Registration: Miss Bunny Blanc

When something's $18.99 instead of $19.99, that's a sale, right?

So I bought her on sale.

Yeah.

She's going to be my last impulse buy for a while. I made a pretty big Bodyline order the day I got her, so no more spending money on things for a while.

She's just so pretty, though.

I don't really have that much in the way of plans for her.

I'm going to paint her shoes (again with the detail but none of the painting!) and probably wash her hair. It's completely stiff with product.

Other than that, this girl needs some bloomers and a petticoat and that's it!

After poor Kitty's incident, I'm thinking I might want to stay away from faceups for a while.

Bonus outtakes:

Spackle, I...

I mustache you to stay out of my shot

Kitty in the Garden

There's these flowers in the garden outside my door. Some of them are purple, but most of them are white.

 They went perfectly with Kitty's color scheme.

Then she went tree climbing.

The more I work with her, and have fun dipping a round photographing her, the more I realize what work needs to be done.

For example, she needs a longer skirt on that dress, so she isn't always stuck holding her skirt down with her hands.


And an update on the top of the bookshelf drama:

Maddie says one girl can hold another's hand without it being a big deal, but it looks like it might have meant a bit more than that to Kitty.

Registration: Kitty Cheshire, Book Party

The weather was nice, so I decided to take Kitty out into the garden for pictures.

Other Kitty.

This Kitty.

This is Book Party Kitty Cheshire. Book Party's a line of budget dolls, so each doll has somewhere between zero and two accessories, and no stand. The Book Party line contains Kitty Cheshire, Lizzie Hearts, and Ginger Breadhouse.
From a costume design standpoint, it's interesting how they dressed three dolls in what are effectively tube dresses, and used plastic necklaces to give the dresses details, making intricate designs cheaply. I paid $15 for Kitty, which is about $5 less than a signature line doll, and twice the price of the basic line doll. The basic line comes with stands, too. I might pick one up to give Kitty their stand. Also maybe to have another victim friend model experiment doll to work on. The basic line of dolls don't have articulated wrists or elbows, and have molded on shirts. I don't like them so much, but I do need a stand. And maybe a faceup victim.
Then again, Kitty's pretty hard to pose with her single joints, and I think getting good pictures with one of the basic line girls would be more frustrating than fun.

For Kitty, my plans are to take her necklace and remake it into her dress, give her a better skirt, and just make her match the box art more. I'll paint her little book purse (I love her book purse) and make little things to put into it so she's not carrying an empty book around. I'll see if I can add some details to her shoes. I'll definitely be repainting her little ears.

And I think her eyes aren't level? If I decide they aren't, I'm going to redo her face, but faceups are haaarrd.

Hard to say.

Break's over, time to go back to work, but here's a little picture of what Gooliope's doing:

You know. Hanging out.

Two new additions

A crappy webcam picture of my two newest additions:

That would be Miss Cheshire and Miss Jellington.

I was only going to collect the big dolls, but Book Party Kitty has so much potential, and she's a budget doll so I grabbed her.

And Gooliope is just so beautiful that I had to get her. Those shoes. That faceup. I'll probably paint her accessories and remake the dress.

Found some Monster High accessory packs at the Dollar Tree of all places. So, full collection pictures coming tomorrow.

Complete: Madeline Hatter

17" Madeline Hatter
Ever After High
Clothing Remake.

Remade the dress skirt, reused the bodice. Remade the lace glove cuffs. Painted the necklace, teacup hat, and shoes. Hot-water curled her hair.

Before and After:

This doll's strange because all of her accessories have molded details, but none of them are painted.

Remade the skirt to give it more volume. Replaces her glove's plastic lace cuffs with actual lace.

The gold border on her skirt is the inside of the brocade, turned to the outside. It's held in place with bullion tacks, which give it the look of the little patterned edge, but in texture instead of print. Bottom is the pattern on the original skirt, which I think looks quite a bit like this brocade.

And here's the whole ensemble. Except the wrist cuffs, none of it's sewn on. All removable. The petticoat has an elastic waist, and the black glitter tulle edging is trimmed with a green and a purple ribbon. The dress has the striped ruffle attached. and closes with four snaps in the back.
All the paint that I added to the accessories was done in the form of a paint pen and a bottle of nail polish. And I made her a quick little cover-up top, because sewing while she was there topless was a bit weird. That's made out of bleached muslin that I had hanging around, with ribbon straps and some fabric marker edging. She doesn't wear it under the dress.

While I was taking these pictures, I was thinking I should probably make her some bloomers. Oh well. Tomorrow is another day.