Welcome little kitty!

 

Today I welcomed my little kitty friend! I have always wanted to have my real life kitty in miniature. The name of my real kitty is Plumette and she is such a sweetie. She loves to cuddle and sleep with me. Isn’t she cute?  

And there is the little fluff on the comfortable chair, looking if there is any food on the table!

I have been collecting hair of her since a couple of months (and since she has so much and long hair,  there is always hair everywhere….) and I intented to once try to make her. I watched a lot of tutorials. This one helped me a lot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHYTTCVIXOU

However I started from a plastic figurine instead of making it from polymer clay. I had bought polymer clay, but I was to impatient and wanted to start immediately with adding the hair. I used this cat by Schleich.

First I started to paint the eyes in the right brigh blue color and put a little bit of glossy varnish on. When dry I painted the whole cat in the right colors.

I started by coloring the white hair (I could only collect white hair) with pencils to get the right shade of the nose and the tail. Then I cut the colored hair in realy small pieces, like you cut herbs, but even smaller, so it was just like dust. I used mod podge over the face and paws and add the ‘hairdust’ all over it. Then I moved to the tail. I cut some strands of 1 cm hair and glued it on to the tail.
It looked quite funny at this point, but it came along quite well. 

 

Then I moved to the body. Using the same technique like I used for the tail. I tried to folow the direction of real fur when applicating the stands of hair. I used a different glue here that sticks better than mod podge. 

At least I finished the head. I covered it in short pieces white fur and some longer grey fur at the cheeks.
And finally the result!

Oh she has moved to the chair in the corner, ready to take a nap!