My Workspace is Littered with Body Parts
No, I haven’t taken up serial murder as my latest hobby.
Nor am I studying mutilation and dismemberment 101 at the local university.
We’re making paper dolls together this weekend, and the Kidz are loving it.
I suppose I could have also easily called this post “A paper doll to call my own”, but then people wouldn’t be able to find Kidzarama on Google with fun searches like serial murder body part, or university mutilation and dismemberment.
These things are important.
But back to the paper dolls.
Wren & Mr Bump were floating around while I was bloghopping today and spotted a picture of a paper doll somewhere.
Please can I have one of those?
What could I say? So of course I went looking for paper doll & clothing patterns for the rest of the afternoon.
The weirdest thing is that earlier today I actually impulse~bought some small gold brads. Not sure what I was going to use them for, but they came in real handy making these dolls.
Am I psychic, or what?
The best doll patterns I found were
- Victorian paper dolls,
- Liana’s paper doll blog with dolls & fashions
- Circa 1880 vintage paper doll & clothes,
- Connie Francis paper doll & lots of matching clothing.
I also loved this paper doll fairy at Wet Noodle Posse using Mirkwood Design’s doll pattern.
In case you didn’t look closely at the picture of Wren & Mr Bump’s dolls (Wren’s is on the left), do so now. They did all the cutting themselves, which means they really wanted these dolls.
But notice how the clothes don’t quite fit? Well, the Kidz wanted moving arms & legs and fashion. Don’t ask for much, do they?
So we dressed the vintage dolls in some of Liana’s doll clothing and have stuck the clothes onto each doll with blutak.
I kind of think that makes them even cuter than if they matched.
If you really enjoy this project, then you really should check out Hazelruthe’s post on paper dolls.
She has links to what may be every paper doll printable on the internet.