Dolly gingerbreads – ways to annoy myself

Dolly gingerbreads – ways to annoy myself

I love being creative, but creativity and me have some serious issues in our relationship recently. It is an everyday thing recently that I start making things, stop in the middle for whatever reason (the most usual being that I have so little time, and the ihlet comes usually in the worst times of the day, the second most usual being that I am so easily distracted it hurts), and... never finish them.
However much I hate to say it, this is just the way I am nowadays. And it wasn't any different with the gingerbreads.

I found them in a fabric shop back in November.

The tiny buttons are fab, but I’m not sure I would have bought the pack for them alone (they weren’t cheap to my wallet). The reason why I snagged the pack was these tiny … things… which I don’t exactly know the use of, but to me they looked like dolly-sized gingerbread cutters. I found them really cute, and also, how rare it is to come across really size-accurate dolly stuff. I imagined how lovely addition to a christmas photoshoot it will be if to make actual gingerbreads for my dollies too, in the same size.

Dude wait, WHAT?

The first moment of realisation of these things’ actual size kind of pulled the ground out of my great expectations. To demonstrate what I mean here, here’s a pic of Goona holding one of the cutters.

Yes, the size is THIS accurate.

And yes, this was sometime in November. I never made any gingerbreads ever since. Everytime i set off to, i realised how teeny-tiny they actually are, and if making them from fimo will not be challenging enough, how tiny decorations I have to paint on them, and int he end I just gave up before trying. However, the whole thing also started to annoy me more and more, so sometime on Saturday I got fed up with the situation, and put my bum off, now to make those dang minuscule cookies, or never.

Needless to say, as per Sunday evening, the Fimo lies there untouched, and there are no polymer clay gingerbread cookies (or any other type, actually)  int he house. I hate this, but this is just the way I am recently. Told you so.

However, int he end I’m neither unhappy nor annoyed this time, because I did not simply delay makiing them. I did sit down to my desk to get creative, but there were other unfinished stuff laying around, and the little muse came to me, speaking „oh, this/that would be lovely to make” or „see, here’s the solution to how to mke this/that”, andmanaged to make some other stuff I’m actually pleased with.
Maybe this weekend just wasn’t meant for dolly gingerbread making.

Here is what I came up with instead:

A necklace with a horse medal – I made it for my Moxie Teenz, I think it will either belong to Mia or Dot* - now modeled by Arizona, as Mia has another necklace on, and it looks too cool on her so I was lazy to get it off :P

*Dot is a Leigh doll. She’s not yet with me. I’ll

I always wanted to make a wigged redhead, green-eyed MT called Dot, and first I wanted to customise Tristen, but then I realised the line already has a green-eyed redhead, just not wigged. I never caved int o buy her and chop her hair off, so I was happy to bump into someone on MLP Arena who was actually thinking of chopping the har of hers off to do a reroot with it – it seemed the perfect deal. The hair did get chopped off, and Leigh is now ont he way to me, and will get a wig and some freckles. I am not yet sure the name Dot will suit her, I’ll see once she’ll be here.

I finally finished Abbey’s snowflake necklace. It has bee non her for almost a month now – you’ll see it in a photoshoot in a future post, the pics were made ont he very first week of February – but by now I never came up with an idea on how to make a clasp small enough or it, so it was literally tied on her with thread :P

Dolly pendants made of tiny metal leaves and (also tiny metal) roses, painted with metallic acrylics (the red one also has glitter sprinkled on it)), sealed, then tied together with wire. I did not yet make actual (láncok) for them, as I don’t know yet which type’d suit them the best.

I totally enjoyed making these, as they weren’t too difficult to make but look awesome ^^ I’m even planning to make some of these for sale.

And finally: two rot iron-style pendants for my gargoyle twins*. Originally the pendants were a pair of earrings which I bought, loved, but never wore – I’m not really into bigger stud earrings as there isn’t much space for them in my ears. I have recently found a similar pair, just in shiny silver, which I like more when it comes to accessories, so I decided to keep the new pair as earrings (we’ll see if I ever get to wear these :P ), and re-do the older ones.

It was kind of a pain int he bum to cut and bend their studs, I stabbed myself twice just int he process of bending the first one T___T Thankfully the Sleeping Beauty-effect didn’t re-occur during making the second one – after the struggles with the first the secon was pretty easy to do actually.

This is how it’ll look like with a (lánc). I still have to finish that. Also, I’m planning to replace the stones with matching ones (a pink and a purple), but I have to say it’s more difficult to get them off tghen I thought. I thought they are just glued on with some lame glue which would wear off with time anway, so, seeing for how long I had them already, I was pretty surprised they not only did nothing when I applied a little force, they are also still there, several rounds of removal trial. One of them partially broke out O_o, but didn’t come out. Little chips break off them.

I had the idea of trying to get them out with some chemical, but I fear the antique finish might come off, so I’ll have to continue with just trying to get them out using force. Or break them off enough to be able to put new ones on top of them. I’ll update with photos once they are finished.

Rochelle and her purple-hairedtwin who isn’t yet finished, nor she has a to-be-name. I’ve been planning to make her for quite awhile now, but never started. I hate it, but this is just the way I am recenytly. Told you so… :S