A Strawberry Shortcake Doll

 

Well I am back sooner than I thought, not up to speed yet but getting there. Thank you so much for all your kind messages and best wishes, it was very heartening.
This little green eyed sweetie is my Strawberry Shortcake. Dressed in a pretty berry print by Acufactum and with a strawberry embroidered apron with a little hoop with a strawberry flower. A new style of crocheted hat with a little strawberry flower too.
Dolls have always been my thing form being a small child. I think being autistic I found them calming and a better alternative to the confusing people around me, I still do!!
Strawberry Shortcake came out in the late seventies and early eighties and I longed for this strawberry scented doll but for some reason my Grandma decided that if they were scented they must be inherently bad for you and I was denied. So her is my own representation with dried strawberry leaves inside her stuffing and a piece of rose quartz to her heart. She was a joy to make.
Another interesting phenomena of autism is that I am truly ambidextrous and I have never lost this as I aged. Working exclusively with my left hand has made me realise how right handed everything is, especially my sewing machine. I normally switch from hand to hand as I work favouring left for some tasks and right for others but being without my right hand has given my great sympathy for those exlcusively left handed folk out there. xx