Wooden clothespin dolls

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Learn how to make a range of dressed and international clothespin dolls for decorations or as figures for dollhouses or dioramas.

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Clothespin dolls have a long and interesting history, being immensely popular after the civil war, serving as a great source of income. To enhance your home décor, you can make …

CUSTOM MADE .. get a set of your own! just contact me :) now for sale at mooshoo Todays Random fact: didnt get a chance to take pics today other then this. between the natives and painting up these dolls... my time was quite taken up :) 357/365

If you're looking for ways to keep your child busy as the holidays approach, have them craft some easy homemade ornaments! Here are 80+ ideas to get you started.

Until I started working on my book Making Peg Dolls, I didn't give much thought to the fact that the little wooden doll bases I had been using were directly descended from clothes pegs. If one saws the legs from a vintage clothespeg (pardon the suggestion of such brutality) one is left with a small, free-standing doll base -- closely akin to the ones I use to create my dolls. And so, of course, when writing a book on peg dolls, I did not want to neglect mentioning their origins, nor miss the…

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