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For her, one of the best moments of the Gumdrop Square experience is the excitement of the final hours before opening, as finishing touches are frantically added and everyone wonders if it can possibly be done in time.
"You think it will never come together, then before you know it, you turn around and it's done — and it's absolutely beautiful,” she said.
Craftcrs Ann Booth and Mary Lou McCullough are making topiaries out of gumdrops — 150 pounds of them. Ceramic artists Sharon Stansberry and Debbie Cornwell have loaned or donated their work. Barbara (Coleman painted Victorian Santas on small dried gourds for the Partridge in a Pear Tree.
One of the donations sure to catch every little girl's eye is Christiane, a reproduction of an antique French doll made by Margaret Barfield.
Christiane stands 28 inches tall and is gowned in irridescent royal blue silk with red trim. Her delicately tinted face is made of porcelain, as are her lower arms and legs.
Ms. Barfield poured, fired and cleaned the porcelain and then — her favorite part — used china paints to bring a life-like blush to Christiane's cheeks. Then she tailored the outfit, using reference books and old photographs to reproduce the 19th-century costume.
"I do strictly antique reproductions from 1855 to the turn of the century," said Ms. Barfield. She has been making dolls for her own enjoyment for 10 years and conducts dollmaking classes twice a week from her Culpeper County home.
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