New Prints in Ellifolks Etsy Shop

I have added three new prints to my Etsy Shop.

"In the Afternoon" is a digital painting made on the iPad.  It includes some of my favorite subject matter - a chair and flowers, and has a feeling of calm relaxing in the midst of some chaos.  Here is it's Etsy page.

"Get Down Cat!" is a digital painting also made on the iPad.  Again there is a chair and flowers.  A mischievous cat is not about to give up her comfy spot on the back of the chair. Here is it's Etsy page.

"6 Doll Heads" started out as a photo of one of my original dolls taken with my iPhone.  I manipulated the photo in several photo editing apps and combined six images into one iphoneography photo collage.  Here is its Etsy page.

Pin Dolls - Tiny Mysteries

I got these dolls from a button seller at a flea market.   I haven't been able to find any information on this type of doll in either doll collecting books or internet searches.

The dolls are built on ball-head pins.  I think they are glass, but it is hard to do the "cheek test" for glass with them because I don't want to risk damaging the delicate painting or mussing the clothing.  (You know the "cheek test", right?  If you put an object that is glass, stone, or shell up to your cheek, it feels cold.  Plastic will feel more like room temperature.)

The heads are the heads of the pins, arms and legs are thin coated wire, and the tiny clothing seams are hand sewn using fabrics that appear to be cottons, including voiles, and wools or felt.  There is a little circle of glue on the back of each one.  They stand by pushing the end of the pins into a softish base.  The dolls are quite detailed for such tiny objects.

If anyone has any information on these, I would love to know more about them.

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