Mein Liebling - My Darling!

For many years I did porcelain doll-making - I truly loved it! It is an expensive and time-consuming art, but oh, the passion one can put into transforming greenware into a beautiful doll to treasure forever!

My favourites were the antique dolls and this one below was the original Mein Liebling, a beautiful German doll, Circa 1910. Notice how she doesn't have eyedots, i.e. little red dots at the inner corner of her eyes!

Below is my reproduction, a great treasure of mine, and I am sure she will stay in our family forever! I did not cut her mouth out and put in teeth! I did give her sleep-eyes - beautiful blue glass eyes!
What a beautiful child-like face - it is hard to describe the feelings and emotions one puts into creating a face like this! I really miss my painting these days and will show you more in the future!
Here she is sleeping - so beautiful! Sleep-eyes require a lot of patience and skill to achieve!

Most antique dolls had at least two petticoats, all hand made and crocheted and embroidered!

Mein Liebling has knitted stockings and leather shoes and her wig is made from human hair! Her panties are pintucked and embroidered, too

Guess I will put her back in my dolly cabinet where she lives! Mein Liebling has won many awards for me, and missed out on being The Best of Show once, because she didn't have painted eye-dots - did the original?

How lucky can one person be in one week! Just look at the beautiful Giveaway I was lucky enough to receive from Darlene of Quilting Daze! Thank you so much, Darlene - two gorgeous packs of Moda Charm Squares and a little pattern - I still can't believe what a wonderful world Blogland is!

♥ ... Nitey, nite ... hugs ...♥