Cage dolls

You have seen them..... silently watching over a collection of brocante items lovingly arranged atop tables and shelves in a rustic French Provincial farmhouse. They are called Santos cage dolls and after becoming more and more popular over the past few years, they now are enthusiastically sought after by collectors and designers that want to add old world style to their homes. Originally started as copies of 17th century carvings by priests and called saint dolls or Santons in French…

Several of you have been asking me for Santos Cage Dolls for a while now and last Sunday I decided to go for it! Santos Cage Dolls have been popular in the mixed media world for some time now, so I'm super excited to bring you some, Retro Café Art Gallery style! I modeled my dolls after traditional Santos Cage Dolls and our fantastic articulated doll style worked perfectly for them! We also have several yummy new colors of Inka Gold in stock, just in time for Valentine's Day! CHECK IT OUT…

Learn the history, the difference between a Santos doll and a Santos cage doll, ideas for decorating, and where to buy these beauties.

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Have you ever had "one of those weeks"... that too quickly turned into "one of those months"? I found some time today to finally apply a coat of paper clay over the duck cloth fabric armature! I did manage (two weeks ago) to stain and add several more decorative features to the wooden cage. The arms are articulated... jointed at the shoulders, elbows and wrists. I will apply paper clay to them, and add fingers eventually. I hope to work on her face this weekend. Those are German bead eyes in…

She has taken on a life of her own... this "Keeper of the Lost Dolls!" The paper napkin corset is out... a paper clay corset is in (or should I say "on!) Once the paper clay has dried, I will look for some vintage lace or netting in my stash and then stuff it... Well, place it... strategically to provide her with a bit of proper, 18th century lady-like modesty! (wink!) Katie helped me use her paper embossing tool and I cut some scrapbooking papers and ran them through the embosser; giving…

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Ballard Designs Santos Cage Doll

the journey inside to find one's true magic....... This is my interpretation of a "caged" Santos style figure. Has the...