This week's artist feature is
Karey Kline, of
Kaerie Faerie.
Please tell us about yourself. What is your name? Where do you live? What makes you tick?
Karen Kline, I use my nickname Karey, I'm originally from Chicago, and I now live in Grand Island FL, which is located in Central FL in the countryside’s. I have cows and horses for neighbors. I adore outrageous fashion, couture gowns, and Deco Period Interior Design.
When did you start making dolls? Why did you start making dolls?
I started making dolls as a child, 40 years ago, I sewed with my mother, she made clothes and dolls, and I have always enjoyed sewing and making my own clothes, and making little dolls.
Who or what influences you? Inspires you?
My mom is a big influence on my artistic life, my Scandinavian background, my Swedish grandmother was a 20's flapper, and she rouged her knees, and bobbed her hair. I'm inspired by all books by Dr. Seuss, he was an amazing cartoonist.
Tell us a little about your dolls and your process for making them. Materials, preliminary sketches, inspiration, etc.I like to use high thread count cottons, starting with a paper pattern I cut (12 inches is my favorite size doll). I use paper towel to size the clothing, I wrap it and pin it on the doll using the doll like a dress form. My inspiration comes from the hunt for fabrics to dress my dolls, I usually decide on the outfit before the doll, so it is like making a doll to wear the perfect dress.
Do you have a favorite doll? It can be handmade by you, handmade by someone else, or even (gasp) mass production.My favorite dolls are called "Secrets" I probably made these 10 years ago, two little faeries whispering secrets, it was inspired by stories of faeries in my room at night telling secrets, I grew up in a old creaky house, Mother use to tell me all the little noises where faeries.
Besides making dolls, what do you do? Job, other creative pursuits, hobbies, etc.
I work a marine dispatch phone for our business called Sea-Tow, I have all the phone lines set up in my studio, so I can make dolls at the same time, it is only busy on the weekends when people are out boating, we handle rescues, and boat towing, my husband is the Captain, and we have a fleet of boats that cover 2,000 inland lakes.
What are some of your favorite: movies, books, websites, magazines, foods, tv shows? (Any or all!)Favorite movie, Marie Antoinette, the costumes and cakes and goodies and shoes are amazing. I read all fashion and doll magazines. ADO is my favorite Website the artists are a wonderful group. I don't watch much TV; I prefer to listen to rock and jazz. I love peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be and why?I would love to live in the Florida Keys, and have a little boat to run around in.
Where do you see yourself in one year? Five years? Ten years?Still making dolls, living a quiet retired life in the country with my husband and cats.
Where can we find you on the internet? (blog, website, Etsy shop, eBay, et al.)
I write stories about dolls on my
blogand I love my
Etsy Shop 
January's mini monthly challenge mother goose.
by Allegro Melody
Jack Sprat could eat no fat....but his wife could!
Mother Goose
Little Miss Muffet & her dapper Spider
Jill
This is a cloth face, needle sculpted and then I gessoed the face before painting. The outfit is just "this and that" silk roses, beads, feathers, etc. Since I am trying new techniques and clay was on the top of the list - I will be adding clay arms, shoulder plate and hands (keywords there: trying new techniques)!
Brunhilde Hafthorsson, former Icelandic beauty queen, former heir of a pre-war German chocolate factory, former rising French starlet, reduced to near poverty by her indiscretions with a certain foreign Count, she spent her middle age as a dancer in a now defunct Left Bank French cabaret. A bit past her prime, she is now simply a lady in waiting. She knows not for what.
I used Sculpey original clay, foil, and wire for joints. I am trying a more stark feel than I would normally use so I'm quite excited about how she will develop! 
I built up the paperclay, laying it straight onto the fabric. I then lay strips of paperclay over the head for the hair, blending as I went to help give it texture. I put a small hole through the main “curl” with the aim of either inserting a halo or ribbon. I’m not sure at this stage. 
I don't like to do pretty or cute, so of course I went with slightly ugly and creepy. I have made her in parts. I always start with the head, cure it, and then make the body. 
