This and That.....

I've had a busy couple of weeks so my blog has had to take a back seat, but finally I had a little bit of dolly time and took the opportunity to change the clothes on a few girls as well as the wig on another.

Firstly Chloe my tanned Fairyland Mini Fee got a change of clothes and wig.  The great thing with this doll is she fits clothing made for the Ellowyne dolls by Robert Tonner, so here she is wearing the cutest jacket from his company, trousers from Elfdoll and a crop top which I've had for ages.  Her lovely Mary Jane shoes are custom made by a lady here in Spain.

Sam, my tiny Elfdoll Hana Angel with her replacement Jerry Berry body, changed into her torn jeans, a long tee shirt and her special cable knitted beanie....

Gala, my Milky Tan Adori by Harucasting, received a very cute gift of a Chihuahua teeshirt from my dear friend Sue in the UK, and she's been dying to show it off to you!  Unfortunately it was a bit chilly so she had to put her coat on to go outside and have her photos taken but hopefully soon she'll be able to wear it with her shorts and sandals!

Scarlett, my customised Kidz n Cats Alice, got to go out to the Bio Parc in Fuengirola last week, so here are a few photos of her enjoying the aquarium and the sunshine there....although it was quite cold, so she was dressed for the weather!

Leone, my Zwergnase Junior Violet, went for a walk by the lake in La Viñuela, it was a lovely day, one of the first really sunny days we've had recently....the lake is looking a bit fuller after all the rain too, although it's still very low unfortunately.

The lake definitely looks beautiful though.....

In other news, I have continued with my morning walks, although we've had some very changeable weather recently so I've made good use of the treadmill and weights at the gym.  Here are some photos from my walks....despite rain and high winds, we have also had some beautiful sunshine, so there are definite signs of spring around here!!

El Torre de Jarral....is a watch tower which sits high on the cliff overlooking the coastal road and the beach below.  It is believed to be from the  13th to 14th centuries.  I often walk up to the tower and have shown close up photos of it in the past,  but on this occasion I walked inland so that I could get a good view of it from a similar height....according to my fitness watch, the climb up to the base of the tower is the equivalent of walking up about 25+ flights of stairs!

Due to all the rain, one of my routes now has a stream running along the track which me and Lucy, my Miniature Pinscher, have to jump over a few times.....it is quite fast running, crystal clear water and approx one metre wide in places and several centimetres deep!

I spotted this rainbow a few days ago....

And some very threatening looking grey clouds!

Finally some beautiful blue skies!  These two photos were taken in the olive groves high above the coast, it was peaceful and warm, with just the sound of the birds for company.....

The sea is just visible through the olive trees....

Signs of spring!  The first poppies that I've seen this year....

And loads of daisies everywhere!

Well I hope you've enjoyed seeing some of my photos! 

Thank you for visiting!

 I wish you all a very Happy Easter, or  Feliz Pascua as they say here in Spain.  

Big hugs Sharon xx

Latest Kidz n Cats customisation....

I thought I'd share some photos of my latest custom work on a 2016 Kidz n Cats Lena.  I will probably be putting this girl up for adoption very soon.  Lena is brand new, I bought her just to customise, so she's never been played with. She's had the 'full works' including new glass eyes, full makeup, new eyelashes and I've also hot glue sueded her legs and neck to make her hold poses better.  She is from 2016 and her body is nice, her legs do not snap back straight like some of the earlier bodies did.  Her wig is her original as I thought it suited her well, it's not glued down and she still has the ribbons that she came with, I just forgot to put them back in her hair!.  She is wearing her default outfit:

Thank you for visiting, I hope you all have a lovely weekend.  My son Brendan is arriving tomorrow night from the UK, to visit with us for a week!!!  I'm very excited!!!

Big hugs, Sharon xx

Kidz n Cats Makeovers.....

I've been a bit busy over the last few days but didn't want to let my New Years 'resolution' to post here more regularly, slip within the first month!  So please forgive me for not posting new photos but I thought I'd share some photos of the few Kidz n Cats makeovers that I've done since discovering these dolls a few years ago.

I started out doing one for myself, this was my first Kidz n Cats doll, she was Grace, known as the 'classic face'  from 2015 if I remember rightly and I gave her a full makeover, including new wig, new glass eyes, and new makeup.

Here is her 'before' photo:  (sorry it's a bit blurry)

 

You can see she was a cutie to begin with but I just wanted to make her more 'mine' if that makes sense.

Here she is with her whole new look,  her lovely grey glass eyes and Monique Gold Roxie wig:  She turned into quite the tomboy!

 

You can see I had a lot of fun sewing for her too!  However, I decided to send her to a new home so then there was Elise!

Elise, who is still here, is from 2013 and she went under the knife too, becoming my little Afro Caribbean girl.....she got the full treatment, and I love her pouty little face.

Before photo:

And after.  Elise was given golden brown eyes and her wig is a Monique Christine which I styled into two plaits and then cut shorter, plus cut some shorter tendrils into the front to soften the look.  (You can see my girls have to share their clothes! LOL )

After this I decided to buy a sculpt that hadn't really appealed to me previously, what is known as the 'mischievous' sculpt, a Julika, from 2015.  I wanted to see what the sculpt was like in 'real life' and also I liked the outfit!

Before photo:  She was actually rather cute but I didn't like her wig which felt really very synthetic. 

But I did like this outfit which was multilayered and appealed to me.....

I gave her the 'full works' including blue glass eyes and a red wig, which I think suited her mischievous face, plus added freckles.  I liked her better this way but still she wasn't one of my favourites so she went to live elsewhere!!

Then I started to get requests to custom dolls for other people, the first two girls came for a visit from Switzerland.  The first is 'classic face' Laura who is the same sculpt as Grace, above.  Her mum wanted her to have a similar colour wig to her original, but not the same style, which was very curly and brown eyes.  Because the Kidz n Cats come with acrylic eyes, I replaced her originals again with glass, this time in deep brown, and her wig is a Monique Gold one, if I remember rightly it's a Geneva. 

Before photo:  (Sorry this isn't my photo, I forgot to take one before I started on her!)  She was pretty but her hair was a mess, again synthetic feeling and easily tangled.

After her full makeover:

The second girl to visit from Switzerland is Stine, who is known as the 'sweet face', and is also from 2013. 

Before photo:  Stine looked cute but her lips were very pink, as if she were wearing her mother's lipstick! 

 

After her makeover, she had pretty blue glass eyes and a trimmed Monique Gold Jojo wig....

Next came a girl from the South of France, her name is Rosie and she is also the 'classic face', she's from 2015.  Her mum wanted her to have a full makeover but to keep her default wig and eyes as the hair colour suited her well, and her acrylic eyes were a particularly pretty colour green.

Here is her before photo:

After photos:  I gave Rosie the full makeover, plus some freckles as I felt they suited her 'outdoorsy girl' look...

 

My latest Kidz n Cats makeover is Alice from 2016, she is the 'mischievous' face, which as I said above, wasn't my favourite but her brown eyes and hair appealed to me, so I adopted her.  I decided to keep her default wig but cut it short and of course she got the full works, including deep brown glass eyes.  She is now known as Scarlett, (thanks to Farrah Lily!), and you've seen quite a few photos of her recently, so I will just add a couple here:

Her before photo:

And her after photo:

Finally, I was tempted by another 'classic' face sculpt on Ebay a couple of weeks ago and little Lena arrived earlier this week from Germany.  She is going to get a full makeover very soon, maybe I will even make a start on her tomorrow!  So please watch this space if you like seeing dolly makeovers :)

Thanks, as always, for visiting, I hope you've enjoyed seeing these girls again.  I hope you'll drop by to see Lena when she's ready to show herself!

Have a great weekend! 

Big hugs, Sharon xx