paperdolls! (my comeback)

alright. fine. i win.

wait.

what?

i told you!! but now i’m back. so there!

i really was excited about making the blog. i think it’s because here’s my process. i think of something. i loooove the idea. i can’t stop thinking about the idea and it sticks inside my head like a piece of gum stuck to the bottom of your shoe. so i think about it. all. the. time. i just want my kids to leave me alone and my work to be done (like that will ever happen? either of them!) so that i can do the idea. i crave it. i want it so bad. then i do it. and the craving is gone.

but, my friends, i will overcome. i faked you out! i haven’t stopped thinking about how i haven’t blogged since the last time i blogged. i was going to blog about these really fun gingerbread houses i made last year, buuuuut since all of our family pictures from … well, the entire time we’ve had digital cameras… is on an external HD that isn’t playing well with others, alas, i cannot retrieve those pics. at this time. because i couldn’t do that, which i reeeally wanted to do, i couldn’t blog. at all. i’m weird like that.

so i have finally done something that is so worthy of a blog that i … blog about it. (stay with me, it’s late and i’m super tired!)

i saw the idea for paper dolls that had funky clothes on a really cool paper site (yes, paper site, i am a nerd). i thought “i should be able to do that!” as i do with most things in and out of my sphere of ability. but this, this i could do!!

soo…what i did was i found some jpgs online of this doll and some clothes. but, friends, that is not the hard part. (well, none of it is the hard part, but that wasn’t the part that i feel blog-worthy) i took said jpgs and cut them all up and stitched them all together and made them into some easy to print templates! i used old scrapbooking paper (from the aforementioned ill-fated scrapbook that was a great idea) and cut it into 8.5″ width (i think it is 12″ long). then printed my clothing templates onto it. i printed the doll templates onto some heavier manilla paper (though i wish i had some darker hue as well, but this is about cheap, people, cheap!).  et voila!

basically they’re not the kind of paperdolls you would dress and redress. they are ones that you would glue their clothes on with a gluestick. and…then…look at them? i don’t know. i’m the kid whose idea of playing barbies meant to get them dressed. scenarios and dialogue are overrated!

i am giving these to the oldest offspring for christmas. i hope she appreciates them. (she will.) and i hope that i don’t let her start to play with them and then push her out of the way to do it myself. (cause i may.)

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