I spent those 2 weeks thinking " Oh my, oh my, oh my. What have I gotten myself into? OK, I made one doll, or, essence doll. She was made entirely of wood. My medium. I sent her on. The second doll was made of copper tubing. Having worked in various jobs over the years, I was familiar with copper tubing and how to work with it. I made my contributions to him and sent him on.

Oma Granny shows her years. She has a wrinkled face, an arthritic body, and bad hair. She stared at me for 2 weeks, never blinking. I avoided her as much as I could, but, she was constantly in the back of my mind when I was at work, and when I was doing other things. "Help me!...help me!" she seemed to say.

I had read her accompanying diary, to get her background. I found that she wasn't happy with her hair, so I decided that I would give her new hair.

I wanted her to retain her "older" look, but, I felt that her personality was like some people her age that I know…kind of an old Hippie from the '60's. I searched for what I thought would be a good material to use for her hair, and came up with a funky platinum-colored yarn like stuff. Removal of her old hair was not fun. Her hair was firmly held on with hot-melt glue in some areas, and barely affixed in other areas. I also had to remove her glasses, and give her head a preliminary coat of "gesso" so she could be painted a flesh tone.

I decided to leave the face painting to a future artist, who enjoyed that type of thing. I would concentrate on giving her a full head of platinum frizzy hair.

I'm fairly happy with the results. All the hair is the same length, but another artist is welcome to give her a more modern cut if she thinks it is needed.