Dolls & Tweets . . .
Thank you for the Patience-love :-)
Been working on another doll – same basic shape/construction as Patience but with minor changes:
Hopefully she’ll been done by the weekend. I’m back at work and I’ve forgotten how drained you can feel at the end of the day, meaning little to zero motivation to sew anything by the time the kiddies are in bed :-) Perhaps my mind and body are still on vacation mode – hope to shake it off by next week!
I mentioned in another post that I had become very smitten with a range of dolls (which were the inspiration for my new dolls like Patience). When I was a kid I had a motley collection of Barbie dolls. I did love dressing them up (and making my own clothes using paper, tissues, sticky tape and string!), chopping off their hair and colouring it in with my markers/textas, and making houses and furniture for them out of boxes of all sizes. Hours of endless fun :-) When we moved overseas, I had to sell them all.
If you surf through Flickr, it is next to impossible not to come across Blythes and Pullips. I resisted for the longest time but have caved since seeing all the amazing outfits, miniatures, and accessories that are now available. So here is my first Pullip – a Brand New Purezza (BNP) circa 2006. I’ve named her Poppy:
Isn’t her face gorgeous?! And her outfit has so much detail. She also comes with over-sized sunglasses, handbag, and table and chairs :-) As much as I love her bright orange hair, I am thinking of re-wigging her with some blonde curls (just have to figure out how to do it!). You can see more photos of BNP Pullips (original and customised) here. I am excitedly waiting for a few clothes to arrive. Oh, and one more Pullip.
Also, hubby set-up a Twitter account for me a month or so ago and I’ve finally started using it. Kinda fun. I was posting up trivial things (like what I’ve been doing, thinking, etc) but have started to post up more good finds and links as I come across them (instead of bookmarking them and then completely forgetting to post about them on the blog!). My “Tweets” are now published in my sidebar – if you have a Twitter account, you’re more than welcome to follow me too :-)
Okay, enough babbling. I need to stop being distracted so easily. Off to work on that doll!
January 8th, 2009 at 9:48 pm
Love her eyes!!!! They are amazing, can’t wait to see the rest of her!
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January 8th, 2009 at 11:19 pm
I really like these new dolls you are making. Their noses and faces are great. And the darker complexion of this one, with the blond hair – I love it!
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January 8th, 2009 at 11:57 pm
I used to attempt to “style” my Barbies’ hair with scissors and food coloring. They all ended up with muddy blue hair!
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January 9th, 2009 at 12:05 am
Oh, your pullip is beautiful! My blythe has red hair too. I resisted getting one for ages because it felt weird [as an adult] to buy a doll for myself and that my daughter wasn’t allowed to play with. I bought wigs for my blythe so that I could change her look easily.
That new Patience doll of yours is awesome – can’t wait to see that blondey hair one.
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January 9th, 2009 at 6:56 am
your dolls are so creative!
i’m sure you’ll be out of vacation mode in no time.
meanwhile, enjoy your new doll. i just love her bright “poppy” hair!
heather
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January 9th, 2009 at 4:17 pm
How could you go wrong with a name like Poppy – or am I a little biased!
Love the look of the new doll too. No wonder you are feeling a little tired with all this creative goodness going on.
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January 9th, 2009 at 8:01 pm
oh Jhoanna she is soooo gorgeous! just divine lucky you I have wanted a Blythe for so long and have given up hope but your Poppy is to die for. oh I LOVE Patience too she is very cute
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January 11th, 2009 at 5:35 am
I spotted this link on the craft magazine blog and thought you might be interested – one of their writers has made a video showing how she rewigged her Blythe doll with her own hair. Might give you some tips for your doll
http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2009/01/rerooting_blythe_doll_hair_video.html?CMP=OTC-5JF307375954
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