The Catch-a-Dream Art Doll

This month I’ve been pulling together the articles for issue 5 of Astarte’s Mega-Zine. The theme is “Dreaming”. The articles have been so content-rich! Catherine McArdle, my associate editor said she kept forgetting she was supposed to be editing as she read through these articles because each one was so enthralling.

I designed this double-sided doll specifically for the issue and am delighted to include it in the 100-art-doll challenge, too.

On one side her eyes are shut and she is dreaming a night-time dream. Her net is raised to snare that dream and hold it in her memory to be recalled upon waking.

On the other side the doll is awake and focused on her hopes, dreams and aspirations. She catches these dreams in her net so she can focus on them and make them hers. This is the law of attraction at play. What we think about and develop strong emotional responses to, becomes our reality.

What would you dare to dream if you knew you could not fail? My hero, Brian Tracy, asks this repeatedly.

Here is the original quote he borrowed from:

What one great thing would you dare to dream if you knew you could not fail? The easiest person to deceive is one’s own self. –Edward G. Bulwer Lytton

I made a butterfly, a heart and a star to place in the dolls net to represent dreams – waking dreams or sleeping dreams.

The doll is cardboard laminated with printed scrapbooking papers. I’ve sanded back the edges to distress them. The two halves of the skirt are laced together with embroidery thread. I punched the holes in the skirt with my Japanese screw punch – what a joy it is to use!

The template and instructions for this doll will be in issue 5 which is released 1 February. You can subscribe to Astarte’s Mega-Zine here, or you can wait and buy a single issue after that date.

(This post relates to the Catch-a-Dream Art Doll, Stacey Apeitos art dolls #7, January 2008)