Minnie

I just finished this little beaded doll last week. She's my first completely beaded doll. Minnie told me her name when she was almost finished. She is just 4 inches tall, and about one and three-quarters of an inch wide, from fingertip to fingertip. She's lavishly embellished with real freshwater pearls, a carved bone face, size 18º, 11º and 15º beads, and Swarovski crystals. She has seaweed hair, and mother-of pearl seahorse, damselfish, and starfish friends.

I had just started beading her, when a little girl came into the shop where I was waiting for a class to start. She asked me, "Oooh are you making a mermaid?!" I answered," Well, I might be!" And so it was.