Cue the Bernard Herrmann Psycho shrieks! Can’t you just picture this handmade walnut-head granny doll holding a knife and terrorizing Janet Leigh in the shower? This fine specimen of Hillbilly Art is made out of a real walnut, a couple of pipe cleaners for arms, a wad of dirty cotton for hair and a big cork for the base. Its fine craftsmanship and attention to detail are evidenced by a small swatch of the daisy print fabric glued onto the apron that’s tied around her waist.
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Allee Willis
This thing kills me! Could they have found a more perfect nut for granny’s face?!
I love all the attention to detail here, my favorite being what you point out above that they repeated the daisy pattern on the little apron. I would kill to see this crafter’s house or, more probably, mobile home, because I have a feeling that the whole place has these little decorative touches.
LOVE the little tuft of cotton hair. Is that a cotton ball scrunched into shape?
How tall is Granny?
Douglas Wood
Yep, I’m sure this was conceived in a mobile home, no doubt. In answer to your questions– she’s 9″ tall and yes, her hair is in fact, a cotton ball scrunched into shape.
Allee Willis
That cotton ball put me over the edge. It’s perfect!! I used to use those little pom-poms you buy at a craft store in a lot of my art. At one point I realized I could save a lot of money if I just used cotton balls as they came in white, yellow, pink and blue. So I stayed up all night one night gluing hundreds of these things into place. They got so completely grungy over time it was crazy. Everytime I went to pull a spec of something out of one it got more and more pulled apart and limp looking. They got so completely polluted over time the thought of someone gluing it onto a walnut and styling it into hair is too good!