Geraldine is a handmade miniature original, one-of-a-kind cat art doll, hand painted and hand sculpted in paperclay by artist Max Bailey.
Geraldine is a tabby Maine Coon kitten with big golden eyes. She’s a country girl and lives on a farm just outside of town.
One of Geraldine’s daily chores is to take her metal basket and go down the hill to the chicken coop to gather the eggs.
She’s fond of the chickens, and they are quite used to seeing her. Sometimes they even help her to find the eggs, if they can remember where they put them.
This morning Geraldine is wearing her gold pinafore. It has a big blue flower in the front, and lots of little blue flowers around the bottom. She wears it over a blue skirt and a pale yellow shirt with blue polka dots.
She’s managed to collect eight lovely brown eggs, and there will be a big breakfast back at the farmhouse.
Geraldine is a one-of-a-kind work of art, and is meant for display only. She was sculpted from paperclay in multiple stages, to allow for drying and detailing.
Geraldine was painted under a magnifying light, with tiny brushes, one hair at a time. She is signed and sealed with matte varnish for protection and preservation, and comes with a certificate of authenticity.
Geraldine is 1:12 scale. (One inch equals one foot.) She is 2 and 1/8 inches tall.
Corinne is a handmade miniature original, one-of-a-kind cat art doll, hand painted and hand sculpted in paperclay by artist Max Bailey.
Corinne is a sweet tabby kitten with golden-green eyes.
Ordinarily, Corinne doesn’t sit still. She runs throughout the house, thinking up highly imaginative games that only she knows how to play.
Today, someone is talking to Corinne, and she is listening intently, because they are talking about her.
She is being told that she’s a very good girl, that she has beautiful eyes, and that her rosy red nose is just adorable. They tell her how pretty her dress is, and that it suits her perfectly.
Corinne’s dress is soft gold with rose-colored ruffles down the front that are edged in gold.
She sits in her mahogany chair. Its seat is upholstered in rose with a gold diamond pattern.
Corinne sits very still with her paws in her lap, and greatly enjoys the compliments.
Corinne is a one-of-a-kind work of art, and is meant for display only. She was sculpted from paperclay in multiple stages, to allow for drying and detailing.
Corinne was painted under a magnifying light, with tiny brushes, one hair at a time. She is signed and sealed with matte varnish for protection and preservation, and comes with a certificate of authenticity.
Corinne is 1:12 scale. (One inch equals one foot.) She is 1 and 1/2 inches tall.
Bitsy is a handmade miniature original, one-of-a-kind cat art doll, hand painted and hand sculpted in paperclay by artist Max Bailey.
This is Bitsy. She’s a petite tabby kitten with yellow-green eyes, who loves to sit in her wooden chair with the woven tan seat.
Sitting in her chair, looking as cute as can be, Bitsy is sure that sooner or later, someone will take notice of her.
They will talk to her, pat her on the head, and give her a bowl of something fragrantly wonderful to eat. If too much time goes by, Bitsy will utter a “mew” or two, a plea that is almost always effective.
Bitsy is wearing a rosy-mauve schoolgirl dress with white collar and cuffs trimmed in deeper mauve. She’s certain that looking especially nice also helps one get noticed.
Bitsy is a one-of-a-kind work of art, and is meant for display only. She was sculpted from paperclay in multiple stages, to allow for drying and detailing.
Bitsy was painted under a magnifying light, with tiny brushes, one hair at a time. She is signed and sealed with matte varnish for protection and preservation, and comes with a certificate of authenticity.
Bitsy is 1:12 scale. (One inch equals one foot.) She is 1 and 1/2 inches tall.
In between the interruptions from our household repairs, I’ve been working at getting my eyeball project resolved. I went down the rabbit hole on this one, and I finally sent my files off to the printer last night, after weeks of fussing and agonizing. Erin, who works at Fabric on Demand kindly answered my questions yesterday, until late last night.
I was watching a rerun of “The Big Bang Theory” recently, where Sheldon has a meltdown while trying to decide between Playstation 4 and Xbox One. I have no interest in gaming systems, but his behavior is so like mine, I keep laughing over it. In spite of collecting every available piece of information to help make a decision, he still fell apart at the store. This is me, trying to buy something that is important to me. I had a dream once that Sheldon was my brother for a reason.
These are the first eyeball samples I got from Fabric on Demand, and they came out really nice. I, however, made the pupils a bit large, which was causing some of the black to get caught by my needle, while adding my embroidery stitching.
I then made a gazillion versions on the computer, which I printed on paper, measured, cut out, and pinned onto toys. I made round pupils, then oval pupils, pupils off to the right, centered pupils, vertical pupils, horizontal pupils, small highlights, bigger highlights, highlights to the right, highlights to the left, solid-colored irises, and graded-colored iris.
I had debates over whether slugs would have oval or round pupils, since the “eyes” of real slugs are very hard to see. I looked up gastropods, and I still couldn’t tell for sure, oval or round. I looked up their mollusk relatives, cuttlefish and octopuses, and found they had oddly-shaped horizontal pupils. But what about bunnies? I found bunnies with horizontal oval and vertical oval and round pupils. I went on like this for weeks.
Above are the styles I chose. I hope they will be awesome. I have no doubt I will continue to think up changes.
I also sent samples for my lamb face, and emblems for my Super Slug a companion/co-hort Wonder Bunny. I got bogged down again over whether Wonder Bunny should have a “W” or a “B” for bunny on her chest. I asked friends on Facebook to help me solve this dilemma, and “B” won. I think that is best, since tags get separated from toys, and kids will probably make the association between “B” and bunny more easily.
Just before I redesigned my eyes, I redesigned our blog headers, my Facebook page header, and my Etsy toy shop header. I guess if my eyeballs work out, I will have to update those later, along with my business cards.
This one is the Ruffing’s blog header, where we have our art dolls and prints.
I also made one of my older-style fleece kittens who was needed as a baby gift. I have a few of these left. I wonder if they should get the new eyes or the old ones! 🙂
Please subscribe to our mailing list
Please click the photo below to subscribe to our mailing list and receive updates when we have something new to share:
Welcome!
If you need any help finding anything on our site or have any questions, please contact us at [email protected]
We will be posting our creations in our Ruffing’s shop, here on this website, and are in the process of moving everything here. If you are looking for something and don’t see it yet, please feel free to ask!
Geraldine is a handmade miniature original, one-of-a-kind cat art doll, hand painted and hand sculpted in paperclay by artist Max Bailey.
Geraldine is a tabby Maine Coon kitten with big golden eyes. She’s a country girl and lives on a farm just outside of town.
One of Geraldine’s daily chores is to take her metal basket and go down the hill to the chicken coop to gather the eggs.
She’s fond of the chickens, and they are quite used to seeing her. Sometimes they even help her to find the eggs, if they can remember where they put them.
This morning Geraldine is wearing her gold pinafore. It has a big blue flower in the front, and lots of little blue flowers around the bottom. She wears it over a blue skirt and a pale yellow shirt with blue polka dots.
She’s managed to collect eight lovely brown eggs, and there will be a big breakfast back at the farmhouse.
Geraldine is a one-of-a-kind work of art, and is meant for display only. She was sculpted from paperclay in multiple stages, to allow for drying and detailing.
Geraldine was painted under a magnifying light, with tiny brushes, one hair at a time. She is signed and sealed with matte varnish for protection and preservation, and comes with a certificate of authenticity.
Geraldine is 1:12 scale. (One inch equals one foot.) She is 2 and 1/8 inches tall.
Update: Geraldine has been adopted. Thank you!
