Saturday, January 20, 2018

Return of the Value Girls

About twelve years ago, I was in the Young Women's Presidency in the ward I was living in and for a brief period I was the Personal Progress adviser.  While I was the Personal Progress adviser, I had the inspiration to make what I called "Value Girls".  I did a blog post about them a couple of years ago.  Basically they were paper dolls that I came up with to represent each value.  I loved the idea of the value girls, but the idea of paper dolls didn't translate over very well, at least how I envisioned it.  So, for the past twelve years, I haven't been able to get the idea out of my head.  I've wanted to turn them into dolls, but I'm not that creative. 

Firebolt and I worked on Personal Progress together.  Her to earn her Young Womanhood Medallion and me to re-earn mine.  Again, the value girls came to my mind.  I wanted to figure a way to bring my vision to life and use it for one of my 10 hour projects.  Then it hit me, make them out of felt. 

It took A LOT of work to pull it off, but I'm really happy with the end result.  I had to enlarge the dolls to be able to get the detail into the outfits that I wanted.  I decided to take it one step further than just doing value girls.  Meow-meow kept asking what I was making so I decided to make some "value boys" for him to play with. 

Well, I got the dolls made, passed off my 10 hour project, and received my Young Womanhood Medallion.  But now I had all of these really cool dolls and their outfits just sitting there and me wondering what I was going to do with them.  Then it hit me, make a quiet book.......

I finished it last night.  Here is my end result.