I hope everyone is having a good spring! I can't believe that in just a few days it will be summer. For some reason I'm really looking forward to the vast possibilities of summer this year--almost the way I did when I was a little kid. Maybe I'm feeling young-at-heart recently because I've had a some time to devote to dolls? That always puts me in a good mood.
The girl I'm going to share today is my historical version of the princess Rapunzel. The Rapunzel story was published by the Grimm brothers in 1812, and while this publication is no doubt what made the tale popular, the story can be traced back as early as the seventeenth century. Despite the tale's early roots, I decided to use 1812 as my time frame for imagining this doll. 1812 falls in the Regency of the Georgian era, which was the setting of many beloved novels by writers like Jane Austen and Georgette Heyer. What could be better inspiration than those stories?
My Regency Rapunzel started out as a medium-complected Denika doll from 2001. Like her Disney counterpart, this girl came to me with badly faded eyes and unremarkable factory paint:
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| My Twinn doll from 2001 with the Denika face. |
