Yeah, I found one of those plain muslin dolls at a fabric store. I used embroidery floss to sew on a face and gave it gray hair. The first thing I did when I finished making it was to sew the mouth shut.

The same could be done with markers instead of thread, but I had entirely too much time on my hands back then.

I really wanted to do a lot of really mean stuff to it, but because my abuser was my mother, and the effigy was of her, I discovered, anything beyond sewing the mouth shut, I simply couldn't do...which frankly, shocked me to my core. I always thought given the chance......well, I found out that's not really how it works when it's your mom. Sewing the mouth shut wasn't so hard because to this day, her words can rip my heart out.

Now, I could make one of my stepfather and I'm pretty sure I could do really rude things to it, like, tie it to the back of my van and drag it around for a week or so. Maybe run over it with a lawn mower. Nail it to a tree and leave it there for a few weeks. Shove firecrackers up it's ***** and light them. Take it to the gun range and blast away at it with an AR-15. Tie a rock to it and throw it into the middle of the ocean. I can think of many others, but I'll stop there.

WW