These dolls are made from flour. They are about 5 cm tall. I did not use polymer clay nor any other types of clay sold in the market. The kneading of the flour to the forming of the dolls are all handmade.

The good thing about using flour is the dolls do not break when you accidentedly drop them and they remain as beautiful for a long time if properly kept. However, you must be careful. You must paint it properly with either transparent nail varnish or transparent liquor. If you don't, you will find your dolls being eaten by worms. I found out the hard way. I found worms eating the doll's hair. Gosh.... I nearly burst into tears. All my hard work.....

It takes quite a bit of time molding the dolls. One doll will take roughly an hour to be made: head, hair, dress and the likes and the whole process to get it ready and properly for display or to be given away takes two weeks. Yeap! one small doll takes an awful amount of time to be made.

And I have little adjustments to make. Sometimes the flour dough dries up quickly and sometimes if not quickly used can turn moldy. The finished kneaded dough   can either be too soft or too hard or too dry or too wet. So after I have kneaded the flour, I need to adjust to the consistency of the flour as I made the dolls. I don't have the exact recipe for it. It is different every time. But I can vouch that indeed it is therapeutic on days when you can't go out and you feel gloomy. These dolls do indeed liven your spirit up.    

I hope you will enjoy watching this short video.

These are origami dolls but I have pasted them on Popsicle sticks to make them into bookmarks. They are wonderful gifts. Before the start of the year, 2013, I gave some to my working peers. They serve as beautiful book markers for teachers' thick record books.   

Framed origami Japanese dolls

Autumn leaves falling, creating a soft look 

A little girl and her mummy coming home from the temple

Three beauties singing

All these dolls are folded. This I learn and improvised. You too can learn and do it. Very therapeutic.

Origami Japanese dolls

These are origami little Japanese dolls which I would later frame them up. 

Flowers for a home warming

This was originally the arrangment for a floral basket with fruits but I changed it to a full foral design to cut cost. Having fruits is expensive. Not that I didn't want to give an expensive present but the person who wanted it wanted to cut cost. Anyway, whichever the arrangment is, it is still stunningly beautiful. The pink and and white is really sweet. I love it. You may want to know the cost.

1. If fruits are added, the cost could be RM100.00, depending on the types of fruits

2. The arrangment below costs RM85.00

Dear friends and readers

Hi everyone, I just want to share with you another of my blog - Elaine's Creative Cards. I am sure via this blog you can reach to that blog but I really don't know how. I am not so computer savvy to tell you. Ha Ha Ha. I hope you will find that other blog as interesting as this one. Thank you.

God's Gift

Yesterday, we went to Taiping, a small town away from Ipoh, which took us about an hour drive to celebrate a birthday and this person whom we travelled so far to celebrate a birthday is none other than the person in the photo. He is Deacon Thomas.

If you look at the title of my blog today : God's gift, I have story to share today with you. This man, about 40 years ago, living in an almost God forsaken place was given a 2nd chance to see, to experience beauty. A missionary couple came from Sweden and they saw his plight. He was going blind. This couple wanted to take the boy back to Sweden for treatment but there were some paper complications and finally they adopted him.

Today he is a deacon in Sweden and he has helped the church where he grew up in : Larut Matang, Taiping. He has personally seen to the renovation of the dilapidated church and anyone walking into the church today would never know how poor the church is. The members are odd job workers, near failures in life, drug addicts, alcoholics and single mothers as well as one or two abandoned families. It isn't easy to take care of this church but the family ( Deacon Thomas' family) who takes care of this church are really praise God worthy people. Whatever Thomas and his family have received, they give back 10 fold.

Here his sister and niece are putting candles on the cake. It was a lovely fruit cake topped with cheese icing. We ate a lot especially my daughters and I. Anyway, we had a real sumptious meal : fish, crab, cuttle fish, prawns, chicken and vege. I have never taken so much of sea food in life.

For your information, the place we went to have our dinner is in Kuala Septang, Taiping. It was once a port but now a fishing village so the catch they brought in is simply fresh and hmm....delicious. For the locals; Malaysians, please try out Kuala Sepetang. The price here is not as expensive as in Tg. Tualang and Bukit Tambun. And we have three wonderful restaurants. I can't tell you which one is better, you have to try them out one by one.

Deacon Thomas - a happy and generous man.


Here is where they bring in the catch.

The fishing boats.

The scenery at the fishing village.