Anneelaw is home - part two

Here are her completed journal pages...

She began with these two..

Arlee added these...

These are by Robyn....

And by Amy...

Talitha added these...

from Yvonne...

and finally, these were by Gail...

and finally, her journal box...

Anneelaw is home!

Isn't she gorgeous?  Who knew that some
old lamp parts could turn into such a
society lady??

This is how she started out....
just pieces of an old table lamp...

The next post will show her journal pages...

Shall we do lunch, gals?

I think Aneelaw is a fabulous art doll. So artsy & unique. Can't believe she's my last doll in the project.

Anneelaw was more or less a bust when I recieved her - just a head and shoulders (?) and one hand. I couldn't resist giving her some little out-of-proportion legs. Once I did that, she looked to me like a Society Lady sitting in an ornate wrought iron chair getting ready to take a bite from a finger sandwich. So then I decided a patio table was in order to complete the illusion.




Her legs are Barbie-type legs that I paper mache-ed over. The ankles were moveable, but the knees weren't, so I had to cut the legs in half and paper mache them to the proper angles for crossing. Her capris are painted turquoise to go with her hat and overcoated with a turquoise glitter nail polish. Her shoes are purple to match her glove.


The base of the patio table is a black metal thingie that once housed a glass votive holder. Something I just had in my stash that worked perfectly with her "chair"! The top is simply a paper mache-ed cardboard cutout with the top layer being a design I downloaded off the internet.


The table looked kinda empty, so I made a bouquet of paper mache and wire flowers and placed them in a painted mini liquor bottle.


And here're my journal pages.




Soon Anneelaw will be on her way home to MA in Canada. You're gonna love her, MA!

Anneelaw in south Texas

Anneelaw arrived and I was blown away by her uniqueness.

It was very challenging working on her.

She had already been to many great artists,

so it was difficult to come up with an idea

on what to add to this "lady of the lamp".

Here is a front view with all her additions so far.

This view shows the ribbons I added to her hair.

This photo shows her scissors charm and the round beaded charm

on her wrist.  She has another round beaded charm just like this

around her neck.

Added to her glass body is a fabric flower with a bead in the center.

The fabric flower has old lace added to it.

Two keys were added as embellishments.

One has the word LIFE on it,

and the other has faux diamonds on it.

Her journal pages were fun to create.

This first page has a photo of her with a ribbon.

It's hard to see the words on the ribbon, in the photo, but it says

"Some things a lady doesn't tell."

I think Mae West said that.

There is a song called Lady of the Lamp, sung by Donovan.

I added the lyrics on this page.

There are two more journal pages,

one of which lists the additions Anneelaw got while visiting me.

These are all of my additions....

1. button and ribbon on journal box to help open box

along with beaded fringe on front of box

2. round beaded embellishments to neck and wrist

3. scissors charm to wrist

4. two key charms

5. purple fringe arouond neck

6. fabric flower

7. nose stud

8. ribbons to crystal hair

It has been a joy to work on Anneelaw!

Yvonne

Anneelaw, International Woman of Mystery

Anneelaw, Mary Anne's Lady of the Lamp, was a stumper for me. She sat on my counter where I could see her every day, but she refused to speak to me. She refused, that is, until I happened to bring my Goddess of Spring, Sirona (http://www.anlinadesigns.com/dolls/Sirona1/index.html), by Anneelaw on the way to Sirona's current display spot on my book case.

Anneelaw became very vocal. She wanted a hat, and not just any hat, but one with feathers. Anneelaw is very purple, but has a bit of turquoise on her, so I decided to go with the turquoise as the main color on the hat. She wanted to be a bit mysterious, so I added a purple tulle veil. And of course, the feathers were from a peacock or two.

Isn't she something?
Unfortunately, when I was getting these pictures, I had company drop by and I forgot to take pictures of jer journal. When she arrives at her destination in south Texas, she hopes that Yvonne will be so kind as to take pictures of her journal pages.

Update (3/21): Yvonne was so kind to send photos of Anneelaw's journal entries. Here are the pictures:

This is the first page. Anneelaw loves purple and I gave her a bouquet to complement her lovely glove and hat.

The next page is a picture of her and her nom du guerre: Anneelaw, International Woman of Mystery.

And this is her hat, along with the story I told in the beginning of the post of her conversation with me regarding the creation of her hat.

And last of all, the description of what I did and made. The journal pages are water color paper and I applied a heavy layer of indigo, purple and turquoise water color crayon, then misted the pages with water and used my Nijii water brush to push the color to create texture.

Anneelaw leaves Robyn

Maybe what Anneelaw loves is to write with her powerful pen. I just liked the sentiment on this charm, and the way it looks hand written.

Anneelaw has a translucent "lampshade", with some wire sewn in for support. I tried to make the eyes the same colors and shape as the eye in the hand. Together (in profile) they make a kind of cubist portrait. I like that this is removeable - it just slides over the glass bauble on the stand.

However I don't think this must stay this way. Perhaps someone down the line will want to stuff the head or mount it higher.

Here's wire and glass beading, picking up the colors Arlee selected. My thread of her life is wire.

Here's a crochet copper band of buttons, some bling. It's waiting to be something - a headband, a necklace, a belt, or just something to adorn the box?

Front page of my journal folder.

Journal pages. Some of the tie dyed paper I made with Jayn - I particularly like the center that has the look of shattered prismatic light.
I have to say that I couldn't get any tool up under the center to move the bolt holding the glass knob. I may have done something different had I been able to take it apart - but maybe not.