Poring from Ragnarok Online

My husband and one of my brothers like to play RO, which is loaded with all sorts of cute little creatures. Somehow or another, I stumbled upon a pattern for one of these creatures known as a Poring. So I ended up making two of these things, one for each of them.

If you are interested in making one yourself, here is the pattern that I used:
http://iro.ragnarokonline.com/irobackstage/2004_05/iroback4.htm
However, I did do a couple of things differently. I only cut out the body and the eye pieces. As for the eye highlight and the wierd little pieces they give you to patch the top and bottom, I just skipped those. To get the bottom and top to shut nicely, while the piece was inside out, I just ran a needle and thread through the fabric near the edge by hand, pulled it snug, and tied off my thread. For the mouth, instead of sewing a cord onto the body, I just embroidered a mouth with some black embroidery floss. For the eyes, I just stitched the felt circles flat onto the body and did not stuff them at all. For the eye highlight, I put a dab of fabric paint on each eye, which is much easier than trying to cut out a stupid little piece of felt that small.