Tea Rose on August 17th, 2010

There is a lot of information available on making human-sized wings for fairy or angel costumes. Some of these techniques won’t apply to dolls, but they might inspire you to try something you hadn’t thought of before, so here are some pages with wing instructions:

Instructables.com is a great resource with lots of costume and [...]

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Tea Rose on June 23rd, 2010

Patricia Buzo makes tiny terrariums out of live moss and itty bitty handmade accessories. Don’t you just want to stare at them and imagine the tiny little people who might keep these gardens?

See more at her etsy shop, Doodlebirdie.
via Folklore and Fairy

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Tea Rose on December 7th, 2009

An active and friendly artist on Deviantart shares her process for sculpting fairies. Notice how many bakes she does. Wow.

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Tea Rose on February 25th, 2009

Check out these inspirational flower wreaths and headbands by Sally Kingston. Forget the fairies, I want one of these for myself!
Found via Ullabenulla.

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Tea Rose on October 31st, 2008

I’ve had enough creepy for a while, so I’m going back to sweet, and Krista Robertson’s work really fits the bill. I wish I could show her work to all those people who are in love with the tiny variety of Asian ball-jointed dolls, because Robertson’s work is just as adorable and much more [...]

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Tea Rose on October 28th, 2008

Deb Wood is one of the most talented eBay fairy artists around. Her work has personality as well as realism and elegance. She’s also generous enough to have made some very good tutorials about aspects of her process that few people share in tutorials, like how to pack a fairy for shipping, how to test [...]

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Tea Rose on October 7th, 2008

Linda Smith, formerly the president of our Kansas City-based doll club, is one of the hardest-working dollmakers I know personally. Her dolls are amazingly realistic for being so tiny, and they would be elegant in any scale. So I was very pleased to see that she has a new blog which includes a lot of [...]

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Tea Rose on September 17th, 2008

Here are some tips and tutes for making fairy wings and mermaid tails.
Various tips from ODACA artists.
Polymer Clay wings from Polymer Clay Central.
I may have already posted this one, but here are several that have been collected by Global Fantasy.

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Tea Rose on September 5th, 2008

Here’s what my life is like these days: I’m looking at pictures of Asian ball-jointed dolls on Flickr, and I find this artist who’s making cute little costumes for her tiny bjds. Then I look at her other gallery and start thinking “this looks familiar…” So I look up her profile, and guess what? [...]

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Tea Rose on August 29th, 2008

One thing I didn’t expect about writing this blog — and I should have — is that after a while, all the dolls start to look the same. I’ll confess I’ve gotten a little bored lately, but that’s why I’m so excited to bring Candice Cinque to your attention today. This is the first artist [...]

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