Mary's Little Lamb

She is a 10" handcrafted replica pull toy, created with the appearance of age. She is a one of a kind original design.

Miss Prudence Rutherford
Created in a Queen Anne style Prudence has hand stitched vintage clothing trimmed with antique Lace. She is a one of a kind 14" collectors doll.

Timber
Timber is a one of a kind original design horse pull toy. I created Timber to resemble an antique pull toy that has been loved and played with until little remains of him but the foundation. Tiber is about 11" tall 

Miss Amelia Winthrope

Amelia is a 14" Queen Anne Inspired doll dressed in vintage and repurposed fabrics and antique trim. Amelia  is a one of a kind 14" collectors doll.

Thanks for taking a look at my artwork for sale. You can find my art dolls and other works at my website : Spider Sisters Studio website or in my Etsy store: Etsy Store

A bit of an update from The Sandra Jones Center. I'm now in direct contact with the center, although they have difficulty with email due to poor internet service, I can now reach them by phone or email if you have any questions or concerns.

Thanks to Cindee Moyer the first box of dolls has been sent and arrived in South Africa! Thank you to Luella Mossom who made it possible to get the dolls to the center.

Onwards and upwards now that we know it's possible!

Proverbs 19:17
He who is gracious to a poor man lends to the LORD, And He will repay him for his good deed.

Thanks to everyone who has been kind enough to offer to help make dolls for the Sandra Jones Centre in Zimbabwe. The girls there are truly blessed to have so many willing to help!

I just want to keep you all updated and let you know myself and a couple kind ladies in South Africa are in the process of trying to find a better way to get the dolls to the centre. I'm in hopes that a gentleman from our church who is a ship captain is going to be able to help get the dolls from ports around the world...we have offers from(in alphabetical order not order of those good enough to help :) Australia,Canada, Mexico,South Africa, UK and the USA so if you live near a port city, if this nice ship captain can talk to others, perhaps those creating dolls could send to you as ambassadors and we could figure out from there how to get them to the ports.(I know this is a big ask, but it could work)

I did contact the airlines to no avail, the have not been helpful in the least! Surely there are flight attendants who could get the dolls a little further down the road....I'm trying to think outside the box and get the dolls to the girls as safe as possible with the least amount of cost to those of you good enough to bless the girls with your generosity. Don't forget to take photos of your dolls, I'm sure it will encourage others to make dolls as well.

If you have not started your dolls yet, Connie Hindmarsh has been FANTASTIC and offered one of her lovely doll patterns for us to use free of charge, the information is on Connie's blog.

Thank you again for you kind offers of help!

Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor: If either of them falls down, one can help the other up.

God bless each and every one of you'

Finally an address you can send your dolls to :)

I'm so sorry it's taken so long to get an address for those of you who would like to help, I had not thought about things such as the cost that might be inured on their side for customs and import tax or that they might need some sort of "SAFE" address to be given for direct shipments. Please make sure you mark your packages with a very small if any monetary value and mark them as a charity donation so they don't have any tax to pay on their side. Thanks to everyone who has been emailing with offers to help! God bless you all :)

Here is more info about the orphanage; http://www.sandrajonescentre.org/

Here is the address to send to directly:

Lydia Forbes
Sandra Jones Centre,
139 Old Esigodini Road,
Riverside, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe

I'm hoping this weekend to put a very simple doll pattern here for anyone who would like to make and send a doll
Connie Hindmarsh generously stepped in and is offering one to use, have a look at the comment section for her information)
or
I also had the suggestion of sending vinyl dolls, here were a couple of those suggested to me, they are from Amazon, extremely well priced too!  Here are the direct links to Amazon. You may well find them elsewhere, this was just one suggestion give to me by someone who generously agreed to purchase 10 of the dolls and send them!   

 $7.95 for this one

Link for baby doll 1, click on baby doll 1 to go to site
Baby doll 1

10.99 for this one

Link for baby doll 2, click on baby doll 2 to go to site

Baby doll 2

 Here is the mailing address for donations of dolls that I mentioned in my last post

 Sandra Jones Centre, 139 Old Esigodini Road, Riverside, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe 

Please remember to make sure your item is marked DONATION so they don't incur huge taxes or import charges on their end. Thanks in advance for your help.
God bless you all

 Hello to all the crafters and doll makers out there! :)

I'm wondering if you might be able to help me?
A need for something totally different recently came to my attention, the need for children of horrible circumstance to get on with being children.....A Missionary came to our Church this past week, his daughter has gone to Zimbabwe for 2 years to work with the Sandra Jones Children's Village as nutritionist, the work is with a girls orphanage in Zimbabwe, most of the girls there have been assaulted,  bringing "shame" to the family so they have been thrown out on the streets! These girls are, for the most part, under the age of nine years old!! CHILDREN , and certainly not accountable for something an adult has done to them! Ian, the man speaking to us mentioned, that the girls were so thrilled and overwhelmed when someone donated 2 dolls of color to the center!  They had NEVER seen a doll of color, most of the girls are still very young and would like dolls to play with.....As a doll maker myself, as someone who believes every child should have the opportunity to be a CHILD... I'd LOVE to send dolls of color to them, but there are over 75 girls there at present (they have a lottery at night to determine who gets to sleep with the dolls for the night) that number is growing every day. I can no way make 75 dolls on my own, nor can I buy them in the UK, I have never seen a doll of color here.........
I'm asking if you have any suggestion of how to contact other doll makers and crafters making them aware, this is but one shelter, one place where these children are housed, there is surely a need of more than 75 dolls for just this shelter.

I'm sure they would  be happy with any type of toy....we all hear about how much these children need, food, water, medicine, & clothing, maybe what they need just as much is the comfort of something to cuddle when sad or frightened....the opportunity to be a child.


Thanks in advance !!!!  If you can't help, I TOTALLY understand, but if you can help in any way, if even only by word of mouth or posting a link on your own blog, that would be a fantastic help!
~Proverbs 28:27~ Whoever gives to the poor will not want
God bless you all