I have a challenge with 3 others in Canada, two of them my sisters and the other is a long time family friend who is just like a sister. Suzanne, Dianne and Tonniece are the ones doing this challenge with me. I thought ohh I have a good idea lets do things as a challenge to push each other to create. ME AND MY BIG IDEAS! I first had a bit of a hard time to think ohh what is an ethnic doll ... searched the web had tons of ideas but could not settle on one of them. I started one doll japanese ... umm canned that one half way through.
I finally decided to go an african type doll but did not get the skin tone right... ahh well continue on I thought ... I was going to try putting coffee on her to get the colouring .. but did not want to chance the face as I had already drawn it on. Now that I have it done I might try it just to see what happens ...
I recieved the fabric from a friend who was living in south africa so its authentic fabric. Drew on the face .. ok cheated and put pins for earrings ... which I used to do to my barbie doll so she would have pearl earrings . She also has pheasant feathers in her turban type hat, which was cheesecloth that I hand dyed, a bead necklace and the african fabric.
I would say I am not a doll maker and really did not enjoy this one soooo ... onwards and upwards to the next challenge please.
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Sounds like one of those things that seemed like a good idea at the time....but your result looks fine.
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