Heartfelt Dolls
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    • Heartfelt Dolls: companions for the journey
    • The Quotidian Doll: an introduction >
      • The Quotidian Doll Blog: introducing a Heartfelt-doll-a-day
    • Diaspora: the 101 dolls project
    • Heartfelt Dolls willing to leave home (for sale) >
      • Matariki
      • Through A Glass Darkly
      • Stitch Yourself a Boyfriend
      • Pink Walkers
      • Steampunk Dolls
      • Selfies
      • The Heroine's Journey
      • An English Country Garden
      • Hobo Chic
      • The Fisherman
      • I Shall Wear Purple
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      • Salute to the Sun
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      • Shades of Gray
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      • Angels of gold
      • Angels
      • 'Ladies a plate'
      • Cosy up with a bit of skirt
      • Ice Palace
      • Troupe de verde
      • Animal Antics
      • Male dolls
      • Carnivale: stiltwalking dolls
      • Calendar Girls
      • Dammit dolls
      • Oh Cliche
      • Heartfelt Graffiti
      • Double Trouble
      • Lilliputians
      • Kiwi Icons
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      • Memory keepers
      • Shades of Gray >
        • Shades of Gray Duets
        • Shades of Gray Men
      • Calendar Girls
      • Pink Walkers
      • Bandanna Chic
      • Selfies
    • Heartfelt Companions: sharing my journey with you >
      • One-of-a-kind heartfelt dolls >
        • Julie Has Flown North For The Summer
        • Hot Flash!
        • Whoops!
        • Medusa
        • The Bag Lady
        • Purple people eater
        • Social Climber
        • Place
        • Fertility Fairy
        • Smile
        • Blue Baths Belle
        • An Artist's Book
        • Pink Lady
        • Beloved
      • Heartfelt dolls in a series >
        • The Rainbow Connection
        • What's in a cup?
        • The Apple
        • Hi-Cut Internet Dolls
        • Godde Dolls
        • Shrines
        • The Rites of Autumn
        • Bibliophile
        • Seeing the world through different eyes
        • Akuba: encouraging change
        • It takes a village
        • Umbrella and Umbrage
        • A cautionary tale ...
    • Heartfelt Process, Heartfelt Transformation >
      • Matron Saints
      • Creative Guardians
      • The Nest
      • Freeing the caged heart: the poets and the dollmaker
      • The Unemployment Blues
      • The Bare Necessities
      • The Heroine's Journey
      • The Alchemy of Change
      • Sticks and stones
      • Stitch yourself a boyfriend
      • Inner Child
      • Salute to the Sun
      • Bindings
      • Euphrosyne: reclaiming joy >
        • Freeing the caged heart: poetry to lift your spirits
        • The Smiles Project
        • Dancing Feet
        • Irrepressible
        • Greening: a lenten journey
        • Wild Women Like to Dance
        • I Am Woman
        • Harakeke flowers
        • Circle of friends, vessel of hope
        • Dance
        • Spirit seekers, spirit guides
      • The Great Divide: one woman's experience of divorce >
        • Numb
        • Bound
        • Burlap and lace
        • Naked
        • Reclaim
        • Bitch
        • The Devil on my back
        • Burdened
        • God alone is enough
        • Simple heart
        • Broken dreams
        • Will the real me please stand up?
        • The Classifieds
        • Sing-a-song
        • Dark nights >
          • You are dying ...
          • Beast of burden
          • Wounded healer, broken heart
          • A moment of conversion
          • Unbuilding
          • Peace
          • Transform me
          • A clean heart
          • Unwrapped
          • Doormat
          • The weight of expectation
          • Promise
          • A new me
          • The fabric of my life
          • Struggle
          • Hanging
        • Dance me To The End of Love
      • Black Dog: one woman's experience with depression >
        • The Anti-depressants
        • Some days
        • What I wish you knew about depression
    • Heartfeltfelt Emotion >
      • Gold Angels: coping with tragedy
      • Emotions: a challenge
      • Lamentation
      • Heartfelt Anger >
        • Anger Management with Dammit Dolls
        • Dammit!
    • Heartfelt Celebration! >
      • I Shall Wear Purple!
      • Birthday dolls
      • Birthday cards
      • Julie's 21st
      • Celebrate my femininity!
      • Troupe de verde
    • Heartfelt Graffiti
    • Heartfelt Care >
      • Ageing >
        • I Shall Wear Purple
        • The Seven Ages Of Woman
      • For the children
      • Living with dementia
      • Say 'NO' to family violence >
        • You don't have to take it like I did
        • Are you the one?
      • Heartfelt Conservation >
        • Seduced By The Wild
        • Feathers Over Hamurana
        • Birds
      • Living with cancer
      • Breast Cancer Awareness >
        • Hello Dollies: an article
        • Pink Walkers
        • Primal scream
        • Flat Out
        • Paradox
        • Just Checkin'
        • I Love you, Mum
        • Mammogram Slam
        • Friends for the journey
        • Hair Today
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        • Deconstruct Reconstruct
        • Sewphie the stitcher
        • Nana and Gran
        • Procrastinating Polly
        • Colour blind
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        • Unzipped
        • Lord, to whom shall we go?
        • Knitting Nellie
        • The nay-sayers
        • Vessels of hope
        • Dancing Woman Labyrinth
        • Breast Labyrinth
    • Time Capsule series
  • Heartfelt Creativity
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      • Girl Reclining on a Sofa
      • Cotton-soft boas
      • Wild Women Like to Hang About
    • Heartfelt Stitch >
      • Mother's Little Helper
      • Needlewomen
      • Old Woman in a Shoe
      • Delight in a cup
      • Heartfelt Companion
    • Heartfelt Wrapping >
      • Colour Blind
      • Spirit dolls
      • Bound
      • Aspects of Self
      • Wrapping as an art form
      • Wild Women Like To Dance
    • Heartfelt vestis >
      • What a wonderful world!
      • A thanksgiving vest
      • Dalmatics
      • In Praise
    • Labyrinth >
      • Shell labyrinth
      • Breast Labyrinth
      • Labyrinth scroll
      • Stitched labyrinth
      • Dancing Woman Labyrinth
      • Hopi labyrinth
      • Bead labyrinth
      • Journey
    • ANZAC: a tribute >
      • ANZAC Quilt
      • Rawene Boys
      • ANZAC jacket
  • Heartfelt prayer
    • Heartfelt crocheted rosaries
    • Heartfelt Retreat >
      • An Advent Retreat in Daily Life
      • Our daily medicine: a 28 day reflection on living and dying
      • Hidden in Plain View: a retreat in daily life
      • 24 hours: a retreat reflecting on the passion of Jesus
      • Stations of the light
    • Heartfelt waiting: reflections on the season of Advent >
      • Matron Saints of Un-named Women
      • Advent is a vessel
      • Advent is a pilgrimage
      • Advent remembers we are all related.
      • Advent is creative
      • Advent is a ritualised experience
      • Advent is expectant
      • Advent names God
      • Advent is a door
      • Advent: a sacred space
    • Stations of the Cross >
      • Christchurch Stations of the Cross
      • 24 Hours
      • Stations with haiku
      • John Badcock "Stations of the Cross"
    • Heartfelt Season: reflecting on the season of Lent >
      • A Lenten Walk
      • Lenten Prayer Flags
    • Heartfelt Hallelujah: reflections on the season of Easter >
      • Voices on the Via Lucis
    • Prayers from the Ark >
      • The Mouse
      • The Spider
      • The Dog
      • The Elephant
      • The Lizard
      • The Lamb
      • The Peacock
      • The Giraffe
      • The Toad
      • The Parrot
      • The Mother Hen
      • The Goldfish
      • The Cat
      • The Lion
    • Heartfelt Belief
    • Heartfelt Reflection >
      • These Parables Blow Me Apart!
      • A Single Thread
      • Every moment is gift
      • Harvest Wheat
      • Stepping out in faith
      • Harvest Heart
      • Dream catcher
      • The Sewing Basket
    • Sacred Story >
      • The Road to Emmaus
      • The Loaves and the Fishes
    • Listening To Winter
    • Genesis
    • Heartfelt Writing >
      • Joy on a String
      • Changing Landscapes
      • Rites of Passage
      • Sowing and Reaping
      • Hidden In Plain View
      • An Emmaus Journey
      • God and Dog
      • Dear Julie
      • An Intentional Walk
      • The Widow's Might
      • Does God Exist?
      • The Sewing Basket
      • Advent: A Sacred Space
      • A Secular Liturgy
      • Your Call
      • Dance me To The End Of Love
  • "100 day" projects
  • Prayer flag project
    • Blessings on the wind: a year of blessings >
      • April blessings
      • March blessings
      • February blessings
      • January blessings
      • December blessings
      • November blessings
      • October blessings
      • September blessings
      • August blessings
      • July blessings
      • June blessings
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      • April Blessings
      • March Blessings
    • Prayer flag blog
  • Gratitude Flowers

HEARTFELT FUN

LARGE WOODEN PEG DOLL KITS

Picture
Rumi said,
"
Out beyond ideas of Wrong-Doing and Right-Doing there is a field.
I'll meet you there
."
Here is an opportunity to play in that field.
There is no right or wrong way to create a peg doll ...
simply your way.

For many of us, peg dolls are something we made as children,
to fill in a rainy afternoon, or long summer holidays.
For many reasons, we have put away this 'childish' activity.
Now is the time to reclaim it ... for yourself, your friends, your children and grandchildren.
The doll you create has a voice ... listen to it, cherish it.

Each Doll Kit contains a wooden clothes peg,
scraps of fabric, ribbons, threads, and embellishments.
You simply add love, imagination, a willing and open heart and ... glue.

The Doll Kits are $NZ10 plus postage and packaging.

No two kits are the same.
Embellishments and colour ways vary with each kit.

SUN-KISSED DRIFTWOOD DOLL KITS

Let a Sun-kissed Driftwood Doll Kit
transport you to the idyllic beaches of Maketu, New Zealand.

e.e. cummings wrote,
"for whatever we lose
(like a you or a me)
it’s always ourselves we find in the sea"
 

Here is an opportunity to find yourself again.
Create a talisman, a dream catcher, a memory keeper, whatever you desire ...

Each Doll Kit contains a piece of driftwood, 
scraps of fabric, ribbons, threads, and embellishments.
You  simply add love, imagination, a willing and open heart and ...  glue.

The Doll Kits are $NZ10 plus postage and packaging

No two kits are the same.
Embellishments and colour ways vary with each kit.

WORRY DOLL KITS

Don't keep your worries stored in your heart.

Napoleon Bonaparte said
"Throw off your worries when you 
throw off your clothes at night."

Well, here is your chance!
Make 5 small worry dolls
and place them under your pillow each night.
Perhaps they will be transformed by the morning into opportunities or blessings. 

Each Doll Kit contains 5 small pegs,
an organza bag, scraps of fabric, ribbons, threads, and embellishments.
You  simply add love, imagination, a willing and open heart and ...  glue.

The Doll Kits
are $NZ10 plus postage and packaging

No two kits are the same.
Embellishments and colour ways vary with each kit.

PLAIN CALICO DOLL KIT

Thomas  Merton said,
“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time”.

Take time out to rediscover yourself, your dreams, your passions, your heart, your soul.
Transform your life through a creative practice.

Each Doll Kit contains 1 handmade calico doll.
You  simply add love, imagination, a willing and open heart and ...  glue.

The Doll Kits are $NZ10 plus postage and packaging

CALICO DOLL KIT WITH PAINTS

Elliot Eisner wrote,
"Art is literacy of the heart”

What a gift - to gift our inner selves a voice!
Give yourself permission to play,
and to share your deepest secrets.

Each Doll Kit contains 1 handmade calico doll, 
scraps of fabric, ribbons, threads, and embellishments.
Acrylic or watercolour paints and brush.
You  simply add love, imagination, a willing and open heart and ...  glue.

The Doll Kits are $NZ20 plus postage and packaging 

No two kits are the same.
Embellishments and colour ways vary with each kit.

CALICO DOLL KIT WITH FELT PENS

Jackson Pollock said,
"When I say artist I mean the one who is building things …
some with a brush – 
some with a shovel –
some choose a pen.”


Go on - build something.
Choose a pen and create.
Let your ideas and your passion flow freely.

Each Doll Kit contains 1 handmade calico doll, 
scraps of fabric, ribbons, threads, and embellishments.
Felt pens.
You  simply add love, imagination, a willing and open heart and ...  glue.

The Doll Kits are $NZ20 plus postage and packaging 

No two kits are the same.
Embellishments and colour ways vary with each kit.

BLACK BEAUTY FABRIC DOLL KIT

"I've been forty years discovering
that the queen of all colours
was black."
Pierre-Auguste Renoir


So take this 'queen of all colours'
and create doll royalty.
Create a doll for mourning
or for the dark of night
or to conceal dark secrets.
Discover the deep deliciousness of black.
Respond to the invitation to explore your shadows.

Have fun!


Each Doll Kit contains 1 handmade black poly-cotton doll, 
scraps of fabric, ribbons, threads, and embellishments.


You  simply add love, imagination, a willing and open heart and ...  thread or glue.

The Doll Kits are $NZ20 plus postage and packaging 

No two kits are the same.
Embellishments  vary with each kit.





GRAFFITI DOLLS

Anne Frank wrote,
"I can shake off everything as I write;
my sorrows disappear,
my courage is reborn."

Shake off all your woes and cares and play on a Graffiti doll.

Send love notes to your soul mate.
Doodle to your heart's content.
Be a Graffiti artist in the safety of your own room :-)

Each Doll Kit contains 1 handmade calico doll, painted with blackboard paint. 
Small packet of coloured chalk.
Cleaning cloth.

You  simply add love, imagination, a willing and open heart and ...  graffiti.

The Doll Kits are $NZ25 plus postage and packaging 

No two kits are the same.




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