Imaginary creatures – well, yes, the dino is the odd one
out, but it was designed by the brother of Olive, who drew the beautiful,
stripy, 3-eyed monster, so for their sake dinos are welcome in this post, too.
You know custom softies can’t compete with mass-produced
plushies – regarding their price. Because it takes long hours, sometimes even
days to turn your kid's drawing into a custom plushie. I sometimes spend lots of time
searching for the perfect material or accessories, sometimes it is necessary to
make a proto-softie first, sometimes I feel I should resew this or that to get
the result I am satisfied with. That’s why these one-of-a-kind toys are not
cheap. But sometimes I can’t resist to create a plushie – that’s what happened
with the beautiful monster. Olive’s mom is an independent artist in Canada, who
completely understood why the softie would cost the price I had given in the
quote, but she couldn’t afford it. I was longing to work with this fantastic
drawing so much that I gave some discount and we changed the deadline, so the
softie could be born :-)
Together with Olive’s brother’s dino :-)
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| Harmless plush monster together with a happy dino |
The fluffy Vampire-Bat-Kitty went to scare people in Germany:
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| Vampire Bat Kitty - not only kids wish to see their ideas turned into custom plushies |
Helena’s mom once saw a softie of mine which was made with a
special crayon-technique, and she imagined the same style for the „A” softie –
this time I was quite lucky to find the necessary crayons in a shop in
Budapest, though earlier I had to order
them
from abroad. I loved the rainbow spikes…
:-)
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| There's no limit when creating your own toy:) |
Bonus... :-) The other "crayoned" softie, a rabbit called Hattie:
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| A special drawing, a book illustration reborn as a soft toy |
