Custom order for Iain, regular customer at Stuff 4 Offices. Every time he comes to collect a doll, he orders another one! Trying to keep a good relationship with him because he's such a great customer to me and he's a huge fan of my dolls. He posts his dolls to a Ripon Facebook group 'Blow Your Horn Ripon', showing off what I've made for him and he goes around the town with dolls in his bag to show friends.
This one is Mary Queen of Scots. Like the Anne Boleyn doll, he wanted Mary to have a decapitated head.
Iain gives me pretty much free reign over how the dolls look and what I do with the request, but because Iain is really knowledgable about Mary Queen of Scots I wanted to make sure that my doll was accurate. I did a lot of research into her so that I knew what she should look like, what her personality was like and how she died.
I am really happy with how Mary turned out. She looks royal and regal as well as sad and decapitated. The crown was just a tiny top on a bead in my jewellery stash but it worked perfectly as a crown (even though it's tiny!)
She looked a little too much like Anne since I used a very similar red hair - I added those little pearls and a cotton cap to make her look older and more powerful than Anne.
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