CLOTHES PIN MARY POPPINS

After seeing a clothes pin doll of Mary Poppins on Pintrest I knew that’s what I wanted to make for the top of my daughter’s birthday cake.

I didn’t realize how popular these clothes pin doll cake toppers were. There are some great ones on Etsy by LittleBun and TinyBlossoms. I love the wedding cake toppers created by Sarah Neuburger of The Small Object. Love the costumization and attention to detail!

I had a lot of fun making this. I kept thinking of a ton of other things to add to it but decided to keep it pretty simple. I’ll definitely be making more. It’ll be a great project to do with my daughter and a great way to use all those fabric scraps I have laying around.

The wooden clothes pins, heads (wooden balls), and bases can be bought at any hobby store.

I noticed that most of the clothes pin dolls I found all had painted hair. I decided I wanted yarn hair. It was a little tricky. I drew the on the hair line and used Tacky glue, works much better than Elmers, to attach yarn.  I think the yarn hair gives it an extra texture and gives you more choices of hair styles. The key is to find a thin yarn. Sock yarn would work well.