hairs, the wrinkly stockings and even just the horribly oppressed need a hint of the possible otherworldliness to keep their souls from being eaten by the big black dogs of a very harsh planet, we just throw out our metaphorical violin cases while the pennies roll and the smiles creep to their faces and warm the cockles of wearied wizened tired old hearts.
It does not matter if it is a card or a doll as long as it's Imbued with the dust of a thousand dreams.......

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Chloe Places Best in Show

Chloe is not a one trick pony.  Chloe went to the January UFDC Doll Fanciers' show this year, not as a horse, but as a mermaid.

She won first place in her category, netting her a blue ribbon.  She then did swimmingly well in the competition for the top slots and came home to Little Cow Harbor with a 'Best in Show' ribbon.  The 'Best in Show' award is big and fluffy and pink.  You can see it below.

Needless to say, I am extremely excited and I would like to thank everyone over the past three years who has worked on Chloe with me.  Yes, that is about how long it has taken me to put her together and to get her to this point.

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The tail fins are Swarovski studded.

Her crown is vintage beads and Swarovski crystal.

Her jewelry included genuine pale pink pearls.

Her gown is vinage silk net shot with tinsel.

Thank you for loving Chloe.

Congratulations to all the Winners !

The January 2011 UFDC Doll Fanciers' Doll Show was a rousing success.  The change of venue for brought so many out of state vendors that this year they spilled out into the hall.  In spite of record cold temperatures, I got to see many old friends and made wonderful new ones.
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In spite of the farther walk to the ladies room, there were many lovely dolls and a good time was had by all.
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The UFDC club members worked particularly hard this year to keep tabs and run "two competition rooms" .  The unfamiliar zigzag of hallways and odd layout of doorways made for an 'Alice in Wonderland' scampering throughout the day.  I promised everyone that I would share the few pictures that I did manage to take, so here they are. I will load them in stages here on the blog, or out on the journal, beginning with this year's "big" winners.  I am sorry, but I do not have photos of all the dolls which 'won'.  Not only do I take 'hardly the best photographs', I get very easily distracted if someone begins talking to me.  I am lucky that I have any photos at all.
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The only "disappointment" that I noticed was people not understanding why the 'competition rooms' were not available for viewing until the show's end at 4 o'clock.  Many people arrived at 3 o'clock and could not understand, why, if the show was "still going on" could they not view the competition dolls.  Of course, my response was: "Such decisions are up to the club and I will relay your displeasure as well as the message as best I can."   Probably, it takes 'that many hours' to dismantle the competition rooms and the 'extra hour' is simply required in order to ever finish the show at a reasonable hour.  However, people are not wrong when they said, "Then it should say that on the admission pamphlets and tickets.  We thought we had all day to see the competition dolls!  Your dolls are only in 'competition'! Now we cannot see them!"
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Therefore, I have promised to share my photographs.  Yes, no matter how 'not good' they are.
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My personal 'show favorite' was this second place winner.  The charming artist who entered this particular baby doll took a reborn blank, rooted her hair, painted her, and dressed her.  The photo does not do this piece justice :
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This is a photograph of the 2011 "Best in Show" dolls.  Each of the 'big pink fluffy ribbon winners' are moved to their own table to stand alone and be admired.   My favorite is the one in the 'red cape':
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Congratulations to all and thank you for braving the cold with your lovely dolls so that we could all enjoy them!