Searching for hair....and not just any old hair!

The last couple of weeks I've been thinking about poor Lyrics hair which, as you will remember, is breaking badly at the front.  Well it's breaking all over to be honest, but it's not quite so bad at the back.  This is the colour of her hair in daylight, it's what I would call a 'dirty' blond, or maybe it's 'ash' blond?  If anyone can help me with the name of this colour, I'd be really grateful.

Her hair actually doesn't look so bad in these photos but it's very thin in real life and there are several rows of empty plugs going backwards from the forehead.  Jackie R suggested taking some from the back to reroot at the front, but there's just not enough at the back despite how thick her plaits look.

I bought some blond hair but when I got it home I realised that it is just not the right shade of blond.  I then bought a hair dye in a darker blond, tried that, it made not one iota of difference!! Well except to make the hair harder to comb through!  I wonder if I should have used a fabric dye seeing as the hair is synthetic!

A very pale blond....I think this is too light for her:

This is a darker shade of blond but it's very 'yellowy':

Here are both blonds mixed together: I don't think this photo is a good representation of the colour though as her own hair looks almost 'green' ...

I have searched for other shades of blond  on the internet and not found any that appear similar to her existing hair colour.  I am not planning on partially rerooting, I will probably have to do her whole head, so it's not so much getting a match but a shade that suits her skin colour.

I really don't want to waste any more money on blond hair if it's not going to work.  I even took her to a wig and hair extension shop in Malaga, only to find that the store had closed down...doh!

Therefore I have been thinking, shall I go for another colour entirely?  I was thinking about auburn.  I don't want to change her to brunette as I already have my brunette Lindt.  She would be entirely different and I'd not have to worry about the shade of blond.  But do I really want to change Lyric that drastically?  I really don't know.  :(

I think in all honesty that I'd prefer her to remain blond.  Keeping her own hair isn't really an option as it is so badly damaged, fragile and brittle and I feel that before long she will have an even bigger 'comb over' than she has already!!!!

I would welcome any suggestions. 

Nautical but nice!

I finished an outfit yesterday and thought that it really needed to be photographed with boats in the background as it has a nautical theme.  This morning I drove a few kilometres to a local marina at a place called Caleta de Velez to take some photos.  However, it was so incredibly windy that poor Wren looks like she's been dragged through a hedge backwards....but she looks great compared to how my hair looked once we got back to the car!!!

I was hoping that there might have been a boat owner about and I could have asked politely if I could stand her on their boat deck to take some photos but it was very quiet, just a few walkers and that was it.  And unless you have a special keycard, you can't gain access to the boat jetties. :(

The seagulls came out in force, I guess they thought Wren might have something for them!  Whereas I think Wren thought that they might think she was what they were after!!

"Erm, yes, that little girl in red looks like a tasty morsel!"

Definitely No Fishing!!

Does absence make the heart grow fonder...?

When away from home I always like to bring dolls with me, after all, I like to sew for them so it would be pointless not to bring a model...or three!  Also though, I just like to have dolls around me, so even if I weren't sewing, there would be a couple of dolls here to just look at and redress.  But often I find that although I'm really happy with the dolls I've brought with me, so I hanker after, or miss, those that are left behind....and this causes me to look at their photos on my laptop.  I was doing just this today and thought I'd share some older photos of my very naughty Secretdoll Persons.  I know that I've posted some of these photos on here before, so I apologise for that, but hope that for some of my 'followers' they'll be new photos and that you'll enjoy them.

For those that don't know, the Persons are made of resin by the company Secretdoll in South Korea.  Although they are approx 19cm tall, their big heads take up a large proportion of that height!  They wear size 6/7 inch wigs on their egg heads and they don't have any ears....although this doesn't stop them hearing everything that is going on!  Their bodies are really skinny with tiny little feel of approx 2.2cm in length!

My two, Persephone, known as Percy, is a Person 21 and Kobi is a Person No 8.  Both of them have lived with me since new and arrived in July 2011.  They have very strong personalities and Kobi is the ringleader...if there is trouble to be found, then she will find it.  Percy though, is her willing accomplice!!

Here are some of my favourite photos of them, I hope you enjoy!!

The girls hanging out at the coast....Percy, on the left, looks as if she is sulking about something, in this photo!

Biking on a sunny afternoon!

Comparing new shoes!  Spotty ones for Kobi.....

And canvas Mary Janes for Percy....

Getting to know poor Olive!

Back to school for Percy...

Playing at hairdressers....except someone got carried away!!!!!!!!

Percy on the left, and Kobi, showing off new summer dresses...

Percy in orange....I love her in this outfit...

Ready for the beach...notice even my tiniest dolls have 'mummy made' striped socks!!

Kobi shows off her new sandals...

Oh dear!  Who let them get their hands on the No More Nails?????

Percy 'listening' to a lecture about Sharing....not sure she understands the concept though!

Life's a beach.....

I finished sewing an outfit today that has a 'nautical' theme to it...well the fabric of the top has anchors on it, does that count as nautical?  I thought I'd take Wren down to the beach to photograph her and was glad I did.  The beach was completely empty and it was really lovely just sitting there listening to the waves.  It was a bit windy so Wren fell over a few times in the sand and her sand in her hair and a bit windblown but I think she enjoyed herself.

Wrens hair ribbons were tied nicely before we got to the beach but she soon had them hanging down!!!

I was a bit worried that she'd ruin her lovely JJ sandals but they're made of sterner stuff and survived her jaunt on the beach!

Wren has such a dreamy look in this photo!

A funny thing happened.....

A funny thing happened today when I was out shopping.  I wandered into a toy shop called Imaginarium which carries wooden train sets, educational toys, and very cute toy replicas of  kitchen equipment and foodstuffs!

It was in this particular shop that the 'something funny' happened.  A little voice from the top shelf called out to me to take her home!  It is not often that I'm drawn to 'play dolls' that are available from toy shops, but this little girl really appealed to me.  She was on special offer at just 30 euros, which was an added bonus, so I decided to bring her home.  And she was 'made in Spain'...so I'm actually helping the Spanish economy too...can't be bad, eh?!!! :)

This little Asian girl is approx 32cm tall, all vinyl, and from the Nicoleta range of dolls.  She has shiny black hair in two pigtails, very dark almost black inset eyes, and the cutest little button nose and rosebud lips.  What I also like is that, unlike the caucasian girls in this range of dolls, this little one didn't have attached eyelashes, and I think the result is much more natural looking.  A bit of research leads me to believe that she is actually designed by Ruth Treffeisen and probably made by Paola Reina dolls here in Spain. 
 

She has thick rooted hair which is nice and silky, although would probably benefit from a wash to get rid of that slight stickiness that doll hair often comes with.

I don't like her eyebrows all that much as they are a bit simply drawn compared to how nice her lips are painted, so I might fill those in a little with watercolour pencil when I go home.

Her outfit is also very cute.  It is made up of denim shorts over a pair of grey knit tights, a long sleeved tee shirt advertising the doll range and the stores logo "It's Magical" and a very cute pair of 'leather' boots in grey with fur around the tops.  She also has a little bag with the same logo as the tee shirt.  All the pieces are well made.

I decided to call her Jasmine, after the flowers that are all in bloom here at the moment, as you can see in the photo below.

Other outfits are available separately for around 12 euros a set, but I do have lots of patterns that could be adapted to fit her. 

And the funny thing is, I have a little Asian baby doll at home who might be the perfect little sister for her!