I have not been working on my Dikke Dame (Fat Lady) dolls for a long time.

One reason is because I had not finished the last one I made.

I hadn’t finished her because it was going to require a lot of hand work for decorating her.

But I finally buckled down and finished her –

And it was a lot of hand work.

And I just LOVE her.

Introducing Tinsel, the Christmas Tree Dikke Dame: