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| Luzy |
Posted - Aug 16 2005 : 09:21:57 AM
Hi girls! I love to make cloth country dolls and with bits of antique lace and buttons, etc. Soooo, I was thinking wouldn't it be fun to make a mascot for us farmgirls and send her around to visit? She could travel from farmgirl to farmgirl via snail mail and have her picture taken with something(or someone) meaningful that depicts each persons personality or farm, then send her on to the next person. Maybe a scrapbook could accompany her? She could even go on vacations, that is if any of us farmgirls get the time for such things!! I was thinking of designing her to resemble MaryJane since she is the reason we are all together. So what do you think?? Is this another of my wacky ideas or would it be fun?? Luzy |
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| Alee |
Posted - Sep 01 2010 : 06:24:09 AM
Here's the new topic I started:
http://www.maryjanesfarm.com/snitz/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=45054
Alee
Farmgirl Sister #8
www.farmgirlalee.blogspot.com
www.allergyjourneys.blogspot.com
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| Alee |
Posted - Sep 01 2010 : 06:15:15 AM
Ladies- It sounds like there is lots of interest in starting this again. I'll start a new topic for this so we can organize the old from the new, okay?
Alee
Farmgirl Sister #8
www.farmgirlalee.blogspot.com
www.allergyjourneys.blogspot.com
Put your pin on the farmgirl map! www.farmgirlmap.blogspot.com |
| Especially For You |
Posted - Sep 01 2010 : 06:07:39 AM
I would love to be in too. This time or next.
Blessings,
Tina Farmgirl#455 |
| star-schipp |
Posted - Aug 31 2010 : 10:49:46 AM
I'm in too!
We can do no great things; only small things with great love - Mother Teresa
farmgirl sister #1927 |
| TabithaLenox |
Posted - Aug 25 2010 : 07:03:48 AM
If this will be happening again, I would love to join in!
Kim
Farmgirl #184
http://www.tabithalenox.blogspot.com |
| Sue Feely |
Posted - Aug 18 2010 : 06:34:16 AM
I'm all in for this! |
| Bonnie Ellis |
Posted - Aug 17 2010 : 10:51:42 PM
I'd love the doll to come to my town of Minneapolis. Mary Jane will be here in Person Sept. 16-18. Mary Jane loves dolls and so do I.
grandmother and orphan farmgirl |
| pasofino |
Posted - Aug 17 2010 : 4:53:43 PM
I'm still in.....keep me posted...
Happy Trails, from the Adirondack Mountains
Sisterhood #328
www.wolfpondstables.com
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| Saffron |
Posted - Aug 17 2010 : 12:55:50 PM
I think this is a great idea and I am all for it! Count me in!!!
We could even track her journey on the map and add up her miles.
I love it!
"Life without God is like an unsharpened pencil~ it has no point." |
| Monique Arsene |
Posted - Apr 13 2010 : 06:34:07 AM
About the traveling doll, fantastic idea. How about adding a journal? Write down some good insight or something that happened down on the farm. Love getting something in the mail that is NOT "junk" mail or a bill....
Monique |
| yarnmamma |
Posted - Apr 12 2010 : 9:06:31 PM
We need someone to volunteer to lead the project...can be called the hostess or topic mamma or Dolly's first mamma. If you make a doll to start with it would be good to send along a pattern for the clothes.
Anyone?
"Unless our desire for human compassion is stronger than our desire to be right, to be secure or to belong, love will elude us."
--Marsha Sinetar
"Come to me all that labour and I will give you rest"
Jesus |
| birdie71 |
Posted - Apr 12 2010 : 05:51:02 AM
I wanna get in on this! When do we start?
Robin
Farmgirl Sister #1301
Farming in the Sonoran Desert? Hmmm?!
my mama's (ceejay48) craftiness ~ cjscreations-ceejay.blogspot.com
my daddy's craftiness ~ aspenforge.com |
| LadyInRed |
Posted - Apr 11 2010 : 3:57:40 PM
Love Love Love This idea! Count Me In!
Peggy
Lady In Red |
| yarnmamma |
Posted - Mar 12 2010 : 03:04:33 AM
And also you would need to start a new topic about this. Do you know how to do that? 
Linda in Scranton, PA
Jesus is a feminist. |
| yarnmamma |
Posted - Mar 12 2010 : 03:02:39 AM
Welcome Jerusha,
That is a great idea. I would love to be in this. Just ask for signups and state the rules...suggestion is only 2 weeks to visit then be shipped on. I'd also say to keep in mind the weight or size of things to add because of shipping cost.
When my chapter did a dolly like this I started with her naked (had to make a blankie to keep her warm though) and button for eyes to give some personality. The next person gave her hair, the next one worked more on the face, etc. she disapeared after only a few people..so that's a danger...but worth the try to me. Let's do it!! The receiver could make or add anything she wanted...preferably something in theme of the trip or activity she did with that farmgirl.
Sounds fun!!!
I'm joining.
Linda (yarnmamma)
Linda in Scranton, PA
Jesus is a feminist. |
| Rueby |
Posted - Mar 11 2010 : 6:07:52 PM
I would LOVE to do this. I could make a doll and if we wanted to start a mailing list and a deadline for how long the dolly could be kept before being passed on. Then we can take her wherever and take a picture. I just joined the sisterhood and along with my 8 year old daughter we would love to do this as a project.
Is anyone still interested? Email me and I can get this going. I think we will start working ont he doll regardless since it sounds like a great idea. Maybe we could even add a little project connected with her like making a little something for dolly and sending it along with her to the next person. By the time she comes all the way around I can add everyone's pictures and experiences with her to a blog and everyone can see what she has gathered in her travels along with the pictures. What do you all think?
~Rueby
chrisnrue@yahoo.com |
| pasofino |
Posted - Feb 04 2010 : 11:41:37 AM
I have been away from Mary Jane's world for awhile.....I came back and loved the Idea of the traveling doll, .....and now to find out she's retired? Does any one want to start a new doll?
Happy Trails,Claudia
Sisterhood #328
wwwwolfpondstables.com
www.friendsofwolfpond.blogspot.com |
| katmom |
Posted - Jan 16 2010 : 11:04:36 PM
Hey Linda,
I too wondered where "Dolly" went....
>^..^< Happiness is being a katmom.
"I've never met a sewing machine I didn't like!"
www.katmom4.blogspot.com & http://www.graciesvictorianrose.blogspot.com
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| yarnmamma |
Posted - Jan 16 2010 : 10:49:30 PM
Hi,
my Internet chaper "Bees without Borders" started a traveling doll...I made it and sent it on ...after only a few people had her then we never heard about her again...many of the members in that chapter kind of dropped out and we don't know where the dolly ended up. This is just a warning...but of course I'd try it again...we just have to be considerate and hope and pray that people keep their word and send her on to the next person in a timely manner.
Linda in Scranton, PA
Why do brunettes know so many blonde jokes?
Because they have to do something on Saturday nights! |
| briarpatch |
Posted - Jan 13 2010 : 07:08:23 AM
Lucy,
this sounds like fun. what would you think about each chapter having their own doll? maybe she could travel within the chapter, on vacation, events etc. We could each make a scrapbook page for her (yet to be named) and then maybe post it on the web to compare notes? this would save shipping.
oldfarmgirl |
| Alee |
Posted - Nov 19 2009 : 09:12:51 AM
HI Becky! Welcome to the forum.
Right now the dolls are retired to the farm. The did quite a bit of traveling there for a while and so now they are enjoying being home! :D
Alee
Farmgirl Sister #8
www.awarmheart.com
www.farmgirlalee.blogspot.com
www.allergyjourneys.blogspot.com
Put your pin on the farmgirl map! www.farmgirlmap.blogspot.com |
| Becky Lynn |
Posted - Nov 18 2009 : 9:41:14 PM
I think this is a great idea! Let me know if you are still doing it. If so, count me in! |
| MegH |
Posted - Oct 21 2009 : 2:00:43 PM
opps |
| Alee |
Posted - Oct 14 2009 : 5:21:12 PM
Hi Nancy- Welcome to the forum! The dolls have retired to the farm to live out their lives.
Alee
Farmgirl Sister #8
www.awarmheart.com
www.farmgirlalee.blogspot.com
www.allergyjourneys.blogspot.com
Put your pin on the farmgirl map! www.farmgirlmap.blogspot.com |
| Primitive Doll |
Posted - Oct 14 2009 : 5:13:06 PM
I would love to have her visit me. Such a cute idea!!! Just let me know what you might need from me. |
