About a year ago I posted some old paper dolls that I made. Over the next few weeks, completely by coincidence, I was part of about five different conversations that touched on the topic of how difficult it is to keep younger kids entertained while they're in hospital. One lady, actually mentioned that her daughters had had paper dolls thirty years ago, and that she'd wanted some for her granddaughter while she was in hospital, but hadn't been able to find any.
And so followed a year long project. It didn't actually take a year, there were long breaks, and I forgot about it for months after we moved. Researching, drawing, painting, tidying it all up in Photoshop, and now I have a whole book of paper dolls. Not a real book. A PDF book that only exists on my computer but whatever. I also accidentally discovered that you can make multi page PDFs in Photoshop Elements, which is something I've always wanted to be able to do and will come in pretty handy!
Anyway, I've printed out a bunch this week and I'm going to send them to the Royal Children's Hospital. I just need to buy some white card to glue the dolls themselves to. I thought our regular shops would sell white card somewhere but the closest I could find were blank greeting cards in "Make your own card" kits. I nearly bought them but I wasn't sure if they'd be big enough, so it will have to wait until we can get to Officeworks. Hopefully this afternoon.
There is way too much content to upload all the individual files here. But if you're interested, you can see the whole lot here.
And now I need to set to work, talking the Giant Baby into walking to Officeworks with me!
Thursday 14 November 2019
Saturday 2 November 2019
Happy Halloween
I'm late with this, as usual. Oh, well.
This year I got a little pack of doll sized trick or treating pails at the supermarket. I was going to make some costumes for some of my dolls and do a halloween picture but time got away from me.
We did a pumpkin again. I had planned on trying to make a Jack Skellington one but at the last second the Giant Husband volunteered to do it and then didn't listen to anything anyone said about it. It only got done last Sunday and it's already . . . disgusting! We need to throw it out but nobody wants to touch it.
We did trick or treating, and had trick or treaters for the first time! It was fun but also over 30 degrees. The Giant Baby only wore part of his costume because he was too warm. He had a dress shirt and a pair of dress pants to wear under the bits he's wearing, but he insisted on wearing shorts and a t-shirt. He also said it was too hot for me to paint his face white. He was the rosiest vampire I've ever seen.
As we were hiking twelve million miles looking for lollies, I couldn't help but think, "Surely we could just put on costumes, walk to the shops, and buy our favourite candies?! That'd make more sense!" But no, it doesn't work like that, and now I'm sunburnt. I also discovered that I do not approve of people not giving out candy but still sending their kids out. That's not fair.
I'm going to leave this here because the kids are being so noisy, I can't remember what I was going to say.
This year I got a little pack of doll sized trick or treating pails at the supermarket. I was going to make some costumes for some of my dolls and do a halloween picture but time got away from me.
We did a pumpkin again. I had planned on trying to make a Jack Skellington one but at the last second the Giant Husband volunteered to do it and then didn't listen to anything anyone said about it. It only got done last Sunday and it's already . . . disgusting! We need to throw it out but nobody wants to touch it.
We did trick or treating, and had trick or treaters for the first time! It was fun but also over 30 degrees. The Giant Baby only wore part of his costume because he was too warm. He had a dress shirt and a pair of dress pants to wear under the bits he's wearing, but he insisted on wearing shorts and a t-shirt. He also said it was too hot for me to paint his face white. He was the rosiest vampire I've ever seen.
As we were hiking twelve million miles looking for lollies, I couldn't help but think, "Surely we could just put on costumes, walk to the shops, and buy our favourite candies?! That'd make more sense!" But no, it doesn't work like that, and now I'm sunburnt. I also discovered that I do not approve of people not giving out candy but still sending their kids out. That's not fair.
I'm going to leave this here because the kids are being so noisy, I can't remember what I was going to say.
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