New Products: Personalized Korean Hanbok Girl Posters and Pillows

New Products on our Etsy Store! My daughter is now 11 years old and she is always looking for posters to decorate her room. So we decided to offer these products of the Korean hanbok girl poster for a limited time!

Rent 100th Day Hanboks and Korean First Birthday Hanboks!

 

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Here is one of our customers who ended up renting the 100th day hanbok for Baek-il from us and then later renting the first birthday (Size 1) hanbok from us later for his Doljanchi. Kids outgrow their hanboks, so renting is a practical option instead of buying one! Our hanbok rental selection is always being updated and we are open to adding more - feel free to contact us if there is a specific design you are trying to locate.

Customer Photo: Traditional Dolbok Hanbok Plum/Navy

 

We love getting customer photos! If you have had an event using one of our rentals,

we would love to see a photo! 

This little prince just had a birthday and he rented out the Traditional Hanbok Plum Navy Set that comes with the royal headpiece and belt. Doesn't he look so adorable?!

New Design First Birthday Boy Traditional Dolbok Prince Hanbok Style 4

Korean Hanbok First Birthday Boy (Size 1) Traditional Dolbok Prince Hanbok

Little Seouls has just added another traditional prince hanbok style for rent. We are noticing more customers are desiring the traditional rainbow sleeve designs. The hanbok colors are vibrant and will come out great in pictures! Click here to reserve it now.

New Hanbok Design Available in Size 1 and Baek-Il (100th Day) Size

This adorable hanbok will make your son look like a royal crown prince! 

This design is available in Size 1 (Dol) and 3 to 6 months (100th Day Baek-il)!

http://littleseouls.com/collections/hanbok

Bokgun Korean Boy Hanbok Accessory Size 1

If you already have a hanbok for your boy's Korean first birthday event, you can add to it by renting our Prince Bokgun hanbok accessory set.
http://littleseouls.com/collections/accessory-rentals/products/prince-dolbok-bokgun-set

Customer Gallery: Pink and Blue Hanbok Size 1

Here's another photo of one of our customers. She looks absolutely beautiful in the Korean First Birthday Pink and Blue Hanbok Rental (Size 1). This hanbok design comes out great in pictures due to its vibrant rich colors. If you would like to rent this hanbok, please click here.

Customer Gallery: 1st Birthday Girl Princess Lavender Hanbok

This first birthday Princess Lavender Hanbok (Size 1) is one of my favorite girl hanboks that is available to rent!  Thank you to the Lee family for sharing this photo! Their daughter, Madeline, looks absolutely stunning in the dress and behind her is the doljabi board that we made for her first birthday celebration (dol).

http://littleseouls.com/collections/girls-hanbok-rentals/products/size-1-princess-lavendar-hanbok

http://littleseouls.com/collections/doljabi/products/pink-butterly-doljabi-board

Little Seouls Customer Gallery Spotlight: 1st Birthday Korean Red and Navy Hangul Hanbok

Here's a picture of the First Birthday Red and Navy Hangul Hanbok Rental (Size 1) being worn by one of our customers. Isn't she is a cutie? Mom also rented the hanbok shoes to match the hanbok.

Korean Hanbok Birthday Banners

We just added this design to our birthday banner collection. These Korean hanbok boy and girl banners can be customized to say anything you want. Perfect for your baby's first birthday, doljanchi, event decoration! These are printed and shipped to you!

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New Website

Hello! I know it's been awhile since we blogged! Thank you for still following us! We really appreciate it! We wanted to let you know that we merged littleseouls.com and littleseoulsparty.com back together again unto one site: littleseouls.com. We hope that you will find the new website more user friendly. You no longer have to go to two sites to order!

You will notice that we have made some changes to our business - the most significant being that we now offer digital files for dol (first birthday) invites, banners and doljabi boards. Unfortunately, we no longer offer printing services anymore on these personalized party banners, invitations, and boards. Esther, who handles all the design and printing, is working reduced hours at Little Seouls, so we unfortunately had to make adjustments.  I know some of you still prefer printed products, so we do offer a limited selection of non-personalized doljabi boards and banners that we can print and ship out to you. You will find this under "party supplies."

This year will mark 8 years of us being in business! Each year has brought on different challenges and we hope you will continue to support us so that we can continue on for severals years to come.

Sincerely,

Susanna and Esther

Little Seouls 

Hanbok and Hanbok Accessories Restocked!

Check out some of our newest products in our Korean Hanbok Section! Click here to go to Little Seouls  Most of the hanboks are Size 1 for baby's first birthday event (doljanchi). However, our hanboks come in larger sizes too and we can special order them from Korea for you. Email us at info@littleseouls.com.

Little Seouls Birthday Cake

Look at this cake designed after our Little Seouls Girl! Credit to Debbie Does Cake! Here is her link if you want to see more of her fabulous creations. http://www.debbiedoescakes.net

Korean Baby Gold Ring

Koreans have valued gold for centuries and it has been a long lived tradition to give out gold rings to babies celebrating their first birthday. The gold ring signifies "longevity and hope for a prosperous life." Most families typically have about 5 to 15 dol rings that they have received as gifts. Customarily, these rings are kept in a safe place until the child reaches adulthood. Usually, parents will later melt the ring into a necklace or a larger piece of jewelry and give it to the child when they are older.
As the gold price has soared, along with a falling economy, the tradition of giving a dol ring has declined in recent years. For those who want to continue the tradition, many are opting for "half don" rings since these are less expensive while significant in meaning. Despite the increase in gold price, many Koreans still prefer to give a traditional dol ring than giving cash.
Currently, we are taking special orders for the rings, so if you need one, click here.

Newly Designed Little Seouls Party Website

We recently updated on Little Seouls Party website. Please come visit and check out our newly designed site at www.littleseoulsparty.com. You can find custom Korean inspired birthday invitations, thank you cards, banners, party favors, doljabi items, memory boards, and much more! Although our items are catered towards the Korean 1st birthday called a doljanchi, we can customize for any special occasion!

Koream Journal's Article on Dol Parties

I was recently interviewed by Koream Journal regarding the recent trends in dol parties. Go and check it out!

Korean First Birthday Website for Dol (Tol) Party Info!

Are you looking for Korean first birthday (Dol) party ideas? Need a vendor (party planner, Korean caterer, restaurant banquet room, balloon decorator, photographer, rice cake duk store)? Go to www.korean1stbirthday.com to get vendor help and ideas! There is also a forum for parents to discuss and get support from each other. Great place to get inspiration and ideas to make your Korean tol birthday party a special one!

New Korean Birthday Invitations and Announcement Cards

Looking for Korean inspired designs for your special birth or adoption announcement? Or a Korean first birthday dol invitation? We just added these to our store!

Kim Hee Sun's Baby Turned One

Recently, Kim Hee Sun's baby turned one and they had an elegant dol first birthday party! Since we have been blogging about her since her pregnancy, how can we not include her updated family photo and party pics!

3/29/10 Update: Check out www.korean1stbirthday.com - they just posted more beautiful photos of her dol party. Get inspired!

Making Dol Go-Im with Paper Towels

We got a lot of feedback from people saying how they loved the Gamble's post on "How to make Dol Go Im (Dol towers)." Here's another way people make them using paper towels! Credit to creative crafter, Petitemandoo. Thank you Susan for letting us post this!



Directions:

• You can use any type of hard candy really. Or Goya beans. I used starburt jelly beans and white and blay goya beans. This isn't really hard. It's just very time consuming and you WILL burn your fingers.
  
  You will need:
  - Hot glue gun
  - Hot glue sticks
  - Hard candy / Beans / Gum balls
  - Paper towel rolls
  

• I did 5 of them. You can do whatever design your heart desires. I wanted to do a mouse for the year that she was born so I actually found this picture online of Hello Kitty in a mouse costume, got rid of the costume part, blew it up, and taped it to a paper towel roll.