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Showing posts with label handmade. Show all posts
Showing posts with label handmade. Show all posts

Tuesday, 3 February 2009

How many comments!?

Thanks to the wonderful One World One heart project I have been soooo inundated with comments I've barely been able to keep up with them all, not that that's a complaint mind, I am incredibly happy about it and am having a lot of fun blog hopping, I've even met other doll lovers and doll dabblers which is always a plus to any endeavour!
If the comments finally reach 100 then I'll add something else to the prize pool. I can't believe how many great gifts people are offering, it's really an exploration of sorts!



Exploring outside is out of the question as there is still thick snow on the ground here, though now much of it has turned to ice. Little Miss P was hoping that school would be closed today but no such luck I'm afraid! We're going to go to the Kids Group at church, but whether anyone will turn up I don't know. I've prepared some 'stained glass window' cards for the kids to colour anyway in celebration of candlemass. I say 'stained glass' it's actually tracing paper, but it will still look nice with the light shining through it :)


Yesterday was weird, not only for the snow but also because we found a perfectly good bicycle dumped in a hedge on the way home from school. I think it must have been stolen and dumped, so we are taking it to the police station as soon as the snow melts. I kind of hope no-one claims it because it's just the right size for Little Miss P and she doesn't have a bike :)


Still no pictures concerning the Tonner Dr Who dolls I'm sorry to say, but I'll let you know as soon as I hear anything, and if you hear before me please... TELL ME!!!


In other trivial life type shenanigans we finally got to watch the new BBC series 'Being Human' last night. In case you're not aware of it it concerns a house being shared by a ghost a werewolf and a vampire and it's flippin' brilliant!


You can find out more here (but don't look if you get scared easily!):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/beinghuman/


And just to keep it all on topic here are some appropriately themed dollies, not my own work (if only!) but items I discovered on Etsy ^-^!


You can click on the pics to visit the sellers' shops...


Thursday, 6 November 2008

Happy Basket Ball Doll Day! Free Dress up game!

As today is basketball day in the US I thought it would be a great oppurtunity to post a pic of Troy (I'm a bit of a closet HSM fan!) :)






Or perhaps you's like to try this cute basketball dressup game :)



Or perhaps a handmade basketball doll from Etsy is more your thing?



Have a great day, Holly and the dollies xoxo

Wednesday, 29 October 2008

New Dolls Listed to the shop for Halloween

alien in hand


gloomlet

medusa

I have added 3 dolls to the shop for halloween, they are Chibi Alien, Gloomlet and Medusa.
Visit the shop by clicking HERE!
Holly and the dollies xoxo

Monday, 27 October 2008

New Petite Poupee dolls from Caya's Creations



I have been an admire of Caya's beautiful bears for some time now, but recently she has branched out into the most beautiful folk dolls.

Petite Poupees measure only 6 inches high and are hand drawn with watercolour pencils and have beautiful Tibetan lambswool hair.


I find them enchantin, like illustrations come to life.

To visit Caya's Etsy shop, please click on the picture :)

Holly xoxo

Thursday, 12 June 2008

New Doll Photo "Second Hand"

This is my entry for the Flickr "Monthly Scavenger Hunt Group" challenge for July for the theme "second hand".

secondhand

I'm quite pleased with it :)

Fancy a Barrack Obama doll?


Allegedly German dollmakers have prduced a limited run of 999 Obama dolls selling in their Puppenklinik shop in Neuss. The dolls sell for $219 each.

If you feel you cannot live without this particular item then click on the doll to visit the shop.
Personally I prefer the following handmade version I have just stumbled upon in Flickr:

Wednesday, 9 April 2008

Comissioned petite Blythe Dress

Hi peeps,

I have been comissioned by a lovely lady to make a white petite Blythe dress. On my third attempt I finally got it right, here's what I came up with :)



dress

Actually Coco (short for Coconut Ice) my own petite was quite reluctant to part with it, lol!

Holly xxx

Tuesday, 8 April 2008

Cute papier Mache doll tutorial

Sooo...

I was thinking last night about wanting to try a new doll related craft, and I was also thinking about recycling in some way. I actually couldn't get to sleep last night because my brain was in one of those 'overdrive' modes where it refuses to switch off.

Anyway, as I was laying there it occurred to me that papier mache might be an interesting root to explore. So I typed "papier mache doll" into Google and stumbled upon a very cool, very cute Papier Mache doll tutorial!

It looks pretty simple, but I guess we'll have to see how things develop! Seems like something Little Miss P and Etta could have fun with too :)

Check it out for yourself by clicking on the picture...