tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82352726314225184912024-03-14T14:31:53.393+01:00Sharon in SpainSharonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14816580427584989752noreply@blogger.comBlogger734125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8235272631422518491.post-79505719814861791432021-06-08T21:09:00.006+02:002021-06-08T21:09:29.038+02:00Hello! I'm still alive!<p> <span style="font-family: arial;">I'm really sorry that I've not been around for ages, I've not posted on my blog or read anyone else's either, which is bad because I do enjoy seeing what everyone else is up to on the dolly front.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">As for me, well I'm well but have had six months of problems with one of my legs, several times I was unable to actually walk and I honestly thought the worst. Well it turns out that I have 'severe arthritis' in my knee and lower leg and am too young (I like that!) for a replacement knee so I've been given strong painkillers. They're working well but I feel so tired that sometimes I just cannot be bothered to do anything! </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">However, I have actually been sewing, quite a lot to be honest. I've let my house gather dust and concentrated on my dolls....well those dust mites deserve a life too, wouldn't you say? Seriously though, I've been sewing, sewing and more sewing and really enjoying it. I've also customised a doll so I will share some of those things here and hope, if I still have any readers left, you will enjoy seeing what I've been doing.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I received a new BJD back in April and although I wasn't sure whether I'd actually keep her, when she arrived I was smitten. She is a Pao by Boto Doll and although she has a chubby body which I normally don't like, I really love her. I've done a lot of sewing for her.....</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuXy6Hn8sTgf4UrJkn_3UaHEQier7kUZW3YYWMcYwaOeNqSKjwECuIkxC5-r1wfAraR9tC7StRVoORcbOaHx946Q7F1CusSdcFYhlyTmER4IhrBjsdLV12akOrElDS8L9lTrf7OtTok1o/s2643/IMG_20210420_175433.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2643" data-original-width="1189" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuXy6Hn8sTgf4UrJkn_3UaHEQier7kUZW3YYWMcYwaOeNqSKjwECuIkxC5-r1wfAraR9tC7StRVoORcbOaHx946Q7F1CusSdcFYhlyTmER4IhrBjsdLV12akOrElDS8L9lTrf7OtTok1o/w288-h640/IMG_20210420_175433.jpg" width="288" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0g4e35fD6CAw1v6FkdHTGSRO359930ujZ-rHcZyH9ibXehyy0UlJoffxcjRov7LjltuYgTaAS_RoEieS3JaYyug2bbGpc5ngrzehMedPKG4u_V5Dx9jWYuuyHxqtQxoFCm6Ifha1GDRE/s2643/IMG_20210424_173422.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8Jpr4E397Gy6dm5btP-tj_-kvhnO5CoPBXxj4HwlxPs474a7a5jrp1bbVp6ux44OYUf1KOHJwSO6ZS_8OlnOVWdrwBbrW2k6Uiyd8iH9RjfSRgU_mwdeeAMKc8CfEOeTEI26LBSNDpuw/s1000/01.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="529" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8Jpr4E397Gy6dm5btP-tj_-kvhnO5CoPBXxj4HwlxPs474a7a5jrp1bbVp6ux44OYUf1KOHJwSO6ZS_8OlnOVWdrwBbrW2k6Uiyd8iH9RjfSRgU_mwdeeAMKc8CfEOeTEI26LBSNDpuw/w338-h640/01.JPG" width="338" /></a></div><br /> I've been having such fun with her, her name is Jin, which apparently means Jade in Chinese.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I've made outfits for my Gotz girls too....</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvzBRS8sDNAGR7gCHfR3Wbjj_sXnC-9WbhRXjeijst10LMqAN7n40rm2o3hA6O7vi9fhM49s3988hmVyhJTaSUqblaxueFzHEMQqtW_YN6_yh7wuyH17ybgRsUumEAnx09NlrlwFNZArU/s1000/08.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLjb9O2tNrEKOUeiRaRGBxyoAJhX8ZVKcgr4M07_HiEzYZOxDlHHGsxJiC5xkJtNMqx5n9wEWmjpqHUlxuvGQeUAbNpEXzUsOKqZNgYf6xoPtEIzlZx-iHDz06JH9FmSKVyhhMUs98G44/s952/10.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="952" data-original-width="546" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLjb9O2tNrEKOUeiRaRGBxyoAJhX8ZVKcgr4M07_HiEzYZOxDlHHGsxJiC5xkJtNMqx5n9wEWmjpqHUlxuvGQeUAbNpEXzUsOKqZNgYf6xoPtEIzlZx-iHDz06JH9FmSKVyhhMUs98G44/w368-h640/10.JPG" width="368" /></a></div><br />Both of those girls arrived in the early part of the year....I had a bit of a spending spree!! </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Some more BJDs got new clothes....</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgryHdFmMXY3m5vDOaFNktl2cqfqaxigtLZn7JN2lN38KrOG5EUm_U26d_relaTLN7T-9YbjsPvcGxasDqiKl_-8ZvHDSqxIraNuuWZvH7U9cYXsSX9Elz13AyU1jAFmP9uw81o_QHDZAM/s2643/IMG_20210516_200812.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2643" data-original-width="1189" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgryHdFmMXY3m5vDOaFNktl2cqfqaxigtLZn7JN2lN38KrOG5EUm_U26d_relaTLN7T-9YbjsPvcGxasDqiKl_-8ZvHDSqxIraNuuWZvH7U9cYXsSX9Elz13AyU1jAFmP9uw81o_QHDZAM/w288-h640/IMG_20210516_200812.jpg" width="288" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Samantha (Elfdoll Hana Angel) got a new blue dress with beading around the hem.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicJlgZhmltYPvJsJm9IdyN4ME29n_SecraDGZV6aftj9jz1a5VltGwbI78vqh0H1VZUaVUmCA4JJl5tuTw8nqlcCy-GMH8UegUknV4FcYPqOlqwoPOFilWqk5j1oBIXfngduHwxlzFhjk/s1000/08.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="667" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicJlgZhmltYPvJsJm9IdyN4ME29n_SecraDGZV6aftj9jz1a5VltGwbI78vqh0H1VZUaVUmCA4JJl5tuTw8nqlcCy-GMH8UegUknV4FcYPqOlqwoPOFilWqk5j1oBIXfngduHwxlzFhjk/w428-h640/08.JPG" width="428" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Noa (Irrealdoll Nora) got a check dress and cream socks.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiYtn_txTSEh6LCMpAZtqtCOvnt0bZX_8-ai5PwGTnlYokHS3yePijzvz9So5jaPBrhBchA9ROfVVYOpVbUCVO2OvTt8sYZDUgX__sqiCVHio2irPMIQcjRABEEK7LMu4db5o8-eFtuhE/s1000/06.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="556" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiYtn_txTSEh6LCMpAZtqtCOvnt0bZX_8-ai5PwGTnlYokHS3yePijzvz9So5jaPBrhBchA9ROfVVYOpVbUCVO2OvTt8sYZDUgX__sqiCVHio2irPMIQcjRABEEK7LMu4db5o8-eFtuhE/w356-h640/06.JPG" width="356" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Black Cherry Dolls XiaoYu got a new denim pinafore and striped stockings. The lovely knitted sweater and beret were a gift from a friend.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCpsremz3q73Fz2h5fJce01UmrhRl2a0CumKfGiKfkB8T7mArmKdkEV-A-dDCFwkhJPt-o_c6YrGkVSOYyvO3fqXVrGa92877UA6UmF9cKGxjoAum0ia5TrFkDBW6D_vYoU7drgTo6v90/s2643/IMG_20210512_142421.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2643" data-original-width="1189" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCpsremz3q73Fz2h5fJce01UmrhRl2a0CumKfGiKfkB8T7mArmKdkEV-A-dDCFwkhJPt-o_c6YrGkVSOYyvO3fqXVrGa92877UA6UmF9cKGxjoAum0ia5TrFkDBW6D_vYoU7drgTo6v90/w288-h640/IMG_20210512_142421.jpg" width="288" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">And she also got a linen dress in khaki green.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBt0YUet3UbaOHpLVCipkv8qL8uec1IK10YMDbsvNYnBpeILwQrElSymssw2h8dNjHLmbVtWWX_3RfqoRrqxTlggilgOsGD0ZfcE0z6Xkzz_vOV0bKGntQ1kZ4GxmrQh3kqLGeMcxyzQw/s2643/IMG_20210529_141017.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2643" data-original-width="1189" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBt0YUet3UbaOHpLVCipkv8qL8uec1IK10YMDbsvNYnBpeILwQrElSymssw2h8dNjHLmbVtWWX_3RfqoRrqxTlggilgOsGD0ZfcE0z6Xkzz_vOV0bKGntQ1kZ4GxmrQh3kqLGeMcxyzQw/w288-h640/IMG_20210529_141017.jpg" width="288" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /> Bastian by Little Cosmos Dolls got some new trousers and a matching top.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">So these were just a few of the many things I've been sewing recently.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Finally I did a makeover on one of my Gotz girls. Anna is from 2005 and although she was really nice, her eyes were quite flat and not the most attractive so I decided to give her a whole new face.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Here she is with her new look and new dress....well if a girl has a new look she really needs another new dress, I guess! </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO0J-DLASJpWIEkkhldA3hC5UElXgW0dyLiZmJRXudbeB673XUPk7KgepRtK7PsEENP27oSkjCZH1GNSqG40oRmIto1UVL9rrcoLUeHUBPdLFstPvcAiDTVLd28tFs31dyQp3iMqZTZuU/s1000/01.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="450" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO0J-DLASJpWIEkkhldA3hC5UElXgW0dyLiZmJRXudbeB673XUPk7KgepRtK7PsEENP27oSkjCZH1GNSqG40oRmIto1UVL9rrcoLUeHUBPdLFstPvcAiDTVLd28tFs31dyQp3iMqZTZuU/w288-h640/01.JPG" width="288" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguvyC3CKqfCA5EnIirpx-ROEwjTdpOESmROAUbiybg7ckc8AbDbnTUsqtFFuNSyZ9OK5NBfPiAPJVkxEqYvEv5XRNMbI4TJcNiuO1s_lY4MsEqFyQw1UZr13tWh2Qii9LopYjwIHr3oE0/s1000/02.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="450" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguvyC3CKqfCA5EnIirpx-ROEwjTdpOESmROAUbiybg7ckc8AbDbnTUsqtFFuNSyZ9OK5NBfPiAPJVkxEqYvEv5XRNMbI4TJcNiuO1s_lY4MsEqFyQw1UZr13tWh2Qii9LopYjwIHr3oE0/w288-h640/02.JPG" width="288" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3OGubpBezxJ1ZVFjh8RGfX6hnj6msh85yF9KTUkUArj_CjYnEaY78HWmYkY-sqP3dWe-7Z_Em67bSG2Azm46I5sWGob7OfN2c086HTCJ_IiMkjKBivVXnDG4SSgISqHwRTDpVI6i6l70/s1000/06.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="450" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3OGubpBezxJ1ZVFjh8RGfX6hnj6msh85yF9KTUkUArj_CjYnEaY78HWmYkY-sqP3dWe-7Z_Em67bSG2Azm46I5sWGob7OfN2c086HTCJ_IiMkjKBivVXnDG4SSgISqHwRTDpVI6i6l70/w288-h640/06.JPG" width="288" /></a></div><br /> I almost cut her eyes out to insert glass ones but then I decided to try repainting her existing eyes, after five attempts I was happy with the ones I painted and after sealing them, I added clear UV resin to give them a strong shine.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I think she looks more like a child now and less 'doll-like'.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">So you'll see that I've not exactly been idle, just not here on Blogger. I will try my best to catch up with all the blogs but I might just have to start afresh from now. Forgive me for all the things I've missed and for not commenting.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Big hugs and enjoy your week.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Sharon in Spain xx<br /></span></p>Sharonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14816580427584989752noreply@blogger.com26tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8235272631422518491.post-52119658349226761282021-01-30T17:06:00.001+01:002021-01-30T17:06:47.447+01:00Introducing Irrealdoll Nora<p><span style="font-family: arial;">As promised I would like to introduce you to my newest little ball jointed doll (BJD). She is sculpted by the Spanish artist Laura of <a href="https://irrealdoll.com/">Irrealdoll</a> and is called Nora. Nora is made of resin and fully jointed. She was available in two colours, Peanut and Toffee, I chose Toffee because I already have a Toffee coloured Enyo and I wanted Nora to be his big sister! Nora is 27cm tall and quite skinny, so much so that she can actually fit into some Blythe clothes, although she would actually be classed as YOSD size, meaning Young Super Dolfie. The term YOSD actually belongs to Volks of Japan but is used throughout the BJD world to describe dolls in this size range. At some point, when I get some time, I would like to do a comparison post showing the difference between dolls in this size range.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I ordered Nora back in July and paid for her on layaway, Laura offers a great layaway and I finished paying for her in October. The doll then arrived just before Christmas. Laura makes several different sizes of BJDs, I currently have three different sizes, and they are all of excellent quality and the posing, particularly of her later dolls, is second to none.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I recently made a wig for Nora, who I'm now calling Noa, by making a wig cap using PVA glue and then attaching curls of Merino wool, however I wasn't happy with the wool that I received from a seller on Etsy and so instead, I decided to order a wig from a seller in France. I will show you Noa in both wigs for your opinion. I like her in both wigs but feel that she looks a bit older in the homemade wig, plus the wig itself did not come out very well. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Homemade wig using Merino wool and PVA glue wig cap: <br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY-gg4owcOYbG68KSE4I_m-Vzd-s-u30y1cRy4DXO74GSncb0xlsWS0hk-qWGt_SpvyN4P5iZ5ngwjbpITFv02pDb_LDwmPPSDF0bYokoc1StjNFY54PcMrblbIXguShPs3ArjaOpIjsM/s1000/02.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="667" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY-gg4owcOYbG68KSE4I_m-Vzd-s-u30y1cRy4DXO74GSncb0xlsWS0hk-qWGt_SpvyN4P5iZ5ngwjbpITFv02pDb_LDwmPPSDF0bYokoc1StjNFY54PcMrblbIXguShPs3ArjaOpIjsM/w426-h640/02.JPG" width="426" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv18nT0Ru6rNirsSsrsmieKB1MGxf9c4lNuQMY3ag4h7RgYRzxb5aVePk0JSsaOrfoEsnC89fIHNTZdiRSoQYdB10p0cOCc8EsQoAly94zWFB_QK-EC1IS2ml92EHi5mBINWZDK2UWRqg/s1000/03.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="667" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv18nT0Ru6rNirsSsrsmieKB1MGxf9c4lNuQMY3ag4h7RgYRzxb5aVePk0JSsaOrfoEsnC89fIHNTZdiRSoQYdB10p0cOCc8EsQoAly94zWFB_QK-EC1IS2ml92EHi5mBINWZDK2UWRqg/w426-h640/03.JPG" width="426" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Now wearing Tessie wig by Monique Doll Company:</span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8dQgs3QRQt4iDNukrD2vs8bMqpvKV9Gffj9zTRg9QFRvr77EMC1ihC2jrfbf7dgyI4qgBtBJYaOl1bEC2yX1-oSpeO8u0pg83UBNRxFOE_y_Bl6_5opfM8UOpQ-T-yuqS0tO7Qx4jx9k/s1000/03.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="667" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8dQgs3QRQt4iDNukrD2vs8bMqpvKV9Gffj9zTRg9QFRvr77EMC1ihC2jrfbf7dgyI4qgBtBJYaOl1bEC2yX1-oSpeO8u0pg83UBNRxFOE_y_Bl6_5opfM8UOpQ-T-yuqS0tO7Qx4jx9k/w426-h640/03.JPG" width="426" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3jpPcj5shCKkie31uNr2Xoo6uapPzEn6NmvKZOrB7PI4b8y8vvTtixDu9zew90KgVgJOBYhfohbHzoQw-JYyz6nSQn4JBzgawFuCPtBZsjmytXfJ0Pgk2A8-b_va2FQ8ccXQkyDKLlok/s1000/08.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="667" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3jpPcj5shCKkie31uNr2Xoo6uapPzEn6NmvKZOrB7PI4b8y8vvTtixDu9zew90KgVgJOBYhfohbHzoQw-JYyz6nSQn4JBzgawFuCPtBZsjmytXfJ0Pgk2A8-b_va2FQ8ccXQkyDKLlok/w426-h640/08.JPG" width="426" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Please excuse the photos, I'm struggling with the changes to Pic Monkey, the photo editing site that I subscribe to.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Noa came with light brown eyebrows so I have darkened them slightly as well as adding a little more colour to her lower lashes, but apart from that, her faceup is by the artist. I love her very faint freckles. Unfortunately you can't see them very well in my photos.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Clothes: Top photos, jeans by me (made for Planetdoll Mini Riz), tee shirt for Blythe</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Bottom photos, same tee shirt, denim overalls by TTYA and sports shoes were keyrings!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I hope you've enjoyed meeting Nora/Noa!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Thank you for visiting</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Big hugs, Sharon in Spain xxx<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"> <br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><br /></p>Sharonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14816580427584989752noreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8235272631422518491.post-19412208441658915722021-01-09T20:26:00.005+01:002021-01-09T20:31:23.661+01:00Happy New Year!<p><span style="font-family: arial;">Happy New Year to everyone who visits my blog! I am sorry that it's been such a long time since I last posted on here, but like a lot of people, I've lost interest in my dolls over the last five months or so and the interest is only really coming back now! I suspect the virus has got a lot to do with it, l suppose you'd say that 'real life' got in the way. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I would like to apologise for not commenting on any of the blogs that I follow. Sadly with the loss of dolly interest, along went any interest in dolly blogs. I hope to rectify that really soon. <br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Well a fair amount has happened in the last six months since I posted. First of all we moved home and we are now living just five minutes from where we were before, but we have a lot more space and I have a lovely new doll/sewing room, which unfortunately hasn't seen much action recently, but I do have a lot of things planned for the spring. The house itself though is lovely, we have beautiful views of the sea and two nice terraces which I need to utilise more for dolly photos. Having said that, I did take a few photos recently, so I will show them here.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Dolly news, I have received two new dolls recently. The first to arrive was Nora by Irrealdoll here in Spain, she is very cute but I've not taken any photos of her yet because she is waiting on a wig. So far I have made the wig cap using white glue but am now waiting on the lambswool to arrive from the UK. What with the virus and Brexit, I suspect it'll be a while before it arrives, so I will have to be patient and poor Nora will have to stay safely in her box.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The second doll to arrive, who also arrived just before Christmas, is Johanna, who is an Wichtel artist doll by Rosemarie Muller. She is 32cm tall and all vinyl and such a cutie. She came in this beautiful smocked dress, lacy socks and pretty sandals, and she even has tiny gold studs in her ears. You might remember that I had three of the Wichtel dolls before but sold them in 2019, and I missed them so decided to add another to my collection. I decided on this sweet girl with her small smile....and although I don't usually go for smiley dolls, I'm glad I did on this occasion as she is very pretty. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNOxlDC4vCzQ_6b_WugSrD-l2YUVpbGkStzkzXejvWUVoe5vwT1ta9dz06ADF3gwFhFOeke2z8toeYE2m9Nnupl3hzUKsBGyyOanpideXFgcwg-vS0Y7Pu6iYiL7vkDcx3bK5ZLZOafdI/s1000/01.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="667" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNOxlDC4vCzQ_6b_WugSrD-l2YUVpbGkStzkzXejvWUVoe5vwT1ta9dz06ADF3gwFhFOeke2z8toeYE2m9Nnupl3hzUKsBGyyOanpideXFgcwg-vS0Y7Pu6iYiL7vkDcx3bK5ZLZOafdI/w426-h640/01.JPG" width="426" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEeKvCSXEm98mTIV3jtT3tKSRv_bNkYeGKtyW63VA8eZ98F3IPdxIpmZ_YDIKpOAh0oX0hi0HAEuXMs-fLq6eNW-fvSJmPoVqjI2EVzzQZnuJcVzac4Cd4KHaAYippeNg3GvFzeKgmt0M/s981/04.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="981" data-original-width="654" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEeKvCSXEm98mTIV3jtT3tKSRv_bNkYeGKtyW63VA8eZ98F3IPdxIpmZ_YDIKpOAh0oX0hi0HAEuXMs-fLq6eNW-fvSJmPoVqjI2EVzzQZnuJcVzac4Cd4KHaAYippeNg3GvFzeKgmt0M/w426-h640/04.JPG" width="426" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDNGSOtO7QyO9eG7TLdfK8WgmQ9Hf0CEJtMDkYbwwGFDYyVhx1QYkCjDdX7StCLbUbVOGab-4iFHH6p-WrhG336E5MIwY_aVf3-ZJcPg-9CCzx4TvH3UQZy43hl2dOike5r4W15lXWf9Y/s1000/06.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="667" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDNGSOtO7QyO9eG7TLdfK8WgmQ9Hf0CEJtMDkYbwwGFDYyVhx1QYkCjDdX7StCLbUbVOGab-4iFHH6p-WrhG336E5MIwY_aVf3-ZJcPg-9CCzx4TvH3UQZy43hl2dOike5r4W15lXWf9Y/w426-h640/06.JPG" width="426" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Isn't she a cutie! I can't wait to start sewing for her 😊</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">In the meantime, I finally got to take some photos of my latest Zwergnase Junior doll, Rixte, who arrived here last October. She is one of the 45cm girls and has such a cheeky face. I changed her from her default outfit into this super Brownie dress made by Passion for Sasha on Etsy....she is now looking forward to starting Brownies very soon! 😉 ☺️</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijQutStph2-PSFroyPltzvCQAh1y2jeEcz8tYyJ3wekHGYcuAs6iIfvp4Eg2fLO52kxsw5s4U9Z827J60Dw-asZm1-4kO_d_R52YnTO0kdR2brzY1_Xu1qFYpBvqeNnEw4FvcANI-06o4/s1000/01.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="667" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijQutStph2-PSFroyPltzvCQAh1y2jeEcz8tYyJ3wekHGYcuAs6iIfvp4Eg2fLO52kxsw5s4U9Z827J60Dw-asZm1-4kO_d_R52YnTO0kdR2brzY1_Xu1qFYpBvqeNnEw4FvcANI-06o4/w426-h640/01.JPG" width="426" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc6to0dgDoGX-8oJnXFSUAmo5NO36KH_pbE3w-Z0Tqt0vkfwKIX1mjRgRO6dk9PTZOryx11sT1ean99Xmu2gYUB9eockiH5o3mzAsbPIfl88OguSWanVkU0E5r-F_yvArMQuinNJSYNEQ/s1000/07.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="579" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc6to0dgDoGX-8oJnXFSUAmo5NO36KH_pbE3w-Z0Tqt0vkfwKIX1mjRgRO6dk9PTZOryx11sT1ean99Xmu2gYUB9eockiH5o3mzAsbPIfl88OguSWanVkU0E5r-F_yvArMQuinNJSYNEQ/w370-h640/07.JPG" width="370" /></a></div><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Apart from that, all is well here. My mum and brother came over here to stay with us on the 4th November because I was really worried about how things were going, virus-wise, in their area and they are still here some two months later. I think it was the best thing for them to do, coming here, because not soon afterwards, their borough, just east of London, had the highest numbers of new virus infections in the whole of England. Scary stuff. Thankfully they are safe and well here and long may that continue.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I hope you and your families are staying safe and well and that 2021 will be a good year for us all.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Big hugs and thank you for visiting</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Love Sharon xxx<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p>Sharonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14816580427584989752noreply@blogger.com27tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8235272631422518491.post-44270434541047133812020-08-18T21:58:00.000+02:002020-08-18T21:58:26.400+02:00Saying Goodbye....<p><span style="font-family: arial;">It doesn't seem that long since I wrote a post about losing my little Chihuahua, Choco, in fact it was just over a year ago. And now today, sadly I'm writing about losing another little Chihuahua, Kara. Yesterday we took our little girl to the vet for her to be helped to go over the Rainbow Bridge. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3AZ60v7kfqxpzXembk-DDub6d9gVDDfA8L5bpzI9qJX0HFRsZcFJo6lRYgOGOAi2IVp9_yKAtHZasqk_inXFdGtIpiP3wIi3b9vQHQ5FQDWQCe9Z148at4JZVYQoHQS4EPft_BgMuNBE/s900/5Oct001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="675" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3AZ60v7kfqxpzXembk-DDub6d9gVDDfA8L5bpzI9qJX0HFRsZcFJo6lRYgOGOAi2IVp9_yKAtHZasqk_inXFdGtIpiP3wIi3b9vQHQ5FQDWQCe9Z148at4JZVYQoHQS4EPft_BgMuNBE/s640/5Oct001.jpg" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Kara was about four months old when we first saw her. She sat like a poor little waif in a pet shop window in October 2008, this was when pet shops here in Spain were still able to sell dogs from their windows. Against our better judgement we went into the pet shop and asked all about her. It was obvious that the guy working there didn't have a clue about her, but he must have spotted a pair of suckers when we entered the premises! Well my husband wasn't happy to buy a dog from a pet shop and who can blame him, but as we drove home (an hour and a half in the car) we couldn't stop talking about this little sweetie in the window and how she would fit in with our other three dogs!! </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRHVigtEpWAe3Ivy0CbcRf3QA67h29kHId0stzM_gw76Km89sGN2ZyuomlS73ruo0YD2YxsqeFSDNMAI8AOLaUHOYR6_-bsiKRp9zZIr5I-HXcwpPvHxZtP9mpisTb5p1WsHTrn0ED1y4/s2048/IMG_9675.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRHVigtEpWAe3Ivy0CbcRf3QA67h29kHId0stzM_gw76Km89sGN2ZyuomlS73ruo0YD2YxsqeFSDNMAI8AOLaUHOYR6_-bsiKRp9zZIr5I-HXcwpPvHxZtP9mpisTb5p1WsHTrn0ED1y4/s640/IMG_9675.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: small;">(Kara always ate on the sofa on her own 'tablecloth' (an old tea towel) because she was a slow eater and her sisters would steal her dinner if they could!)</span> <br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I remember we got home and immediately decided to call the shop and tell the guy to hang on to her, we were coming straight back to get her! So off we went, another hour and a half in the car and so little Kara came home with us that Saturday evening. Of course she wasn't called Kara then, she was a nameless little thing, as quiet as a mouse and not much bigger! Brian, my husband, suggested we call her Kara, after the Supergirl character, Kara Zor-el, and so Kara she became.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">We wanted to take Kara straight to our vet for a check up but it was too late that Saturday evening, but as soon as we got her home we realised that something wasn't quite right with her. First of all her tail had a 'kink' in it, it felt like a 'knot' and it stuck straight out the back. It didn't worry us how it looked but we didn't want her to have any problems with it. Also her back legs appeared to be twisted. Her fur didn't feel as soft as it looked, it had a slight dryness to it but we thought we'd leave it for the vet to look at on the Monday.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiziI4hgdad4Z3JoUK2s0J6dA7DIoAfjKf6jeX9-P8H_-5RhkaKoQ1pr-ExxSDmm8R7K2wFb8mRY0TIwon6xtQmQdWIwrBztcE_NU4U8tYG67Bn5fqWsgvYW_t0u9_B4rs6p6qpT-AdSU/s1000/Kara1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="721" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiziI4hgdad4Z3JoUK2s0J6dA7DIoAfjKf6jeX9-P8H_-5RhkaKoQ1pr-ExxSDmm8R7K2wFb8mRY0TIwon6xtQmQdWIwrBztcE_NU4U8tYG67Bn5fqWsgvYW_t0u9_B4rs6p6qpT-AdSU/s640/Kara1.JPG" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Kara settled in but she was extremely nervous. She seemed to be petrified of feet, if we walked anywhere near her she would cower down as if she thought she might be kicked....it was not nice to watch but we were determined that she would feel at home with us as she was already very well loved....how could we not love the little sweetie? She was gorgeous, the sweetest little dog and very cuddly!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkDEpy8fPbwbkc5AU_fZ_Oy79CCJ9csgqXEm8-FMQIhyNVcOytB7z0qxHn393IU9MkDEA_SfathYlDDT6EHjQvdpNPcctJFry53QiEg-WITD82cXWcXlYwbt2u53idZSDM3Bm63gWBBKI/s2048/IMG_2729.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkDEpy8fPbwbkc5AU_fZ_Oy79CCJ9csgqXEm8-FMQIhyNVcOytB7z0qxHn393IU9MkDEA_SfathYlDDT6EHjQvdpNPcctJFry53QiEg-WITD82cXWcXlYwbt2u53idZSDM3Bm63gWBBKI/s640/IMG_2729.JPG" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">On the Monday, when the vet saw her, she was really angry. She said that Kara was obviously undernourished, her tail had been broken and not set properly, her back legs were indeed twisted because she actually had rickets. Our vet hadn't seen a puppy with rickets in in a long time. Her fur was dry because she'd not been given the correct food for a puppy of her age. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo09KJCg7KK9Mqj2NfoZLLJJ2-QoVyjYZjiMdHnY82uu66Yz0-iXK2BYSMueIw7oRUszaxbuliBAFMEg8uYskgCClQrLpsgHKywymM2-FoI2fr-7LSW1O3Mln5jGyrHVQKBPZVnr_dihk/s1000/Kara+060317.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="855" data-original-width="1000" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo09KJCg7KK9Mqj2NfoZLLJJ2-QoVyjYZjiMdHnY82uu66Yz0-iXK2BYSMueIw7oRUszaxbuliBAFMEg8uYskgCClQrLpsgHKywymM2-FoI2fr-7LSW1O3Mln5jGyrHVQKBPZVnr_dihk/s640/Kara+060317.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">We went home with her and continued feeding her on the food that we'd been giving to our other pups, Lucy and Yoda, who themselves were only 9 months and 7 months respectively. A week later when we went back to the vet, she could already see an improvement in Kara, her fur was beginning to feel silky and soft and she blossomed from then on. She continued to have silky soft fur for the rest of her life.<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Then a few years later, one Boxing Night to be exact, Kara suddenly started fitting. I'd never seen a dog having a fit before and it was incredibly upsetting, plus I was so scared that we were going to lose her and what vet would be open at 8pm the day after Christmas? Luckily, we didn't reckon with my son's future mother in law, who, knowing everyone in our town, got on the phone to a local vet who agreed to see us straight away. And so little Kara was diagnosed with epilepsy and put on phenobarbitol.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Phenobarbitol is not a drug to be messed with but once we got her dose right, she had less fits although she did continue to have a few a month...however, what we didn't know was that it was affecting her eyesight. We eventually tried other drugs and reduced her phenbarbitol right down but by then it was too late, her retinas were already beyond help and she gradually lost her sight completely.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">At first her loss of sight wasn't that much of a problem for her, she'd never been a dog that liked going out for walks, she was actually a little bit of a Diva and enjoyed being carried about! But as long as we didn't move the furniture she was fine, she could find the water bowls, she could find her way around without many bumps. However about a year or so ago I noticed that her behaviour started to be a bit 'different'. She started to walk around in circles and bark for no reason at all, and it was a 'strange' bark, not a normal one but we didn't really think too much of it at the time. I asked the vet if she thought Kara might have the start of doggy dementia but she felt that she was too young at that point, so we didn't worry too much.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaepUY1KI-eHAfpk6Kykkl1xrpaOnGb9e7t1Ol84gE61tSjCZdDjEXv8LjDo_2gx8_3nXngKkq71b6vMgxJliwfCR01mc3qc6a0CWI4_m1K1UUhnWAa0cyihnvTKbZKqfNxs138uIP-Vk/s2048/IMG_2730.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaepUY1KI-eHAfpk6Kykkl1xrpaOnGb9e7t1Ol84gE61tSjCZdDjEXv8LjDo_2gx8_3nXngKkq71b6vMgxJliwfCR01mc3qc6a0CWI4_m1K1UUhnWAa0cyihnvTKbZKqfNxs138uIP-Vk/s640/IMG_2730.JPG" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">However, by the beginning of this year she started to get worse. I'd done some research and found out quite a lot about dementia in dogs and she was showing quite a few signs, it was really sad. As if the poor little thing didn't have enough to contend with, she was definitely showing strong signs of dementia. The vet gave us a drug that is supposed to help dogs with these signs, called Cognadine, but although it seemed to help at little at first, we soon realised that she was getting worse. We tried other medications, we tried cannabis oil but nothing really helped her. She got worse and worse. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">In February when my husband was away visiting family in the UK, I was at the end of my tether. Kara was walking around in circles and continued to do so for about 3 and a half hours. Every time I picked her up and held her, she would struggle to get down, I would put her in her bed and she would get straight out and off she'd go again with the circling. She also started to bark for nothing at all and this too would go on for hours at a time.<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Our vet then suggested another drug that is supposed to help dogs with dementia and had no side effects...we tried this and yes, for a few weeks it seemed to work. It was increasing the blood flow to her brain and supposed to calm her symptoms down. 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She no longer recognised us which was just so heartbreaking and her circling had got so treacherous for her because she couldn't see, she no longer was aware enough of her surroundings to know where everything was and so she spent a lot of time bashing into furniture, it was horrible to watch. Horrible to see our sweet little girl in such decline. Physically she looked fine, her fur was lovely and soft, her appetite in the main was good, but her mental state was in such decline. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I cried all weekend after we'd made the decision to let her go. I felt like I was 'playing God', deciding that her life was over. But our lovely vet talked with us at length and she is not one to put a healthy dog to sleep or make decisions like this lightly. She told us that Kara's heart was strong but her mind had completely gone and her life must be scary for her, she didn't know where she was and she didn't know who we were...that was horrible to hear but then the truth often is. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">So we said goodbye to her yesterday morning at 9.50am. We held her whilst she was sedated and we cuddled her in her blanket as she was given the injection and breathed her last. My heart feels heavy and my eyes are swollen, but she will always be our little Princess Diva who'll live on in our hearts forever.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiisx_8OyL3zJZslVWRI4jI7I0Fp4fSG6euTyff2fDKSTMkNBWKBc89_OhVXdl50jDUwCHlpv_DsnP_zYnqE2eFPLFgvKgB_41HMFgm07r16utYFCGIuLSr6_hP00WonddooYkylGd0rf0/s1774/Kara+collage+170820.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1774" data-original-width="1774" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiisx_8OyL3zJZslVWRI4jI7I0Fp4fSG6euTyff2fDKSTMkNBWKBc89_OhVXdl50jDUwCHlpv_DsnP_zYnqE2eFPLFgvKgB_41HMFgm07r16utYFCGIuLSr6_hP00WonddooYkylGd0rf0/s640/Kara+collage+170820.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Thank you for taking the time to read this post, I'm sorry it was so long but it's hard to put 12 years of love for a little dog into just a few lines. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Please give your beloved pets an extra hug from me tonight</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Big hugs, Sharon xx </span><br /></p>Sharonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14816580427584989752noreply@blogger.com44tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8235272631422518491.post-64085996651575533302020-05-31T23:04:00.000+02:002020-05-31T23:04:06.397+02:00Gotz Happy Kidz Emilia...A New Custom!<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last week I bought a Gotz Happy Kidz Emilia because I both liked the sculpt and wanted to do some customising. 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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've always liked Gotz dolls as their quality is very good and they're great as play dolls, being made with very safe and well tested materials, and for adult doll collectors too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Firstly I removed the factory makeup and the acrylic eyes. The eyes were not bad quality but I prefer them to be more realistic so they had to go, along with the eyelashes. Here she is with her cleaned face, but eyes and lashes still attached. I felt these eyes were also a tad too large for her eye sockets too. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I then gave her a new faceup using watercolour pencils and artist grade chalk pastels. I wanted her to have glass eyes but I found that the ones I have here (and I have quite a few pairs!!) did not suit her or were the wrong size. In the end I decided that I would stick with acrylic, so these eyes are by Glastic Realistic, unfortunately I have no idea what the colour is called. As acrylic eyes go, I think these are a great alternative to glass or resin eyes as they are very detailed and natural looking. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Between layers of chalk pastels, Emilia is sealed with several coats of Mr Super Clear Flat sealant. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I hope that I've bought her more 'to life' and less dolly looking. I enjoyed working on her, customising really is one of my favourite parts of the doll hobby to be honest!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She's wearing an outfit that I made for my Zwergnase dolls, I thought the grey of the outfit went well with the grey of her eyes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thank you for stopping by, I hope you're all having a very nice weekend.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Big hugs and stay safe!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sharon xxxx</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span>Sharonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14816580427584989752noreply@blogger.com46tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8235272631422518491.post-29072709402110707342020-05-21T17:30:00.000+02:002020-05-21T17:30:01.544+02:00A bit of sewing for Holly....<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Holly is my Zwergnase Junior Wentje who came here at Christmastime, a present from my husband Brian. Until now the poor girl has stood for ages in her default outfit then she was changed into a 'hand me down' from one of my other dolls, but today, finally, she has an outfit of her own.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />I wanted to make her some loose fitting linen overalls and so searched on line for photos of what I had in mind. So firstly I made a pattern by taking her measurements and drawing it out on a large piece of brown paper. She's 55cm tall so the usual A4 sheets wouldn't work for her. I tweaked it a few times and then decided to use an old pair of trousers of mine to cut up for the fabric. I don't have much linen type fabric here and all that I do have would have been too small. Plus I didn't really want to use good fabric in case the pattern was not a good fit for her.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm really pleased with how they've turned out. I used some red metal overall clips that are meant for human sized items, and they worked perfectly for her. I made a simple cap sleeved white tee shirt to finish off the look.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The overalls have large pockets on the sides so that Holly can fill them with her belongings or of course she can fit her hands in them too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Straight out of the box. She is wearing this very cute winter outfit consisting of pink knitted jumper with long sleeves and hood, the hood is edged with beige cream faux fur, a pair of mid calf length knitted leggings, a </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> pink </span>knitted bobble hat and faux suede fur lined 'Ugg' type boots. She doesn't have any underwear or socks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The yarn used for the jumper and hat is pink but it has a sort of 'tweedy' effect with white and grey flecks. The jumper has pink turn back style cuffs. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">She has a very pouty face, the sort of face that really appeals to me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">She stands really well straight out of the box. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Daniela has a very sweet profile, the scult is child-like with a cute nose and pouty lips.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The face painting is soft and natural looking. Her eyelashes are a little on the long side for my liking but they are not too bad. I will probably replace them with slightly smaller darker ones at some point.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Her hair is lovely and well rooted, there don't appear to be any big gaps between the rooting holes. The hair fibre feels very much like the more expensive modern dolls from Gotz in Germany, very silky and soft. The colour in the photo below is not true to life, the real colour is more like my other photos, it's a warm golden blond. The style is good too, it falls nicely into a short bob.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">She has cute well sculpted ears.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Her eyes are blue inset acrylic and they are quite detailed. She does not have sleep eyes. Her eyebrows are very sparcely detailed, I may well redo those by filling them in with more 'hairs' using watercolour pencils and chalk pastels. And she doesn't have lower lashes, so I will add those, again with watercolour pencils. </span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Her lips are very detailed with lip creases and are not overly painted or glossed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Daniela has quite a lot of head movement, she can pose with her head looking up, or over her shoulder, she can look down (although her head tends to want to come up again from the looking down position). When her head is turned all the way around to the back, it remains level and does not look upwards as some play dolls do. She certainly has good and natural head movement.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Her feet are quite detailed, with cute little toes and neat nails. </span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Her hands are also very detailed, with small neat fingernails and lines on the finger joints.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">She even has detailed lines on her palms!</span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Also her hands are not the same, each hand is slightly different! Below you can see how detailed the lines on the fingers are.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When Daniela sits down her legs do splay outwards but not as bad as some dolls do. She can sit up unaided without falling backwards.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Because the weather is warm here I wanted to make her something more summery to wear, so I took her measurements. I compared her measurements with the Heart 4 Hearts dolls, Corelle dolls and the American Doll Wellie Wishers who's details I found online. It turns out that she is almost the same size as the 14.5 inches Wellie Wishers dolls! This was great to see as I do have patterns already in that size. I think the only difference is that Daniela's hips are a couple of centimetres bigger. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Outfit and socks by me, shoes by the late Jean Jensen (made for Sasha dolls and slightly too big for this dolls feet). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So to sum up, would I recommend this doll? Yes! I definitely would recommend this doll for both children and adult collectors. She is very well made, using high quality and safe materials. Her hair can be combed or brushed and she is sturdy enough that a child could play with her without fear of her falling apart quickly. The company recommend her for children of 3 years and over and I would agree that she would be perfect from that age upwards. Price-wise this doll is excellent value for money; she cost me 37,95 euros plus 6 euros postage within Spain. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I hope you've enjoyed this review and seeing this new little girl!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thank you for stopping by, keep safe and well everybody!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Big hugs Sharon in Spain xxx</span>Sharonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14816580427584989752noreply@blogger.com32tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8235272631422518491.post-46112283231554281302020-04-18T17:48:00.000+02:002020-04-18T17:48:40.845+02:00On line shopping....<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the absence of being able to physically go shopping, apart from boring stuff like food, I find myself looking on line at dolly stuff, I put things into the website's carts and then I just delete it again....I do this before signing in to these websites, just in case my finger slips and I find myself spending money that I don't have!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Well this morning I was a little bit naughty and I went searching on doll websites just to see what is available. I was expecting that a lot of the sites wouldn't be shipping right now but one of the Spanish companies that I've used in the past, Doll and Doll, state that they're still shipping and also had some cute vinyl dolls in stock by the company Llorens, and me, not being able to resist a bargain, decided to put one in my shopping cart....just put her in there you understand, not buy her! Then of course I saw some sweet little socks, 2,95 euros? Not bad!! I put a pair of those in too. And then I saw some downloadable patterns, yes one of those would be useful! Into the cart it goes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But this time I thought "oh what the hell" and I pressed 'proceed to checkout'. So a new doll and a pair of socks are going to be on their way here next week! And the pattern is already downloaded and ready to print off. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The doll is very cute though and the prices of these dolls, which are completely made here in Spain, are so very reasonable that it would be criminal not to purchase. And with the way things are at the moment, the economy really will need a boost so I'm really just doing my bit to help my fellow inhabitants of Spain, don't you think?! 😉</span><br />
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She is 37cm tall, all vinyl with rooted hair. She has fixed acrylic inset eyes and five joints. If my previous experience of this company, Llorens, is anything to go by, then the outfit will be nicely made with good quality fabrics. I like that the outfit has several pieces. And the price? A very good 37,95 euros (approx $41), so that cannot be bad!!! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have seen another one that is really very cute and if I like this doll and decide to get her a friend I might wait and order her, but for now I will just wait and see. And I was even thinking that she might be a good candidate for a spot of customising seeing as I enjoy doing that so much! Or maybe she is cute enough that I will leave well alone!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">All I have to hope for now is that the post office will still be delivering parcels!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I hope you all have a good weekend, stay safe and well!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Big hugs Sharon xx</span><br />
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Sharonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14816580427584989752noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8235272631422518491.post-60010718605140362592020-04-09T21:10:00.000+02:002020-04-09T21:10:27.669+02:00A Few Little Crafty Tasks....<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hello and welcome back to my lockdown world!! Things remain the same here except that the lockdown is now being extended until the end of the month....I suspect it will be extended again after that, but I'm fine with it, as long as it keeps us all safe.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have spent so much time on the internet and chatting on social media, but I have managed to read a few books on my Kobo and now I've actually done a few dolly things too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Firstly I finished an outfit for one of my Kaye Wiggs girls that I'd actually cut out back in January. I put it away when my son was coming to visit and had every intention of actually sewing it when he left on the 7th February. Well that never happened but finally I started and finished about a week or so ago. Here it is being modeled by Layla....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The outfit consists of a knit fabric hoodie with separating zip, a cap sleeved striped tee shirt and a skater skirt with attached leggings.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another job that I've been meaning to do for ages is some partial re-rooting to one of my Sashas. This girl is called Destin and she has been with me for almost 6 years, she is a Gotz Sasha Slate Eyes made in Germany in the mid 1960s. She has nice thick hair at the back, although the ends are a little dry, but at the front on top it was a little thin. I just happen to have here the perfect match in hair for her. It comes from a modern Gotz doll that I used to have. I cut off her hair and kept the hair before wigging her. So the hair has been waiting to be used for this particular Sasha for maybe two years!!! So I did that a few days ago and the hair really is the perfect match for her existing hair. I didn't do too much, as I said above, her hair was thick at the back and I didn't want to overdo it, but I filled in some thin hair plugs and added just a few more. Here she is before:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And here, showing you her new look:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Beautiful spring outfit is by Sarah Williams AKA Vintage Sasha</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Beautiful leather shoes by the late great Jean Jensen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Finally, I took some photos of Bailey, my 1971 wider faced brunette (rewigged) as she'd not been in front of the camera for ages. I used my friend's camera to try it out....I didn't take many photos but thought these show her as she actually is....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well that's all for now, so I will sign off and hope that you all remain safe and well. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Firstly a little about the lockdown. We are currently on Day 13 as lockdown started for us from midnight on Saturday 14th March. It's been very strict from Day one, which I feel is the best way to go. I do not feel that my freedom is being taken away from me, I hope that this will help save lives and certainly help to ease the strain on the Spanish health service. For example, we are only allowed out to go to the supermarket to buy food, to the pharmacy for medication, you can walk a dog but only 50 metres from your home, and it must be just one person, you cannot walk in pairs. No cycling or jogging, no meeting up with friends or family, you can only stay with those you live with. And only one person per car except if you are taking a vulnerable person to a medical appointment. And fines are pretty high. Police are checking where you go and you have to prove where you've been. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So yes, pretty strict. </span>The number of people who've died from the virus is very high here in Spain, so if it works, and saves some lives then I'm more than happy to do as I'm told. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So what have I been doing with myself? Well I started out with the intention of making some doll outfits. I got all the pattern files out, I printed off some new patterns, I sorted through my fabrics and cut out a few outfits. I started by making a pair of tiny overalls for my friends doll. I cut them out wrong, and then when I'd recut them, so I sewed them up back to front. I really could not concentrate, so I decided to stop that and sit and read. I've read two or three books but my mind keeps wandering. I've been spending so much of my time chatting on line, looking at the BBC news, Facebook, YouTube, everything apart from doing something productive with my time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That is until a couple of days ago when I had the idea to sew some face masks for myself and Brian....then I thought "what about the neighbours?" So I got started, it was fun to match the fabrics to the personalities of my friends....and so it started! I have now made 22 masks and distributed them amongst the neighbours. One friend has a fabric printed with items of clothing, another has one with little Scotty dogs all over, another has doggy pawprints. A few of the men have skull and cross bones!!! Others have fish, or flowers. I even got an offer from someone who doesn't live here to buy some but instead she has made a donation to our local Animal Rescue charity because with the lockdown they cannot open their charity shop which they depend on for income. So that's what I've been up to!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Waiting for the pleats to be put in..... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thank you to my lovely friends and neighbours for being good sports and wearing the masks, I hope they help to keep you safe and free from harm when you go to the supermarket or walk your dogs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I hope every one of you who reads my blog keeps safe and well. Please don't take risks with your lives or those of your loved ones, it really isn't worth it. And I would just like to add a special shout out for all the health care workers, street sanitisers, refuse collectors, supermarket and pharmacy staff, and anyone else in one of these critical jobs, who're helping to keep us safe. THANK YOU!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Big hugs Sharon in Spain xx </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span>Sharonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14816580427584989752noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8235272631422518491.post-17416073294499774392020-02-21T20:41:00.000+01:002020-02-21T20:41:07.953+01:00My UK Trip and a Stowaway!<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I got back on Tuesday from my five day trip to the UK and I felt exhausted, which is odd because I didn't do that much really! I was really happy to see that my mum is doing so well, she is now walking quite well with either the walker or her crutches, she's also cooking and able to do light housework. The only thing she's not doing is going outside on her own, which is fair enough as the weather isn't good and I'd hate for her to slip over. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Whilst there I did a little bit of shopping and met up with friends. My friend Sue, who I've mentioned several times before here on my blog, brought a parcel over to my mum's house, which I'd had sent to her from Dollstown in South Korea. I will share more of that in a future post. Anyway, it was lovely to catch up with Sue again if only for a brief time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of the dolls I brought back with me is Sienna by Kaye Wiggs. I bought her from a friend in the UK who is downsizing her collection. In fact I bought two dolls from her but will show them seperately.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sienna is in Coffee tan resin and I have to say that her sculpting just blew me away, she is so beautiful. I think that she is my favourite Kaye Wiggs doll sculpt so far. She is so realistic!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Please excuse the dust particles on her face, I forgot to blow them away before taking the photos. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This girl is 43cm tall and has the 'Abby' body, which is the smaller of the two MSD bodies released with Kaye Wiggs dolls. She has beautiful Coffee Tan resin which is darker than my other Kaye Wiggs dolls and is such a pretty dark tan. There were only 50 of this doll released in this colour resin and all of them have had their faceups enhanced by Kaye herself. My girl is number 29. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The wig in the photos is a very dark Tibetan lambswool and although it's very full, I think it's absolutely perfect for her face sculpt. The only problem is, I don't see all the stray hairs in the photos until I've uploaded them and put the doll away, so apologies for all of those!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My friend sent her with this outfit as well as two others, so Sienna has some different clothing options until I can sew for her. I love her in these colours, I think they really suit her.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I believe these glass eyes are the ones she came with from Kaye.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I think in the past I read an interview with Kaye where she was asked where she got the inspiration for her sculpts and if I remember rightly she said that she sculpted the faces of the children she saw around her in her home country of Australia. If this is the case then she really is spot on with this one, she so reminds me of the little Aboriginal children that live down there in Oz, she's just gorgeous!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Have a great weekend everyone!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Big hugs</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sharon xxx</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span>Sharonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14816580427584989752noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8235272631422518491.post-40647358731952900312020-02-09T23:22:00.001+01:002020-02-09T23:22:31.093+01:00February Already! And finally some dolly time :)<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Most people complain that January goes by so slowly after the rush of December and Christmas but I must admit, that having been in the UK from the 3rd to the 11th, the month seemed to whizz by! I was hardly home when the 31st arrived and brought with it my son Brendan who came over for a week's holiday with us. He mainly comes to see us on his own as he has more holidays than his wife Virginia, so when she comes to Spain she naturally spends the time with her family. Anyway, it was a great week, we did lots of chatting and laughing and of course shopping, Brendan always wants to buy things here that are apparently much cheaper than the UK, so he keeps us very busy!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lucy loves having Brendan home! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On the dolly front I have sold a couple of dolls and done a bit of sewing as well as have taken some photos of different dolls who've had a change of clothes or wig. The weather has been lovely, very warm and sunny, perfect weather for taking my girls outside to photograph.....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here is Holly (formerly Wentje, the doll I showed in my last post), she is a Zwergnase Junior and is 55cm tall. I changed her into this dress that I made ages ago for another doll that has since left for pastures new. I then added a 'shirt' underneath so that it looked a bit different from when the last doll wore it. When I first got her I wasn't sure about her but since I got back from the UK and have had a chance to 'play' with her, she's really grown on me. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Who'd have thought she'd look so angelic as a blond! Funny how looks can be so deceiving though😉</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have a third outfit cut out and ready to sew for Layla, I'll get to that soon I'm sure!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the meantime, I am off to the UK again on Thursday to see my mum and brother. My mum has been doing very well since her fall and is completely on the mend now, thank goodness. She was recently discharged by the physiotherapists and is now walking well with the aid of a walking stick or a walking frame. I'm only going for five days but looking forward to it....apart from the weather!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Have a great week ahead, and for those of you being affected by Storm Ciara, keep safe and warm.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span>Sharonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14816580427584989752noreply@blogger.com25tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8235272631422518491.post-76847493251648959912020-01-16T22:38:00.000+01:002020-01-16T22:38:10.843+01:00All the best laid plans.....<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Firstly I would like to wish everyone who reads my blog, a very Happy New Year! I hope that 2020 is a great year for all of you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Secondly I would like to apologise for not wishing you all a wonderful Christmas, but the truth is everything went pear shaped for us here just before the holidays and I never got the chance to post on my blog as planned.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I mentioned in one of my previous posts that I was going to the UK on the 14th December to meet up with my mum and my brother John and travel back with them to Spain on the 15th for them to spend Christmas and the New Year with us. The journey to the UK was uneventful and although we had a slight delay on the way back to Malaga, all went well and we arrived home to my place at about lunchtime.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We had lunch and chatted for the afternoon, I think, if I remember rightly, my mum started to knit a woolly hat for one of my dolls. Then my mum went to my friends place (she was away and offered my family her place to stay in as since moving we haven't a lot of room), just a minutes walk away, to unpack. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A little while later my brother came running back to tell me that my mum had fallen over and he couldn't get her up. I ran with him back to my mum and she had fallen backwards down a small step......</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The ambulance came and took her to hospital, she was in a lot of pain and having a panic attack because of this pain. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To cut a long story short, my 83 year old mum was hospitalised with a broken hip and was operated on the following day. Here in Spain, you're more or less expected to stay in the hospital 24/7 with your person, so I slept in the chair next to her bed for four nights. We went home on the 19th and from that date on I looked after my mum at home, she was encouraged to walk using a walking frame, and has been doing really well, thank goodness.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My mum needed a lot of help at first, especially with her personal care, and I stayed with her at my friends place whilst my brother stayed with Brian and the dogs at ours. My brother John has learning disabilities so he needs a certain amount of supervision too. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Christmas Day was nice though, if hard work. We had our dinner outside on our deck as it was such a lovely day. I didn't get time to wrap the presents until late on Christmas Eve, the Christmas cards remained in the box, the proper linen napkins and table cloth remained elusive and we had to resort to a paper tablecloth and paper napkins....the prawns for my seafood starter were uncooked so we couldn't eat those, and I had to substitute them for some crab sticks that were in my fridge that were barely in date.....and it wasn't until halfway through lunch that I realised I'd forgotten to put glasses on the table and wine in the fridge...but apart from that the food tasted good and there was plenty of it!!!! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After Christmas mum's insurance company sent a nurse from the UK to travel back with her to her home on the 3rd January, I had planned to go with her for a few days but decided to stay for just over a week so that I could help her in her home as well as get a care plan in place for when I came back home to Spain.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I arrived home last Saturday, 11th January, and slept in my own bed, with my husband for the first time in almost a month! I have never appreciated my own bed so much! 😊</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the meantime my mum has a carer visiting each morning and a physiotherapist has been each day this week to help her to regain a good level of mobility. She seems to be doing well and hopefully when I return to the UK again next month to visit her, she will be able to go back upstairs in her house as so far she has had to remain downstairs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So today I got back to my Christmas present doll from my husband Brian. She is a Zwergnase Junior Wentje and she is 55cm tall. Wentje is one of a limited edition of 50 dolls worldwide, she is handpainted and has a human hair wig. I haven't had time to sew her anything yet but hope to do so soon. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So there you have our Christmas. My mum falling was a horrible end to what had already been a really awful year. I am hoping that 2020 will be better for all of us. I'm very glad to see the back of 2019 to be honest and am going into this new year with a positive attitude. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I hope 2020 is great for all of you. Thank you for continuing to visit my blog, please keep coming and commenting as I really appreciate it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Big hugs to all of you</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sharon xxx </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span>Sharonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14816580427584989752noreply@blogger.com33tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8235272631422518491.post-22406857503106820552019-12-08T23:13:00.000+01:002019-12-08T23:13:13.283+01:00December Already!<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've been incredibly lax recently with my blog and thought I'd get a post in quickly before it's the end of another year! I last wrote that it was Autumn already....and here we are, it's winter! Thankfully though, the winters here in southern Spain are short and mild, we've had some rain, which we really, really needed, but apart from that it's been sunshine during the day, temperatures of around 19C - 21C, and cooler nights. Perfect winter weather for me!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So what's been happening in my world since I last posted on here? Well my husband Brian was really sick about 5 weeks ago and I was extremely worried as he's rarely unwell, but he was bad, really bad, collapsing a couple of times, which was very scary and this was just before he was due to go to the UK to visit with his family. He wanted to leave going to the doctor until he returned from his trip but I was concerned that he was sicker than he was letting on...so I made an appointment and it turns out I was right, the doctor took his blood and his sugar levels were sky high....he was immediately diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes and she injected him with insulin straight away in the surgery. Now, 5 weeks later he's doing so much better. Obviously he had to cancel his trip, which was a shame for him but at least if he's going to be sick then he is close to home. But thank goodness he's doing well, he's testing his blood and injecting himself every day and although his legs aren't great, they're at least working to hold him upright!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Brian also bought himself a mobility scooter which he's enjoying!! He tells me he's named it Thunderbolt 2!!! It means that we can get out together, he can ride his scooter and I can walk along next to him with Lucy, our Miniature Pinscher, which is great!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On the dolly front, I have been enjoying my new Dandelion by Bimong and also I recently received my Xiao Yu head from Black Cherry dolls, a Russian artist. The head sculpt is beautiful and has a gorgeous faceup by Blisslacosta, who is also Russian. Four months ago I ordered her an Elf body from Dollstown and hopefully that will arrive soon. In the meantime she is using my Volks SDMidi body, the colour match is really good (the head is Oriental Copper and the body is called Sunlight). But my Volks girl is looking forward to getting her body back I'm sure!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have also received some gorgeous gifts from two of my lovely dolly friends. One of my friends in the US said that she wanted to send me a gift as she enjoyed reading my blog. I don't like the idea that people think I 'deserve' anything for the fact that they enjoy my photos, I just am happy that people do enjoy them....but this lovely lady asked me what I would like. I finally suggested that maybe she would like to send me a fat quarter of fabric which I would use to make an outfit for one of my girls and would think of her when I looked at the dress.....and then lo and behold not one fat quarter but THREE fat halves (I think that's what they're called) arrived from her, such pretty fabrics, thank you so much my dear....you know who you are!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another present I received was a complete surprise from my friend J who also lives in the US. She sent me a box and inside were two BJDs (ball jointed dolls), both BIDs (Yosd size) from Iplehouse, an extra BID head, another manikin doll (you'll remember seeing two others that she sent me earlier in the year), some outfits, a wig and a pattern! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here is one of the new Iplehouse dolls, she is a Elin and I enhanced her face a bit as she was a little pale, I gave her some new eyelashes, new eyes and new wig. She then went through the dolls clothes box and found herself something to wear!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I haven't taken photos of the other doll and the spare head, but will get to that soon. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thank you both, D and J, for my lovely gifts, I'm just so incredibly lucky to have the dolly friends that I have. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm off to the UK on Saturday for nine hours....yes you read that right, just nine hours!! I'm going over to meet my mum and brother and bring them back to Spain with me on Sunday morning and they are spending Christmas and New Year with us. I will then go back with them to the UK on the 3rd January and spend a few days there meeting up (hopefully) with my friend Sue and my son :) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well hopefully I will get to post maybe one more time before Christmas. Thank you so much in advance for visiting and have a great week ahead!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Big hugs Sharon xxx</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span>Sharonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14816580427584989752noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8235272631422518491.post-3191335444942607572019-10-28T22:51:00.000+01:002019-10-28T22:51:53.759+01:00Autumn already!!!<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's been more than a month since I last wrote anything here on my blog but now that the evenings are darker, I'm more inclined to be sitting inside using my laptop, rather than outside so thought I'd do some catching up! I don't like putting the clocks back, the sun sets here at about 6.30pm and I thought that was bad enough until my son, who lives on the south coast of the UK, sent me a photo this afternoon at 5pm UK time, and it was completely dark!!!! We are very lucky here to be honest, as even in the middle of winter, it never really gets dark before about 6.15pm.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That aside, the weather here has been beautiful. The temperature during the day is still in the low to mid 20s centigrade, so I really cannot complain. I think waking up to bright mornings with blue skies and lots of sunshine really does help my frame of mind. And it has certainly made my morning walks easier to get up for!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On the dolly front I have been busy. I have recently sold another 6 dolls and a Super Dollfie sized body, so of course that money was burning a hole in the bottom of my paypal account. I ended up buying two dolls, one was an impulse buy and the other was a doll that I have wanted for absolutely ages but had not been able to find within the EU and I was not prepared to buy from elsewhere as I didn't want to get caught for customs charges.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So the impulse buy is by an artist that I've admired for a while but never thought I'd find one of her dolls for sale within the EU. She is a Madeleine by the Australian artist Liz Frost and she is approx 12 inches tall. Madeleine is a tan resin ball jointed doll (BJD) and I adopted her from a friend in the UK....I am thinking that I might give her a new faceup or at least partially redo her as I'm not sure about her current blush. We shall see. The good thing about this doll is that she can share the clothing belonging to the Little Darlings, so that gives her a lot of options as they have a lot of clothes!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The second doll that I bought recently is one that I have wanted for AGES! I mean a really long time! Probably since she was released back in about 2011. I remember wanting to pre-order her but again the customs charges put me off as she would be shipped from the US. So I decided that if I was to get her then it would be secondhand ... but each time she was for sale within the EU, so I was broke! In the end I sort of moved on. However about three weeks ago I saw one for sale on Ebay and she was being sold in France. The seller had stated she'd only ship within France but several messages later she was coming home to me! She is just what I was looking for. A Kaye Wiggs Gracie in sunskissed skin tone with a default faceup. She arrived last week and she is just so incredibly cute, I'm really glad to have found her and can honestly say that she was worth the wait!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Also my new body (I wished!!!) arrived for the Dandelion head I bought back in September. I bought this head actually as a full doll but I didn't like the body so I sold that body and ordered an Elf body from Dollstown. Now I'm very happy with her new look. I took a few very quick photos of her when the body arrived and some photos of the head on the first body....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I quickly made her this blue top but need to make her more of a wardrobe of clothes, as I don't have much in this size :) I'm actually looking forward to sewing in this bigger size again after years without a Super Dollfie sized doll, even if she is actually considered to be a 'smaller super dollfie'. 😉</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There are some other 'newbies' here but I will leave them for another post. I hope you've enjoyed seeing a brief post of what I've been up to. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Have a great week ahead!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>Sharonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14816580427584989752noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8235272631422518491.post-59781605913669772042019-09-25T21:43:00.000+02:002019-09-25T21:43:41.910+02:00Long Hot Summer....and not over yet!<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It has been a long time since I posted on here, I apologise for that....I didn't have the heart for it back in July when we lost our little dog and then things just got busy! I threw myself into sewing for a while and time just rushed by. I can hardly believe that we are almost at the end of September already. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The weather here continues to be beautiful and sunny but you can tell that it is 'Autumn' because of the change in the quality of light and the way the sun doesn't stay as long on the one spot that I like to sit in to catch a few rays on my deck 🌝</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Back to the sewing though. I did a trade with a dolly friend in the UK, she sent me a cute doll that she no longer wanted and I made outfits for two of her dolls. The doll I received is Winona by the American artist Connie Lowe. I wasn't sure that I would like the doll at first, but when she arrived I really liked her face. I wasn't over keen on her body shape, she has a very big tummy, but I can work with it. Here are some photos of her, she hasn't got a name yet...maybe she will just be called Winona.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is how she looked when she arrived. </span><br />
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did her any favours so I changed that and her eyes. I saw her as being
an Asian child and decided to give her brown eyes....it's funny but most of my BJDs seem to end up with brown eyes, regardless of their ethnicity, I just love brown eyes.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Striped overalls in pale blue and white, with gingham 'accents', red cropped tee shirt and head scarf...</span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Machine embroidered smock type dress with matching loose shorts underneath...</span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another of my lovely dolly friends got her first BJD recently and she had nothing in this size for her new girls. I made the following outfits for her....her doll is off having a new face up at the moment so she's not able to wear them until she is all put back together again, but hopefully she'll be happy with the fit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Firstly this little dress which I actually made by downsizing a Sasha pattern! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Then I made this outfit for a boy doll....Tyrone, my tanned Little Fee Ante is my 'boy' model! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Another dear dolly friend of mine in the UK got some gifts for her girls...a flowery summer dress....</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Flowered shorts and machine embroidered tee shirt....Shorts are made of cotton pique.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thanks for visiting, big hugs Sharon xxx</span></span>Sharonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14816580427584989752noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8235272631422518491.post-75530382532039861292019-08-04T19:59:00.001+02:002019-08-04T19:59:38.854+02:00Saying goodbye.....<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">July started off well for us, we sold our house and exchanged contracts, and we got a date for completion. After a pretty disastrous year things were looking up, well we certainly didn't think they could get any worse.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then on the morning of Monday 22nd July, my little boy Chihuahua, Choco, (kennel name Baudouin) woke up a bit under the weather. He was desperate to get outside where he started to vomit. This in itself is not unusual, dogs often eat grass and other stuff that causes them to throw up, but it was very unusual for Choco. Choco was the youngest of our five dogs, and only 7 years old. We've had him since he was just 7 weeks old and he has never been unwell in all this time. He was full of energy, and full of life. He loved to 'strut' around with his ears held high and his tail curled proudly over his back.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But on this particular morning, things just weren't right with him. When the other dogs had their breakfast he just stayed away from them, he didn't want to eat anything and I thought that was fine, as long as he was drinking.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The vet asked if she could do a post mortem because she had no explanation for what had happened to him. The x-rays that she'd done the previous night had shown nothing untoward, his organs looked exactly as they should be, except that he seemed to have full bowels. She kept asking "has he had an injury, did he fall, could he have been poisoned or eaten a snail" all things that we were able to reply to the best of our knowledge in the negative.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To say we are sad is an understatement, we are heartbroken. I never for one moment thought that Choco would be the first of our five dogs to leave us, so the shock was immense. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We are just so glad that his suffering was minimal, he never showed any signs of being unwell beforehand, it was just all so very quick. And he was gone.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I shall always miss him, he was such a mummy's boy, following me around if not physically, then with his eyes. He's sit on the back of my sofa and lick my neck or he'd actually try to sit on my shoulder! He was a bundle of energy and we'll never forget him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rest in Peace little Choco ...... 9th December 2011 - 23rd July 2019</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span>Sharonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14816580427584989752noreply@blogger.com26tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8235272631422518491.post-80582408207908236192019-07-11T22:48:00.000+02:002019-07-11T22:48:57.141+02:00A little bit of sewing......<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As the interest in my dolls has started to come back, so has my urge to sew for them again. Over the last week or so I've made a couple of dresses for the Little Darlings which I showed in my last blog post and now I've made a few outfits for my BJDs (ball jointed dolls) so I thought I would share the BJD outfits here. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">First of all I decided to make a summer dress for Angel, my tanned Ziya by Youpladolls, using a pattern that I've had here for many years as it came from a doll magazine back in about 2008. I've used this pattern many times in the past but hadn't done so recently. It is a pattern designed by Zozolala, the Dutch doll seamstress and I thought it would be a nice style for Angel.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The bodice is a little loose on her but I like how it hangs. The pintucks are a nice feature and add a bit of interest to the bodice.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Next, using a pattern from Tirin & Katten, I made a summer dress for my Eminor from Harucasting. The pattern comes in many sizes and I decided to use the biggest size, designed for the MSD Imda 4.3 and increase it by 10% as Eminor has a slightly bigger bust than the Imda. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I decided to leave the hem with a raw edge, just for fun and then to wet the dress and screw it up and twist it about a bit! I love how this style suits her so much. I've never thought of Eminor as a girlie girl, but she certainly looks it in this style of dress with her hair loosely piled up on her head and her little brown Mary Jane shoes. I think I need to make more dresses for her now!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sorry about all the similar photos of her but I just couldn't choose as I love this girl so much!</span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And finally today, I made a dress for Anais, my Annic by Irrealdolls. Anais is just 22 cm tall and very slim. I decided to use the same pattern for her as I used for Eminor above but this time I would try the pattern for the Imda 2.2 size doll. I measured Anais's chest and established that she had approximately the same chest size as the Imda 2.2 and went from there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The bodice in this size is quite tiny and fiddly to work with and being fully lined doesn't help, but I'm pleased with how it came out. I used quilters cotton for this dress but the pattern does suggest that finer fabric would work well, so I might see what I have that's thinner for next time. Also, I ironed the gathers down as suggested in the pattern, I think I'd want to do that a bit differently too as I don't like how some of the gathers are hanging here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I also have another idea for an outfit for Eminor, this time using the bodice part of the pattern and instead of making it into a dress, using it as a summer top....and adding some shorts. Hopefully I will make a start on that tomorrow.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I hope you've enjoyed seeing a little of what I've been up to on the dolly sewing front. Thanks so much for visiting and I hope you all have a lovely weekend!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Big hugs, Sharon in Spain xxx </span>Sharonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14816580427584989752noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8235272631422518491.post-17554823915571768822019-07-05T21:26:00.000+02:002019-07-05T21:26:57.648+02:00An Update and some Little Darlings!<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">As some of you know from reading my blog, I had to sell a lot of my dolls over the last six months and, although I won't bore you with the details, things were not looking good for the rest of them either. I managed to get rid of 54 dolls and sold all of Brian's trains (from his younger days!) on Ebay aswell...but finally things are looking up for us. We have just this week sold our house, having signed the contracts on Wednesday night. The house sale will hopefully be finalised in early September, so we will no longer have a home in Sevilla, but will live permanently on the coast here in Malaga Province.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">On the one hand we are really pleased that the house sold so quickly as it's only been on the market for a couple of months, but on the other, so it is a very 'bittersweet' feeling, we have been really happy there and made some fantastic Spanish friends but needs must and we shall look forward to a new chapter of our lives starting from now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Of course through all this, I've not only had very little time for my dolls, I've also been very lacking in interest....but just recently my interest is slowly coming back and so I decided to take some photos of the dolls who, luckily I was able to keep!!! So first up are the Little Darlings and my one Boneka girl. I changed them into summer clothes as it's so hot here and the poor girls were melting in their winter outfits!! So without further ado.....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Rory (Lana Dobbs), Reece (UFDC Factory girl enhance by me), Ellie (Dianna Effner), Gem (Dianna Effner), Nikola (Nellie Valentino) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I really love these girls' faces but I find their posing is really very, very limited. They are elastic strung dolls but unlike the Sasha dolls, who are also strung with elastic, the Little Darlings do not pose very naturally, they are rather 'wooden'....I guess I just put up with it because the do look so sweet!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I hope you've enjoyed seeing some of the girls who survived my dolly cull, I hope to share some of the others who've stayed really soon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Have a lovely weekend everyone and thank you for visiting!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Big hugs Sharon xx </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span>Sharonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14816580427584989752noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8235272631422518491.post-64796140799446558602019-06-08T20:48:00.001+02:002019-06-08T20:48:44.795+02:00The Manikins<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I mentioned in my previous post that the lovely little Toddler, Iona, was not alone in the parcel that came from my special dolly friend in the US. Iona was actually accompanied by two very unusual (to me) dolls, and as soon as I saw them I thought they were worth researching a little. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The dolls are actually called 'manikins' and from what I can find on the Internet, they were made by a company called Latexture of New York City, who produced these figures alongside Simplicity, (the pattern company who were also based in NYC) who produced the patterns specifically for this size of 'doll'. The original 'dolls' would have come in a box which included a pattern, a wooden stand, a tape measure, some thread, a little pair of rounded end scissors, and possibly other sewing paraphernalia for the budding seamstress.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The two manikins that I received are without their boxes, they are from the 1940s I believe and that was apparent as soon as I saw them, the style of their hair is very 1940s. When I say 'hair', they have molded on hair and it is painted a glossy deep brown. The bodies are only jointed at the shoulders and apparently the arms pop in and out on 'pegs'....I think these pegs might have been prone to breaking as a lot of the dolls I've seen for sale, are missing one or both of their arms. Both mine have their arms and are in quite good condition, although one has some pin pricks to her torso as well as a bit of damage to her face paint. I'm guessing she was the one who was used by a seamstress to make outfits. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Both girls are approx 13 inches tall and they have slim bodies with small bust and hips and not a considerable difference between their top and bottom halves in measurements. This must have made it a lot easier for young seamstresses to work with, no need for masses of darts....I'm just guessing here as </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">unfortunately</span> I don't have the patterns. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Although both of these 'dolls' appear to be the same sculpt, there are some subtle differences between them. As you can below, one of the dolls has a slither of paint missing from the end of her nose so I will refer to her as 'girl A' (shown on the left above) and the other as 'girl B'. In the photo above and below, you might be mistaken into thinking that the girl on the left, 'girl A' has a smaller head than her companion, I thought the same at first, but it is actually that her 'posture' is better and you will see this more clearly in my photos of them from the side. Both girls faces are exactly 3cm long from the edge of their molded hair to the bottom of their chins. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Both girls' faces are quite simply painted; their eyelashes, as you can see below, are all painted to one side of both eyes, so although one eye has lashes on the outside edge of the eye and nothing towards the inner eye, so the other eye has them painted so that her inner eyelid has the lashes, whilst her outer eyelid has nothing but blue eyeliner! They both have blue eyes to match the eyeliner and red 'rosebud' painted lips which I think probably reflect the fashions of the day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here, from the side, you can see that 'girl B' has a more pronounced 'slouch' than her companion. I suspect that this was caused by age or maybe even warmth as at the base of her neck I can just about make out some very fine wrinkles in the plastic, but these were so fine that I couldn't really get them to show up properly in photos....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the rear view you can see the damage to 'girl A', probably caused by sewing needles or pins. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can also see the makers mark. Both girls are marked with the words 'Fashiondol' (yes just the one 'L' in doll...and the copyright ©️ across the small of their backs, nothing more. </span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Also as you'll see above, both girls are 'wearing' painted on high wedged shoes. I believe that these shoes would have originally had 'pegs' attached to them, so that they could be pushed into the wooden stands that the girls would have originally come with.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This difference in the two dolls is really easy to see on their hair, for example.....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And here you can see the differences in their ears.....with 'girl B's ears, on the right, being almost flat compared to the girl on the left.....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As well as those differences, their skin tones are also different, with 'girl A' having a more beige toned skin colour compared to the other girl's skin which has a more rosy tone to it. Their hair colour though is exactly the same, from this angle the colour reminds me of lovely shiny conkers!! 😄</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Apart from that, both girls more or less feel the same, their bodies are completely hollow so they are 'squidgy' and slightly pliable, although because of their age I've not squashed their bodies in too much as I don't want their surface paint, if that is indeed what it is, to get any further damage to it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Well I hope you have enjoyed seeing these two 'manikin' dolls, I know that I have enjoyed receiving them and trying to find out all I can about them, which sadly hasn't been much. I don't know if they'll stay as I am supposed to be downsizing further, (and my friend sent them to me with a note to sell if I wanted to) but we shall see....I mean they really don't take up too much room, do they? 😉😊</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Have a great weekend and thank you for visiting!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A few years back my friend had a stroke and her emails stopped for a little while. Fortunately though, her husband knows of our friendship and he wrote to tell me that J had been unwell and I continued to email with news of the things going on in my life until J was able to write back to me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">J has often written that she wanted to send me things but I have always tried to discourage her as Spanish customs are so awful and the charges so excessive, and I've always felt that she was way too generous with sending me things, but out of the blue she wrote a few weeks ago to say that a package was on it's way to me and was currently in Madrid. I felt slightly panicked that the parcel was in customs and I would be sent a hefty charge which I couldn't afford. Then J wrote to say that the parcel had now reached my home town's post office and was awaiting collection.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last week I went to the post office to collect the parcel, which thankfully, had not been caught by customs. The box was big, it had cost a lot of dollars to be sent, but what was inside?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But sure enough, once I opened the tube, there inside was the most precious gift, the little Gotz Toddler Iona!!!! I could hardly believe what I was seeing... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Iona came in her original tube, wearing Toddler Elke's outfit (minus Elke's sandals) and carrying her own canvas shoes, her original bag and beanie style hat!! Plus a pair of lovely silky knitted socks that maybe come from another Gotz Toddler? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She is in beautiful condition, with silky soft perfect hair! I haven't undressed her yet as I have been busy with my mum visiting but I will soon take proper photos of her and maybe dress her in something more appropriate for our warm weather. Recently I had to put my little boy Toddler up for adoption, so this little girl will be my model when I start making Toddler clothes, hopefully very soon!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There were two other gifts in the box which I will photograph and share with you here very soon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am truly blessed with the dolly friends I have, I can never thank J enough for such a generous and thoughtful gift. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thank you for stopping by, and for sharing my lovely present with me. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sharon xx </span>Sharonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14816580427584989752noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8235272631422518491.post-90588693690104763632019-04-22T21:28:00.000+02:002019-04-22T23:05:41.417+02:00For Sale: Nautical outfit for Sasha! SOLD<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Yes, I finally did it!!! I sewed an outfit this weekend to sell!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I hope you like it, it has taken me a lot of "kicks up the bum" to get myself back to sewing outfits to sell, but hopefully now that I've made a start, I will make some more :)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now I just hope that people will remember me and like what I sew!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The outfit consists of a two
tiered ra-ra skirt in cute lighthouse pattern quilters cotton, with
lined yoke and tulle underskirt, white knit tee shirt with intricate
detailing to the front (both skirt and top close with metal snaps at the
back), white cotton sailor hat with gold effect anchor adornment and
'rope' detailing around the edge of the brim, (hat crown is NOT lined),
light blue and white striped socks.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /> All items made by me in new<span class="text_exposed_show"> fabrics.<br /> Doll and shoes NOT included.<br /> Price: £30 plus postage from Spain. <br /> Paypal only, Friends & Family or please add 4% to cover paypal charges.<br /> Thank you.<br /> dambuster0662@gmail.com<br /> Please email me if interested.</span></span><br />
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Sharonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14816580427584989752noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8235272631422518491.post-80337479795959942282019-04-18T19:36:00.000+02:002019-04-18T19:36:08.116+02:00Introducing Harucasting Eminor...<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last night my husband returned from almost a week in the UK spent with his family and grandchildren. I stayed home to look after the dogs! Whilst Brian was over in the UK I arranged for him to meet up with my lovely friend Sue so that she could give him my Eminor by Harucasting that I recently had sent to her from the artist in South Korea.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Without further ado, here is the lovely girl! (Sorry that the photos are a little repetitive!) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Eminor is named after the artist's favourite chord apparently! </span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Her resin colour is called Soft Tan and it is very light and creamy. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Her beautiful faceup is by the Russian artist Blisslacosta, I love those freckles which actually are on her forehead too, but only lightly.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The wig I had in mind for her was too big, so she is currently wearing this one which is the colour I wanted for her and very close to the style I had in mind.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Eminor has small eye sockets and she needs to have eyes with a low dome. I wanted brown eyes but those I had were not suitable because of the dome size, so having made these a while ago from resin, I tried them and they fit perfectly.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Eminor comes with two pairs of hands, a pair like the one shown in the photos below.....</span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And a second pair that are more open hands....I've not tried those on her yet.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She is wearing a raglan sleeved tee shirt that I made some time ago with no-one in particular in mind, and it fits her perfectly. She is also wearing a pair of 'aged' jeans that I've had for ages, they also fit her which is great because up until now I have been justifying keeping them as they fit no-one!!!! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now all she needs is a name! I will take more photos of her posing soon, she poses beautifully. I will also try to do some comparison photos with other MSD sized bjds that I have here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Have a lovely Easter weekend, I hope the weather is good and the sun shines down on you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Big hugs Sharon in Spain xxx </span>Sharonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14816580427584989752noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8235272631422518491.post-58731947356632023812019-04-15T00:38:00.000+02:002019-04-15T00:38:09.373+02:00Busy, Busy!<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The last few weeks have been very busy for me, I don't mean to neglect my blog...honest!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anyway, I thought I'd share some of what I've been up to. There's a lot of talk in the BJD (ball jointed doll) world about recasts, I don't want to get into that subject on here because it's a very emotive subject and I'm going to bed soon and it plays on my mind, but my lovely friend Sue in the UK and I, were talking back last summer about how it is possible to get a cute BJD for a really reasonable price, without resorting to buying recasts. <br /> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Soooo we both bought a head each from a company called <a href="http://www.acbjd.com/">Alice's Collections</a> in China, the head in question is a <a href="http://www.acbjd.com/special-offer-16-little-peach-head-p-12378.html?cPath=121_656">Little Peach 1/6 scale head</a> from the company Doll Family and at the time we bought ours, it was $18 plus $5 postage. I see the price has now gone up slightly to $22 but still very reasonable for a bjd head. The head comes in five resin colours, normal pink, white, normal yellow, tanned and grey and we both chose the tanned version. The head comes blank without any body, eyes or wig. The heads shipped approx two months after we purchased them, so I received mine about November. We were then going to send Sue's head cap to a company called <a href="http://www.resinsoul.com/index.asp">Resin Soul</a>, also in China, as they have a resin matching service and will make a body to match the head cap from the head. We chose the <a href="http://www.resinsoul.com/05-chanpin/p-001-1.asp?id=331">1/6 scale girl body</a>. We decided to wait until after Christmas to order the bodies. The bodies would cost $80 each plus postage.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After Christmas, unfortunately, I had a bit of a financial crisis and was unable to go ahead with my ordering of a body, so Sue went ahead and ordered hers. Unbeknown to me, my lovely friend ordered a body for me too as a gift and she surprised me with this generous present in February!!! I'm so very blessed. 💖</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sue sent my body and her dolls head to me, so that I could do the faceup on her doll as well as my own doll.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I tried to make both girls as similar as possible but despite all my efforts at keeping them dust free, I managed to get some tiny pieces of lint under the sealant! I was not a happy bunny and decided to start Sue's doll again.... but for the life of me I cannot find the photos of the finished head second time round, so here, below, is the first one.....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Finally the two heads were finished and I was happy with them. And today my husband, who is currently in the UK, was able to hand Sue her finished head. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here is Sue's lovely girl, who is now known as Ida.....she has a lot of attitude!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And here is my girl, who is called Sarah....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sarah also has to wear glasses but she left them off for the above photos!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And here is Sarah in a different outfit:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I will take some better close up photos of Sarah soon, I just need to replace her eyelashes as I'm not happy with the ones she currently has, as I used the wrong glue.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm very happy with how both girls turned out. I'm not a professional faceup artist, but I did my best to bring the girls to life and hopefully I have achieved that!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thank you for visiting, I will be back soon with the other things that I've been up to recently.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Have a lovely week ahead!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Big hugs Sharon xx</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span>Sharonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14816580427584989752noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8235272631422518491.post-87932476617010640942019-03-20T21:41:00.000+01:002019-03-20T21:41:30.242+01:00A Little Bit of Creativity....<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The weather here had, until today, been beautiful and it inspired me to get a bit creative....I have so many ideas rolling round inside my head but when I sit down in my doll/sewing room, those ideas just seem to float out of the window...and are lost. But I've recently had a little spurt of creativity and thought I'd share it with you...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Then yesterday I made a wig for my little Irrealdoll Annic. I've struggled with finding a good wig for her because she's got such a tiny head that manufactured wigs, even in her size, seem to have too much hair so they overwhelm her face. I decided to make my own, so I made a head cap with tulle and several layers of white glue, which once hard, makes a close fitting cap. I then used fake fur from a cushion I bought at Lidl, trimming lines of the fur still attached to the fabric, making 'wefts' and then attaching them to the cap, again with white glue. And then once it'd dried, I cut it into the only style I can really do, a bob!!! I'm really quite pleased with how it came out and don't think it overwhelms her at all.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So what do you think?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Apart from that, I have heard that my pre-order dolls will soon be shipping, so that's exciting for me, I hope I'm happy with them both :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And finally, here is a photo of some poppies that are growing in the dry river bed behind my home.....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I hope you're all having weather to your liking, wherever you may be.....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Have a lovely week!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Big hugs Sharon xx</span><br />
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