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.

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