A week has passed since I left Miss L’Orfeo to her fate.
Differently than I wrote in the post before, the doll has been left in the Spitalfield Market, and not in Camden. As soon as I’ve abandoned her I saw some people looking at her … but I’ve closed the eye and went to the opposite direction not to see …

I’m still waiting for news from the new owner … so, if you are reading the blog, please leave here a comment or send me an email!

I post some pics of the last moments with her

this is Erika in the early morning of october the 22th.
In a couple of hours I’ll check-in to reach London.

Try to imagine who is following me? Miss L’Orfeo, a new doll I’ve created for London.
Her name comes from a master-work of Monteverdi, an italian composer of 1600. Nothing to do with her look, of course, but I’ve listened the first part during her creation, and without other ideas I decided to choose it!

I think I’ll leave her in Camden on Sunday, so, if you are the new owner, and you’ve found her, don’t hesitate to send me info and photoes about her new travels!

I just want to say “thank you” to all my cats for their unreserved company during works!

Do you remember about Mme Bonheur?! she had to travel to Paris to find a new owner.
Well, I left her exactly in the place I’ve chosen before to flight there, the Shakespeare & Co. bookshop, but unfortunally she’s vanished without a trace

I’m very sad about it ’cause, saying the truth, I had great expectations for this sencond time. I was also very proud about the doll and her dress, so parisien!!

But hope dies last, and I’m still waiting about something ;-P
I upload some pics of  her during the holiday in Paris and keep o’s finger crossed!

With NOTRE DAME in the background:

with a Basset Hound friend found at MARCHE AUX PUCES DE SAINT-OUEN:

as you could imagine, Mrs Tea Potter’s story had no happy end!
In fact after her amazing travel to Toronto we had no news about her

But as a first experiment, I’d say that has been an excellent way to start with dollcrossing project, and at the same time, a good way to get in touch with other people, like Astrid and her sister!

Well, I didn’t want to give up my dream, for that reason I decide to continue let dolls travelling! I’m very glad to present you Mme Bonheur:

She has borned yesterday night in order to travel to Paris!
I don’t know exactly when she will be abandoned, but I’ve decide the place were to do it, and exactly the historical bookshop Shakespeare&Co.

Her name means Happiness, I’ve chosen it to share not only a doll but also a good wish.

This time there is also the blog as reference, so I hope the story will have success.
I want to say thank you again to Astrid and her sister for their cooperation and just say good luck to Mme Bonheur and her new future owner!

So shall we see who will be the next,
I leave you with the last Astrid’s e-mail!

february the 26th 2011

dear erika,
i send you pictures from your doll, we went to toronto (canada) and after some sightseeing i decided to put her in the entrance hall of the canon theatre (where for example billy elliot is shown) on a phone box, hoping that someone interested in culture and art would take her.
this was on sunday afternoon, so lets see if she will show up again.
actually it was not easy to make a decision where to leave her !

yours sincerely
astrid

See further pics of Mrs Tea Potter in Canada!

Mrs Tea Potter from Canada

A doll spending some days in canada!

dear erika,
i send you some pictures from your puppet, she travelled from the riesenrad in vienna and the pony-horses to tyrol in western austria, where she spent some great sunny days in the mountains of tyrol. on the first picture you can almost see her, she is hiding a little bit, but you, as you made her, of course you will see her imediately.

the doll will have now one week off and then go to – surprise , where i will leave her for the next willing person to take her along.

i hope your idea will be successfull, i actually would love to hear maybe once again where your doll went after i left her in …, i will send you some more pictures from there.

have a great weekend
yours astrid

See more pics …

february the 14th 2011

hello erika!

i´m sorry for not writing earlier but i had a lot to do with my baby and therefore I couldn´t send pictures of your lovely doll.

I met erika in january in Museumsquartier. we were out for a walk with the dog and the baby. she was sitting there alone and i thought someone forgot her. when i came closer i saw what a nice and lovely doll she ist and that  she was wearing a little paper. so I took her with me and decided to take her for a ride with the giant wheel in Vienna because i thought she might like that. and she did – as you can see on the picture.

i went there with my sister and her daughters sonja and jasmin. I wanted to leave her in  the giant wheel but erika didn´t want to stay there decided to take sonjas hand and leave giant wheel again with her new friend.

this is where my story with erika unfortunately ends and a new one began.

I hope to get some news from you about her story.

many greetings from Vienna and sorry again for being that late…

kathrin

Mrs Tea Potter in Tyrol, after skiing

from the riesenrad in vienna and the pony-horses to tyrol

read more about this travel …

Pencils and something to sew, a bit of imagination and Mrs Tea Potter has born.

About her future I didn’t know a lot, but the certain thing was that I had to give her to someone because I don’t use to keep my works.

So the first idea was to give her as a gift, and for that reason Mrs Tea Potter, this is my doll’s name, had her first travel to Vienna, in Austria.
Unexpectedly the chosen person wasn’t there and bringing back the doll with me seemed to be so sad that, excited of my holiday and beautiful things I was doing, I decided to leave her in a very cultural and cool place, the Museums Quartier.

This is me, saying goodbye to her.

After having seen Klimt, Schiele and other incredible artists, the only thing I wanted was to stay in contact with art and different cultures. The only way I had was to let my doll travel for me and meet people all over the world.

The pics below show my last moments spent with her:

So I’ve waited about 3 weeks till I received an e-mail from Astrid! such a big surprise! Find out where the doll was then!