Building an Army of Paper Dolls!
Sunday, February 7, 2010 at 12:01PM 
Well... I posted that first batch of six dolls and I am incredibly pleased to say that five of them have already found happy homes! This is the largest measure of success I have had on Etsy by far! So with that, I decided to create more dolls in more colors and styles... and now I present you with the little army who lives in a plastic box on my coffee table.
I went from having dolls in kimono and dolls with kimono and haori jackets to including smaller ones in a style called "hinasama" and then bookmark style "shiori ningyo." Since I had so much success with the first kit I tried, I bought a different kit to learn how to make the bookmarks that you can purchase here: Amazon. The instructions are in English and Japanese for those who cannot read Japanese, and it comes with all the supplies you will need to make four bookmarks. You can see two of the ones I made from the kit in the image above, and I have been applying the diagram to all sorts of paper to make bookmarks in vibrant colors and styles! The good thing about this is that you can be creative with your background, or add die cuts and all sorts of scrapbooking embellishments to personalize your bookmark.
I have been having a blast folding these between teaching, grading, and researching! It is such a therapeutic and relaxing process and each one has his or her own little personality. I've even taken to naming each one... Such a geek!
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