Introducing a troubled soul who seeks someone who will work with her to bring her peace.  Celeste has had a very tubulous upbringing,

having not known her father and lived with her alcoholic mother until running away from home at only 15 years old. For many long years, she lived on the streets, not knowing when her next meal would be or where she would lay her head at night. Usually, she slept in a wooded area off the beaten path of a local park hiding as best she could from passersby.  During the day, she would walk around behind the towns

eateries to find any food that may have been thrown away and sometimes finding nothing, she would try to ask for change in hopes of getting something to eat.

In her 30's Celeste met what she thought was a very nice older man and they quickly became inseparable. Thinking that finally her life was

going to turn around, that she would eat regularly and have a nice warm bed to sleep in, she felt hope for the first time in her life.  Unfortunately, that hope would turn to horror when her new boyfriend made her sleep in the basement of his mother's home that he resided in, while he slept comfortably upstairs in his warm bed.  Celeste tried to not complain, she was after all sleeping inside now instead of out in the cold and she was eating every day, although not the kinds of food she had thought she'd be eating...more like scraps of what was left from her boyfriends and mothers meals.  She wasn't allowed to leave the home or come upstairs into the main house, her boyfriend having made a makeshift bathroom for her in the basement and having cut a trapdoor into the floor of a hallway closet that he used to drop food down to her, ensured she had no need to leave the confines of the damp dreary basement.

Celeste lived this way for 10 long years, trying to be thankful for what little she had and that she was at least not living day to day

on the streets but one day, one of the rare times that her "boyfriend" would come down to the basement to see her, she tried to talk to

him about coming upstairs with him and living in the main house, hoping that he would feel empathy for her and give her this one wish.

But for Celeste, that would not be how things would go, her boyfriend got enraged that she would ask for such a thing and wasn't him feeding her and giving her a place to sleep enough...  That was the last night that Celeste had to sleep in that dingy basement, as her boyfriend in a blind anger beat her within seconds of her life and left her to perish alone in the dark dampness of what had become her prison.

This doll was in that basement, left on a shelf in the storage area... Celeste had found it after being down there for some time, feeling

lonely and afraid, this doll became her companion who she talked to and held at night.  She always put it back on the shelf if she heard

her boyfriend coming downstairs because she was afraid he would take it away and she would have no one to talk to and be completely

alone again.  After Celeste's passing, the mother passed away not long after and the "boyfriend" sold the house leaving all its belongings behind, including this doll that Celeste loved so much.  The new family that moved in cleaned out the entire house, disposing

of all its contents, some going to the dump and some going to antique and thrift shops.  

I'm unsure of how many times this beautiful doll has changed hands, I came across her at an estate sale several years ago and to be

honest, she gives me an uneasy feeling, and I am hoping to find a home for her that she may finally connect with someone who can bring

her peace of mind.  There is a sadness in her eyes that never goes away, when I am in my studio her eyes follow me and gives me an "off"

feeling that I just can't explain.  Knowing this poor girl has been thru so much in her life and after life, I only hope to try to make

her feel some sense of the belonging that she so desperately needs.

Celeste is a large porcelain doll standing at 27" tall and comes wearing her dark red velvet over coat type dress with gold color skirting attached underneath. This dress has gold sleeve cuffs and a gold bow.

She has beautiful curly hair and piercing blue eyes.

There are stains/markings on the dress and overcoat which I have included in the pictures, I'm not sure if these can be cleaned as I haven't tried, wanting to keep her as authentic as possible.