kewpie … where are you!

What do you do on a Wednesday when the dining room table is piled high with unfinished projects, you have promised to finish them all asap (to all and sundry for reasons ranging from, to be used in a quilt class in 3 weeks, to so we can eat dinner somewhere other than our laps) and it is raining and chilly.  You go searching for kewpie dolls, that’s what!

Now I KNOW I saw some recently - lots and lots in fact - densely piled, higgledy-piggledy, on a low shelf in a nice shop.  Isn’t my memory a useful thing.  So I drove around and around until 10.30am stopping at every store I thought was a possibility, then collected Carolann and drove around some more - until 2pm actually.

Did we find any? No!  We did, however, discover the carpark opposite Borders has been demolished - all 10 storeys of 1950s communist grey concrete.  Amazing.  There one day, gone the next.  

(that;s me in the patchwork fabric skirt and Carolann looking all cheerful - Julian took this through the window at Borders - he said we looked funny - pointing and shrieking at the hole in the ground where the carpark used to be)

And then we sought shelter from the rain in Borders and found some nice quilt books.  Excellent, but still no kewpie.

Then, after collecting Little A from school, when I was all frazzled and at my least productive, I found a large kewpie in a dolls house shop opposite the bakery.

Not quite what I wanted - and four times the price - I want to make a kewpie version of the carnivale doll - you know, with a tutu on a stick.  But, it would suffice for a trial run.

So kewpie came home and I had fun dressing her …

I gathered her skirt on - big mistake - I couldn’t get it to sit snugly enough to her waist (or lack thereof) so now I’ve bought some very narrow elastic for round 2. I also am altering the pattern for her ruff - I shall add a narrower fabric ruff as well, and pink the edges of both this and her skirt.  Then I shall add some obligatory gold glitter to the edges of her tulle petticoat and ruff.

I do love her tulle petticoat and broderie bodice - I’d like to wear a tulle petticoat.

And guess what - I found 10 4 inch kewpies in a dolls shop that is situated within the Buderim Ginger Factory, 2 hours north of Brisbane - weird huh!  The sweet owner is posting them and we shall create kewpie heaven.

Gee, aren’t they photogenic!  No wonder they’ve been around for over 100 years!

 

 

 

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