Amazing Adventures of Adagirl

Inspired by a childrens book, Ada and I decided to make an apple doll. We skinned an apple, carved a simple face into it, soaked it in lemon juice, then dried it out for a week. The head shrunk, the face wrinkled and it developed some definite character.

David and Ada made a body out of pipe cleaners, stuck tiny black beads in the eye holes, glued cottonballs to her head and cut up one of our cloth napkins for a dress.

Of course, our great grandmother doll needed a pipe cleaner guitar, and our friend Rachel came over and made her a pipe cleaner cat.

Ada named the doll Luppy. I think she named the cat Mouser. She didn’t name the guitar, but it’s possible that David did.