tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71730655249630705952024-03-05T11:09:21.139+01:00vergissmeinnichtKussA blog about my handmade Waldorf inspired dollsAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07907537765993654457noreply@blogger.comBlogger84125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7173065524963070595.post-41115379188620721622018-07-02T21:40:00.000+02:002018-07-02T21:40:27.901+02:00The beginningsLately I have spent quite a bit of time on nostalgic feelings. Mainly because I am insecure about my dolls because the market does lean a lot more to needle felted / highly sculpted / more realistic dolls. But on the other hand I love my dolls because they are "me" so I don't think I will change much. Of course dolls and making always changes but I have decided to just stay true to myself.<br />
But if I can still sell these dolls is something entirely different.<br />
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So I have decided to take the time to make a few blog posts that will consist mainly of pictures of dolls. The dolls I have made in chronological orders. Including my practice dolls - the one I took pictures of ;)<br />
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Starting here is the very very beginnings, when I tried to find out what this whole doll hype was all about, if it was really so difficult or if I could also make them (as my mother used to - but being too proud / stubborn to ever ask for her advice ;))<br />
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So here is 2012<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Anais</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Marco & Puck</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jasmin</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Seraina</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rosalie</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Eveline</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Amelie</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sasha, brown haired girl, Jamie</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Linus</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lisiane</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Josefa, Lara, Leoni, Elsie</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Erika, Ronja, Ella</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ladina & Ria</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Emily</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Luzi</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Coco</td></tr>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07907537765993654457noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7173065524963070595.post-9295626678976144862017-04-16T21:36:00.000+02:002017-04-16T21:36:06.456+02:00Dot<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I am not going to say a lot about Dot. I think the pictures say a lot already ;)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Because Dot is very special to me we discussed for a long time how to find the new home. And we came up with something we think is fun. We hope so do you ;)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">So.. Dot is still missing the boots to go for long walks. As soon as they are made time for travel is near.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING CAREFULLY IF YOU ARE THINKING OF OFFERING DOT A HOME (OR IF YOU KNOW SOMEONE WHO WOULD AND YOU WOULD LIKE TO HELP THEM):</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">- as soon as the boots are done I will post a pic of Dot with the boots on my facebook page</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">- I will by then have secretly chosen my favourite pic of Dot (one since the body is finished, so not the very first sneak peeks from way back ;))</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">- The person who comments "wait... what... when...?" under my secret favourite picture on my facebook page first, will be given the time and day of Dot's secret upload to my indiecart shop.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">So feel free to comment under more than one picture ;)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">- The time and date will remain as secret as the person who I pm it to chooses. So if you have picked the right picture and been the first and have been given the details you can share this info with anyone you choose, in private or in a group. Or you can just keep it a secret of course ;)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">- Dot will be uploaded to my indiecart for the FIRST time within 3 days of the picture with the boots being posted, whether someone got the detail or not - so basically it might be a very secret upload ;)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">- First upload will be an auction type listing open for three hours. So if you watch my facebook page and the shop you might still catch it even if you have no added clue as to the definite time and date.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">- If nobody bids on Dot the listing will expire and I will choose to let Dot pop up in my indiecart or etsy shop from time to time until the new home is found. These listings will then be RTG so being first will matter more ;)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions ;) I know it sounds complicated and maybe it is. But we do hope it will also be fun <3</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Greetings </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Monika and Dot</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07907537765993654457noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7173065524963070595.post-63794187002794293212017-02-17T17:23:00.000+01:002017-02-17T17:23:32.908+01:00Lotta<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Lotta is not one to hide her opinions. or her socks. So here are two lists with what she likes / does not like. it might help you to decide if she could fit into your home ;)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Lotta likes:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">fairies</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">science</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">old cities</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">star wars (though secretly more star trek - she has quite a bit of a crush on Tom Paris)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">modern medicine</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">green</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">pink and orange, preferably together</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">yellow</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">pride & prejudice</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">anything by murakami or neil gaiman</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">raspberries</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">apples</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">12</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">crazy socks</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Lotta dislikes:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">made up non facts / when people pretend facts aren't important</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">ignorance</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">lying</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">war</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">injustice</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">brown</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Moby Dick</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Forrest Gump</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">frilly dresses</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">oranges</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">strawberries</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">7 and 17 (she sympathizes with the other numbers as 7 and 17 seem to be chosen the most whenever people are asked what their fav number is)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">45</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">shoes</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Lotta is one of my little dolls, made with my own pattern. she measures around 11 inches, has brown eyes, a smile (yes, yes, a smiling vergissmeinnichtKuss doll ;)), her skin is tan (oekotex cotton from switzerland), she is stuffed with clearn carded wool, her hair is handdyed, handspun yarn i bought from luxfish and have saved for a long time (it broke my heart when she closed shop). she is wearing a handknit tunic (handdyed wool yarn from the lemonadeshop), a handknit merino wool cowl, heart undies, jeans capri trousers and her favourite crazy socks. and NO shoes because she really doesn't like them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Lotta costs 210 CHF plus 30 CHF shipping, so that is 240 CHF altogether. CHF stands for swiss francs ;) she will ship from switzerland.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">if you think Lotta will be a good match for your home and you would like to invite her to live with you, please send me a message on facebook. if more than one person offers Lotta a home i will draw a name this weekend...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">thank you very much!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">oh, I almost forgot: here are pictures of her:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07907537765993654457noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7173065524963070595.post-39332814909327449182016-12-01T15:56:00.001+01:002016-12-01T15:56:01.944+01:00Del<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Everyone who knows Del knows she lives in her own world... which also shows in her choice of clothes. She is still missing her boots, she said she wants colourful comfy ones. I showed her pics of Livia's and that's exactly what Del wants. To wear with her dress up clothes and her knits. With everything. Like her socks.</span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">It doesn't show clearly in the pics but she has one blue and one green eye - helping her to see the world in her own way...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Her beautiful black dress was made by Alex of Angelique Angels and many of my dolls have worn it. But as the little sister of Didi I just had to give in when she claimed it as the dress was inspired by her big sister. Who she has a special bond to <3</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">She was inspired by my favourite storyline/ graphic novel and is very dear to me. If you are looking for "one of my dolls" please pass on Del and only buy her if you really lover HER for who she is :)</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07907537765993654457noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7173065524963070595.post-11289935858331064552016-11-30T15:50:00.002+01:002016-11-30T15:50:50.412+01:00Little<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">First things first: Yes, i am little and so I felt this was a very accurate name for me. Why hide what I am?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I am also fierce, and a free spirit, and funny and stubborn. But that will need a second glance.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Monika wanted to make me some sturdy shoes and she told me to tell you all that it was my decision to not get them. She said I need sturdy shoes for my adventures in the woods, when it's cold or I walk over sticks and stones so I will not have holes in my socks. But who can move stealthily and visit the foxes and deer with sturdy shoes? They would hear me come from miles away and I do not want to confuse them by wearing leather. Now all they smell is a little bit of sheep through the wool. And they like sheep, sheep are never a threat.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I told Monika that really, my feet barely touch the ground anyway so I could go barefoot. But the wind can become chilly so socks are in order and we found a compromise in the sock-boots i am now wearing. The best is that they are big enough so I can take them off easily and use them as a satchel on my adventures. But pssst, don't tell Monika, I promised to keep them on :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I am a bit over 10 inches little, my skin is made with Swiss cotton, I am stuffed with clean sheep wool, my hair is made from loose locks (I think they are called Cotswold or something, I am not really sure tbh) sewed into a weft and attached straight on my head (that tickled!), my dress is handknit with merino wool yarn in the colorway Woodland Friends with Pink by Mosaic Moon, my socks and sock-boots are cotton. I am also wearing undies (well, not yet but I will be when I travel)...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">So here is Rosie, hopefully the first of many. I hope you love her as much as I do! She is everything I love about doll making. Reduced to the max ;)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">So here she is!!!! (can you tell, I am a bit excited ;))</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nothing!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">See, nothing behind my back...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">But now I must concentrate.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Do you need help?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Never!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I am a big girl!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Me, needing help?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ridiculous</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07907537765993654457noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7173065524963070595.post-24050385888732511812015-09-02T11:24:00.000+02:002015-09-02T11:24:44.082+02:00The Triplets<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6MVI-YBJp-196K2EtNy4sfhIpFMypaLbOaxVN9OlcREawNYmiZWRKLC2ktzZ72kRB_9DABfOwc3Tsy-SKmZQQr2gQpfvPjQkbHgluD15OKvoPCWT8TPp6D_aegMS6vVGIOXmzU6i6_39L/s1600/IMG_1773v.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6MVI-YBJp-196K2EtNy4sfhIpFMypaLbOaxVN9OlcREawNYmiZWRKLC2ktzZ72kRB_9DABfOwc3Tsy-SKmZQQr2gQpfvPjQkbHgluD15OKvoPCWT8TPp6D_aegMS6vVGIOXmzU6i6_39L/s200/IMG_1773v.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">They are slowly getting together, Clare, Lettuce and Marcie. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">But they were not born triplets. The oldest just got fed up being "the oldest", people thinking she should be more grown up than her sisters. The youngest being fed up that everyone assumed she is the spoiled one. Which she is NOT!</span><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh_r9T6abQgWJtw3bQOeAYWdnKBFkS7_9rdda1VmHfnlFvlT2Yvfy-pHUTVtL7VDdsRHSRcqjGfcPsq2zItPqJpl3beVAp1SSpF-96s1wc7Xj_YPNN322kryDdq0azqM1XbRl7bpr2bcZa/s1600/IMG_1770v.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh_r9T6abQgWJtw3bQOeAYWdnKBFkS7_9rdda1VmHfnlFvlT2Yvfy-pHUTVtL7VDdsRHSRcqjGfcPsq2zItPqJpl3beVAp1SSpF-96s1wc7Xj_YPNN322kryDdq0azqM1XbRl7bpr2bcZa/s200/IMG_1770v.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">People of course still try to figure out who is the oldest. But the girls will not tell. Many think Marcie is the oldest. Mainly because she sticks out as her hair is very different. And people seem to think the child that sticks out must be the oldest. Which is silly. And completely wrong in Marcie's case. Others think Lettuce must be the youngest. Because she looks like the youngest. A bit more delicate, a bit more crazy. They might be right. Or not at all. </span><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqaOvt7c6BE2oVjhtJgMET3sBNf7lGpFRY4qfxy5AzYnsBU8Z5wW6aXSWMJ7KCuUFMA1Oa_qln6W_VfVvkSavWLDl50cPFlpgn_1qA_RxTMsnnc32fa6zBFvvHEP2m-L97pylO6BAZfZ8L/s1600/IMG_1778v.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqaOvt7c6BE2oVjhtJgMET3sBNf7lGpFRY4qfxy5AzYnsBU8Z5wW6aXSWMJ7KCuUFMA1Oa_qln6W_VfVvkSavWLDl50cPFlpgn_1qA_RxTMsnnc32fa6zBFvvHEP2m-L97pylO6BAZfZ8L/s200/IMG_1778v.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">What I do know is that Clare is the most serious of the three, when she's not being very silly. Lettuce is the bounciest one, when she's not lying on her bed reading for hours and hours. Marcie is the best secret keeper - when she is not out gossiping and telling everything anyone confided in her to her sisters ;) Lettuce is the gossiper, Clare the reader and Marcie the silly one. Marcie loves books, Lettuce laughs a lot, Clare tells her the gossip to laugh about...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">They are all very different, in and out. They fight a lot and make up a lot. Each prefers to be on her own, they hug constantly. Make fun of each other and confide in each other...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">They are very excited, especially the youngest one. And the middle one. But most of all the oldest one ;)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Please not that they are at an early stage so there is no blush applied yet, the hair is not attached yet, etc... So changes in appearance are always possible ;)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07907537765993654457noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7173065524963070595.post-35209961598268503992015-08-21T14:22:00.000+02:002015-08-21T14:22:36.425+02:00How I became a "doll maker" - Part 1<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">First things first: I put doll maker in "" because honestly, I don't view doll making as my profession. Most people in my private life don't know I make dolls, I don't go around and tell people. If I do tell, then it's more like "oh, I sometimes make a doll" which tends to surprise people (who does that? how? why?). I feel to understand these dolls you need to see them, touch them. To understand "doll world" you need time and experience. For an outsider it can be a weird place (my husband keeps telling me ;)).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">So how did I get here? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I could tell you a poetic story of an inner calling but people who know me would smile a huge cheeky smile at that and I would get lots of funny e-mails.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Honestly it all came from two FB acquaintances who kept liking these Bamboletta dolls. The more I saw the more intrigued I was. Back in that day I only saw Bambolettas, DFH and Tumbleberries, Pookidolls shortly after. I started to research. I like to know things - some people might call me a know it all - I call it curiosity ;)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I have always been working with my brain, priding in my good memory and good and easy grades at school, never having to work for good grades. But I felt hey, with brains and the internet I am sure I can make a doll like that. Not as cute, but I just want to see how hard it is.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">So I looked for tutorials. And I found a head tutorial so I tied my first head. Just made a body from scratch, how I thought I might like it. Not like my own body (I have never been thin except in my teens, I was a very well nourished baby and toddler and my current body shows my relaxed lifestyle I guess ;)), but more like my kids' body, who are both very very slender and more delicate looking. Very first one was chubbier though, with ghost neck, completely understuffed though i felt i had stuffed and stuffed forever... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I showed a friend (the one who kept sharing the pics of Bambolettas etc.) and she brought me a Bamboletta to show me what she meant by "stuffing more". Back then Bambolettas were the holy grail. Really all of the aboved mentioned dolls were almost impossible to get for a normal mortal person with slowish internet due to living in a little village in the countryside.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">So I made the second. Who had feet, but not in a way that I could make neatly. And who had a ghost neck ;)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">So more research, drawing a pattern in case my next doll was "it" and I wanted to make a second one. By that time I was already hooked of course. And I knew what I wanted. So grudgingly I asked my mum how I could possibly achieve this and that. Because she is a seamstress and taught textile works at school back in the days.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Grudgingly because I had always told myself that I will never become like my mum for some reason. I was always a stubborn child who would figure out stuff herself. I had a theory but I wanted her ideas. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">She smiled and said she never thought I'd ever follow in her footsteps. So I told her that clearly making and selling doll clothes wasn't the same as making cloth dolls! But what I had forgotten, she reminded me, was that she had started out making cloth dolls!!!! Thankfully I had forgotten because I doubt I would ever have started had I remembered. When I was a child, just before the "plastic dolls" got really big everyone had one of these cloth dolls made with a plastic mould for the face, where the fabric would be glued to and the face painted on. All stuffed with wool of course. She made and sold these dolls before people ran to the plastic dolls who openend and closed their eyes etc...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">So she gave me tips and was very, very proud to be able to help and to see that all her preaching about how to sew and knit in my childhood seemed to have stuck in my brain even though I always pretended not to listen...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I always knew I would work with the Swiss Laib Yala fabric as it was close to my childhood dolls, the ones my mum had made. Though back in my beginnings I got a few messages asking me why on earth I would choose a lesser fabric with such a strong structure that took focus away from the feature when there was de Witte Engel readily available that was so much more smooth! (Glad this opinion seems to not be there anymore and most agree that both fabrics are of very good quality and it's really personal preference what you use)...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Of course I needed more dolls to figure out quality issues, etc. Looking back I guess I should have made more before buying but I guess most of us feel like that in hindsight. I sold my first few dolls (after giving the first 5 away) for almost double material cost, which back then was quite a price for a new maker!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Over time and with many influences my dolls have changed, grown, and become more me. Though I still love some of my first few dolls very dearly and still like a mum do feel they are perfect and surprisingly very much me already. I guess I was lucky there were not too many makers around then so that forced me to find my own style. Looking around I felt none of the existing were "me" enough that I would want to make them or look-a-likes. I also had no idea there were makers outside of FB!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I got to know more makers, followed some doll groups on FB and it all went from there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">To this day I feel my dolls are myself even though they have changed and I have been influenced by much and many in different ways (more details later), but I think they do have my weak chin, smallish eyes, long cheeks ;) they have my androgyn face I guess (my mum thinks with every head I make: oh, wonderful another boy ;)) and of course my stubborn self. BUT: I am not very slender, I have small feet just to name two obvious differences....</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07907537765993654457noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7173065524963070595.post-74181237110880802022015-07-01T13:41:00.001+02:002015-07-01T13:48:49.559+02:00Puppen-Mit-Macherei<i>For my english speaking followers: I decided to do this project in German, as I heard about it through German doll makers and I thought it would be fun and challenging for me to try in German. If you have any questions or google translate makes no sense at all feel free to contact me ;)</i><br />
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Ich kann gar nicht glauben, dass ich erst heute auf die Puppen-Mit-Macherei 2015 gestossen bin. Ein Projekt von <a href="http://www.naturkinder.com/" target="_blank">NATURKINDER</a> und <a href="http://www.mariengold.net/" target="_blank">Mariengold</a>. Jeder, der eine Puppe machen will, kann dies tun, an bestimmten Tagen geht es um bestimmte Themen und wir teilen unsere Erfahrungen. Einige werden ihre ersten Puppen machen, einige mit Anleitung, andere Freestyle.<br />
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Für mich ist es ein komisches Gefühl, dies auf Deutsch zu machen. Deutsch ist meine Muttersprache, ich bin in der deutschsprachigen Schweiz geboren, aufgewachsen und wohnhaft, also sollte dies für mich natürlich sein. Da ich jedoch zum Puppenmachen über Facebook und daher in englischer Sprache gekommen bin, fehlen mir für dieses spezielle Thema öfters die deutschen Begriffe.<br />
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Ich wuchs auf mit einer Mutter, die Schneiderin und Handarbeitslehrerin war, aber für uns Kinder zu Hause blieb. Sie fing an die Glorex Puppen mit den "Schablonen-Gesichtern" und Stoffkörper zu machen und am Markt zu verkaufen, als dann immer mehr die "Plastikpuppen" aufkamen hat sie gewechselt zu Puppenkleidern aus Plüsch. Schon als kleines Kind habe ich ihr am Markt "geholfen". Nach vielen Jahren entschied sie sich dann, dass man aufhören muss, wenn es plötzlich ein "muss" wird. Sie kümmerte sich vermehrt um den Naturgarten, machte Weiterbildungen im Bereich Heilpflanzen, Ornithologie, etc. und hat nun ein Buch über ihren natürlichen Garten geschrieben und veröffentlicht.<br />
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Für die Puppen-Mit-Macherei werde ich eine Puppe machen, die etwas anders werden soll. Ich wollte schon lange eine etwas fülligere Puppe herstellen - meine werden immer eher wie meine Kinder, ausgesprochen schlank, nicht wie ich früher, eher etwas pummelig ;) Und mir scheint, dies ist genau der richtige Moment für solch ein Projekt. Ich werde also mein bestehendes Muster überarbeiten.<br />
Ob diese Puppe zum Schluss auch in den Verkauf kommt oder dann doch bei mir bleibt, das werde ich während dieses Projekts sicher spüren. Ich lasse mir da vieles offen.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Vivian was born a bit special, wise beyond her years, always alert, always seeing right into the people around her. This scared some people, made others think she was some kind of psychic. But she is not. For fun she sometimes told people what star sign they are. Why it worked most times she never really found out because honestly, she knows it can't be true. Why should people be who they are deep inside because they were born at a specific time? So she stopped doing that, because it scared her a bit. Though she will not admit it. She says it started boring her and was just a trick.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Vivian will never ever tell you her star sign. Or why there are some almost white hairs in her "mane". She is good at keeping her secrets but look keeping yours from her. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I have my theory about her but they will remind just that. Mere theories. But I doubt she has more than theories about it herself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I do know she is very proud, very confident, very "her". Ever since I met her (and that has been a while) she and I have never doubted who she is. She is also impatient (deep down I think that comes from her sometimes sensing what is going to happen anyway so she wants it to just happen so we "can get on with something else") and has a wicked sense of humour. She needs to be treated as a person and not as a child. Though she does love to be cuddled - but she will not initate it often.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Vivian Moonshadow measures about over 20 inches, she is my first sculpted doll. You could call her a prototype but I do not plan to sculpt many dolls as my more traditional style is something I could never give up. I enjoyed making her after letting go of my fears of failure first. Being my first she is by no means perfect. But those tug at my heartstrings most, like with "real" people, I am drawn to imperfections. I was surprised at who Vivian could have become, so many choices to be made and it took me a while to dare finish her because it felt strange to close the doors to her "parallel personalities" that could have been. </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I guess choices were harder knowing I will not make many "like" her so the closed doors will not be inspirations for a new doll but just be a little spark inside of Vivian.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">In the end she became who I first envisioned (and me laughing at myself for ever thinking she could be someone else) but I love to think that some of the choices we didn't make are still buried inside her and if she loves her new home and trusts you enough, she will show you those as well <3</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Vivian will be available auction style soon. I will announce details on my fb page as soon as she and I have figured it all out and I am sure I can let her go - not because I feel I have to protect her but because of all the time we spent together, my pride of how well my dip into sculpting turned out... Because it feels like a chapter will end with her.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Then there were the school trips. Going away with the class for a week in our teens, in hostels in a room with half of the girls (I was always in a class where there were about 8 girls max, average about 6, so we got the small rooms), where we of course tried to sneak over to the boys or were worried the girls in the other room would be more adventurous or have more fun than we did. That was also the time of the "dancing parties" where everyone would only dance to slow music and it seemed like an ok way to get a bit closer to the boys we liked. Me having grown into the tallest girl in class over the summer, towering over most of the boys as well didn't really help me not feeling awkward.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Well, what can I say, I have spent a lot of time thinking about me as a child and a teenager throughout this project, trying to figure out if an appropriate clothing style for it would be the colourful handmade unisex clothes my mum made me or the very, very more average than average clothes I wore in my early teens as not to stick out under any circumstance... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I thought back to how I felt, all the insecurites, everything that held me back, how we all longed to live in the u.k. or the states where there were boarding schools, that seemed to be so strange, exotic and everything interesting happening there, big adventures amongst girls, blood sisters, boy stories, sleepovers; where you can drive a car at 16 or have your elder 16 year old siblings drive you around so you wouldn't depend so much on your parents. Thinking back to all the boys we talked about in our teens and who they are now. Now suddenly realizing they felt as insecure as we did back then. The heartache we caused and felt, the drama, the jealousy, the friendships that lasted, the ones that broke. How that child and teen is still a big part of who I am. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Mona will be looking for a new home this Sunday, 21st of June in a short auction from 3 to 4 pm EDT here:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">http://hyenacart.com/sleepover/st/7977/59979/Mona-12inch-vergissmeinnichtKuss-miniMe</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07907537765993654457noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7173065524963070595.post-17020375757302954382015-05-25T22:38:00.001+02:002015-05-25T22:38:31.530+02:00Gioia<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Gioia is probably the grumpiest, sulkiest girl I have ever made. Most know by now that my dolls tend to be very good at sulking but Gioia does take it to a new level. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">To "help her on" a bit I have given her the softest suri alpaca tailspun yarn hair and made her body a bit softer than usual to make her extra huggable. Because what else stops sulking as well as some very good cuddles?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">This means her hair is delicate and she's even worse at standing than my usual dolls (usually I can take a few pics of them standing up with very clever posing and a lot of patience but I really couldn't manage with Gioia).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Gioia will be available in my indiecart shop sometime this week. I hope she will find her perfect home where she will be loved despite her strong head ;)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">She has dark tan skin, blue eyes and is wearing a gorgeous dress by Dommi Design. She will also come with my traditional heart undies and socks and handknit boots. Maybe some other items of clothing will be added in the next few days.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">More pics here:<br />https://www.flickr.com/photos/vergissmeinnichtkuss/sets/72157651123403483</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07907537765993654457noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7173065524963070595.post-59177660877730694102015-05-15T14:49:00.000+02:002015-05-15T14:49:10.769+02:00The big surprise<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">So, I just had an idea, and as it will be my birthday soon I thought why not just follow up on it ;)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I will offer a doll, a particular doll that I will be working on next (while I also work on some overdue wish list dolls). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">She will be a big doll (around 19 inches but that varies a bit).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">She will have dark tan skin.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">And the rest I will just decide as I go along.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Soooooo... You need to be a bit crazy to purchase this doll/spot for a doll. Because you will not be able to choose anything. You will have no say at all in the creation. There will be no pictures, no communication until I send you the tracking number end of June latest.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">She will be a girl, a big girl, non sculpted.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">you will be able to VETO one hair style (yarn, weft, locks), I will decide on hair length and colour. I will use a "natural" colour for the eyes (I never make dolls with pink eyes for example). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">So, this doll can be a crazy pink haired girl, or a timid brunette. She will have attitude, but what attitude I cannot say yet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">So this doll will be for the very courageous, the ones who really, really, like all my dolls and are up for a big adventure. I understand this takes a lot of trust. But I promise I will make you a doll that I truly love in the hope that you will too. My choices will not be influenced by what I know about you, the buyer, though.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Oh, one more thing I can promise: She will come in my trademark heart undies :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">So, if you're up for it shoot me a message on FB. But please no wishes or suggestions ;)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Oh, she will be 550 CHF (swiss francs) plus 50 CHF shipping. So 600 CHF in total, due until this sunday, may 17th. If more than one person is interested I will choose in 24 hours from now... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">If noone is interested I will make her and offer her RTG end of June latest...</span><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07907537765993654457noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7173065524963070595.post-84078977987315830992015-04-13T20:52:00.000+02:002015-04-15T13:14:40.234+02:00Kaimi Mahina aka Gloria<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: red; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">UPDATE - Kaimi "Gloria" has found a new home. Thank you very much for the love you have shown for her <3</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">i will not talk long about kaimi. kaimi is the name she told me, then i checked and well, the internet told me it was a boy's name. so we added the girl name mahina to it (that's the law in switzerland, if you choose a gender neutral or confusing first name the second name must be very clear on that). but then when we brushed out her hair I kept humming "gloria" by van morrison. so i just added it. kaimi isn't sure about the gloria. it's also not her official name, i let her fight that out with her future mum. and yes, there will be fights, and laughs, and many incredible moments. you will see ;)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">before i spam you will lots of pics of kaimi i will let you know what we decided for finding the perfect home for her. i wanted to wait and think about pricing this size more (so far i sold none bin, the ghost girl were this tiny about 12 inch size and they were auctions for charity, one mmao, then missy of course was auctioned for #loveforalex) but kaimi will not let me. she said she will decide.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">if you are interested to bring 12 inch kaimi to your home (and you better be very ready, she is not for the faint of heart):</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">- comment on this blog that you would like to. no story or anything needed, just your name (easiest your fb name so i can contact you immediately after the drawing)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">- then, when kaimi feels she has been patient enough, or teasing enough, i will write all names on pieces of paper and she will draw a name</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">and now to the "special feature":</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">THE WINNER WILL DECIDE HOW MUCH KAIMI WILL COST. I WILL JUST NOTIFY THEM AND SEND THEM MY PAYPAL AND THEY WILL PAY AS MUCH AS THEY FEEL LIKE ;)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">i know this is scary. but kaimi is corageous and adventurous. and she insists ;) she says if someone doesn't dare / isn't comfortable with this type of pricing they could never handle her anyway ;)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">SO, JUST COMMENT THAT YOU'D LIKE TO WELCOME HER TO YOUR HOME, NOT THE PRICE YOU ARE WANTING TO OFFER BECAUSE THIS IS NOT MMAO (though i suspect just as scary). AND NO, NEITHER KAIMI NOR I WILL HELP YOU WITH THE PRICING. BUT IT WILL NOT DEPEND ON YOUR PRICE WHETHER SHE LIVES WITH YOU OR NOT!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">if you have any questions, feel free to contact us. kaimi might just answer you ;)</span></div>
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</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07907537765993654457noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7173065524963070595.post-38525876683793239282015-04-09T18:20:00.000+02:002015-04-09T18:20:43.725+02:00Vivian Moonshadow - a long overdue try<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Like I guess many makers I have watched sculpted dolls emerge, refine and become perfection. I am in awe of the makers who truly have perfected this art and I see every day how difficult it is to get it right. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I spent quite some time imagining what a sculpted doll of mine, truly mine, could look like. Would look like. Should look like.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I will admit, I was scared to try because until I tried I knew it would be my choice to not needlefelt my dolls, to still make my heads the "traditional" simple waldorf way. That it's not my fear of failure stopping me but my love for my simple dolls. I always knew one day I would have to try, maybe never show anyone the result, maybe like it maybe not. Then take it from there. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">My worries have made me late to the party. I had people tell me to try, that it was bound to turn out well, people telling me not to as they loved my dolls just the way they are and are worried I would stop making them and only make sculpted dolls from then on. And all that time I had the nagging feeling that maybe I didn't have a choice, that maybe I would be crap at sculpting...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">One evening, when the light wasn't good enough for me to sew (my sewing machine stands in a place where the natural light is great but there is not enough artificial light to work there in the evenings/nights) and I had knitted all I felt like knitting I sat down with one of my heads I wasn't sure about and just dived in and didn't stop before I felt that I had made my first sculpted face. Vivian Moonshadow was born - or half born as I really need to adjust my body pattern for her first and that will have to wait a bit...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Before you ask: I have no idea where I go from here. I will definitely make more "traditional" dolls, not sure if I will make many sculpted dolls. I loved making Vivian and I am proud and happy how she turned out. Vivi and I are sharing lots of smiles and secrets. She has many secrets to tell...</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07907537765993654457noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7173065524963070595.post-18954954611919921492015-03-13T15:57:00.003+01:002015-03-13T15:57:47.995+01:00I'm just not sure Missy <div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">So for the LoveforAlex doll that was my way to go I decided. But then the head had a biggish nose. And I made a second head. But I was drawn to the big nose head but "Missy, I'm just not sure about you" went through my head. Some might be surprised about that. And it's true. Even though Swiss German is my native language all my doll making is in English, even the talk to them in my head...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">So I tried out skin tones and stopped at the one I call Terracotta. I love this skin colour but I wanted something that would appeal to more people because "I am just not sure, Missy". Then something was off when I did my "usual" eyes and I just kept going mumbling "I'm not sure at all, Missy". I went to bed unsure, woke up unsure, Held up the "sensible" choice of dark brown locks to her and felt "this could actually be ok, Missy". But ok would</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">n't be good enough. For fun I held up the gorgeous locks I got from Laura Spinner. And I was in love. In love with Missy. But still I feel "I'm just not sure, Missy" because Missy is different. Different good in my eyes, but definitely not the save choice of anything. But the more fun, adventurous choice, Missy's choice <3</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07907537765993654457noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7173065524963070595.post-85291130645792113522015-02-22T20:18:00.004+01:002015-02-22T20:18:52.933+01:00Back from holidays in the Swiss Alps<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Yesterday we arrived back from a sunny, warm one week holiday in the Swiss Alps, where 3 of us were skiing and I was enjoying the clean air, the quiet (lots of skiers but the village is car free, so all roads are white and only a few snowmobiles are around), walks, books and some knitting.</span><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07907537765993654457noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7173065524963070595.post-38027526846086754562014-12-21T10:17:00.000+01:002014-12-21T10:17:01.426+01:00End of the year - a summary and looking forward<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Last year I realized I made an average of two dolls a month. So I counted. And was shocked! Not even two a month? I thought I had at least managed that! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Then I realized the year doesn't have 24 months ;) So i don't need to count to 48 to have made two per month. And I forgot the 4 tiny dolls in the collage (sorry Mellie, Liselotte, Macy and Lucinda!). So I guess I can be proud. To be honest I would have been just as proud had there been less. Seeing them all together, finding their pics has also made me remember each one again. Their very own character and story, how they came into being. How they were there already when I rolled the head or really revealed themselves only when i chose the hair right at the end. How I worried about picking the right clothes for one or fell even harder in love with the other after choosing the "right" clothes for her.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">It has been a wonderful year full of support and me happily making dolls knowing they will find a home. It is very special to be able to trust on that. I remember the early days when I never knew when a doll would sell, if at all. I feel quite spoiled and know I am very lucky to be where I am right now. Thank you all for making it possible <3</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">So after we had run away we laid low for a while but then decided it was time to go and find our parents. So we went to the train station. We all had a little bit of pocked money that our parents had given us and that Lady Davenport had never found, so we thought we'd just take the train. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">At the train station Merry suddenly pulled on my arm and pointed to a newspaper stand with a horrified expression. There were pictures of us on the front page! Noortje went and bought one and brought it back to us. We were devastated when we read that there had been a horrible train accident with many injured and dead and that the authorities were asking for help finding those three girls who had run away before they had been able to get in touch with them and tell them that their parents had died and that they would be provided for by the state and a nice place in an orphanage was already reserved!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">My world fell apart in that moment, but when I saw Merry I pulled myself together. She was the most sensitive of us and was crying horribly. So Noortje and I tried to comfort her while coming to grips what had happened and that our world would never be the same again...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I have no idea how long we were just hiding, forgetting to eat, losing sense of time. We finally decided that we would have to split up as people seemed to be looking for 3 girls together. We split the money we had and Noortje and Merry took off together because it was clear Merry needed assistance the most and Noortje was the best for the job. We decided to meet again later so noone would be alone for too long. The idea was for us to find a new future, a way we could imagine leading our lives. And that definitely didn't include an orphanage.</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibSIKVpYK422rnMnOpZ2VLKsHwbsY60rIdZz0x01mtaEUeZ_D2-paSbLwUERaAUwQe4ZM4n0hPnVzdMYhq1MCPU2tAgiaZ-vY-vWZvPvtkRVR_iDjDbIhppvLMpxUgUx7JkVJ4hdl___d5/s1600/DSCN1927v.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibSIKVpYK422rnMnOpZ2VLKsHwbsY60rIdZz0x01mtaEUeZ_D2-paSbLwUERaAUwQe4ZM4n0hPnVzdMYhq1MCPU2tAgiaZ-vY-vWZvPvtkRVR_iDjDbIhppvLMpxUgUx7JkVJ4hdl___d5/s1600/DSCN1927v.jpg" height="200" width="150" /></a><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">When we met again and I left with Noortje to Amsterdam we did worry a bit about Merry, all by herself, she's just the kind of girl you really want to protect form the world but her sweetness and honesty always make other people want to help her as well. Her plan was to go back to the States for that time, closer to her home where she felt safer. Noortje and I in the meantime explored beautiful Amsterdam, had tea in the big park, just talked about our future and our past. One day we decided to take a boat tour and we met two women on the boat. They seemed really nice and we carefully started to tell a bit about our story. No idea who started. We told more and more when we realized the two were doll makers and good friends though they had just met for the first time (seems they had talked only over the computer before obviously). I could almost not believe it as they seemed to get along so well. And I realized how much I had missed a grown up to look after me, a safe place. </span></div>
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The sign came, I played the role of the girl who runs away, escapes from the evil stepmother, not like in Grimm's tales where the poor heroine always waits to get rescued. I didn't want to be rescued by a prince anyway but find my parents again!</div>
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We ran forever, I felt so alive and so scared. But I would never admit to the scared part of course. Then we finally stopped and breathed...</div>
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Read about Merry Amité by Inviting Play <a href="http://www.invitingplay.com/">here</a><br />
And about Noortje Amité by LIEF monster <a href="http://www.liefmonster.com/">here</a></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07907537765993654457noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7173065524963070595.post-50075739737492504912014-09-12T21:37:00.000+02:002014-09-12T21:37:14.109+02:00Thekla - Part two<div style="background-color: white; color: #141823; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; margin-bottom: 6px; text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">So we all slept on it, talked about it. My mum and I talked about it in private, asked for more details but in the end it came down to just deciding and embrace whatever we decided. We saw how exciting the prospect was for dad. I saw how much in love my parents still were and how that was probably the last chance to really go on a big adventure. The older i got, the more difficult it would be. Of course I wanted to stay, but I also wanted my parents to be happy. And really, a new place would maybe be the place where I would finally find real friends. Friends who would understand my collections, who also loved being outside, live in a different world all in our heads... So in the end we agreed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">One of the big disadvantages was that I'd have to stay behind when they left. At first. Because they wanted to go and first build something up so I'd have a nice place to come to and not chaos and uncertainty... I was to stay behind and live with Lady Davenport. She lived a bit further away and had agreed to take me on and look after me until my parents had settled in. My parents promised I would be looked after very well as they provided quite a lot of money to Lady Davenport so I wouldn't have to miss out on anything during that time and would maybe even be pampered quite a bit.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07907537765993654457noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7173065524963070595.post-27681412369646640142014-09-08T20:25:00.000+02:002014-09-08T21:07:15.449+02:00Thekla Amité - Memories<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I actually don't remember too much. I mainly remember the scenes I saw in pictures that I have looked at again and again so a memory has now formed around them. I think I remember the appartment where I lived with my parents. How we didn't have much because they saved money to afford a house for us all one day. How my dad knew all about nature and history and science. Everything basically, how proud I was that he was my dad. And how everyone loved my mum, that she was truly beautiful. Not so that everyone would turn their heads but I remember a warmth radiating from within her, her eyes always smiling, her body just a bit soft in the right places, ideal for cuddling. Really we were almost too normal I guess looking back. Maybe that's why it all changed one day... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">And I remember going up to the building site every weekend, to see how our small house on the hill was built. To stand on the ground where my room would later be. To help choose the carpet even though I was too young to be trusted with a choice like that. But they went with my choice...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Seeing the bricks still, the skeleton of the house, running around it, later picking up all the little electric cord pieces. The cut offs, some yellow/green striped, some blue, some red. I was a great collector. I collected it all. But my collections are lost, only exist in my memory now and I'm not sure I can trust my memory always. I was sad moving up on the hill, leaving the busy apparment complex behind with all my friends and moving to a posh neighbourhood where we only just fit in. Our tiny house a bit further towards the woods, where the ground was cheaper.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">After the move I heard people say I had changed, I kept to myself more. Well, I wasn't really welcomed. But i loved running around outside, rearranging my collections of electric cord cut offs, knowing they were the brothers and sisters of the cords now running through the walls in our house, bringing us light and comforts; or my stone collection, or the collection of tiny plastic animals my doctor had in this huge jar that he fetched every time I had been good at an appointment. He fetched it from high up, and it was so heavy, I always worried he'd drop it. then he took off the lid and I could choose one. Always one. And I always knew which one was still missing. But sometimes I took a second elefant or a third pink piggy, just because I could. It was all my choice. And my life was wonderful and perfect. I might sometimes have been lonely looking back after our move but I had the best parents...</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07907537765993654457noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7173065524963070595.post-73925913541648853842014-09-05T18:29:00.000+02:002014-09-05T18:29:01.709+02:00Luçie<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCuXmxOMBrTdSvTwthk-c_CO0jlMm3_G_YmbyxsUjv0tqgI690Lfxwziff7IxLTQ3ANgeYeOHnh9Nbbj1QzeTfD9iAmSJwGGkN2hyQQq2Pqc7qo_E8DlzRK6B85485jRgAPj1LDYtHR7LL/s1600/IMG_5979v.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCuXmxOMBrTdSvTwthk-c_CO0jlMm3_G_YmbyxsUjv0tqgI690Lfxwziff7IxLTQ3ANgeYeOHnh9Nbbj1QzeTfD9iAmSJwGGkN2hyQQq2Pqc7qo_E8DlzRK6B85485jRgAPj1LDYtHR7LL/s1600/IMG_5979v.jpg" height="320" width="213" /></a><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Luçie claimed the suri alpaca weft that has been waiting for the right doll for quite a while. She's nowhere near ready but I just had to share her.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">- some people are just as wonderful IRL as they are online</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">- Amsterdam is one of the greatest places I've ever been to</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">- every doll maker has their own way of doing things and just because you use the other person's pattern doesn't mean the doll will then get those wonderful elegant feet (in my case clumsy duck feet is what i got - but i love them), but you can learn a lot but also know that there is a reason the other maker does it different to you (in my case, I don't like fiddly ;))...</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Amsterdam cafés are perfect for doll making. Also Wendy's mobile doll making kit in a box.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And trying to make a doll according to Wendy's instructions.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Crow was one of my travel companions. Also on the boat. The best place<br />to make a doll is definitely a boat.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">She is the first of my wish list dolls and turned out a star sign no one asked for specifically. So first in line is the person who asked for a similar sign - if she passes Stina will become available.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Stina is quite stubborn (she started out one star sign but it turned out that was her ascending sign and pretty soon it was obvious that someone else was shining through), active and powerful. She is more a girl of action than words so here she is (top by wildmarigold):</span></div>
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