Autumn plushie harvest

An extremely dangerous shark from George's (5) drawing.

Custom stuffed sharks are just as dangerous as the real ones - so be careful!

A purple, white and Coca Cola red bird by Laura. Laura is not a kid, she's the mom of a little boy, but it's not only kids whose drawings are allowed to be turned into soft toys! ;-)

Hey, grown-ups, you can create your own toys, too! Don't be shy!

A very special drawing into a custom plushie: Justin's self-doodle has a story, so if you are interested in it, please read this article.

My custom stuffed skateboarder plush in its home with the designer

"Mad Mommy" doll by Sydney (4)

A handmade mad mom doll

Girl in pink and white - the drawing was made when Melanie's daughter was a little girl, and this is given to her for her 16th birthday.

Best birthday gift idea: your own drawing turned into a doll

Two softies for a sister and brother, No1. "Self-portrait with butterflies" by Emily (4.5)

Even the most complicated drawing can be turned into a custom pillow :-)

No2. Callie, the tricolor cat by Mitchell (7)

Cats are the most popular custom stuffed animals, no doubt!

Reinhold and his friendly Yeti by Sandy.

Could you create your own toys, too? ;-)

And Raffaella's (6) Fairy Princess, who uses her wand to make the sun and moon rise - let's be grateful to Raffaella! :)

One of the most graceful drawings I ever turned into a custom doll

Ricario plushie becomes a media personality

When your custom plushie monster is published in The Wall Street Journal! :-) Many thanks, Maria, it was a pleasure to turn Ricario drawing into a soft toy!

Ricario plushie in the middle - still with my old business name, DoodlieSoftie

I created my own soft toy, too... my smiling cuddly toy with Ricario, the famous custom plushie

Summer Soft Toys 2014 - Vol.3

Vol.3 = it is so difficult to classify plushies... well, here you can see mainly monsters, a unicorn, a special 3-in-1 creature and my first vehicle softies. The rotor of the helicopter can turn around!

Have I told you, it is fun to follow kids' imagination and to help them create their own soft toys...? ;-)

3 softies in 1 by Lykke, 4

Mrs and Baby Budino turned into soft toys from Sofia's drawing - poor Mrs Budino...

Golden unicorn plush designed by Beth, 6

A special home-leaving plushie for Elliot, 17

"Happy monster" drawn by Erin, sewn by me

Koby's (5) mom is a helicopter pilot in Australia!

"Bubbles" is the nickname of a beloved auntie - yes, it's another birthday plushie!

Summer Soft Toys 2014, Vol.2

Vol.2 = plushies from animal drawings: cat with a hat, small cat, large cat and non-cats.

This tiger was designed by Kenzie for her vet mom in Texas- until the time she starts curing real tigers ;-)

Pretty tiger design by Mackenzie, 6

Eli-Birgitte's Hat Cat softie - the drawing that calls for a plushie!

Custom stuffed animals make perfect "first-day-at-school" gift :-)

Girlish soft dog toy inspired by Alice's drawing - with some extra pics:)

The mom said it was a dog, but I always thought of him as a pink (and orange) panther...:)

Pünktchen the centipede - soft toy birthday present for a 30-year-old daughter

 Custom plushie "The Purple Octopus" by Brett, a big kid:) He works for Warner Brothers - not a surprise at all, is it? :-)

Remake of a lost plushie - big joy of a little girl somewhere in Australia

Summer Soft Toys 2014, Vol.1

Vol.1 = drawings about humans reborn as plushies. At least more or less human...:)

Best birthday gift? A custom stuffed doll from your childhood drawing :-)

Jack and his plush sister holding hands forever

Bronte is only 3, but she already cretaed her own toy to play with

A bit confused - it even can happen to soft toys...

 

 

 

 

 

Plumber softie with all the necessary equipment

The Mumbai Pigeon Plushie

I loved everything about this soft toy: the drawing (the title of which was given by the parents), the story, and the mom, who told me the story. And I looked forward to starting sewing it so much. But big loves are not always easy... When turning kids' drawings into custom stuffed anilmals or dolls, there can be so many things to solve: now the colours were my problem, I simply couldn't find the shades I imagined. Finally I found the green for the spots, a green that had never been available in the shops here before. But the greys... First I wanted to make the spots black, later we chose some dark grey, but as I was sewing the dark grey spots on the body, I did not like them at all, they were not harmonious together with the grey of the body. So I searched through my scraps. And I found a small piece of light grey!! It looked good together with the body. So I started to remove the dark grey spots. As I was doing it, all of a sudden I realized that the best way would have been to use just a few dark grey spots with lots of light grey ones! Do you know the feeling when every little bits fall into place? That's what I was feeling then:)

Mumbai Pigeon Plushie

The artist, who created his own toy is Ptolemy, who was 4 and a half last summer, when he went on holiday to Mumbai with his parents. He drew the pigeon one morning before his parents woke up, after watching all the pigeons on the hotel window grill. I was not surprised at all that this drawing became so special for the whole family.

And this is Ptolemy actually looking out of the hotel window in Mumbai at the pigeons, the day before he drew "The Mumbai Pigeon":

A rajz Mumbai-ban (régi nevén Bombay) készült tavaly nyáron, és a firkagalamb most Tasmániába repült.