i love babushka dolls! (although i call them "matryoshka", since that's how the russian part of my family calls them) i used to buy cheap keychains and then.. i actually never used them :| haha but they were cute to look at.
paper cutouts remind me of this woman i saw last year on japanese tv whose hobby/profession was making cutout portraits of people and.. damn, she was good!
i just googled a bit and her name is 土田祥子 (tsuchida shoko). her ohp is messing with me atm, but here you go anyway: http://gallery.tsuchinokokirie.com/
those are awesome 8D it must be really hard; it looks like she folds the paper in half to make it symmetrical... i don't think i'd ever be able to get it right!
and i wikipedia-ed babushka dolls and apparently the correct term is matryoshka. (i prob should have figured.. i was unsure about it before) i'm currently using this phone strap.. it's a puffy plastic one from disney sea.. and it's mickey as a matryoshka XD. i was using minnie, but it got all ripped up after a while. D8
i couldn't figure out how the hell she makes the portraits look like the real people- cutting a random face is one thing, but folding it in half (and then once again, i think?) and then cutting someone's face so it looks like them.. that's insane!
i've seen babushka doll used way more then matryoshka, so i always figured out it was just the english name. my mom would probably not know what i'm referring, though, if i used "babushka doll" on her 8D haha that sounds cute! my phonestrap is disney, too- cheshire cat's tail. it used to be so popular in japan, like 20+ kids in my school had it.
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paper cutouts remind me of this woman i saw last year on japanese tv whose hobby/profession was making cutout portraits of people and.. damn, she was good!
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it must be really hard; it looks like she folds the paper in half to make it symmetrical... i don't think i'd ever be able to get it right!
and i wikipedia-ed babushka dolls and apparently the correct term is matryoshka. (i prob should have figured.. i was unsure about it before)
i'm currently using this phone strap.. it's a puffy plastic one from disney sea.. and it's mickey as a matryoshka XD. i was using minnie, but it got all ripped up after a while. D8
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i've seen babushka doll used way more then matryoshka, so i always figured out it was just the english name. my mom would probably not know what i'm referring, though, if i used "babushka doll" on her 8D
haha that sounds cute! my phonestrap is disney, too- cheshire cat's tail. it used to be so popular in japan, like 20+ kids in my school had it.
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