Smootch's Little Me

Before we begin, I must make sure that you have indeed read Neil Gaiman's Coraline.   If not, I'll wait until you pop out to your local library, check out a copy and treat yourself to a long latte.

There is also a movie that is pretty fabulous too.

Okay, ready?

I love to tease Smootch that I am, in actual fact, her Other Mother, but she doesn't believe me.  She thinks I'm the regular one who is mean to her and ignores her.  Perhaps.  But I still couldn't resist making Smootch her very own little me.  Whether or not it helps me keep tabs on her remains to be seen.

 

 

 

 

The pattern came from Yesterday's Trash etsy shop.  You should go there now and purchase your own pattern because you know you are going to want to make one too.

 

Some random photos of the making of Smootch's little me.  Sometimes doll making is delightfully creepy.  Button eye girl here, even more so.

 

 

 

 

 

 

And finally some pictures of the doll.  She is made of reused linen (the bottom cuffs of a pair of pants I helped a friend hem actually), acrylic for the hair, polyester knit fabric dress (the same as the Spitfire dress made for Smootch and there is a pattern for somewhere on my etsy shop that hasn't been open for... millenia).  I painted on the stripped leggings and pink shoes, along with eyebrows and lips.

 

 

 

 

 

Smootch is quite happy with her little me, adding a pair of her earrings to her to finish her off.