Anyone up for some nice smelling potpourri dolls?  I just made these a couple of days ago, so they’re freshly made and still smelly!

Basically it’s just a small potpourri sachet topped off with a clay doll’s head that I decorated to my liking.  I just used a doll face mold, attached the molded clay face to a chopstick, and tied the sachet just below it.

The skirt/dress portion is actually an extra piece of tulle that I added to make it look more like a dress than just a sachet of potpourri.

What do you think?  Does this potpourri doll look like a bride to you?

I was on a bridal spree as I was making these potpourri dolls!

The hair is actually yarn.  I crocheted an extra little hairpiece for each doll since the doll face mold didn’t have any hair to begin with!  If I just painted on the hair, it would have looked very flat and almost balding!  So yarn was my solution to adding more volume and texture to the head.

The pink flower at the neck is actually from a fake plant (again, something randomly sitting around the house).  At any rate, I just plucked the thing off the plant and stuffed it here!  Such a great use of my old and fake plant!

The fun thing about making these potpourri dolls is you can style and dress them however you want and paint on makeup according to their look.  It’s a little like playing dress up through dolls!

This one I made hanging.  You can see the potpourri sachet better in these pictures.  The hat is also made from polymer clay that I pressed onto a mold.  I just painted in the details and attached it onto the head.

Well, that’s all for now.  I’ll keep you posted on the next few potpourri dolls so stay tuned!

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Was in the mood for some duck hunting, so this time I made duck amigurumi!

No, I don’t really go duck hunting.  If I want to eat duck, then I’d just go buy it!  Anyway, on to some more duck amigurumi pictures?

Crocheting this duck was actually very easy.  I was originally making a cat’s head (in my cat amigurumi post) and found that if I just sewed up the top ends of opening together, it can become a body for other animals!  It sounds a little confusing but it works!  Could you tell that the body of this duck was the same as the cat’s head in my previous post?

I just added on a head, duck feet, beak, and ended up with this duck amigurumi!  Just the duck by itself without any embellishments was very plain, so I had to add a few accessories to liven things up.

Big duck and small duck!

Yes, that little tuft of hair is supposed to be there.  I was going for the more baby-like look with the extra tuft of hair on its head.

I also made other duck amigurumis in different colors too!

I guess you can say this is a more manly duck? 

I just went to town making these duck amigurumi.  There’s so many things you can do with them and they’re really easy to make too.

The bonnet was really fun to crochet too.  It’s like another blank canvas for me to decorate on!

For this duck amigurumi, I added a little pink butterfly to match its pink bonnet.  The butterfly was something that I found lying around the house.  Yes, again something random I found in the house.  I just realized that I make myself sound like I have a lot of things in my house!  That’s not true though!  I clean everyday and keep things in their rightful places!

I actually had more pictures of this last duck but accidentally deleted them!  Ha ha oops.  Next time when I take pictures, I’ll retake this one and show you more of its bonnet.  I spent so much time decorating it too!  I crocheted a bunch of little flowers and sewed them on too…  Next time, promise!  Well that’s it for today, hope you enjoyed my duck amigurumi!

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