A new wig for Bailey...

I ordered a new wig for Bailey, my (once) brunette wider faced Sasha from 1971 and it arrived this week.  It's a Monique Gold Roxie, size 8/9 in Nearly Black.  The wig is, as expected, lovely and soft, the fit is perfect over her stubbly head, and the colour is not solid, it has a mix in there of very dark brown with the black.  So far so good.

However, I'm really not sure if it is 'her'!!  I think it makes her look more boyish than the previous wig she was wearing which was actually a Prince Gregor wig!  I wonder really if I'm trying too hard to recreate the girl who came here about this time last year.....I had so wanted this wider faced girl (as Kendal will vouch for!) and then all her hair fell out!!!  And yet so far even a long dark wig hasn't hit the spot with her.  Oh well I will have to see if I can work with this one...I'll leave it on and see if it 'grows' on me!

This is quite a good representation of the colour, taken in natural light:

I might have to 'feather' or trim the fringe a bit:

It does flick out nicely, but is it too much?

 Back view....it doesn't have grey tips, that's just the light catching it.  Bit of a DA going on here I feel!

 Those 'feathers' need taming a bit!

I do think this wig would work well for a boy too!  Perhaps one of my boys will end up with it!

The sun has got his hat on.....and so has Bailey!

"Hey, little one!  Where do you think you're both going, and undressed like that?!!!"

"Who us?" says Bailey...

 "well, we're going to the beach 'cos the sun is out! And I'm not undressed! I have my knickers on and my hat and boots!!  So I won't catch cold!"

"But it's only January, and we're nowhere near the beach!!"

"But we always go to the beach when it's sunny!"

 

"I know we do sweetie but not today, right?  Now go and put some clothes on before you catch cold!"

"But it's not cold mama, and I wanted to play in the water, look I have my armbands and I have my bucket and spade!  Look I have them all ready to go!" 

"Cheer up Bailey, don't be sad! Maybe we'll go to the coast next week and you can play in the sand if the weather's nice!  How does that sound?"

"OK! Can Chip come too please?  He has his rubber ring!"

"Yes, he can come along too, if he's a good dog!  Now run along and put on some clothes Bailey...it may be very warm today but it's still only January!"

Off she goes!!

Now some of you might be thinking that finally I'm covering my girls modesty by making them some knickers!!!  I have indeed been making this pair but they are not for my girls, they're for a friend!!  My own girls will have to have chilly cheeks for just a little bit longer until I get around to making them some for themselves!!!!  But I was quite pleased with how this first pair of knickers with frills on the back, came out!!!

Bailey....

As most of my Sasha friends will know, I've been struggling with Bailey, my former brunette with the wider face.  I really love her little face but I'm still not happy with her hair.  So today I finally decided that I'm going to remove the hair that I recently rerooted her with and I'm going to either wig her again, or I'm going to reroot her once more.  I've already half made the decision because I've bought some more hair but this time it is closer in colour to her original hair, I've chosen Chocolate Brown, I just hope it's dark enough because this little girls hair was pretty dark before it all fell out.

This is the sweet little girlie that I want back!!!

More sewing!

I finished an outfit for Little Miss No Name and thought it really quite suited her so I've been trying to set up a spot indoors for taking photos that had enough light so that I could do without the flash.....FAIL!  There is just not enough light coming in at the right angle for me to get good indoor photos at the moment.  And yet outside there is TOO MUCH light, so my photos are looking washed out.  Back to the drawing board!!!

In the meantime, I thought I'd still share some photos of LMNN in her new 'duds' even though these are not great photos!!!! 

In the pink.....

My little brunette wider faced girl has been helping me around the garden.  This morning we picked up all the lemons which had fallen from the tree whilst we've been away.  Quite a few of them have seen better days, having laid in the sun on the floor for goodness knows how long!  Unless they appear any good for juicing, they'll go in the bin, and some are badly bruised from when they 'splatted' to the floor from the tree, but there are quite a lot which are unharmed, so they'll be used for various things......at some point!!!!  To be honest, we have far too many lemons to think what to do with them all....I really need to be more adventurous and find more recipes which use lemons as one of the ingredients!!!

We also picked some nectarines as they are ripe and ready to eat....I'll probably have those for my supper this evening.  And the grape vine is absolutely ladden down with bunches of grapes!  They're not ripe yet but I'd say in about two/three weeks, if the wasps don't get them first, we can pick them!  We were told by a neighbour that we'd probably not get much fruit this year because of the snow back in February, but it is nice that she was proved wrong!

And these are just the ones from the floor....the tree is still full of fruit in various stages of their growth!

A Present for Me....from Me!!!

Today is my birthday and as some of my blog followers will know, I have been on the lookout for a wider faced Brunette Sasha for a little while now!  

Lo and behold, today Shelly of Sasha Dolls UK posted two for sale on her website!!!   Absolutely perfect timing and surely meant to be!!!!  So I was lucky enough to snap up my favourite of the two, a gorgeous little girl from 1971 who's facepaint is very vibrant and pretty and although she does have falling hair, it is still lovely and thick!  She has her original stringing and comes wearing a cute Ruthsdolls outfit too, which is exactly to my taste!  I'm really happy to say that she is coming to live here in Spain and that she is my birthday present to me .... from me!!

In other news, today we spent a few hours at the Bioparc/zoo in Fuengirola and I took Millie, my blond Sasha from 1971, with me.  Although I'm still not particularly comfortable taking doll photos in public, I was quite brave (!) and took several photos of her whilst we were there!  I haven't checked them yet, but hope that there are at least a few that are good enough to share on another post later!  Watch this space!!!! ;-)