New Arrivals....

Yesterday my 'new arrivals' number went up by two....when my Little Darlings arrived from Nelly Valentino.  They'd had a long journey as they travelled via a lovely dolly friend in the UK, making it so much easier than if they'd come directly from the US and having to pass through Spanish customs!

I ordered these two girls back at the beginning of January and the artist started painting them at the beginning of August.  I chose two #1 sculpts, one with blue eyes and the other with a sort of grey/green eyes.  Both girls are very pretty.  I did think that I might make one into a boy, but they do look so 'girlie', don't they? 

Anyway, the grey/green eyes girl came with a brunette wig, it's lovely and soft and the curls are nice, not too big and out of scale for her size.  And the blue eyed girl came with a red faux mohair wig with a single plait at the back.

I've also added more blush to both girls as they tended to look a bit pale, I much prefer my girls to have more colour on their faces.

I've changed the blue eyed girls wig for a couple of other wigs with reddish tones.....as you will see below:

Girl A: (seen here wearing her default brunette wig)

Girl B: wearing a Monique Gold Tessie wig in Reddish Blond

Both girls together:   The blue eyed girl on the right, is trying a Monique Gold Jojo in these photos:

I thought I'd see how the brunette girl looked in a Jojo wig too:  

And here are both girls wearing the same style of wigs, I think they make lovely twins so I might keep them this way for now.

They still don't have names, but I'm working on that!

In the photo below, taken with flash, the girl on the right looks slightly bigger and maybe even a little older....it's a trick of the camera of course but even in real life she seems a little chubbier!  So she will be the 'older' twin....only by a few minutes of course ;) 

Thanks for looking, I hope you all have a lovely weekend :)

Kidz n Cats customs finished....

You may recall that I mentioned several weeks ago now that I was customising two Kidz n Cats dolls for a lady in Switzerland.  Well I finally finished them and sent them off to their new home about two weeks ago.  The owner received them yesterday and thankfully is very happy with how they have turned out.  I thought I would share some photos of the finished results.

The first of the two dolls was Laura, she was released in 2013 I believe and had a very messy synthetic brunette curly wig.....not nice!  So her mum wanted a straight wig with a fringe in a similar colour.  I ordered the Monique Gold Geneva wig in Brown/Black and had to trim the fringe because it was a little long over her eyes, but I left the length at the back as it does give more scope for other styles such as plaits and ponytails.  

This was how she looked when I'd finished all the detailed work....but minus her wig:

Here she is in her default outfit and new wig, completely finished and ready to go home:

These girls come with what I consider are cheap acrylic eyes and not so nice eyelashes, so both have been replaced.  The eyes are good quality glass in deep brown:

And then we have Stine.  Stine was also released in 2013 and I have given her the 'full works' too, she now wears another Monique Gold wig, this time it's a Jojo in Golden Strawberry/Golden Auburn, I again had to tidy up the fringe a little bit because it was over her eyes but this style is meant to be wispy and layered so I left the rest alone.  I have shown it in pigtails in one of the photos below and think it gives her a more 'playful' look :)

For Stine I also used good quality glass eyes in a deep blue and she too is shown below in her default outfit:

And finally both girls together:

Thank you to the 'mum' of these two sweet girls for trusting me to customise them .... I'm really glad that you're happy with their new looks :)

Mr Stinky cleans up nicely!

A few weeks ago I blogged about the new brunette boy who'd arrived from the UK, having a few problems and smelling none too pleasantly!  His badly falling brunette hair was removed and I'd wigged him as a girl, but despite a good clean, he still had a very cloying smell about him.  I was going to give him the cat litter treatment but thought I'd leave him outside in the garden for a few days first, just to see if that worked.  And luckily it did!  He now smells just fine and for the time being he is back to being a boy again!   He only has a pair of trousers so far, a simply made pair of jumbo cord ones that quickly made him today, but he does have a wig!  He is currently wearing a Monique Gold Jojo which I've trimmed in length at the back, but it is still nice and long.  He is a bit of a beach bum and surfer dude so he likes to keep his hair long!!  I have cut out a shirt for him and hope to sew it together tomorrow. 

He hasn't got a name yet, but might end up being called Jack!  We shall see!