| ROSIE
by Max
Bailey (already adopted) |
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Every year on
Valentine’s Day,
Rosie is invited to sell her roses at the general store in the middle
of
town.
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| She’s a country girl, tall and
slim and pretty, with strawberry blonde hair, who arrives in a homespun
blue
dress, a colorful heart apron, and a fashionable hat with a rose. |
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Rosie has the
most beautiful roses
ever seen anywhere, and nobody knows how she grows them. People whisper that she must have a secret
garden.
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gentlemen with true love in their hearts dare come to Rosie to buy her
roses,
for it is generally known that she can look into their hearts and see
if there
is love there. |
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It is rumored that if she
doesn’t see love in a gentleman’s heart, she will look at
him with her clear
blue eyes and say, “I am sorry sir, but you may not have my
roses.”
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| Yet if a sincere gentleman with empty pockets
would like to buy her roses for his sweetheart, she will most often say,
“Sir,
you may have them for nothing.” |
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Rosie is an
original one-of-a-kind
work of art, conceived and created from design to last brushstroke by
me, Max
Bailey. She is 15 inches tall, and
carries red ribbon roses with green ribbon leaves, which I made just
for her. (The
secret garden is in my work room.) Her body is sewn from cotton fabric,
then
stuffed and painted with acrylic paints. She has needle-sculpted fingers and button-jointed arms to make her
easy
to pose.
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| Her skirt is hand-painted blue
gray, with decorative stripes of pink and gold.
Her hat is removable and hand-painted as well, with a little pink
stripe
along the edge of the brim that matches her pink tights and the pink
stripes on
her collar and cuffs. Although you can’t
see it in the photos, I used the same pink to paint the ribbon on her
pretty
white pantaloons, which are painted on. Her fashionable high-button shoes are painted to match her outfit, and
I
added festive red hearts at the toes. |
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Rosie can sit
in a chair or on a
shelf, or stand with a doll stand (chair and doll stand not
included). She is signed and dated, and sealed with
matte varnish for protection and preservation. Rosie is an original work of art, meant for display only.
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| Many
hours go into the making of each of my dolls. I strongly believe in fine craftsmanship and artistry, and
I pay great
attention to small details. Each
doll is
a unique work of art, and I am able to produce them in only a very
limited
number. I do my
best to create
little dolls with big personalities because that is what I love to do. |
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| Rosie and her roses have been adopted. |
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