Something happened on the way to Ebay.....!

I had been looking at my dolls with a view to downsizing...I do this every now and again, especially if I see another doll that I might l like to add to my dolly family....and this was the case recently.  I thought about who to sell, and someone mentioned that a Hope by Kaye Wiggs had recently sold for a nice four figure sum on Ebay.   So I said to myself "do I really need not one but TWO Kaye Wiggs dolls with the same body style? Do I? Really?" and so when we went home a week or so ago to collect some things for Christmas, I decided to bring my Hope back to the coast with me with a view to getting her ready to sell.

Ahh but as we know, all the best made plans........I took some photos, I changed her wig and clothes and that was it.  I realised that I couldn't sell this doll even for four figures!  I'm not greedy, I know that if I have any regrets then this doll will be irreplacable because I'm hopeless at saving money and would struggle to find another even if I could get the money together.  I realised that the doll meant more to me than the money, which would just get spent anyway!!

Not only that, quite quickly over the last week, this doll has actually become one of my favourites of all my dolls!!!  How weird is that!!!!

So she is staying and today I changed her into this knitted set by Stassy Dodge in Latvia.  The set is actually knitted for the Sylvia Natterer dolls who are bigger in the body than Hope, but I liked how it looked on her.  Plus having been brought down here with selling in mind, I never brought any clothes for her!!! Poor girl!

I took her to the beach with us for our usual Sunday morning walk, it was mild but dull and very very still, not a breath of wind.  I hope you like the photos of her :) and warn you there are a lot of them!!!!

Thank you for stopping by my blog today, I hope you all have a lovely week ahead and keep safe and warm!

Hope....

Hope also got a chance to relax on the beach too, so I thought I'd share just a few photos of her from Monday morning.  Because she's resin and resin can be damaged by the sun, I made sure to just keep her out in it for a short time!!

Now I'm seeking opinions here....does this girl need a new faceup?   Either professional or by me?  I'm thinking that she could be redone and have seen some beautiful work recently by an artist in Russia......decisions, decisions!  And I'm not asking this 'fishing for compliments', I really can't decide on my own what to do!  I'm terrible at making decisions about dolls!!!!

Kaye Wiggs MSD sized girls....

Although I have taken some photos of other dolls over the last couple of days, I will share those at another time and show these older photos instead today.  The reason being, I was looking through my thousands of stored photos and saw these and thought that some of you might enjoy seeing them. 

These photos are of my resin ball jointed dolls created by the Australian artist Kaye Wiggs.  I have two girls in the MSD size, Hope who's resin colour is called 'sunkissed' and Layla who is in 'light tan'.  Both girls have human ears as opposed to some that come with 'elf' or 'faun' ears.  Both girls are approx 45cm tall with immature childlike bodies.

All of the outfits shown in the photos were created by me. I hope you'll enjoy seeing these photos!  And maybe you'll need to have a nice cup of tea and a comfy chair as there are a lot of them! ;)

Firstly we have Hope.  Because I like her name I've never renamed her.  She has been with me since July 2012.

 

In April 2014 I decided to remove Hope's default faceup and give her a softer look.  It was supposed to be a temporary faceup until I could get her done professionally, but I had so many people contact me to say that they thought she was lovely, that I decided to keep her this way!  Maybe one day I will get her redone professionally but for now I'm quite happy with this look :)

My other girl in this size is Layla.  Layla, who I renamed Louisa or Loulou, came to live here in June 2012 and I bought her secondhand.  She has a custom faceup by Forever Virginia.  I think that Layla has a slightly younger look than Hope, so she is the 'little' sister, although both girls are actually the same size.

I hope you've enjoyed seeing my Kaye Wiggs girls and thank you for looking!