Saturday, January 26, 2013
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.
Sunday, September 30, 2012
Saturday, October 22, 2011
Flowers for a home warming
1. If fruits are added, the cost could be RM100.00, depending on the types of fruits
2. The arrangment below costs RM85.00
Saturday, October 8, 2011
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.
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