Blue Goals

My favorite color is blue.  It has been even since I was little.  I have a few blue toys still left over from my childhood (or, were inspired to purchase from my childhood) and I decided to add a few more.

I recently purchase some of the cutest new blue toys.  Two blue hair Lala Loopsy dolls and one that is blue skinned.

And, then a Blue Novi Star, named Uni Verse or something.

Then, I bought a blue Care Bear, Grumpy.  I have two of these from childhood, but they were green and pink.

Also in my little collection is Susie Sad Eyes with her new blue hair and Monster High dolls: Abbey Abominable, Ghoulia Yelps, and Lagoona Blue.

I have a special My Little Pony also.  I don't know her name. She is blue with pink hair and translucent butterfly wings.  I plan to get her positioned into my collection soon.

Coming soon my new vintage dolls clothing for Blythe!  I have been in a vintage buying spree.

Meet Olive the Librarian!

  Meet Olive the Librarian! She is a RBL Prima Dolly Saffy (Encore?).  This girl traveled from Canada.  Her alterations were made by Kitty Bee and I did some repairs on her pull chord.  She had a make shift tbar that I replace with a Cool Cat one.

Olive has all new eye chips-  light brown, light olive, light blue, and dark blue all of unknown origins.  Her favorite colors are brown and cream.

Olive's clothing and accessories

Life before Blythe

Do you ever ponder what you did before Blythe?

I find it amazing how integrated she is into my life now. I think about her constantly- well, other things slip in as well, but you know what I mean!

I've been working on pull chords lately.  I've been so busy with school (yuck, 2 papers that require lots of research) that I haven't had a good time to take photos.  My husband (sweet boy) purchase majority of the supplies for my birthday which was Saturday, November 3rd.  Hooray! Most things were 1/2 off so I got bunches of stuff.

I've started Claudia's pull chord.  I need additional beads to make it look complete.  It is really exciting I can't wait to share it!


I bought a Susie Sad Eyes months ago because I got a commission to make some items for a local Susie.  I borrowed the person's Susie but shortly found my own.

This poor little girl has a pitiful reroot in mint green.  Her scalp has been ripped at some point so I carefully removed the mint and put in blue ice! I bought the hair from Dolly Hair.com half snowflake and half water nixie.  The mix was perfect!  I wanted to use my rerooting tool but couldn't find it in my jungle of crafting and art supplies.

Susie hanging out at my work.

Happy Halloween!

Hope everyone has a spectacularly spooky day!

Weekend Endeavors

Holy Batman!

I started rooting a mohair scalp sometime forever ago. It was to go on my Mona.  The color was all wrong for her even before her current face-up.  For one thing I was disappointed with the mohair.  I thought I was getting baby blue and it was turquoisey mint.

I finally got up the nerve to finish it and dye it on Wednesday night (I was off Thursday from work so I felt creative).  It turned out really pretty!  I stuck it on Claudia (I vow to never remove that girl's scalp again- it is a bitch) and it just wasn't her.  So, my pretty little mohair scalp went to Etsy which sold over night!!!

Isn't it gorgeous?

Even prettier on the inside!

I had enough mohair leftover to make 2 Monster High wigs.  I dyed one green to go onto my absinthe fairy.

Claudia received some spooky chips which I hand painted.  She also got new lashes since I ruined the others by accident.

Updating

The Sally redo isn't going too well.  The paint did not want to come off of the face.  So, I'm face (no pun intended) with the choice of buying another head or calling it quits on her. Part of me wants to give it another try and other part wants to give it up.

I broke my Blythe-only rules. I bought a Hujoo Freya.  Mostly out of curiosity and her affordability. I went ahead an purchase one for R's Christmas present too.

I wish she was this color of blue- this is just the Instagram filter. Instead she is a medium grey.  Her name is Mrs. Norris.

I made Mona a new dress:

The print I received in a swap through Ravelry.  It is really cool:

Sally redo number 3

Sally the Ragdoll is getting another make over.  The paint is just not sticking to the Pure Neemo body.  I'm painstakingly scraping, and scrubbing the paint off, again.

This time I will not be painting her.  My direction will be more towards flesh tone with blue overtone using chalk pastels.  If I had time I would re-do the hair also.  A person on Flickr rerooted Licca heads in different types of hair and wrote quick little comparison of what she used.  I thought I could use her write ups to choose some different hair.  I'm not particularly fond of the nylon hair I used.  I wish I would have bought mohair from Cool Cat instead.

Question is- should I buy a new head or try to salvage the current one?

As posted before there has been a major purge at my house.

Rabbit has gone back to Australia to live, Coraline now is hanging out in Cali, and Nymph is going to Pennsylvania!  George is still looking for a new home.

Now, two petite girls are wanting to see the world!