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 :)

Ellory....

Today was Ellory's turn to get some attention, and along with that she got a new outfit.  Well a new kilt actually, as I'd already made the polo neck jumper and long striped stockings a while back, she'd just been waiting on the skirt.

Here she is looking out the window as the sun started to go down:

 

And here is her full outfit from the front.  She has teamed it with some lovely red leather boots by Ruthsdolls:

Unfortunately the kilt is slipping down a bit because poor Ellory doesn't have any knickers on.....she's a bit of an exhibitionist really....I don't know where she gets it from!!!!  But I will get around to making her some underwear one of these days, especially now that the weather is a bit cooler!!!

Ellory likes to 'travel', she is, however, just an 'armchair' traveller, but she enjoys herself all the same.  (I found this on a photo site, so thought it would be fun to use her photo on here!).

Changing the subject entirely, Santa Claus came early here again this year and here is what he has left for me!!!  A lovely new bike!  Well I think the reason 'he' comes here early is because my hubby thinks if he gets in early with a particular idea for me, I won't ask for another doll!!!!

Yes, it is a bike!!!  (in case you didn't guess!! ;) )  I've been wanting one for ages!  Well originally I had wanted a moped or scooter but we found that the insurance was really high, so a push-bike it is!  I also got a helmet and a gel seat!  I'm delighted with it all and will keep it down here at the coast as it is much flatter.  The bike is called a 'town bike'....or as my son called it "an OLD LADIES bike!"...blooming cheek!  But I know what he means!  When I look at it, I'm reminded of Mrs Gulch, the neighbour of Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz....see what I mean?  (Please excuse all the fallen leaves that are waiting to be swept up....I don't even have the excuse that I'm in Kansas and there's been a tornado, do I!!!!)

Now all I need is a big basket on the back for the Chihuahuas!!!

A bit of body swapping!

Back in the summer I bought a brunette Gregor head from Ronny with the intention of using him for rerooting practice.  Ronny told me that he'd had a bit of a hair cut but his hair wasn't falling at all.  I thought that when he arrived, I'd remove his existing badly cut hair and practice on him before starting on my bald Sasha.

Ahh but as we all know, the best laid plans....so the Gregor head arrives and even with his untidy hair I can see he is handsome.  His eyes are beautiful, a very hazel brown, and soooo dreamy!  How could I not immediately fall for his roguish charms!!  So me being me, I put him to one side and started straight away rerooting my bald Sasha....no trial runs for me!!! 

In the meantime, Gregor head has sat around...well as much as you can 'sit' without a body...and just looked handsome.  But I kept looking at him and thinking that I really must get him a body, and wondered if there was anyone in my collection who could do without theirs!  And once the seed was sown, well I just kept thinking about it...and so today, Jojo, my mid 70s blond girl, became 'just a head' and the Gregor head now has a body!!  I know I'm naughty to do that to her but she is my least favourite and hopefully I'll put her head on Ebay for someone else to love!! 

So Gregor has become Emilio!  He is currently wearing a sock on his head to try flattening his unruly hair, but if you squint at the photo you can almost imagine he is wearing not a sock, but a nice black Dollydoodles beany!!!  OK, so you need a very vivid imagination!!!

And yes, those are little eyelashes that you can see, but I just pencilled them in carefully so that I could see what he'd look like as a girl....I've since removed them!

Tomorrow he will hopefully get an outfit of his own!

What do you think?  Isn't he gorgeous?

Hello, my name is Sharon...and I have an ADDICTION!

Yes, it's confirmed, I'm addicted to Sasha dolls!  I was planning on being good this month, not spending any more of my money on dolls, but then just two weeks into the month and I've already broken my own 'rule'!!! 

I think I may have mentioned that I was looking for a little Gotz girl from the 1960s, having fallen in love with Kendal's lovely blond 'waif',  I think called Sophie, so I'm constantly looking on Shelly's site, Ebay and anywhere else where one might pop up for sale.  A couple of weeks ago I saw a little 'waif' listed on Shelly's site, but the first few rows at the front of her hair had been given the 'budding Vidal Sassoon' treatment, cut off right down to the scalp.  But however much I told myself that I really didn't want a girl with her fringe cut off, I kept going back to look at her. 

Finally today I made the decision....with lots of help, thank you, you know who you are!....and decided to go for her!!  So hopefully, she will be here by the end of next week! 

Here she is, not my photo of course, it belongs to Shelly.....but I just had to share!!!

Isn't she sweet!!

Ellory models a new outfit!

Ellory wanted a new outfit more in keeping with her style.  So I made her this A line mini skirt with matching waistcoat and a brown tee shirt.  She added her brown leather sandals and wants me to make her a big, hairband and necklace....which I will get to eventually!  (Waistcoat is made using Ted Mentons pattern which is soooo easy to use!)