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When Bido passed away 2 years ago, we cremated him pretty much immediately and kept his ashes in a plain urn.
Around the same time, I started seeing doll-making videos. I'm not sure what that technique is called, only that it's poking with a needle? It was amazing seeing the artist making an identical doll.
I managed to track one artist down and her portfolio was really impressive. Her dolls looked really like the animal as shown on the photo.
In all actuality, I stalked her online shop for a couple of months, to wait and see new pieces. Finally, I decided to take the jump and ask her. She said her waiting period was 2 years, and finally in June she said she's going to work on Bido.
She does a few kinds of dolls. I really liked that portrait walking out of frames concept, so it's like those... hunter displays of animal heads? But it's 100% doll only. I thought it would look cool to have all our dogs on the wall that way.
She also does entire "free-standing" dolls, not mounted on a frame or anything. Those were impressive too.
But I'm not sure if it's because it's other people's dogs, so I don't know every single angle of the other dogs, so I found them really identical.
However, she has sent me a photo of Bido now, and... well, I can see it's Bido, but there's something not quite right that I can't place my finger on it. It's probably the eyes. Bido had somewhat advanced cataracts and I had asked for the eyes to be made cataract-free, in hopes of seeing Bido a bit younger. But. I don't know. Something just doesn't sit right.
I'm definitely not going to pull a Karen and say it's not good. But hm.... I still can't point out where the problem is.
I asked her the other day if she's taking any new orders and what her new prices are (it's been 2 years) and she says she's not taking any more new orders as her waiting time is now until 2026 (!!!!) Wow, that's a lot of orders. I looked around to see other artists and it seems now, 2 years later, the general prices are somewhat double of what I had paid. So, ooooooohhhhhh, good business. But a lot of work too!
Around the same time, I started seeing doll-making videos. I'm not sure what that technique is called, only that it's poking with a needle? It was amazing seeing the artist making an identical doll.
I managed to track one artist down and her portfolio was really impressive. Her dolls looked really like the animal as shown on the photo.
In all actuality, I stalked her online shop for a couple of months, to wait and see new pieces. Finally, I decided to take the jump and ask her. She said her waiting period was 2 years, and finally in June she said she's going to work on Bido.
She does a few kinds of dolls. I really liked that portrait walking out of frames concept, so it's like those... hunter displays of animal heads? But it's 100% doll only. I thought it would look cool to have all our dogs on the wall that way.
She also does entire "free-standing" dolls, not mounted on a frame or anything. Those were impressive too.
But I'm not sure if it's because it's other people's dogs, so I don't know every single angle of the other dogs, so I found them really identical.
However, she has sent me a photo of Bido now, and... well, I can see it's Bido, but there's something not quite right that I can't place my finger on it. It's probably the eyes. Bido had somewhat advanced cataracts and I had asked for the eyes to be made cataract-free, in hopes of seeing Bido a bit younger. But. I don't know. Something just doesn't sit right.
I'm definitely not going to pull a Karen and say it's not good. But hm.... I still can't point out where the problem is.
I asked her the other day if she's taking any new orders and what her new prices are (it's been 2 years) and she says she's not taking any more new orders as her waiting time is now until 2026 (!!!!) Wow, that's a lot of orders. I looked around to see other artists and it seems now, 2 years later, the general prices are somewhat double of what I had paid. So, ooooooohhhhhh, good business. But a lot of work too!
