A great dolly week....

This week has been a great dolly week!  I have done not one but two dolly trades and I LOVE trades!!!!!  As some of you will have already gathered, I did a trade with Jenni, Jenni is adopting my 'No Navel' and I've adopted Teddy, her Toddler Erik.  Well Teddy (who's real name is Theodore)  arrived today and he is sooooo cute!  Jenni sent him in the outfit he is wearing in these photos and his default outfit will follow :)  I'm not sure but I think this jumper and hat are made by Michelle.

I took some photos of him with his big sister, Liesl, who he'd not seen since he was a baby and of course he doesn't remember!  But I think they look so cute together, wouldn't you agree?  There are no photos of Teddy on his own yet because the ones I took didn't come out well, the light was too bright and washed him out.  I will take more tomorrow :)

Liesl is wearing a lovely knitted set that I recently won on Ebay, knitted by the very talented Rosie :)

Some individual photos of Liesl as she tends to get a bit forgotten here sometimes, I don't know why, because she's very sweet looking.  Maybe now that her little brother is here she will feel more confident about herself ;)  Isn't this set lovely on her!  It's getting a bit warm here now for jumpers and hats but I couldn't wait until next winter to try it on her!

My second dolly trade this week was for a Gotz Sylvia Natterer boy and he is very cute too.  I will take some photos of him during the weekend :) 

Have a great weekend everyone and thank you for welcoming my new little Toddler, Teddy!

Ra-ra-ra .... an abundance of ra-ra outfits!!!

Today I finished five ra-ra skirt sets and am pleased with how they turned out.  The lady who commissioned me to make them is happy too, so I thought I'd share them on here....just so you don't think I spend all my time sitting in the sunshine...although I have to say it is very tempting to do so, and I admit that I did sit in the garden to sew on all the snaps, almost 30 pairs of the darn things!  I definitely need a "snap sewer onner" person to help do that for me! LOL

A pink set being modelled by Liesl:

 

Headband details:

Wren models a blue set because she looks so lovely in blue!

Her hairband:

Millie models a sunshine yellow set:

Her hairband is decorated with a little white daisy chain!

Bailey models a very pale lemon set, the skirt fabric is scattered with tiny coloured rosebuds and her socks are decorated with little bows tied in silk ribbons:

Her hairband is decorated with four asymetrical rosebuds, who's colours match the rosebuds on her skirt!  She hasn't really got the hairstyle for a hairband, but don't tell her! :)

Meggie models the pink yet...well this started out as another lemon set because the background of the skirt fabric is a buttery lemon/yellow, but I added a pink top because it looked so nice with the flowers on the fabric:

Meggies hairband details:

Finally some photos of the girls together, looking very colourful all in a row and giving the flowers a run for their money!

Bailey and Meggie:

Bailey, Meggie and Millie:

Pretty maids all in a row:  Bailey, Meggie, Millie, Liesl and Wren

 

Catching the last rays of the sun!

All outfits are already SOLD.  Thanks for looking!

New outfits for Devlin and Liesl...

Today I was going to make a start on an outfit for Emilio, but then Devlin came to me and politely (he's always very polite!) reminded me that I'd said he was next on my list for new warmer clothes!  So I made him a new blue hoodie to match his eyes.  I was going to make him some new long trousers too but ran out of time....but he did get some new socks which I made from a mobile phone pouch!!!  

I don't think little boys are usually so well co-ordinated, but he looked so sweet that I wanted to keep him that way!  (Lovely turquoise sandals by the late great Jean Jensen).

Yesterday I made this outfit for Liesl, my little later Gotz Wibke.  She's been patiently waiting whilst all the others got their warm weather outfits.  The trousers are made from fine needle cord that I got from Norway.   The lovely knitted beanie was made by a dear friend of mine in the US.

A new outfit for Wibke...and a new name too!

At first when Wibke arrived and I put her hair back into the plaits that she'd have had originally, I kept thinking she looked like a Heidi.  But then I thought that was a bit too 'obvious', so as I've been looking for a name for my incoming German girl, I found a new sweet name for Wibke aswell.  From now on, she will be known as Liesl.  I thought it was perfect for her!

Yesterday I sewed her a new outfit because she'd not had anything made especially for her, she'd had to 'steal' something from one of the others, so here she is modelling her new casual 'duds', plus I made some leather sandals too.  They're not perfect, I really needed more 'clamps' to hold them together whilst the glue dried, plus they are a little bit too big for her....but as I told her "You'll grow into them!"  We'll not go into the fact that I was also too impatient to wait for the glue to dry properly before going on to the next stage!!! :)

The 'angel' top is made from a pair of little girls knit leggings....I had to be quite 'imaginative' in placing the pattern pieces as I could only find small sizes left in the shop....it's sales time here so everything gets snapped up quickly, including bigger sized girls leggings!  Also it was a toss up between capri length trousers or leggings, I went with the yellow trousers but think I might also make her a pair of turquoise leggings too, as they'll be so much more comfy in the heat!!

 

Close up of the not so great sandals, but they'll do for now!! 

I used these paw print buttons!

 

Playing with 'summer frames'!

Downsizing? Me? LOL, if you believe that, you'll believe anything!

Well I told myself that I was going to downsize.....dolls would be going up for adoption!  And fair enough, I did indeed sell some dolls and my paypal account was looking rather healthy.  Ahh, but as I've probably mentioned before, when I have money in my paypal account, so it burns a hole right through the bottom!  So although my BJD numbers have decreased, I've replaced those adopted out dolls, with ...... yes, you guessed it, Sasha dolls!  Yes, I was the person who initially was only going to have the one, a girl, I didn't want any boys. Erm, then I 'accidentally' bought a boy, so I had a boy and a girl....but then lo and behold I saw my redhead 'waif' on Ebay and just couldn't resist her.....and so we had four! 

But suddenly, I just kept seeing girls that I loved, couldn't resist and could afford......so I brought them home and slowly but surely my Sasha family increased.  Of course I'm completely innocent here, it is all the fault of Shelly of Sasha Dolls UK!!!  Well that's my excuse and I'm sticking with it!

So now I have 9.  Yes, 9!!  Up until yesterday it was 8, but last week I saw another little girl on Shelly's site that I just had to have, and she arrived yesterday.  I had been looking at the later Gotz girls for some time, asking Sasha friends about them and looking at photos on Flickr and elsewhere but I was always a little wary of their eyes, which looked a bit 'staring' in photos so I wasn't sure.  Then I saw a little cutie on Shelly's site, a Wibke, who had repainted eyes by Shelly!!  Absolutely perfect!  I decided to think on it overnight   By the morning, having seen some very cute photos of a similar girl on Facebook, I had decided that yes, Wibke would be coming home to join my girls and boys.  The great thing was, between showing interest and making up my mind, the price of the doll was reduced by £50!!!!  Even better!  So here she is, and I'm really happy with her, she's so cute. I wasn't expecting her to be so petite, I thought she'd be bigger than my other girls but she is actually fractionally smaller even than the older Trendon girls!  I'm really pleased, she fits in perfectly with my darker skinned family.

So introducing Heidi, my little German pale skinned girl with lovely dark blue eyes repainted by the very talented Shelly!  She has borrowed an outfit from another of my girls because she had nothing to wear, but I will rectify that soon enough.  In the meantime, I think this dress suits her perfectly!!