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puppetmakerJudi Ward is a well-known name in doll making.
Her patterns are geared to all levels of doll makers. She has taught doll-making all over the world.
I have a couple of her patterns in my pattern collection.
Last Wednesday the sump pump in their basement apparently died and by the time they found out, there was eight inches of water on the floor.
A lot of her studio materials were in plastic tubs on the shelves but anything on the floor in cardboard boxes were a total loss.
This included an artistic lifetime of patterns that she created. She has electronically everything she created after 1978 but anything before that was lost along with wigs, doll shoes and doll making materials. Her husband lost his comic book collect, baseball card and, saddest of all, family photos that had not be scanned into the computer yet.
Their kids and grandchildren helped clean the mess up and sort out what could be saved.
This, of course, got me to thinking about my patterns and supplies and what will happen to them after I am gone.
I want them to go to good homes. To people who can use them. Caroline gets first crack at them, but I wonder what will happen to the puppets and costumes and dolls I have made over the years. Each has a story attached to it. I have the puppet that Peter bought from me which is how we met. I have signed puppets by various folks including a Sandman puppet that Neil was kind enough to sign.
I don’t want them tossed out in the garbage.
But things can change in an instant and I know that I might lose everything.
I do really hope someone takes a lifetime of patterns and adds them to their pattern box.
I am grateful for my puppets.
Her patterns are geared to all levels of doll makers. She has taught doll-making all over the world.
I have a couple of her patterns in my pattern collection.
Last Wednesday the sump pump in their basement apparently died and by the time they found out, there was eight inches of water on the floor.
A lot of her studio materials were in plastic tubs on the shelves but anything on the floor in cardboard boxes were a total loss.
This included an artistic lifetime of patterns that she created. She has electronically everything she created after 1978 but anything before that was lost along with wigs, doll shoes and doll making materials. Her husband lost his comic book collect, baseball card and, saddest of all, family photos that had not be scanned into the computer yet.
Their kids and grandchildren helped clean the mess up and sort out what could be saved.
This, of course, got me to thinking about my patterns and supplies and what will happen to them after I am gone.
I want them to go to good homes. To people who can use them. Caroline gets first crack at them, but I wonder what will happen to the puppets and costumes and dolls I have made over the years. Each has a story attached to it. I have the puppet that Peter bought from me which is how we met. I have signed puppets by various folks including a Sandman puppet that Neil was kind enough to sign.
I don’t want them tossed out in the garbage.
But things can change in an instant and I know that I might lose everything.
I do really hope someone takes a lifetime of patterns and adds them to their pattern box.
I am grateful for my puppets.
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Date: 2021-04-06 12:51 pm (UTC)