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| Sister grungy dolls. |
Instructions
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| My favorite. |
- Recall from the Grungy Hang Tags article, to make the coffee two or three times stronger than a regular cup of coffee. Let the coffee cool enough to touch without burning your fingers.
- Put the doll in a washbasin or the kitchen sink and rub coffee all over the doll. Sponge coffee on the doll's face and hair, including the extremities, hands and feet. Stain the doll’s clothes, as well.
- Allow the doll to air dry or put it in the dryer to set the coffee stains (wipe your dryer out with a damp cloth before using it again).
To get a better look at the dolls in the top photo just click the image and wait for a larger image to appear. The larger photo shows you how the dolls dry differently giving each doll a unique look and personality. For example, the doll's face on the left dried darker than the doll on the right. The doll with the darker face drew my daughter’s attention first and remained her favorite of the two dolls.
If you enjoy sewing, making your own doll is an option for hobbyists who like to make projects from beginning to end. Stores usually keep doll patterns and doll clothing patterns in the regular pattern department of their store. The patterns for cloth dolls are simple unless you do as I did the first time I made a doll. I sewed the the doll legs on backwards. Despite this mishap and corrective measures, I managed to make a cute doll for the Christmas holidays wearing a little outfit inspired by the colonial French Colonial voyageurs.
Bread Money
The two matching dolls shown in this article sold quickly in my online store. Some buyers prefer heavily grunged dolls that look like they were pulled from a fire. Others prefer a lighter grunge look on angelic looking dolls. At any rate, they are fun to look at and are quiet genial.
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