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If you want to please a lady or a girl, make her some of these. They are
colorful, to say the least, and decorative.
The ear ornaments and the necklace are made of birch dowel rod, which is
easy to whittle in miniature. Plastic screw clamps can be bought at
almost any notion counter, and they are simply cemented onto the backs
of the dolls. Do not make them more than 1 inch high. The necklaces,
also rather unique, should be strung with wooden beads if possible to
reduce the weight.
For these pieces, several coats of clear nail polish are used, or clear
lacquer. Unlike the larger figures, they should have a good glossy
finish. Owing to the smallness of some of these figures, it is best to
whittle each on the end of a longer piece of dowel rod, and then cut it
off with a fine coping or jeweler’s saw (See drawing {above}). Then
cement on the clamp in order to have something to hold to while painting
it.