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New Craft Book Arrived

While I was ordering my brother’s birthday gift on Amazon, I went ahead and ordered myself this adorable “Felt Friends from Japan” book. I think it was the felt fawn on the front that really sold it for me, but it also boasts 86 toys and accessories you can make yourself. I haven’t had a chance to make anything out of the book yet since I’m still trying to finish the miniature dishes I posted about earlier, but the book looks very promising

This book has a nice mix of toy patterns as well as accessory patterns for things like coin purses and such. Aside from having patterns to make all of the different kinds of toys, it also has pages of cutout guides for making your own felt applique badges to add to whatever you like. The sewing instructions have lots of pictorial diagrams on how to do things so it should be fairly easy to follow. It also dedicates a page to beginner info on how to do certain embroidery stitches that are used to embellish your felt toys, as well as other tips for beginners. There are also a heaping helping of beautiful, clear images of tons of the cute creations, so the book also has the addes bonus of being full of eye candy.

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Japanese Fabrics

90303_2Last night I was looking at the super cute that are Japanese import fabrics. I wish I had more money so I could buy some because I would loooove to make some super cute doll clothes or plush out of them! I wish we had more of these cute style fabrics here in the US, but no, apparently we are too boring or something. Look, even their straight pins are cuter than ours in Japan!

Here are a few links to online shops selling Japanese import fabrics:
Reprodepot: http://reprodepot.com/index.html
Prices are listed per half yard and are a little bit pricey.

FabricTales: http://www.fabrictales.com/
Prices are per yard and a little less expensive than Reprodepot.

SuperBuzzy: http://www.superbuzzy.com/
Prices are mostly per yard and they are about as expensive as Reprodepot.

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Dolly Dolly Volume 16 Arrived!

dollydollymsdpageActually my Dolly Dolly book arrived on Saturday, and I just now got around to scanning in the page that features the MSD clothes. Anyway the pic to the left features the separates you can make in MSD size, to see a bigger pic, just click the pic. There are also a lot of other doll patterns in this book for other sized dolls, but you could definitely resize the patterns to fit any doll.

There are lots of other cool DIY stuff in this book as well. There is a whole feature on making fake sweets for your dolls, and also a nice feature on how to make fake silver jewelry for your doll using a special silver art clay. I don’t know if you can get the silver at clay state-side or not, but it looks like fun. There is also a bunka style doll project you can attempt as well. Aside from all the DIY projects there are tons and tons of awesome dolly pics that can give you lots of ideas for projects. There’s quite a lot of Blythe in the book, but there is also a good amount of BJDs and a smattering of other dolls. I must say that I just enjoy picking it up and thumbing through it just for the eye candy. 😀 I would definitely consider buying more of this book as it’s just plain awesome and fun! Just to note though, it’s all in Japanese, so to get the full benefit you need to be able to read Japanese.

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Aloha Bunny Plush

I’m offering Aloha Bunny up for sale again. You can purchase her through my etsy shop for $25.00.

Aloha Bunny measures approximately 10.5 inches tall from her ear tips to her feet. She is made of soft white fleece with felt and embroidery floss accents all of which are hand stitched so there are no glues involved. The little felt grass skirt and coconut bra are both removable, but the felt hibiscus is permanent. She also has a fluffy pon-pon bunny tail beneath her grass skirt. Her filling is a non-allergenic polyester fiberfill.

Domestic shipping and handling via Priority Mail is $5.00. Insurance is an extra $1.30 and is optional. International Shipping via Global Priority Mail is $10.00. If Global Priority Mail is too expensive I am willing to work with you to find less expensive shipping alternatives.

My preferred method of payment is paypal although I do accept money orders. Please feel free to contact me with any questions you might have about my goods, payment, shipping, and etc… You can contact me at genkigirl.sales(at)gmail(dot)com.

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=5295101