Thanks for your encouragement, Miss Aida! I'm definitely feeling even better about the work I did on my love's doll baby, though I didn't do quite what I said because I was just really ready to go and ended up making it a few days ago, before I saw your sage advice, d'oh! I need to learn to be more patient.
That being said, I'm fairly happy with my work! I decided to go with re-stuffing the pre-made muslin doll, because I tried to make a simple doll with the underwear and messed up twice lol. I'm good at mending clothes but not very good at making plushies! However, I still have enough material that if it's okay to make two doll babies I could, though I don't know if it's less effective that way? If it's okay to make two I'll make a super small, simple one of him that I can carry in my purse at all times, and then keep the larger muslin one in my underwear drawer until the photos I've ordered to make its "house" arrive. I'm going to line the inside of a shoebox-sized box with photos of me and the two of us together sharing happy moments and store it inside there.
Here is what I DID do!
- sewed a photo of him onto its face - it lines up so perfectly that the shoulders match the doll's shoulders, I didn't even mean to but it looks great! on the back of the photo I wrote the petition that every time he looks into a mirror or sees his reflection he'll think of me, and in the doll's head I stuffed a photo of me with a petition on the back, and in the doll's heart I stuffed another photo of him and me together in a happy, intimate moment, with a petition on the back, and wrapped it around two matched lodestones I got as a present with magnetic sand and cinnamon powder. I anointed both those petition photos with the LM oils by five spotting them.
- I stuffed the doll with a cinnamon stick for the spine that I anointed with the 7 LM love-related oils I have, a bay leaf, rose petals, powdered cinnamon, catnip, star anise, cloves, cumin, coriander seeds, rosemary from my garden, lavendar, and lemongrass leaves. I looked up all the herbs on the Lucky Mojo site to see what kinds of intent they correspond to!
- I carved the doll a penis out of fresh ginger, anointed it with the seven oils and fluids from my sexual arousal while I thought of him, rolled it in powdered cinnamon, wrapped it in two large pink rose petals, and tied it with spare red thread from sewing the doll. I'll probably have to replace it once a week or so since the ingredients are fresh but that's okay!
- I made the doll underwear from his underwear LOL! I managed to do it so the elastic band even matches and it fits the doll right and tight, so I tuck the penis in there and it looks and feels great.
- I anointed every stitch of thread I used on the doll with the LM love oils.
- Until I build the house I keep it wrapped in the pair of really nice, elegant panties I wore the last time he and I made love and a red cloth bandana around all that.
- I got holy water from a nearby church that was blessed that morning and made, baptized, and activated the doll this past Friday. I sewed the photo on its face today and just baptized it again.
I've been kissing it and whispering to it, holding its hand, propping it up in between the picture box and honey jar I'm working every time I burn candles on either, telling him that he doesn't just love me but he's passionately, devotedly, faithfully, and joyfully IN love with me and he knows it and just has to say it and name it so we can start building our lives together with each other at the center. I wish I'd thought to add the photo from the get-go, because it really helps me focus my work - when I look at his face I can feel the love we share welling up inside and really pouring into the doll.
You guys are the best, and Miss Aida, I feel so encouraged and empowered by the positive things you say about my creative instincts! I'm still pretty new to hoodoo and witch working, but sometimes I just feel an instinct to try something and it's really nice to know that someone as expert as the rootworkers at LM think the ideas I have are good ones haha!
I'll keep you guys updated as things develop.