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동탄에서 일년 살아왔던것이 제 인생에 좋은 추억을 많이 만들게 해서 그곳을 떠나도 나 아직 그곳을 많이 좋아한다. 거기서 나란 인간에대해 많을것을 배웠고 이쁜 가게를 많이 찾았다. 동탄에 가게되서 너무 고맙게 생각한다고 한걸 하나는 모모의 다락방이란 가게를 다니게된거예요. 거기서 선생님 밑에서 인형을 만드는 방법을 배우고 제 손으로 이쁜것들을 많이 만들게 되서 너무 좋다.

동탄을 떠나 목동으로 와서 그곳을 다니기 못하게되서 너무 아깝지만, 그것도 저 독립하게 만들어서 좋아요. 그맘으로, 지난달에 야구 3주일동안 쉴때 제 능력으로 제가 혼자서 직접 만드는 인형을 만들기 시작 했고 지난주에 완성 시켰다.

시장 가서 원단을 직접 사서 만들고. 옷 위쪽을 만들게 한복집에서 페턴 부탁해 갖고 그 페턴을 바꾸고 옷을 만드는게 시간 되게 많이 걸렸다. 치마만 만드느라 시간 엄청 걸려서 완성 못 시킬 수 있다고 생각도 했지만. 역시 나 고집이 세.

인형 만드는거랑 실제로 입는 한복을 만드는것이 많이 다르다. 핀 막 찌르고 또 찌르고, 모양 바꾸고, 뭐를 직접 만드는것의 행복을 느꼈다.

머리 또한 복잡 하게 만들고 한 6시간이나 걸렸다 ㅋㅋㅋ

꽃신을 어떡해 하면 된지 모르고 대충 하다가 결국은 네일용 얇은 스티커를 쓰고 예쁘게 완성.

완성 시키자마자 떠오르는 이름이 해를 품은 달의 <연우>라서, 연우나는 이름은 치웠다. 방갑다 연우야.

NESSHOME

I started making dolls last fall. I made 11 of them. When I think about it it's completely crazy. It sums up to lots of money as well. I don't know how many clients my teacher has, but it seems to be quite a viable employment worth thinking about. While I doubt it'd work anywhere in Canada, Korea seems to be a place where a lot of people like to make things with their own hands. They like stuff made in their country and they like buying stuff from it too. Quebecers who want independence have some to learn from this aspect of Korea. They love their culture their country and they show it with their choice in investments in every aspect of their lives.

I made dolls under my teacher's watchful eyes. While I don't even want to think of going to school again, learning to make stuff with my own hands I love. That was great, and she is amazing. I would totally recommend her to anyone. Tho. Maybe it'd help to speak Korean. Just saying.

Anyways. After my 11th, I started making plans to make my own. At that time it became clear that my school would close so I wouldn't be able to learn from her much longer, so I bought basic fabric from her and bought some wool for hair, of different color, and got most of the material to paint the faces. 

Except the Pigma Sakura 005 pen, brown. 

I could just not find it ANYWHERE. I asked friends to look, I called stores and made them call their furnishers. Nothing. There was just no way I'd find it. They had black, but not brown. I wanted brown.

So I kept an unfinished doll of my best friend, that I started last winter. 

Faceless.

And finally, this summer, a few weeks ago, I realized that I can set up my phone to buy things online with my Korean card and everything got settled. I found them. 

And ordered 10.

The store I got it from, NESSHOME, game me a piece of fabric with the delivery, a super cute picture. I am not sure of what I'll do with it, but as I know the worth of a cute piece of fabric I am pretty sure its time will come.

I still need to make a little chihuahua stuffed animal to go along with the doll because my best friend goes nowhere without it, but I am pretty happy to finally have finished the face.

Lovely

Before

On this picture it actually looked pretty okay, but I was not entirely satisfied with the haircut of this one doll I made. 

I liked that there was volume, I liked that I had put the bangs on the side instead of a straight line, but it was a bit of a failure, for the tidiness level. I had intended to make nice curls in the pigtails, and that turned up wrong. The amount of hair I left was too intense for the curls and they died.

So I took my needle and gave it a new fix. I tried with the curls one more time, but this time, with much less hair, it sorts of stayed better. I guess I'll have to try with a bigger stick next time I try curls, those are really tiny.

They are the perfect fit for this doll, tho, because she is supposed to be "Love, the girl on her way to confess her love to the one". Anways, that's according to my teacher. Since I completely changed her haircut, maybe I can call her something different...

After