Voodoo Challenge

Long ago I joined a site called Ravelry. If this were a real blog with other knitters as readers I wouldn't have to explain what Ravelry is, buuut...
Ravelry is basically an online community for knitters and crocheters. You get to make a profile, and you can post any knitting or crocheting projects you are working on or have finished or think that maybe someday in twenty years you might possibly get started on. You can post all kinds of photos of your projects. You can keep track of your yarn stash, and what sizes of knitting needles and crochet hooks you own. Etc., etc. You can look at other peoples profiles and send them messages and comment on their projects and mark there projects as something you might make some day.
And there are groups. There are any kind of knitting and crocheting groups you can imagine, and if you can't find a group for something, you can make it.
I am in a group called Silly String and one of the things the creator of this group does is to post crocheting challenges. This basically involves her posting some theme or idea or item or whatever, and anyone who wants can join in and use this theme to inspire their own creativity. The current one, and the first that I've joined, is a swap-challenge which means that on top of the original theme you are assigned a partner. Your partner tells you some element or color or other trait that further defines the challenge for you, and you then use this to create the object. At the end, you send this customized creation to your partner.

So, the challenge that I have just joined is a Halloween challenge (we are supposed to aim to get the finished item to our partner by Halloween.)
Voodoo dolls. That is the basic challenge, and then we were asked to each describe an element that we would like included in our voodoo doll to personalize it.

The person I am partnered with requested that I include a pencil - either within the doll, or somehow incorporated into the outside of the doll, in order to help her unblock her creativity for drawing. :)
I am very excited about this challenge and I think it is going to be a lot of fun.

I have been browsing photos of traditional voodoo dolls, and they all seem so rough and coarse and just... make-shift. Made of a lot of found objects, and not very realistic.... I think I am going to crochet the main body of the doll with some kind of twine or hemp string or something. This would maintain the roughness of the idea... A voodoo doll ought not be cute and cuddly. Especially not a Halloween voodoo doll! The rough twine would certainly banish any opportunity of it accidentally becoming cuddly. The face will take some fiddling, I think. I will most likely use buttons of some sort for eyes.
I'm all about the buttons.