{"id":30835,"date":"2025-07-25T03:11:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T09:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=30835"},"modified":"2025-12-21T20:17:49","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T02:17:49","slug":"opus-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2025\/07\/opus-17\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 17"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I took a long break, but came back to doll making recently. My dolls are mostly intended for people grieving the loss of a loved one. As I create them, I often try to reflect the clothing style, facial features, and hair of the one I wish to honor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With Joann out of business, I have lost my usual supplier of yarn and fabrics. And just this week, I discovered that my sources for handmade doll clothes and crocheted shoes are also gone. I have sewn a few outfits over the years, but it was one of those crazy miracles that I could usually find the perfect clothing from vendor booths at a local shop. Anything from cowboy gear to a Hawaiian muumuu, a fairy costume to beautiful white dresses, those little booths were a great help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I dressed this newest doll in clothing and shoes I set aside years ago, just in case. It felt good to be prepared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I took a long break, but came back to doll making recently. My dolls are mostly intended for people grieving the loss of a loved one. As I create them, I often try to reflect the clothing style, facial features, and hair of the one I wish to honor. With Joann out of business, I … Continue reading No. 17<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-according-to-angela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30835"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31483,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30835\/revisions\/31483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}