Cosmic Fairy

March 10, 2022
Cosmic Fairy, a Little Minion Doll by lm_meo.

This months new doll isn't exactly new. She's been hanging around my work bench since last September finished but not quite ready to go. This doll has been one of the most difficult to photograph but in the end I did manage to get some photos that are true to life. Good enough at least. I'm not sure if it's just me but I always feel like dolls look quite a bit different in person then they do in photos no matter how well the photos turn out. I suspect it has something to do with scale. Or maybe it's just the difference between a three dimensional object and a two dimensional image. idk. Also for something more creative I did an edited version using an image from NASA since when I was making her I imagined that she is a fairy from outer space.


The Cosmic Fairy galaxy edit.

This playscale porcelain artdoll, Cosmic Fairy, is made up of 19 pieces of porcelain and assembled with springs. Her cloak is is hand embroidered and beaded. Her hair is llama fiber.

Porcelain bjd standing. Cosmic fairy doll sitting in a tree. Porcelain artdoll standing in the woods. Cosmic Fairy sitting in front of lavender flowers. Space fairy doll sitting in rock garden.

Available on Etsy:
etsy.com/listing/1175084852



smol ghost #2

February 20, 2022
A pale ghost, gray specter, my miniature handmade porcelain ball joined doll.

To conclude the series of ghost dolls here is the second tiny one. She has the same style of dress as the last tiny ghost, and she also has gray hair, they both even have gray-blue eyes, but I think this one looks quite a bit different.

Garden Under Lightning
(Ghost-Story)

Out of the storm that muffles shining night
Flash roses ghastly-sweet,
And lilies far too pale.
There is a pang of livid light,
A terror of familiarity,
I see a dripping swirl of leaves and petals
That I once tended happily,
Borders of flattened, frightened little things,
And writhing paths I surely walked in that other life—
Day?

My specter-garden beckons to me,
Gibbers horribly—
And vanishes!
Leonora Speyer, 1921

Close up portrait of ghost doll. Porcelain ghost doll at the edge of the winter garden. Porcelain artdoll standing on rusty machine. Miniature porcelain doll in dormant rose bush. Porcelain artdoll sitting on a rock.

Handmade porcelain doll, smol ghost #2,
Available on Etsy: etsy.com/listing/1142765754


smol ghost #1

February 1, 2022
A picture of a gothic ghost girl doll in a tattered white dress.

Last month I shared "The Ghost" so now I'm going to share a smol ghost. Whenever I make a large doll I always have a couple smaller projects in the works at the same time, to make sure I don't have a lot of empty kiln space, and sometimes I like to make smaller dolls with a similar theme as the bigger one I'm working on.

So keeping with that theme I'm going to share a poem for this doll as well. And since this doll is smaller the poem I've found for her is shorter.


I Am Like a Leaf
The silence is broken: into the nature
    My soul sails out,
Carrying the song of life on his brow,
    To meet the flowers and birds.

When my heart returns in the solitude,
    She is very sad,
Looking back on the dead passions
    Lying on Love’s ruin.

I am like a leaf
    Hanging over hope and despair,
Which trembles and joins
    The world’s imagination and ghost.
Yone Noguchi, 1921

A small ghost doll looking evil. Ghost doll on a machine. Miniature gothic ball jointed doll. Tiny goth bjd. porcelain ball joined ghost doll.

Handmade porcelain doll, smol ghost #1,
Available on Etsy: etsy.com/listing/1142763550


The Ghost

January 14, 2022
Little Minion Doll by lm_meo.

Porcelain artdoll, a specter, a white ghost that's been haunting my desk. Like always, I've been working on this doll for awhile. There are so many steps needed to create a doll like this and then when it's finally finished there is always more to do. Washing her hair and dress, taking photos, editing photos and preparing to share the doll online, washing the doll again and trying to find words to present alongside the doll.

Sometimes, okay a lot of the time, I have a difficult time coming up with anything to say. So today I'm going to share a poem that I think suits this doll.

LENORE —
AH, broken is the golden bowl! the spirit flown forever!
Let the bell toll! — a saintly soul floats on the Stygian river;
And, Guy De Vere, hast thou no tear? — weep now or never more!
See! on yon drear and rigid bier low lies thy love, Lenore!
Come! let the burial rite be read — the funeral song be sung! —
An anthem for the queenliest dead that ever died so young —
A dirge for her the doubly dead in that she died so young.

"Wretches! ye loved her for her wealth and hated her for her pride,
And when she fell in feeble health, ye blessed her — that she died!
How shall the ritual, then, be read? — the requiem how be sung
By you — by yours, the evil eye, — by yours, the slanderous tongue
That did to death the innocence that died, and died so young?"

Peccavimus; but rave not thus! and let a Sabbath song
Go up to God so solemnly the dead may feel no wrong!
The sweet Lenore hath "gone before," with Hope, that flew beside,
Leaving thee wild for the dear child that should have been thy bride —
For her, the fair and debonair, that now so lowly lies,
The life upon her yellow hair but not within her eyes —
The life still there, upon her hair — the death upon her eyes.

"Avaunt! avaunt! to friends from fiends the indignant ghost is riven —
From Hell unto a high estate far up within the Heaven —
From grief and moan to a golden throne beside the King of Heaven: —
Let no bell toll, then, lest her soul, amid its hallowed mirth,
Should catch the note, as it doth float up from the damned Earth;
And I! — to-night my heart is light! — no dirge will I upraise
But waft the angel on her flight with a Pæan of old days."
Edgar Allan Poe, 1849

Portrait of a ghost doll.

This playscale porcelain artdoll, the ghost, is made up of 19 pieces of porcelain and assembled with springs. Her dress is silk and cotton with a few beads and is carefully distressed. Her hair is suri alpaca.

A porcelain doll sitting in frost. My handmade ghost bjd. Porcelain artdoll portrait backlit by golden sunlight. Ghost doll ready to leep. Porcelain ball jointed doll standing.

Available on Etsy:
www.etsy.com/listing/1140236108



Queen Bee

September 4, 2021

Awhile ago I made a bee themed doll. She's been hanging around my desk, keeping other dolls company, and I've slowly been making little adjustments to her here and there. I think it's finally time to offer her for sale though so she's now on etsy.

Queen bee porcelain doll

Available on etsy:
etsy.com/listing/1061327619

Small bees with the queen


Out with the old

December 9, 2017
Farewell sale and dolls going into retirement

Hey guys! No, I'm not going anywhere or retiring from dolls, but I am retiring some of my older doll molds.

So after all this time my Meka dolls are finally coming to the end of their run. 50 tiny dolls is an awful lot, no matter how small they are, and I'm looking forward to finally putting the molds to rest. Custom orders are now closed for these tinies but there are currently 8 finished Mekas available in my etsy shop and there will be 1 more added when I have her dress finished and that will be the last of them. It's been a fun little doll to make but I'm ready for something new.


Porcelain bjd holding a little gray cat.

I'm also having a farewell sale for my older doll molds, Body I and Body II.
The price for the custom dolls will be discounted until the end of the year for anyone that would like to order one before I destroy the molds.
They are odd sized dolls and moving forward I want to focus on making properly scaled 1/6 size dolls in edition to the tinies.


You can find my available dolls on etsy:
etsy.com/shop/meowness


Looking forward to sharing more about my upcoming dolls later!



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