# Turn your child's drawing into a doll **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 18, 2012, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-your-childs-drawing-into-a-doll/644455 "2012-12-18T21:14:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-your-childs-drawing-into-a-doll/644455/1 "2012-12-18T21:14:11Z")
This is [adorable.](http://www.childsown.com/) ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-your-childs-drawing-into-a-doll/644455/2 "2012-12-18T21:19:49Z")
It sure is, isn’t it? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-your-childs-drawing-into-a-doll/644455/3 "2012-12-18T21:33:20Z")
Almost makes me wish I had a kid. Hey, my niece has two of them! ---
**Author:** ![Heart\_of\_Dorkness](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/4bbf92/32.png) [@Heart\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heart_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-your-childs-drawing-into-a-doll/644455/4 "2012-12-18T21:44:57Z")
I cannot even handle it. I mean, they’re just ridiculously endearing. But… I also remember getting \*so \*frustrated as a kid that I couldn’t make my drawings look the way I wanted them to. (I still feel this way, in fact.) I didn’t _mean_ for them to have unrealistic-looking faces and bizarre proportions and weird skin colors and so on. My only hope was that people could somehow get a sense of what I was going for, that the lines and squiggles could convey something greater than the sum of their parts. Getting a doll like this, I think, would have just hammered home to me that no, my drawings looked exactly as crappy to others as they did to me. But she says she made one for her son and he totally loved it, so perhaps this is just another one of the many ways in which I am uniquely nutballs. ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-your-childs-drawing-into-a-doll/644455/5 "2012-12-18T21:51:18Z")
Most of my son’s drawings would not make cute dolls - more like horrific. 😃 He’s a sweet, well-adjusted boy, but his artwork … ! Let’s just say it would give some people the wrong impression of his mental stability. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2012, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-your-childs-drawing-into-a-doll/644455/6 "2012-12-19T00:53:04Z")
I’ve got to send in a Cy Twombly and see what I get back ---
**Author:** ![jools](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b3f665/32.png) [@jools](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jools)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-your-childs-drawing-into-a-doll/644455/7 "2012-12-20T17:26:26Z")
I’ve sent this link to my friends with young kids… it’s just too dang adorable ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-your-childs-drawing-into-a-doll/644455/8 "2012-12-20T17:54:17Z")
> [@Heart\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > I also remember getting \*so \*frustrated as a kid that I couldn’t make my drawings look the way I wanted them to. (I still feel this way, in fact.) I didn’t _mean_ for them to have unrealistic-looking faces and bizarre proportions and weird skin colors and so on. My only hope was that people could somehow get a sense of what I was going for, that the lines and squiggles could convey something greater than the sum of their parts. Getting a doll like this, I think, would have just hammered home to me that no, my drawings looked exactly as crappy to others as they did to me. Guess I’m nutballs too! 😃 I actually quit drawing people at one point after a classmate loudly pointed out that I had failed to “draw a line for the stomach”. On the other hand, I think the misshapen figures I created would have actually made really cute dolls – big circles with little stick arms and legs. I’m not sure how I would have felt about getting one as a child though. ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2012, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-your-childs-drawing-into-a-doll/644455/9 "2012-12-21T01:43:58Z")
This is great!