One Big Hole

I'm not a very crafty person. In Home Economics in middle school I tried to make a pair of polka dot pajama shorts and ended up cutting a big hole right under the bum. I also got docked points for using blue thread. In my defense though, I thought it matched. My mom ended up helping me fix the hole, and I still wear those polka dot shorts because I made them. However, that is my crafting life, one big hole under the bum.

This summer, Dallin's mom and sisters asked me to help throw a bridal shower for a cousin on the Fukui side of the family. Not just any bridal shower, but a bridal shower with Japanese themed decorations. "Cherry blossoms and kokeshi dolls," they said.

"I don't know what that all means," I said. "So we will see how this goes."

In order to get my craft on, I had to visit the Holy Grail of all that is good and evil in a world of glitter and hot glue guns: Pinterest.

And as luck would have it, I stumbled across this little gem.

I tried to make my own, with a few modifications. A spool for the body, beads for the buns, paper wrapped around the spool for clothing, and a ribbon for that extra flair.

Her head turned out to be too small, one side of her face is smudged, and I accidentally gave her weird cheekbones. Whoops. 

However, a trip to Hobby Lobby, some origami paper, a spoonful of painting talent by Dallin's mom, and lots of hot glue later, between the four of us, we were able to make these:

Not too shabby if I do say so myself!

Handling the hot glue gun might have cost me a few fingerprints, but this experience just might have put a few stitches in my big hole under the bum crafty life.