Bead dolls

With all the work we've done on Kaia's faerie garden, it seemed time to give it some inhabitants. I've been working on making little odds ...

First I found these - some little wooden bead toys that belonged to my mom. A few hours later, I found these in a pile of old patterns. They're leaflets with drawings of little wooden bead toys and necklaces. Some...

As a child I used to love my Guatemalan worry dolls, I still do. My mom told me to whisper my worries to the dolls and they would fix them for me. It always seemed to work. Now I'm older I realise that this is because I'm actually verbalising my problems instead of keeping them to myself but as a kid I thought it was the dolls working their magic. I still have my dolls, but for a while I've wondered if I could make my own. On Pinterest there were a lot of tutorials to make them with cocktail…

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Get the 411 on how to make a worry doll, 8 different ways! This little craft is easy and fun, and kids will love learning about the Mayan legend behind it!

I made some bead people ornaments today and thought maybe you'd like to make some too. Did you know that if you paint cotton fabric with acrylic craft paint it behaves like really strong paper? It's true. Easily cut with reasonably crappy scissors. No fraying. I paint a lot of fabric for beastie dresses and such, and thus happen to have plenty of scraps around. So I used painted fabric, but felt would work too. You'll need 2 pipe cleaners (aka chenille stems). Bend one in half, and cut one…

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i LOVE bendy dolls. i really do. i remember first making these back when i was in girl scouts as a kid. Of course the ones i make now are m...

Watch out! This craft can be addictive.