A Little Bit of Creativity....

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...

Firstly I decided that Anuschka, my Zwergnase Junior, needed a new wig, as her default one, shown in my last post, was really messy and matted underneath her hat so I looked through my wig box and found this one (below) and thought it made a good replacement for her.....it's a Monique Gold wig, I have no idea of the name, but know that once it was a long one, before I got carried away with the scissors!!!!  I do like her with messy hair.  😊

So then she got a new dress.  I made this using a pattern for Maru & Friends dolls, but the fit is quite good. 

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.

So what do you think?

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 :)

And finally, here is a photo of some poppies that are growing in the dry river bed behind my home.....

I hope you're all having weather to your liking, wherever you may be.....

Have a lovely week!

Big hugs Sharon xx

A new dress for Jo (Zwergnase Junior Miriam)...

I had a little bit of time to do some sewing in the last couple of days so thought I'd make a dress for Jo, my Zwergnase 55cm Junior Miriam.  She's a lovely size to sew for but I'm not sure that I've found her style yet! 

I used this cute cat fabric that I bought at the big Craft Show last December, and added some rick rack in pink, plus a few pale pink tiny buttons.  I thought black and white striped socks would work well with this outfit but I don't appear to have any here at the coast!  So she is wearing a pair of two tone pink striped human baby socks and grey human baby boots, both from Primark!

 

 

Thank you for visiting, I hope you're all having a lovely weekend!

Big hugs Sharon xx

 

My latest challenge .... Lyric!

Yesterday I made a new dress for Lyric, my 60s 'once blond' Slate eyes Gotz Sasha.  As you'll probably have gathered by now, I love colour....lots of colour and probably the brighter the better.  But I decided to go with white because I always like how nice white dresses look on our tanned skinned Sashas.  I'd had this broiderie anglais fabric for ages and thought I'd use that.  It is quite thick and very 'holey' so although I've used this particular pattern before, this fabric was my 'weekend challenge'.  However, I think the bigger challenge, despite much pressing with the iron,  was getting the darn collar to lie flat!! 

Once I'd undressed Lyric though, I realised that she needs a bit of work.  The poor girl has chest caving and I need to sort that out soon.  But I notice that she has a wooden head/neck attachment so I'm not sure whether to try getting her head off to work on her or to remove her legs, which might be easier....but that is for another day, as I got side tracked trying wigs on her! Yes, she is a little baldy, so has to wear a wig.

But that is not all, she also has very very faded whites to her eyes, in fact there really isn't any white to speak of, but the irises themselves are quite good....so I thought I'd add a tiny bit of white watercolour pencil to bring the whites back.  Not a good move.  In the photos of her in the red wig she looks like one of the children from The Village of the Damned!!!!

So I decided to try another wig on her, this time it's another lovely soft Monique Gold wig, which like a lot of my wigs in this size, I've had almost forever!  I like the style on her and think it tones down the whites of her eyes a bit, but not sure on the blue highlights......

Finally I went back inside and toned down the whites of her eyes again, then changed her wig for a Monique Gold Jojo which I put into pigtails.  I quite like the style on her but not sure on the colour.  Now if I could have the brown of the above wig with the style of the below one, that would be perfect!!!  I might have to add a wig for her to my next wig order! :)

Ignoring the eyes, which is your favourite wig for Lyric?  I'm leaning towards the second one but don't be influenced by me, please tell me what you think!!

Hope everyone has a safe and good week ahead :)