The needles were flying in our last Tween Club meeting of 2009!
The girls were hard at work creating their own tiny "ugly" dolls. Okay, they weren't truly ugly, they were fantastic fleecy beasts that were made out of fabric, buttons and lots of imagination.
The goal of the workshop was for the girls to create something using their own hands. Something that they would find beautiful, despite the creatures' imperfections.
The "ugly" doll project borrows from the Japanese concept of wabi sabi -- finding beauty of things imperfect, modest and humble and unconventional.
Although most of the girls didn't finish their dolls by the end of the workshop, we packed them up with materials to finish them off at home. We hope to see their completed creatures at our first meetings in 2010.
Happy holidays to our Tween Club friends. See you in 2010!
