Selling Skirts too.

I'm also selling skirts HERE. I only have three of these though since I had less fabric left in the quarter I was working with from older prototypes i made. They fit both Ever after and Monster high dolls.

Selling shorts!

In order to help supplement my own meager income I've decided to start selling some doll clothes. First thing up are these shorts. Despite the picture I only have six to sell that you can get HERE

They fit both EAH and MH.

Repainted Draculaura

The first doll I've done a faceup on. She was a Draculaura from the original styles lineup where they don the same style at bargain bin prices and look it too. Seriously the skirt isn't pleated, the shirt is nothing but mesh and painted fabric. It looks similar but a fair bit uglier in my opinion. I'm waiting on some red hair from dolly hair for her reroot. Not bad for a first attempt but I'm gonna try to get better at it. Just thought she'd make a great practice doll for it.

I dunno why it's sideways but have a strawberry cat in my attempt to mimic scribblenetty

Shoe painting

In a side thing, painting the shoes to bring out more of the detail is fun! A little brown paint and a silver pen looks like a huge improvement to me.

Used this painters brand pen for it. Some of the other ones have a smell that kicks me in the face but this one is great for folks with sensitive noses.

Madison Fear: Hair Day

In returning to catching up on this blog it was time for the reroot for Madison! I used Amethyst and Sea Nymph nylon hair from dolly hair.

I'm a bit too cheap to buy a rerooting tool so I'm using an improvised one of my exacto and a sewing needle clipped to fit. Also a little bit of craft foam helps keep the needle in place so it doesn't wiggle and break as often.

I ran a little bit short on the amethyst but the added hair still looks great to me. Not seen is the fabric glue in her head to help hold the hair in.

Now for reattachment and I was a fair bit nervous she'd get the dreaded bobble head.

Thankfully that didn't happen though and you'd never guess she'd had the thing ripped off. Now for some minor styling.

Some light conditioner in a twisted towel and bam, wavy lovely hair. She still needs a face and her legs restrung since I got some springs for it. Just keeping the springs from wearing apart while I string her is the issue. ; 3 ;

Well THAT was interesting

Apparently the auto fire for google deleted my blog because it violated the TOS according to it. Thank goodness for the request review button.

Madison Fear: Body Touch up

After spraying I kinda noticed I got more on the body than I really wanted (what I get for aiming a smidge too high). There was only one thing to do and that was bust the acetone back out.

Since acetone does melt plastic I watered it down with, well, water and scrubbed. Took a bit longer but for little to no damage the extra work was worth it.

There's a bit of staining still from the paint along with it being stuck in her model number but I can live with it. It was time for another round of paint, this time for her hands. The color is a mix of sienna and white to get it close as I could to Cleo's skin tone.

I didn't bother painting the joint this time but they look pretty good to me. Now for the tooth picks. Since the gorgon legs came from a CAM set they aren't really meant for the regular bodies.

 That's where the tooth pick there comes in. After breaking off the ends I hot glued it into the peg wells of the hips.There's something to be said as well for really pointy end tweezers.

I used elastic cord to at least keep the legs on her until I can figure out a better way to string them.

Next post, giving her hair.

Madison Fear: Leg paint

First up in some over due posts I was working on Madison Fear a fair bit.

The gorgon legs came and all I had to do was remove Cleo's legs, paint the legs, then string them.

Since the Cleo I'm modifying is a newer one, with the legs held by plastic, I had to break them off. There was still some plastic so I drilled a hole through the joint space for stringing later.

Next up was paint. After some online digging Krylon seemed to be the best option. Ignore that glitter one though. Thanks to that thing I have to repaint the legs again still. Live and learn. I also decided to add a lil paint to the body as well for a fade effect, but we'll see that next post.

Here are the legs painted in their light blue glory. Even with needing the touch up I love the color and it matches pretty close to Madison's color. Just wish the sparkle paint would have worked out for added effect. Oh well.

One of my side projects in the past months was giving Toralei here a reroot. The hair she came in had a bad cause of box hair hot water wasn't fixing, not to mention it was greasy and unpleasant as all git to touch.

The combo colors for her hair I got from Dolly hair in Pomme D'amour and Firebird.

After tearing the hair out the strands were gradually added in. Unfortunately I'm missing a lot of the pictures I took during the process. TT3TT

After a hot water and conditioner treatment her hair looks great and much better to come my fingers through while styling.

No longer MIA

I've been away for a fair bit longer than I meant to be. Sorry about that. >x>

Work kinda got a little hectic over the past few months eating up a lot of my time. I have a bit more spare time now so huzzah!

Lately I've been doing a lot of sewing to make doll clothes and I plan to sell a few. In the mean time I'll put up the few things I have done for anyone that's interested.