Well, I'm a day late with this post this week - Thanksgiving and guests got me a bit behind - and, I'm ashamed to admit, I've made no significant progress with organizing my studio this week. Sorry Crzylady - next week will be better, I promise.
My prototype thus has lots of flaws, but I think she also has some lopsided charm. With luck I'll have figured out the worst of the difficulties in the next couple of days, so I can get the tutorial and pattern up in time for people to make this for a holiday gift. I'll have patterns for clothes (you can see the first bunny slipper in the photo above!) and for Mimi's friends, her stuffed Bunny and her roly-poly Frank. I'm also hoping to offer some help making other accessories, like Mimi's cape, tiara, and sunglasses, Frank's special yogurt cup home, some library books, and maybe Mimi's missing underpants too...
Speaking of which, here's Mimi's bare backside - which has already gotten me in trouble with a few folks who objected to the view of her little piggy tail in the book. Oops.
Here's the start of her dress.
By: Aline Pereira,
on 7/23/2007
Blog: PaperTigers (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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As a fan of Shen’s Books I was delighted to see publisher Renee Ting and author Emily Jing partenering up on Shen’s blog to bring us “Crossing Cultural Borders,” a 6-week series of posts about different themes and issues related to multicultural literature for young readers. We encourage you to follow the series and contribute by adding your views.
You may also want to swing by The Miss Rumphius Effect to read Tricia’s post on evaluating books from the viewpoint of other cultures. And over at Writing With A Broken Tusk, author Uma Krishnaswami brings up the question of whether or not multicultural children’s literature has been successful in its attempts to cross cultural borders. Her question was prompted by the article “Questioning Cultural Stereotypes Through Children’s Books” by Tulika managing editor, Radhika Menon.
All well worth your blog-hopping journey.
funny little dolls
How adorable. I'm bummed that there won't be a second book in the works, she is so deserving of a sequel!
I find her tail to be quite lovely but I think she will look adorable with knickers as well :)
So glad to hear you are still getting projects accomplished during such a busy time!
so cute!
how are you? it has been a long time!
: )