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February 17th, 2012
» Posted in crafts, doll, girl at 9:54 pm
Not sure if I already posted about these, but I took pictures of them so why not post these Chinese dolls?
These dolls are made from polymer clay. All I needed to do to make these Chinese dolls, was to make a head and a pair of arms. The body portion of the dolls is actually empty! You wouldn’t have known if I didn’t say so right?
The inside of the body is actually made up of just one sturdy chopstick and some foil for extra support and shape. I guess you could see it as a head on a chopstick! Well, that doesn’t sound too nice, but hey it turned out nice!
The entire head was molded from a generic doll’s face and head mold. All that was left for me to do was to color and decorate it however I liked. Ah…how I love crafts that require minimal work  .
Of course, the Chinese-styled dress was an entirely different story. That took a bit of work…:( I actually had to sit there and cut out small dresses for these Chinese dolls–sewing them together and styling them too. But in the end, it turned out well! I purposely chose a fabric that was a little stiff so that it would keep its shape better.
I also made the tiny little fans out of….you guessed it, cardboard!! I traced a fan shape on a cardboard piece, cut it out, and decorated it with some nice origami paper.
Gluing on the lining for these Chinese dolls’ dresses was quite a pain! I had to hold it down in place as they were drying so that they wouldn’t pop off somewhere and dry in midair…
The bow on her head is only a small portion of a bigger ribbon. I just cut a small segment of ribbon off, tied it with a string in the middle (so that it’d bunch up in the middle like a real bow), and glued it right onto her hair.
That’s all for now! Thanks for looking at my handmade polymer clay Chinese dolls!!
February 4th, 2012
» Posted in crafts, doll, girl at 7:11 pm
So here is my last batch of handmade potpourri dolls. Black version!
I couldn’t help myself, I just had to make a few black potpourri dolls to satisfy my craving for things red and black. For this one, I crocheted a small little black hat and glued on a few small crystals on it for some extra sparkle. Doesn’t the red heart shaped crystal really stand out on the black? I just love that little pop of color!
I gave this next potpourri doll a nice light pink headscarf. It used to be a bow of some sort. Again, I don’t remember where it came from, but I’m glad that I hadn’t thrown it away yet!
This one has a pink flower shaped crystal on the side. I found this nice little pack of multicolored heart and flower shaped crystals at the craft store and figured I could use them here. It’s a good accenting piece!
Those crystals are so useful! I stuck them everywhere~
Finally got my hands on some black boa feathers! The sachet underneath the black tulle is actually white. Everything was so covered up in black that even I forgot that the sachet underneath was white! It’s because the craft store I went to ran out of black colored ones, so I had to make do with whatever colors they had left. I went there three times too! And each time I went, they never had the color that I was looking for! Either they’re not stocking up, or someone is always beating me to the punch!!
I gave away all of these potpourri dolls to relatives as Chinese New Year gifts, so no more smelly craft corner! As I was making these dolls, the smell was just getting stronger and stronger as I made more and more of them…honestly, it drove me a little nuts! Ha ha
Well, that’s all of it! Hope you enjoyed looking at my potpourri dolls!!
February 1st, 2012
» Posted in crafts, doll, girl at 3:35 pm
Continuing on with my previous post, today I bring you some more of my handmade potpourri dolls!!
This time I was going for the Chinese opera look. You know, with lots of makeup and lots of things on their heads. This time I really had a good excuse to just go all out on decorating!
The red and purple flowers in her hair are made from air dry clay. In other words, children’s clay!! Yay! My daughter made a whole bunch of them and just left them sitting around collecting dust, so I figured she probably wouldn’t notice if I took a few of them heh heh… But she caught on soon and made a big fuss about it. So I told her, “…Just make more. Oh and while you’re at it, go find me some smaller ones of these, they’re too big.” She went grumbling off somewhere, but I got what I wanted. Ha ha! >] Crazy girl, just make more!
For my next handmade potpourri doll, I went with a simpler look.
I really like the red and black color combination. Something about the combination of the two just makes the colors pop against each other. I also find myself wearing this color combo quite a bit too!
The last of my colored handmade potpourri dolls…a Chinese New Year themed one! Sort of. :]
I forget where I got the sachet from, but it really came in handy here! Just look at it. Doesn’t the sachet just look very…Chinese? Well anyway that’s certainly what I thought of whenever I looked at it, so the end result became this Chinese potpourri doll!
Thanks for reading/looking or whatever you’re doing on my site!  I’ll be showing you the rest of my collection next time so stick around for some more of my handmade potpourri dolls!
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January 30th, 2012
» Posted in crafts, doll, girl at 3:19 pm
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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August 13th, 2011
» Posted in amigurumi, crafts, crochet, doll, girl at 6:51 pm
It’s time for my last post on human amigurumi–dressy girl amigurumi! There’s two!
This time I was going for the formal look and this is how it turned out!
And here are the side views:
The polka dotted portion of her dress is actually a ribbon. I sewed it together with chiffon trimming and came up with this dress. Her pendant was something that I happened to find lying around the house again, so I decided to use it here. Just the dress by itself was not impactful enough so the pendant came in real handy! Now she looks like one fancy, dressy girl amigurumi. Wonder where she’s going? One ridiculously expensive and high-end restaurant?!
The hair was the really fun part in making this girl amigurumi. The lighting in this picture really captured what I had in mind as I was crocheting her. I wanted the somewhat dark and mysterious look for her. Yes, no one can fathom what really goes on in her mind…she’s untouchable…yeah, I like that . But anyway, before I get carried away with my weird ideas, let’s move on to the next dressy girl amigurumi!
Somehow she looks ready to break into a paso doble any second! Haha or not~
I can never stress enough just how useful those decorative adhesive gems were in making all my amigurumi. I still have a whole bunch too. I’m thinking of using the rest of it to make one very shiny and sparkly……….never mind can’t think of anything. What would you cover with sparkly gemstones?
And here we have the two dressy girl amigurumi together!
I think out of all my girl amigurumi, I like these two the best. Even though they don’t have a lot of embellishments on them the simplicity of their dresses is what I really like. In the end, simple is best!
Well that’s all for now! Hope you enjoyed looking at my dressy girl amigurumi !!
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August 5th, 2011
» Posted in amigurumi, crafts, crochet, doll, girl at 2:40 pm
Anyone want to see a bejeweled girl amigurumi? I do! And here it is!
This one took a very long time to decorate since I had to glue on every jewel strand onto her hat, her dress, and the ends of her skirt. It took lots of patience, but it still came out nicely right?
For some reason when I look at her, I think she looks like a very fancy and decked out cowgirl.
And then I start to think maybe I should have given her a small pistol to pose with!
Look at her eyeing those pearls! Our bejeweled girl amigurumi does love her jewels etc. If I gave her a pistol then she’d start looking like a cowgirl thief! That would have been fun to look at. Too bad I forgot about my little phone charm pistol…it would have worked out nicely too! I’m almost tempted to take another picture….
Don’t worry, she’s not that bad of a person. She loves jewelry but she knows not to steal it! It’s so funny how at a certain angle, her face can look so scary and yet at another, (like the one above) can look so happy and harmless. …Scary girl amigurumi indeed.
And here is her closeup! All nice and happy. The dress came out better than I expected. I didn’t think that the strands of jewels would stick on in such a nice curve but it did!
But of course I couldn’t forget that brilliant idea that flashed through my brain in the middle of this post… This girl is a crazy one I tell you. You’ll never know what kind of commotion she’ll be stirring up out of the middle of nowhere. She looks happy and harmless but who knows what really goes on in that head of hers… Look at that sinister smile…and pistol!!
No…don’t worry, my bejeweled girl amigurumi is actually an undercover sheriff!
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July 20th, 2011
» Posted in amigurumi, crafts, crochet, doll, girl at 2:55 pm
This week I’m sharing my Laker girl amigurumi! Let’s go Lakers!
Even though they didn’t win last season, I’m going to continue being the loyal Lakers fan that I am and cheer them on until the very end. My inspiration for this Laker girl amigurumi, well, obviously came from watching the Laker girls cheering from the sidelines at the games. They look something like this! Hopping in place with their fists in the air~
The Lakers logo came from a cheering sign that they distributed out to people at the game. All I did was just cut out the tiny logo from the corner of the poster and glued it in its appropriate place. Of course my Laker girl amigurumi just wouldn’t look complete if I didn’t include a cap to go with it!
And of course, when I think of things related to the Lakers, I also think of crystals and rhinestones…you know, the usual bling to go with their logo. The crystals were actually part of a long chain of cell phone decoration sticker that I just cut and trimmed to fit onto her cap. It adds just the right amount of detail don’t you think?
As for the outer edges of the cap, I sewed in a single strand of yellow yarn in between the purple yarn stitches to give it some more visual interest. To top it off, I also tied a nice little purple bow on each side of her braids.
This is what the back looks like for those of you who were wondering.
Choosing the right background for this Laker girl amigurumi was quite challenging. If you think about it, gold and purple is a very weird color combination. You cannot match it to many other colors besides more purple and…gold. At first I tried taking the picture with a black background but found that it really sucked the colors out of her dress and just made my amigurumi look dull and unlively. So to fix the problem, I thought why not just use the Lakers towels (that I also got from a game) as the backdrop?! Ah…being so cheap and eco with stuff lying around the house never felt so good.
“Here’s to a fresh start to a new season” says my Laker girl amigurumi!
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July 14th, 2011
» Posted in amigurumi, crafts, crochet, doll, girl at 3:22 pm
This week I’m sharing with you my two purse girl amigurumi!
What girl doesn’t like purses? I have a boat load of my own–each equally treasured. When my kids were small, I used to crochet tiny miniature sized clothing and purses for their dolls to wear and accessorize with. So I figured, why not just do the same for my girl doll amigurumi?
As for the purse, I decided that it probably didn’t need too much decoration. I went for the simple and clean look with the single red flower accent. It also gives a more homey feel, right? So to top it off, I also gave her a small bandana to wear on her head.
This is the view from the top. I cut the bandana from a real bandana that I found lying around the house. It was actually this piece of fabric that inspired me to make this purse girl amigurumi. It all started with the bandana and everything else just fell into place from there. From the look of the bandana, the image of this kind of girl doll amigurumi popped into my head.
This is the view from the side and back. Wonder who she’s waving to?
Ah, looks like she’s found her purse-loving friend! So, this is my second purse girl amigurumi.
This time I made her purse out of felt instead of yarn. I just sewed the edges to give it the homey and crafty look I was going for and glued a tiny gem in the middle of it. The strap of course is crocheted from yarn like the previous one.
She waves too!
What I really liked about this girl amigurumi was crocheting and decorating her hat. I bought the polka dot ribbon years ago and had a bit left over, so here I was able to put it to use again!
I just love to find random things about the house and putting them to good use. You’ll never know just what interesting things you could do with them until you get your hands on them. Who knew that a single piece of bandana fabric could produce forth a purse girl amigurumi ?
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July 7th, 2011
» Posted in amigurumi, crafts, crochet, doll, girl at 1:47 pm
After a very very long break from posting, today I bring you hula girl amigurumi! Very fitting for the summer season right? How is everyone doing trying to beat this heat?
Recently I’ve picked up crocheting once again and managed to crunch out a ton of different girl doll amigurumis. This time I made a hula girl amigurumi. My inspiration for this came from a recent trip I took with my family to Hawaii. It was so hot over there…I’m glad that I live here in California though!
Instead of using shells to decorate her, I just used some very cheap and easy to find foam stickers from my local craft store. It was very easy to do and produced the look I was aiming for as well. Here’s the head piece up close..
The funnest part about making this hula girl amigurumi was probably the headdress. It really adds the signature Hawaiian/tropical feel to it. It brings me back to the fun times I had there too!
If any of you plan to go to Hawaii, you should really shop at this place called ABC Mart. I literally spent hours there just looking through all their souvenirs! Seriously, it’s THAT entertaining to look at. I ended up buying a load of small things from this place and got a free mug for spending a certain amount of money there. Can’t say that I use that cup myself though, especially since my daughter scrambles to get her hands on it everyday to drink ice water from it. It’s just a cup!
Stay tuned for the rest of my amigurumi doll creations if you’re interested! I’ll be posting more over the next couple of weeks. I also have some animal amigurumis to post too! Thanks for looking at my hula girl amigurumi!
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