Frozen charlotte

The summer I first moved into my 1923 bungalow, I was digging my backyard garden. A few trowels in I hit something hard that turned out to be a small bisque doll about the size of t…

Frozen Charlottes - from Round Top this year.

Image Courtesy of Theriaults.com How can you not fall in love with a bunch of "GERMAN 'FROZEN CHARLOTTE' DOLLS"as shown in the picture above from the Theriaults.com website. You can't especially when you find out they have a tragic story attached to them. According to their description: 7" H. tub. Seven dolls, representing little children with chubby stomachs, are of one-piece porcelain or bisque, standing with their arms outstretched with curled fingers. Each doll has painted hair and…

Antique dolls can be rather creepy. But antique dolls kept in coffins or served up in puddings and cakes for ravenous young children are definitely creepy. But wait, how, you may ask, did all this creepiness come about? Well dear reader, back in your great-great-great-great grandmama’s time, children were given a tiny pottery doll to play with. This doll was made from one piece of unglazed porcelain with no moveable limbs—pale white with only the slightest coloring on hair, cheeks, lips and…

Frozen Charlottes-I just love these little dolls & the story behind them!

Frozen Charlotte

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This week my kids were off from school and we all went up to Tahoe for some skiing & R&R. As with all my vacations, I always have to take some projects to work on so this time I made castings with Sculpey clay into my molds. I made a variety of frozen charlotte dolls, and also some mini frames. I ended up making a new necklace with a couple of the clay pieces. Below are the castings I made with the Sculpey clay. I actually bake the clay directly in the molds at 275 for only 15 minutes. Next…