There goes my worries ...

My Guatemalan doll --- are you gonna work this time? My dreamcatcher failed me. frown emoticon

The Legend of the "Munecas Quitapenas"

Worry Dolls are tiny, hand-crafted dolls from Guatemala. The dolls are clothed in traditional Mayan costumes and stand
one-half to one inch tall.

Guatemalan artisans bind pieces of wood together or twist together short lengths of wire to create a frame and fashion a torso, legs, arms, and head. By winding cloth and yarn around the frame, the artisans give the doll shape. They use scraps of traditional woven fabric to make the doll costumes and wind more yarn to create the head, hair, feet and hands. Sometimes, they add a tiny woven basket or other traditional implements. Finally, they place a set of 6-8 dolls in tiny wooden boxes or cloth pouches for sale.

The indigenous people from the Highlands in Guatemala created Worry Dolls many generations ago as a remedy for worrying. According to the Mayan legend, when worrying keeps a person awake, he or she tells a worry to as many dolls as necessary. Then the worrier places the dolls under his or her pillow. The dolls take over the worrying for the person who then sleeps peacefully through the night. When morning breaks, the person awakens without the worries that the dolls took away during the night.

A variation of the legend instructs a person to tell the dolls her worries then place them in their cloth pouch or wooden box before going to bed.

2015

Last stretch of March ... i know what's gonna happen next. This would be my nth practice. I failed miserably on the first ones. I hope I make it this time. Or pasalamat na kaya ako in advance --- salamat sa early birthday gift :)) ... or yung January na pala yung gift as in ganun ka prompt ... 

Tonight

Credits:

All about The Legend  - http://www.tc.umn.edu/~mcdo0151/legend.html
For this Worrier's Guatemalan Doll - http://www.ebay.ph/cln/lovelace1970/for-my-little-ones/156805390014