I received my second Pullip the other day - Pullip Celsiy circa 2008.

I’ve named her Magnolia after my favourite brand of ice-cream from the Philippines because that’s what she reminded me of when I first saw her - ice cream :-) Again, I was so impressed by the detail on the tiny clothes! She came with two outfits, over-sized glasses and stand. Her face seems a little warmer in character than Poppy’s.

Although I thought the purple hair (with blue highlights) was pretty cool, I thought she might look better in a brownish bob. So I re-wigged her and put her in a new outfit:

Heehee! I like her a lot ♥

I heart Poppy a lot too since I re-wigged her with a gorgeous curly wig and new outfit (here’s what she looked like before):

To re-wig the dolls, I followed this excellent tutorial specifically for Pullips:

Wigs are from Goody Blthye on Etsy
Outfits are SugarMag
Shoes are from Pocowai on eBay
All highly recommended!

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!