Christine lives and works her magic in Lisbon, Maine. She recently completed doll number 5000. Christine created her first 120 numbered dolls for the Common Ground Country Fair in 1987.

A neighbor told stories of the gnome who visited his garden. Christine created a gnome and set him in the neighbor's garden. He was Opus 1, No. 1, very ugly, and his name was Rasputin. When he's not in the garden he sits on a shelf downstairs near the woodstove.

Stocking heads were an unruly medium at first, but soon began to respond rewardingly to the right amount of stuffing and the right tension of stitch.

Christine is the mother of seven children. She is a Juilliard graduate, teaches piano, and studies classical singing.

You can find her beach-picking at Reid or Popham, foraging for natural materials in Wolff Neck Woods, in Asticou, at Walden Pond, or Fort Tryon Park. She has been seen dancing at Bowdoinham.

Christine Rugullies is the creator of the wonderful "beings" on this site. The fairies and gnomes, gypsies and mermaids, puppets and forest royalty come to life in her hands; a metamorphosis through the merging of a wondrous imagination, antique fabrics and lace, woods mosses, seed pods, animal hair and feathers, beads and gems,

When Christine was a child she helped to sell tickets for a raffle. One of the prizes was a beautiful doll with a trunk full of handmade clothes... Her sixth grade class made marionettes. Christine created a Cinderella. The mother of one of her classmates helped her sew a gown of ice blue satin and loaned her a tiny pair of real glass slippers.... Christine learned to sew and made many dolls from patterns but they all had flat faces... What a delight, to discover that doll faces could be molded from stretch fabrics!

Christine also works in porcelain in the studio of Sandy Tracy in West Gardiner. Her favorites in porcelain are the old French dolls, especially the Jumeaus. Working with doll sculptor Philippe Faraut, Christine made an original head sculpt and mold in June of 1999. Sandy poured it and Christine completed the doll as the gypsy Melantha Ravenne.