Kristel Jacobs

I got the idea of making a doll in a shoe when I first saw an article announcing a wonderful exhibition about the Russian Tsar family Romanov in the museum Hermitage in Amsterdam.  One of the pictures showed a number of silk, embroided shoes, worn by the Russian princesses.  That's what I wanted to work with and Lady Shoe-Shine was born..

Lady Shoe-Shine sits in a very elegant manner in her silk shoe, holding an umbrella made out of ribbons and pearls.  I made her dress by hand out of silk and lace, covered with little pearls and ribbons.  I gave her a rather simple hair-do, which makes her look even more innocent and which places the attention of the viewer on the beautiful umbrella..

Clothes, shoe and hair have all been hardened with Paverpol.  I painted the lady with Acrylics, I gave her handpainted eyes and varnished her several times.

Lady Shoe-Shine is 29 cm high and 24 cm long.

In a stately manner, the Queen is sitting on her really high throne.  She looks very focussed on what the day will have in store for her today..  She is majestically dressed in a gorgious gown made of shiny silk and lace.  She has an ingenious hair-do with ribbons, pearls and braids.  I made her throne out of Premier clay, clothed with lace, then hardened and painted with Acrylics.  Finally, I decorated it with little mirrors.

Queen of my castle is 56 cm high.

The theme for Espérance is 'Spring', I dressed and painted her in vivid springcolours, and I also tried to show this feeling of something fresh and new in her facial expression and pose ; she is enjoying the first sun of the year and she is fantasizing about what lays ahead.  Her pose is at the same time a little curious and love-lorn ; will today finally be the day that she will meet the love of her life?  Espérance is wearing a top and skirt made out of lace.  She wears beautiful pearls in her hair.  Her wooden base is also decorated with pearls.

Espérance is 39 cm high.

Alizée is named after my little godchild, she is very eager to know what the future will bring, therefore her open expression.  She is wearing a silk top and a flounced skirt.  She is holding a scarf, decorated with little pearls.  Her ingenious hair-do with braids and pearls frames her sweet little face.  The path of life that she will eventually follow is already starting to show itself in front of her..

Alizée is 39 cm high.

Twilight was made for a challenge, the theme was 'nightfigures'.  At night she floats above moors and swamps, in search of lost souls..  She has a very melancholic expression, because she is always looking for things that she cannot find..

Twilight is 38 cm high.