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.

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 ;

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.

Figured I'd include a sort of mini craft. I was lookin at paper in walmart last night and I saw these road sign stickers for scrap books but I figured "why not make them into doll room signs". You know like found things decor. I only needed to use a few things too.

Said stickers and something firm for them to be on. In my case it was these cards from work that stopped being relevant four days ago. Cardstock is it a cood substitute since that is what the cards are made of after all.

And of course an exacto knife since the corners and curves can be rather sharp on their own. I accidentally tore a part of the vista sign with cutting it with scissors so a tiny knife is reccommended. Ifyou're a kid doing this please get an adult to cut for you. I have a scar on my finger where I gave myself a good cut at the knuckle to attest to how bad an idea it is to do it on your own (I'm not as careful a person as I should be sadly)

Anyhow moving on, first step is to take a sticker and plaster it to the cutting material on a hard surface. Make sure to ask before doing it on moms kitchen table though... Next step is just cutting it out!

(Only doing it one handed for the pic. Not a good idea to do it one handed, needs both!)

And viola! A nice little sign for a toy inn or just above a doll's bed. I just like the idea of signs in decor so I wanted to share. TTFN
-QG

Well I finished the bed but it didn't really turn out like I was hoping it would.

Came to regret using wood patterned contact paper. I though it would stick buuuuut it didn't very well. The top one is just where I gave up trying to cover the edges of the cartboard with it and left it bare.

The bedding fits though so I can't really complain. I'll probably try again later with patterned paper instead.  And more cardboard since it's a little too wobbly.... TTFN

-QG

Current shots of Cleo's head. Dehairing finally complete with minimal damage thankfully. I used a mix of acetone and water (not at the same time though) to get rid of left over paint and glue on the inside and outside of her head. Letting water run in then squeezing it back out like a water toy. I did have a little trouble getting the extra out though.

Since she has dozens of little holes now I just blew through the neck hole to get the extra out over a sink. Only do it with water though after making sure all the acetone is rinsed off.

In other news the spare lagoona hands showed up, yay! I can't use the acetone on them though so I'm just gonna repaint them. And I wanna do a mini shout out kinda thing.

I like shopping the ebays for spare parts and accessories for the dolls. Finding glasses however can be a different story since most of the MH ones are either sunglasses or completely opaque in a couple instances. On top of that the jackson jeckyll and ghoulia ones are hecka expensive (or at least the ones I've seen). I got mine from Minikitty Dollshop HERE. They aren't a perfect fit but beggars can't be choosers and I still love the pair I got. They're currently set as "away" for ebay so it may be a bit for orders to show up. Any how that's all I got for now, TTFN

-QG