These past few months being (virtually) around the gals at Gauche Alchemy have really done a number on my creativity. In the best possible sense of that sentiment! It’s true, when you surround yourself with creativity in any form–be it people or resources–and are open to it, your own creativity blossoms and blooms all over the place. Which is why, a little over a month ago, when I heard about the high school student who made her prom dress out of cardboard, I got the idea to challenge the other members of the Gauche Alchemy Design Team (known as Alchemists) to create our own outfits out of supplies from the Gauche Alchemy store. These didn’t have to be life-size outfits, we settled on dolls for this project, and established a limit of no more than 10% fabric in our creations. For my doll, I had this “collectible” Bradley doll of Polly Flinders that I got as a young girl. Little Polly Flinders Sat among the cinders, Warming her pretty little toes. Her mother came and caught her And whipped her naughty daughter For spoiling her pretty new clothes. Cheerful, right? After many, many moves and a decade or so spent [...]
