Hi all! As you all may know I have a Great.ly shop called Little Big Bell shop where as a tastemaker, I sell a curated collection of design goods.
One of the first makers I introduced was Becky Kemp of Sketchinc. I met Becky on Instagram. To date, I haven’t met her in person, but I know she is a lovely and funny person. Above all, she is talented and super creative. Take a look on her Instagram and you’ll see what I mean!
She makes the cutest Kokeshi dolls. Currently she has given me exclusivity of her Coco Chanel, Anna Wintour and Andy Warhol dolls to sell on Great.ly.
Coco sold last week and I already know that Anna will go soon.
Becky creates bespoke dolls too. I recently commissioned her to make wedding gift dolls of my blogging friend Will of Bright Bazaar and his wonderful, now husband, Toby.
Anyway, I thought it would be interesting to let you see the process of getting a commissioned Kokeshi doll done.
First, photos are sent. In Will’s case, it was easy, as he had photos of himself and Toby on his blog. Becky then sent me a sketch based on the photos she has seen. E-mail correspondence then takes place over the finer details, such as hair colour, outfit styles and so on. As you can see from the sketch above, Will’s hair has been slicked back but he usually wears a side parting, so these details were fine tuned including the hair lengths.
My intention was to get dolls that mirrored the wedding outfits, so a little bit of fact finding took place.
After more emails to and fro, these were the final dolls. Will and Toby’s bow ties did not arrive on time from the States for the wedding, but apart from that it was pretty accurate and Becky did a fabulous job.
Do check out my shop and you can follow what I get up to on my instagram. Have a lovely week!
Thank you for such a thoughtful and creative present, Geraldine. Toby and I are thrilled with the dolls – a lovely memento of the day! x
A pleasure Will! So pleased you both like it. x
These are adorable, Geraldine! Really like to see the customization part of Becky’s designs. The eyebrows are so accurate!
Thanks Judith! Becky is very talented indeed! x
Aawwww these dolls are so cute! Thanks for the tip – will look Becky up on Instagram now 🙂
A pleasure Suzzy!Becky’s instagram is definitely inspirational, you should follow her. 😉
Hey Geraldine, OHHH I adore these – such a fab gift for the 2 of them – a memory to treasure for sure. What a talented lady Becky is 🙂 Happy weekend, Axx
Happy weekend Anya! xx
These are soooo adorable Geraldine! Such a lovely gesture and original gift for two sweet people (although I haven’t met them in real life, I know they are sweet)! Apparently I have been missing so much being out of blogland for so long, but glad to be back. 🙂 Good luck with your shop, I definitely will have a look around in a minute. And these Kokeshi dolls look so cute, a great gift to myself for my own home. Haha!
Big hugs, Inge x
Welcome back to blogland Inge! Your site is looking great! Will keep in touch! 😉 x
What a fantastic present! Love it! Hope your weekend is going well.x
Having a fab time here Mon! See you soon! x