http://marlaineverhelst.com/blog Just another WordPress weblog Sun, 14 Mar 2010 12:48:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Yes, yes, yes! I finally received the pictures of how the dolls from "my" Scottish girls turned out. I am very proud of them. Because these girls had no doll making background the dolls all turned out very original and fresh and full of interesting details. Very personal and different. I ... http://marlaineverhelst.com/blog/2010/03/14/kilmarnock-results/ Sometimes you see a commercial that is so funny or so well made that it gets classic. I don't know if Heineken showed these outside the Netherlands that is why I decided to share. The first one was already very good but they managed to come up with a second ... http://marlaineverhelst.com/blog/2010/03/14/funny-comercial/ My new Scottish friend Stephanie Lightbown  invited me to take part in a doll project she was working on with her students of the Kilmarnock Academy near Glasgow. For their art examination the students chose a poem or a subject from literature as inspiration for a doll project. This is ... http://marlaineverhelst.com/blog/2009/12/31/project-scotland/ The last week of October I was in France for my yearly Doll Holiday and Workshop Week. It is hard to believe but the weather was that good that several days we even could work outside in the sun.  Colliii - Doll Lovers Online wrote about it on: http://www.colliii.com/en/story/marlaine-verhelst-doll-making-course More on my ... http://marlaineverhelst.com/blog/2009/11/16/paris-workshop-week/ This year's NIADA conference was a wonderful experience. The location, the weather, the people, the dolls, the classes, the food, the black bear, everything was perfect. I just didn't see much of the programs because I had a very full schedule. But I met a lot of very nice people ... http://marlaineverhelst.com/blog/2009/10/02/niada-book/ Time flies and the NIADA conference 2009 is coming up. The conference will be held from September 8 through 13 in Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts near Knoxville, Tennesee. The conference is open for everyone, not only NIADA members, and I heard already from several of my Texas friends ... http://marlaineverhelst.com/blog/2009/06/20/niada-conference-2009/ Marcie Hart has sent me the Byrum Spiritual Art Award. This award means: "You make a difference...... I know, because you have for me! Thank you for being such a creative and wonderful person." I really feel honored. Now I may send the award to six other people. Hard to choose. ... http://marlaineverhelst.com/blog/2009/06/18/byron-spiritual-award/ After a very successful DABIDA Day last April we accepted two new DABIDA Artist members: Kamilla Meesters and Charles Stephan. Kamilla Meesters is a very talented new young doll artist. She makes realistic portraits with a twist in Living Doll polymer clay. Charles Stephan sent in his Lamb Elfin for the 2009 ... http://marlaineverhelst.com/blog/2009/06/08/new-dabida-members/ Yesterday I finally called my old friends Jane and Joe Darin, who live in San Diego, to hear how they are doing these days. Jane Darin makes cloth dolls and is a sculptor. They hosted the very first "Meet the Dutch Touch" class in the US for Ankie Daanen and ... http://marlaineverhelst.com/blog/2009/06/08/jane-darin/ Cleaning up the attic I found an old wooden cigar box. In my mother's handwriting it said on the lid: "Marlaine 10 years old". Inside was a collection of small objects sculpted with colorful childrens' clay: an elephant that lost his head,a snake, a Mother Mary, a castle, a turtle ... http://marlaineverhelst.com/blog/2009/05/06/treasures-on-the-attic/