Mad Doll Doctor

I have a privy digger friend who sells me doll parts now and then and he often throws in several irrevocably broken pieces as well. Little bisque and china heads and what not–usually extremely common pieces, damaged so severely as to not be worth fixing. I have a whole box of such pieces. Last summer I made a small concrete flower pot and embedded tiny halved geodes in the surface, turned out really cool. Next summer I plan to do the same thing with small broken china doll heads. I am predicting it will turn out to be another extremely cool flower pot.

I also like to strew “artifacts” like broken china heads and pieces of vases, pottery shards etc, around my fish pond and the raised platform beds in my garden–a little surprise for visitors. One of my most frequently commented on items is the life-sized plaster head of Thomas Jefferson that lies half-buried among the ivy. Everyone wants to know if his body is under there somewhere.