These were created for the fairy room for Play Toys With Me, my senior thesis. Waldorf-style dolls played an important role in my childhood. Despite not going to a Waldorf school, my mom bought me Waldorf dolls when I was a kid, and I developed a real fondness for them. I found their faces so charming, so I knew I wanted to learn how they were made as a part of my div iii (senior) thesis. These dolls were a real labor of love, Waldorf-style doll making can be time consuming, and these were no exception. They were more complex to create because I made them poseable via pipe cleaner ‘skeletons’. They are each based on flowers local to Western Massachusetts, where Hampshire College resides. In order from left to right they represent: asters, bleeding hearts, black-eyed susans, and cardinal flowers. Like the mushroom peg dolls, these were a nod to my early childhood love of nature and fairies. It was a real pleasure to watch them go from sketches to works in process to finished dolls, bringing a doll to ‘life’ like that provides a real sense of accomplishment.