Clothespin dolls

Hello and thank you for visiting! My name is Susan Van Horn and I am the artist behind My Sweet Imaginations! I am also the wife of a neuroscientist, the mother of two beautiful and talented girls, and a craft enthusiast!

Yesterday on the blog I put up a simple tutorial on how to make a no sew tutu. I thought it would be fun to make a matching ballerina peg doll. What to use the peg doll for Birthday Party craft Birthday Party Favour Home craft Christmas (make it an angel by making the tutu white and adding some

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I have a fun craft for you today that you can make out of any kind of wooden clothespin. In this post I'm going to show you how to make a Clothespin People Figure. Grab a few clothespins and you can even make an entire clothespin family. Simply use your imagination to make each figure a little bit different. The kids will love this craft because it is so much fun and you will love how your children use their imagination to create their clothespin figures.

Make your own version of the traditional Mayan worry doll. These clothespin worry dolls are easy to make and perfect for anxious little ones!

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

I was doing laundry tonight and I thought, “hey, what if…”

Today I'm making these retro ladies, inspired by some clothespin dolls my mom picked up at a holiday bazaar in the 1970s. I like the quaint look of the long dresses and hand-drawn faces. For this set I'm using crepe paper and velvet ribbon for the dresses, and going for a kitschy late-1960s bridal party style. Just lo

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 …

Hi Everyone, Christmas is nearly upon us….. Woop!! Woop!!…. and I have been busy making Nativity Sets…… and a Father Christmas……. and…

Fairy and Unicorn Clothespin Dolls are a delightful spin on traditional peg dolls! Simple to make and quite magical!

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…

Making some little fairies from wooden clothes-pegs for a Christmas craft fair... My best seller last year! ( yes, they will have petticoats under those net...

Nikki Cade Lily Clothespin Doll Ornament | Anthropologie