Not just for BEGINNERS DOTEE Swap LEARN HOW HERE!!
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| Swap Coordinator: | CherylLaVon (contact) |
| Swap categories: | Crafts Newbie Dolls |
| Number of people in swap: | 122 |
| Location: | International |
| Type: | None |
| Last day to signup/drop: | November 15, 2008 |
| Date items must be sent by: | December 15, 2008 |
| Number of swap partners: | 1 |
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Many of us out there would LOVE to swap dotee dolls but feel inadequate or worry that we won't be able to make a good enough doll well... Here's your chance! AGAIN! Make your doll knowing these things... Anyone who signs up for this swap is either in the same boat as you, or is a seasoned dotee swapper who remembers how they felt when they apprehensively made their first dotee doll. Here is where it's going to be okay if it's a baby only a mother could love! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_SlCwCYcsU that shows you step-by-step how to make your doll. Here's what you need to know... Make your doll with any theme... she's YOUR baby, YOUR creation, let YOUR imagination take his/her form. She'll need a face that can be hand drawn with markers, embroidered with floss, or painted. It can even be clay! She'll need a stuffed cloth body. She'll need some form of hanger be it beads, ribbon, yarn, metal or what have you. She'll need a tail. Dotee should be 3-6" in length or thereabouts. The materials you use are up to you, and your imagination. For this swap you do NOT have to look at your partner's profile for likes/dislikes as you need to be left to your own creativity but feel very free to do so. Sending a dotee that falls under your partner's likes/dislikes will be how you earn a heart as going that extra yard is what hearts are all about. If you want ideas then look at each others profiles, flickr accounts and ask all the questions you want! This is where the seasoned gals can help new gals get started making their dolls! Goodness knows we can never have too many dotee doll makers on swap-bot! Since dotee is so light weight and easy to mail this swap is International. Feel free to do a USA only swap for this as well though. You will send one doll to one partner. I'm putting the sign-up date for the day after my first Beginner Dotee swap send-by date and the send by date for this one 1 month after the last date to sign up to give LOTS of time to work on your doll for the swap. Ladies! for those who have made at least one dotee doll in the past, it'd be super neat-o if you'd post a picture of your very first dotee doll (no matter how good or bad she turned out) or your very favorite doll you've made or received in the comments section rather you sign-up for the swap or not! I just know we're all going to have such awesome experiences with this swap! Everyone is already thinking SO creatively! It's nice having a place to practice and not have to worry that because yours is 'different' that someone is going to rate you down. What's different here just might become your 'signature style' dotee! Remember... it's not the material you choose to use, it's not the face you choose to use, it's not the way you choose to bead or embellish that will get you your 5... it's that you DO IT! The only way to get rated down here is to just NOT do it at all and that will of course get you a 1 and get your partner an angeled dotee which yes they'll love because I have already got angeled dolls lined up but this is your chance to try it in an arena where nobody will criticize how you make your doll but you. In addition to that, if you're truly unhappy with what you get, PLEASE email me! Rate your partner their 5 for having made and sent their doll, give them a wonderful THANK YOU! (without ANY criticism) and then let me get a doll to you that you WILL be thrilled with okay? I LOVE the little ugly babies of the world but I do understand that not everyone does and that's OKAY! The whole plan here, is to just make sure that EVERYONE walks away with a prize to cherish handmade with love by someone else. | |
Discussion
Miranda, my very first dotee doll. Born on 9/6/8. I made her for a swap on swap-bot. Lynnie is her new mommy's name. Her new mommy lives in Florida and likes green so I decided to have Miranda go trick-or-treating as a mermaid. The shiny red peeking out under Miranda's seashell is a rhinestone heart. The charm hanging off of her tail says "Love much" on one side and "Laugh Often" on the other. It's something I want people to remember to do because life is too short not to!
This is my first Dotee - I made her as a brooch, so she has no tail - this was long before the Dotee Doll craze ever started on SB!
This was my first dotee I made earlier this year... she is one big face hahahaha
This is one of made. I am a very newbie and now i know how to make a basic one.. there is always room for experimentation and improvement on the way they look . But it is alot of fun.... I like a challenge
This is my first dotee made in January of this year. She was sent to Lisajhoney.
One of my latest dotees was also sent to lisajhoney. I think my style has changed somewhat!
This looks like such a FUN swap, I couldn't pass it by. Here's my first dotee:
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