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.

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: 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.

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

 Lagoona says hi and good evening to everyone. She's sitting on the makeshift "bed" till I get hotglue sticks to finish the cardboard frame. Let me first just say I LOVE fat quarters. I can get lots of different fabric really cheap in a couple quarters. Anyway....

 The blanket itself is made from a lil owl print with felt for the "batting" inside.

 the mattress is made from an onsale overly fat quarter but unfortunately...

Due to the nature of the fabric it's already got some tears in it after sewing.....Dangit.

Anyhow I'll see everyone later. Say night Lagoona. Lagoona?

Oh bah. =w= Night everyone. TTFN

-QG