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Chinese Dolls

jenny — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 05:54:23 +0000

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!!

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Handmade Potpourri Dolls

jenny — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:35:16 +0000

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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Duck Amigurumi

jenny — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 01:12:42 +0000

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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Cat Amigurumi

jenny — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 00:23:33 +0000

So instead of crocheting girl amigurumis, this time I decided to make cat amigurumi!

This is the view from the front:

Making cat amigurumi was very easy. I didn’t even bother crocheting ears for them! All I did was crochet a sack-like head, stuffed it, and sewed up the tops of their heads into that particular shape. The ends of it just twist up like that so making ears was not something I had to worry about. Besides, from past experience, making huge ears for cats just never turns out the way I want it to. They always end up looking really scary. They become cat-bats! Making the ears smaller is what really makes it look cuter, in my opinion. Sometimes it’s just best not to make your amigurumi look too much like the real thing. Sometimes it’s just better to simplify them so that they don’t look so scary…or just plain ugly!

And this is the view from the back:

The pink plush heart was sewn by my daughter. She cut the heart shape out of felt, stuffed it with regular stuffing, and sewed it shut. Easy!

As for the tails on my cat amigurumi, I just stuffed in a bendable wire so that I could get that signature cat look with the whole curling tail thing. When you look at a cat, they never move unnecessarily. The only thing that moves as they’re sitting is their tails. A little unsettling to see but hey, that’s what makes them smart…looking?

Hope you liked my cat amigurumi!

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Bejeweled Girl Amigurumi

jenny — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 21:40:57 +0000

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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