deanaxburke:

(via ohmyrowling)

Reblogging because of reasons.

homeontheburrow:

The Les Miz Doll Project

I have always been a big fan of Les Miserables. I have seen it 3 times on Broadway. My younger daughter Leah was not old enough the first time we saw it. So in 1996, when she was 6, we took her to the production that starred Ricky Martin as Marius.

As all good geeks do, she became rather obsessed with the show, and wanted to “play” Les Miz with her dolls. Since I had recently completed a doll project in her kindergarten class (those pics later…), I set about to create the cast of Les Miz in dolls.

I had many Barbies, and other types of dolls going back to the early ’60s in my possession. I don’t know much about clothing design or pattern making, but I figured it out. Copious amounts of fabric remnants, doll hair and glue gun glue later, I did it.

Every cast member from Jean Valjean to “Lovely Ladies” is represented.

I will start posting the dolls with their counterpart cast member pictures. Some of these pictures are from the internet, some from our souvenir brochure.

This is an exercise in  a mother’s devotion, obsession, and perfectionism.