Kiersten’s Blog

We went to a birthday party for one of London’s friends yesterday.  Recently I have decided that we should do more homemade gifts.  I have loved to make gifts for baby showers but this was my first attempt at a birthday gift for one of London’s friends.  I found this great tutorial for a cute little magnet doll.  London named her Lucy.  It looked easy enough so we decided to try it out.  We made two because, of course, London needed one for herself.  She really loves it.  I hope her friend loves it as much as London does.

It was a pretty simple craft.  London did all the coloring.  In fact, she had to color an extra couple sets of clothes because she decided to paint, using the paper with the doll on it as the scrap paper underneath the paint.  Of course there are little tiny pieces, mostly teeny tiny shoes.  I’m pretty sure they won’t last long.  In fact, I think we’ve already lost two pairs and we’ve only had the thing made since Friday night.

This was my first attempt at using Mod Podge.  What a great thing!  I’ll have to use it for more projects.  I’m sure London won’t mind.  We’re excited to have a new toy to take to church today.