Definitely a Mori Girl

The other day I wrote about my whole “diving into sewing” venture, and I have come to the conclusion that what I was using isn’t going to work. Then again I am a noob and I could have been doing it wrong, but I completely gave up and said fuck it.

So to rekindle my desire to actually get something done this time, I went around the interwebs looking for patterns to follow and any info I could gather. But the more I looked, the less I wanted to do anything at all. It was very overwhelming and my brain just shut down. So I got my game later that day and just sat down with my husband to play it (and to yell at him ’cause he wasn’t doing it my way).

But I think I finally found something I could do with a little bit of luck, elbow grease and mojo. I found a style of japanese fashion called “Mori Girl” (“forest girl”) and both myself and my husband agreed that it would fit my girl perfectly.

Mori Girl fashion

Mori Girl fashion

I found all kinds of stuff on Pinterest, Tumblr, Blogger… I had a field day and now I get to figure out how I’m gonna make this all happen ^^;

Yep, should be fun, but I will get this done. And my girl will be cute. And people will adore her!!

Unhappily ever after or some shit…

I recently had the pleasure of inviting a new girl into my doll family by the name of Amanda. She is one doll that I have been pining over for the last four years and I finally had the chance to get her this past March and after waiting on the company to finish her for the past four months, having her home has turned into sort of annoyance.

By this I mean she is smaller than my other dolls as far as body type goes and nothing I have fits her…

It’s really become a matter of me not wanting her at all anymore and wanting to sell her off since I have no money to buy her something she can actually wear. But my husband won’t let me do that.

So I set off to do the next best thing. I decided to put my non-existent sewing skills to work and make her something myself. I kinda went through the small collection of fabric I have left over from the days of wanting to do the same thing before (but that never happened and now it just sits there mocking me) and found I have nothing that fits my idea of what I want. So I went shopping yesterday and got one yard of two different flavors of cloth that I didn’t even want.

pink and white

Why did I get it? Because I was feeling rushed. I had asked my sister to take me to Joann’s (because we no longer have a vehicle) but she also had to get her kids at some point from daycare so I didn’t have time to really think about things, and being the impulse shopper that I am I grabbed what I thought would look good.

It’s really not a bad choice and I guess I can work with it and it kinda goes with her face and hair ^^;

pink and whtie

And I just found the perfect tutorial to help me do what I wanted to do! How awesome is that. We’ll see how it goes though. Maybe I’ll share my WIP updates as well. Wish me luck~

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