so happy together

I’m starting to develop a system now for making these little otama guys …

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I asked my mother what an otama is, and she said it means “ball” or something like that. Does anyone else out there know?

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11 Responses to so happy together

  1. sharon says:

    mom is right, “o-tama” does mean ball, or round shaped object, in Japanese (I am not a native speaker, but studied Japanese for 4 years.)

  2. sharon says:

    mom is right, “o-tama” does mean ball, or round shaped object, in Japanese (I am not a native speaker, but studied Japanese for 4 years.)

  3. sharon says:

    Please forgive the duplicate post.

  4. Kiki says:

    I’ve also recently become enamored with the otama, and while searching around, I noticed a few places called them “tadpoles.” A google image search for otama shows some clipart of tadpoles, too. It kind of explains the weird shape! (By the way, thanks for posting pics of your Otama Life book! I’ve been trying to get a copy of it, and thanks to your post, I ordered one from Kinokuniya!)

  5. megan says:

    There are places for people like you. Otama nutters anonymous.

  6. Kuniko says:

    Hi, I love your blog! I think Kiki is right. In Japanese, we call tadpole as “Otama-jakushi”. I think they made it short for “Otama”. Love your Otamas.

  7. robyn says:

    Otama jyakushi is the tadpole of a frog when it is in between fish and frog, I think

  8. Julia says:

    They are so, so cute. Good job!!

  9. meg says:

    Deedle fetch-toys? I know it touches my heart when my cat plays with her hand-made toys. They’re really cute!

  10. Gina says:

    I don’t know, but they sure are cute!

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