Silver Snow

This little lady has been boxed up since her production.  I am glad I could release her.  

Not sure of her name- maybe Chenault?  What do you think? 

Silver's hair will be soon going through treatments.  In her box, it seemed to nearly felted together.  

Already I am removing those orange eye chips!

Middies and more

I seem to have lost touch with my blog.  Not sure where the time has gone.

As a previous post said, I am working on re-designing some patterns.  I am also creating new ones! I have 3 new Middie patterns and 1 Petite pattern that are close to immediate release.

After those are ready I have another that I need to be tested.

Just a few updated things-

I am expecting Fleur home sometime in the next 2 or 3 weeks.  I was notified by China-Lilly yesterday that she was ready to fly back to the US.

My two new Middies made it to me last Friday!  Little Lily Brown has been named Lydia.  Milk and Honey is still nameless.  I will soon write a comparison between the Macaroon Q Tea Party and Little Lily Brown versus Milk and Honey.  Some things don't seem to be equal.

I have my Coraline (formerly known as Snowden) complete.  Now I am working on clothing and gathering toy items for her. Plus, I am planning a toy chest!

After much thought, I am removing Nymph's (Simply Guava) pink hair.  I am not a fan of pink. I purchased a Cappuccino Chat scalp for her!

I have started a face up on my Icy.  I feel bad that she does not have a name.  I like her red hair, but something is just not working for me. I hope to sell the Guava scalp to pay for some lemony yellow mohair.

Something else that has been going on Hybrids! I have Cat-ladies and a Deer-lady.

Shark Hat for Blythe, pattern update!

I purchased a fancy new MacBook Air and also, purchased Pages.  I started re-designing my page layouts for my older patterns.

I stared working on the Shark Hat for Blythe.  I found a lot of errors in my pattern writing skills.

It has been rewritten and tested by another individual!

Here is the new pattern:

 <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/dls/natalie-scrimshire-designs/90806?filename=SharkHatforBlythe.pdf">download now</a>

Happy Knitting!

Meet Rooka

Meet Rooka!

Rooka is a Takara SBL Pinafore Purple.  She is my second Blythe custom (non-clone).

It all started with an eye chip change in my Ginger. I lost my head and pull her chord without gluing in her new eye chips. I had to pry her open a bit to get the eye chip out and it got me thinking...

The thinking led to opening Rooka and making her pretty!

Rooka's make over consisted of:

Sandmatting
Lip carving
Lip color
Upper lip carving
Some nose carving
2 new eye chips, dark blue and taupe
Eye color with powdered eye shadow
New eye lashes
Sleepy eyes
Ribbon pull chords with charms- glass enclosure charm (no image yet) and locket

One day way off in the future Rooka may get white mohair.  I really love white mohair dolls and I think her coloring would be perfect.

Up next, my ADG, formly know as Snowden, is getting a 3rd make over.  This time she is emerging as Coraline.

Another middie is on the way to me from Singapore!

Sally the Rag Doll

Sally is near completion! 

This photo is much better than the previous ones!

I am more used to photographing at noon than before 8 am.

I still need to finish drawing on her stitches.  

I also have to correct one set of eye chips.  I made a careless mistake and placed a side glance set in the other straight gaze.  It may be stuck in the sockets.  They chips were such a tight fit no glue was needed.

If I cannot get the chips out, I have a black set of Brain Worm chips coming that I will use instead. 

The hardest part will be finding good charms for Sally's pull cords.  This part I thought would be easy! 

I have checked a few stores that typically carry Nightmare before Christmas merchandise, but apparently I missed the boat.  I could have purchases tons of items about 2 years ago!  It is frustrating when this happens.

I plan to order Sally some additional hands.  

Fun!

Sally's Patched Dress

Shoot! My photo is out of focus! 

This is Sally's first dress.

Eek, I am starkers!

I touched up areas on Sally using a Q-Tip.  It went well!  The ink is still drying on her stitches in this photo.

I am hoping to have her completely stitched up soon.  

Sally has been a slow project with painting and drawing. 

No pretty eye lids for Arvella

Arvella is my Skate Date.  She came to me already opened so I thought I would customize her eye lids.  Well tonight my husband, the reluctant doll daddy, and I were trying to pop the eye mech out and we heard a scary crack.

Arvella's face plate cracked right in the front.  We quit immediately.  I am no longer planning any drastic customizing.

I am removing eye chips and eye lashes right now.  I don't think I am going to do anything else.

It is okay.  I was looking at Funny Bunny's Sweet Strawberry, who is also a Skate Date, and she is cute without any major changes.

I am very likely to have some photos of Arvella tomorrow.