A Basic Tutorial for Frida Kahlo Doll

Last night I got the crafty bug again, and finished a doll I started a while ago. I learned the template from my secondary student teaching mentor Tammy Crespin, Middle School art teacher extraordinaire, and now I wish I took some pictures of the doll in process so this post could serve as sort of a how too...oh well..here is some pictures, and I will try and explain how I made her from there.
Here she is, my Frida Doll...

So I hate to have such a lack of propriety for such an icon, but just to show better how she is constructed, lets have a look under her skirt...

so I was particularly proud of her little undies and stockings, which I sewed on mostly because I only had one calf high piece of panty hose to cover her entire body with, and obviously ran out right around her mid thigh, so had to sew another fabric on to give the illusion of stockings. Here is a picture where you can see better.

so maybe you can see that her body is actually made of newspaper wrapped around thick bendable wire, essentially in the form of a stick figure. The newspaper sis rolled into long thin tube and wrapped around  and secured with masking tape. 

her head is just cotton batting stuffed into the toes part of the panty hose, sewn and gathered to fit around the wire piece and onto the body

her earrings are some silver Milagros or Mexican Miracle Charms that I had bought a while ago. Milagros (miracles) are tiny metal effigies of certain objects or people traditionally used to implore Saints to heal certain organs of the body ( I believe these are lungs) or  to protect your children, and in one case perhaps even your livestock  as I found a goat charm in the mix. Anyway the part I think I was MOST proud of when making this doll was the way I did her hair, which I don't have a great picture of so I'll have to explain.

So you can kind of see it better in the second picture, but after sewing a "cap" of black hair onto her head, I attached three felt ribbons and one satin ribbon to each side of her head.Then I braided them and sewed them to the top of her head, securing them with a bow and some tiny Mexican made flowers I got on a present from the baby shower. (Which reminds me I'd like to post pictures from that amazing event. One of these days.) Anyway I am very proud of her in general, and hope that anyone who wishes to make a Frida doll or another kind of doll can use my description as a basic template.