Pretty Maids all in a row....my Dianna Effner family

I just realised that I forgot to post these photos that I took the other day of my Little Darlings and my little Boneka Tuesday Child.  I took them especially for my blog, and then put them elsewhere and that was it!

So here are some photos showing all the girls together and some showing the same sculpts together.  I have to say that I was glad no-one had a camera on me when I was taking these photos.  I put some artificial grass down on the deck next to the fence, then I put an old sheet on the ground to lie on.  So far so good.  But my dogs decided that the artificial grass was for them, so they go and sit on it.  Right in front of where I wanted to pose my dolls.  I got down on the ground and started lining the dolls up.  Lucy decides that she wants to get between them and the camera, then she wants to lay on her back and push her chest into my face for tickles.  Then three of the Chihuahuas decided to run up my back, Choco started to dig into my hair, Yoda went up the back of my skirt and in the process pulled my skirt right up over my waist so revealing my 'not so sexy' knickers to the world.  And then the dolls started to fall like dominoes!

Honestly the lengths we go to to take photos of our dolls....thank goodness we're not overlooked is all I can say!

All the girls together, left to right:

Gem (#2 sculpt by Dianna Effner), Daniela (Boneka Tuesday's Child), Antonia (#1 sculpt by Nelly Valentino), Nikola (#1 sculpt by Nelly Valentino), Ellie (#1 sculpt by Dianna Effner), Reece (#2 sculpt UFDC factory painted) and Finn (#2 sculpt by Pat Green)

A closer look at the line up:

The #1 sculpt girls: 

The #2 sculpt girls:

And finally some photos of Antonia in her new outfit that came from a French seamstress in Germany!  The outfit consists of the dress which is half knitted and then a fabric 'skirt' attached and the hat.  I added the apple green spotted socks myself, to go with the green flowers on the skirt fabric.

Thank you for looking, I hope you all have a lovely week :)

A new outfit ...

Yesterday I quickly made an outfit for one of my new Little Darlings.  I have mentioned before on here that when I have a new doll coming I like to make an outfit for her/him before they arrive.....well that's the intention anyway.  Of course it doesn't always happen and when my new dolls get here they often have to scramble around in the dolls clothes box for something to wear.

One of the new girls was more fortunate and I did indeed make her a dress which she was able to instantly put on to cover her blushes, but this little one didn't get anything.  Well that's not completely true, I actually did make her a skirt and some tee shirts to try, but the tee shirts are still waiting for snaps to be sewn on, and the skirt was nicer in my head than it was in reality, so I never put it on her.

So here she is in an outfit that I made.  It is made from knit fabric and has a hood.  I thought if it gets cold she can put a long sleeved tee shirt underneath.  ;)

This is the blue eyed twin modelling and her name is now Nikola, or Niki for short.  Her sister with the grey/green eyes, who you met in a previous post,  is called Antonia.

I think she looks like a real child in this photo, standing with her tummy sticking out, as children often do!

Thank you for looking.  I hope you all have had a lovely weekend and that the week ahead is great for you too :)

New Arrivals....

Yesterday my 'new arrivals' number went up by two....when my Little Darlings arrived from Nelly Valentino.  They'd had a long journey as they travelled via a lovely dolly friend in the UK, making it so much easier than if they'd come directly from the US and having to pass through Spanish customs!

I ordered these two girls back at the beginning of January and the artist started painting them at the beginning of August.  I chose two #1 sculpts, one with blue eyes and the other with a sort of grey/green eyes.  Both girls are very pretty.  I did think that I might make one into a boy, but they do look so 'girlie', don't they? 

Anyway, the grey/green eyes girl came with a brunette wig, it's lovely and soft and the curls are nice, not too big and out of scale for her size.  And the blue eyed girl came with a red faux mohair wig with a single plait at the back.

I've also added more blush to both girls as they tended to look a bit pale, I much prefer my girls to have more colour on their faces.

I've changed the blue eyed girls wig for a couple of other wigs with reddish tones.....as you will see below:

Girl A: (seen here wearing her default brunette wig)

Girl B: wearing a Monique Gold Tessie wig in Reddish Blond

Both girls together:   The blue eyed girl on the right, is trying a Monique Gold Jojo in these photos:

I thought I'd see how the brunette girl looked in a Jojo wig too:  

And here are both girls wearing the same style of wigs, I think they make lovely twins so I might keep them this way for now.

They still don't have names, but I'm working on that!

In the photo below, taken with flash, the girl on the right looks slightly bigger and maybe even a little older....it's a trick of the camera of course but even in real life she seems a little chubbier!  So she will be the 'older' twin....only by a few minutes of course ;) 

Thanks for looking, I hope you all have a lovely weekend :)

Starting as I mean to go on.......

Last week I decided that I wanted to adopt another Little Darling by Dianna Effner, I kept looking at them on Ebay but I'm not prepared to pay the high prices that they're going for second hand, so decided to have a look at the various artists who paint these lovely little dolls. 

I have recently been looking at girls painted by Nelly Valentino  and finally decided to go with her because I really like her work, she does the eyes so beautifully.  However, deciding on the artist was the easy bit, I then had to decide on the sculpt I wanted as well as the eye colour and style.  I wanted another #1 sculpt as I already have two #2's but I wanted her to be completely different from Ellie, but I also like the look of the #3 girls.  Although I've never really been into smiley dolls in the past, I really like the mischevious look of this latest sculpt and thought a #3 would make a nice addition to my Little Darlings family.    In the end the decision was too hard and I decided to go with both the #1 AND #3!!!  I figured that it made sense to pay the deposits now, as normal, and then the balance wouldn't be due until the summertime, when the two dolls were finished.  It also made sense to have two shipped together too, saving on postage!  Ohhhh how we justify our dolly purchases, eh?

So here are the two dolls that will eventually be coming here.  Obviously these photos are not mine and belong to the artist Nelly Valentino.  The first is a gorgeous #1 sculpt with light grey/hazel eyes, soft blushy face and no freckles.  Her eyebrows will be mid brown and her wig will be like the one below.

The second girl is the new #3 sculpt.  She has such a cheeky look about her that I couldn't resist her!   She will be painted like this girl with light grey/blue eyes and mid brown lashes and eyebrows.  However, I have asked the artist for a different wig, one that has a fringe like this but a single plait at the back, in the same colour as this one.  I feel that I already have a personality in my head for this girl and her name will probably be Ronan or Rowan as she is very like my friends little boy and his name is Ronan....and he is a bundle of mischeif too! :)

I'm really excited and looking forward to sewing outfits for both girls.  I hope that I'll love them both as much as I love the ones I have already! :)