Paper dolls.

It started one day while Haven was napping and I drew Sonja an anthropomorphized bunny in a tutu and ballet shoes. I cut it out and she played with it all afternoon, but inevitably the paper tore and Sonja was dejected. 


I drew more "ballet bunnies" in the following days, but they kept tearing and it kind of stopped being fun.

Then I had an epiphany: we have a bunch of paper plates that I bought for using for crafts and I could glue the paper dolls onto them and then cut them out. It would certainly help them last longer than a single afternoon. I mentioned it to Sonja and she insisted that instead of ballerina bunnies, she wanted princesses. 


Fair enough.

It's been a few days now and I've gone from drawing princesses to drawing fairy princesses; a natural progression. 


I always draw the outline and colour in the skin (and usually the shoes - red by Sonja's request) and then Sonja colours in the rest, including the makeup. Yes, makeup. Sigh.

I realized after I took these photos that I had forgotten to draw the wings (and the ever-important buttons). This was quickly rectified. 


Sonja used the fairy princess from yesterday as a colour guide; she wanted their dresses, wands and wings to be the exact same colours. I'm pretty sure they are meant to be sisters, but Sonja hasn't confirmed that yet.

Notice the makeup. Yes, I believe that is supposed to be lipstick, not remnants from a fairy-princess chocolate-bar break. And she really, really loves turquoise eyeshadow. 


I promise Sonja isn't learning this makeup thing from me...

A princess from a few days ago. Poor thing has fallen out of favour since the fairy princesses came on the scene. 


Not sure, but I think she put her lipstick on with a trowel...