{"id":10488,"date":"2019-07-24T20:28:40","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T00:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/?p=10488"},"modified":"2019-07-24T20:28:40","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T00:28:40","slug":"say-hello-to-akane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/2019\/07\/say-hello-to-akane\/","title":{"rendered":"Say Hello to Akane!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Everyone, please say hello to Akane!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I found this little lady on a shelf at my favourite vintage shop. She’s not particularly old; she’s made of a sort of soft vinyl instead of ceramic and gofun, and seems relatively mass-produced. Nonetheless I was utterly charmed by her and knew I had to bring her home. I was drawn immediately by her bright red kimono, which inspired me to name her Akane (\u831c)<\/a>, which means deep red and is a traditional girls’ name.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately that kimono was pretty much all she had! There was a piece of cardboard wrapped in pink satin tied around her waist like a sort of obi, and a scraggly little piece of twine in her hair, but she had no real accessories or anything, so I decided to make her some custom pieces as well as give her a bit of a glow-up. I did take photos of the whole process, but since it was done more to relax and unwind I took the photos on my phone, wherever I happened to be working so I apologise for the quality and messy background of some of these.<\/p>\n\n\t\t