Lion Doll..:)

For the lovely couple that came to my stall early March, Thank you for your return...:).
What do you think about this Lion Doll?
I can improve it as you wish...:)

What is inside the baby doll?

Have you ever been curious about what's inside the doll?
I finally did 'the surgery' for the doll...hooo...hooo...
This is what I found inside a Disney baby doll...

Below closer look...polyfill finer then pellet pouch, I hope you can see from the mesh fabric there are plastic pellets.

And this rattle insert!

Like what I mentioned in previous post I made pellet puch for my matryoska doll. This is how I prepare..

1. Make  circle from calico fabric.

2. Take 2 pieces of circle fabric and double sew with sewing machine and leave 2cm opening to insert the pellets.

3. Insert the pellets

3. Double hand stiched.



I prepared several pouches, so that I dont need to go back and forth to sew. I made the rectangular pouches for the matryoska but then I made them round for these cute tiny owls...:). I prefer to make circle because most of the doll's are basically rounded/circle.

The green and pink is the owl prototype that I keep for my reference. The new owls are the brown and pink. Do you see any improvement? Yes, the owls stand well compared the previous one that I made.That's improvement or 'kaizen' in Japanese word...:)

These 3 matryoska dolls go to the market...:)

Slow but sure...finally I made these 3 matryoska dolls...:). They will be on market tomorrow..:).

I filled the dolls with polyfill fiber and pellet. The pellet has been inserted in calico pouch and double stiched. I believe it will be save for children. The dolls got stabilize with this method, they stand well. Mum also can use it for pin cushion!

Im bit slower because children started going to school on February. I also made this rocket prototype...:). I want to make it with rattle inside. I couldnt find the rattle insert in SPOTLIGHT, so I have to get it via ebay. Hoping the rockets will be launch next month!

Visual Merchandising Study Case...:)

February Market was the first market in 2012. This time also the first time to be single
in the booth. My friend was unwell. It was nice morning when we set up the booth at 8 am.
I like to arrange and change the look of my booth everytime. Look at me I was so serious...:).
It is visual merchandising study...:P

The wind was still mild in the morning. But sometimes it blows a bit harder...as shown in my table cloth.
I knew from forecast it was going to be big gust in the afternoon ( after 12pm). My plan was I will open my booth
before that the strong wind comes. At least I had 3 hours I thought.

I had set the sturdy pull-toy ( red one), then the ladder, but unsure about the little chair.
The gust was getting harder on 11 pm. Maybe it was 25-30km/h ?
It blowed girl dolls in my right side. The 2 fishes on the top rack were blown too.
At that time my hubby and the children went to Diamond creek to buy newspapers.
I struggled holding the rack and the wicker basket.

Then I moved slowly to put the ladder down, opened my container and put the dolls one by one on the container.
All the dolls saved on the container...:). Safe and sound. Hurray!
Hoping there will be no such a strong wind anymore in the next and next market...!
But anyway lesson learnt.... I should make my display more STURDY not only nice to see...:).

Hair-do crochet girl doll...

I always want to make girl or boy doll...But  as you noticed they usually came with hats..:).
Once I tried making the doll with the hair with no hat. My children called her " Beefy".

I remembered I made Jelly fish dolls.

Based on that curly I made the hair for my girl doll. This is my first doll with the curly hair:

Then I kept continuing with other summer color....:). I heard that this year tangerine is favourite color..

So the other girl doll is coming with the tangerine color...:). How about Carrot color?
Look.. they are so sweet as fruit and vegie ...:).

The skirts have been modified into tier skirts....:).
Let's name them....How about Tangy, Browny, and Karly?

Here she is...:)

Put flower on her hat and on her cloth..:). Isn't she prettier now?

I'm planning to put some weighting so that she can stand well. Finally I found this from spotlight.

It is plastic pellet for weighting dolls. I hope I can make matryoska dolls will be available for March market.

Russian Doll Crochet...:)

I bet all of you know about this Russian Nesting Doll...

Russian Doll

Then if you open it... you will see smaller Doll...Ta da....:)

But actually I try to make smaller doll. Below is the second nesting doll stands side by side with my crochet dolls....Still some improvement to be made to make it more darling...