First of all, I wanted to show Julia the box that Maggie, the puppy in Nora’s auction (HERE), came in. She is called a Scruffies puppy and has a certificate of adoption in the box you can cut out. I guess I’ll have to include that box now. I got her at the Goodwill, but she was in like new condition. I looked on Ebay and found the Scruffies brand of stuffed animals but no Maggie… I think those are bigger ones that bark and meow…
Anyway, here are a few shots of Maggie and the box…
Okay, now onto today’s project. I woke up and decided I wanted to do something fun…something that involved some thinking and skill and of course some creativity! I decided one of my girls hadn’t gotten any love from me in a really, really, REALLY long time…She’s never modeled a new dress for me and I looked at her on the shelf and wondered why?
She was featured in a blot post on December 5th, 2017. I copied and pasted most of that post…
Saturday, my mailman drove up and had a couple of packages for me. One was a padded Kraft envelope and also a white box. Rebecca told me she was expecting something, so I figured it was for her. As soon as I collected the mail from him, my son drove up in his truck. I introduced him to my mailman and said, “Toby is the best mailman ever. He takes good care of the dolls that I sometimes get.” We came inside and Kristoffer took the Kraft envelope and said,”hey, this one is for me!” When he took that one off, I noticed the box underneath was addressed to me. I hadn’t ordered anything, so I glanced at the return address and saw it was from one of my dear blog subscribers. Okay, I won’t lie, my heart started racing a little bit… then a LOT, when I saw this…
If you’ve ever gotten a doll and seen their feet sticking out, it’s a thrilling moment…thing is…I hadn’t ordered her…I read the sweet and touching Christmas card, and learned she was a gift to me…”oh, my goodness” is just what I said too!!! :o) Thank you, dearest __________! She will be treasured by me!!
She is a 10″ Boneka doll, sculpted by Dianna Effner and repainted by Stella Tu.
I’m not familiar with her painting the dolls but she’s awfully cute…she looks just a teeny bit scared…(sometimes it looks like she has tears in her eyes), but who wouldn’t be, shipped in a bag to a new house filled with lots of naked girls on a shelf. A few of them have made friends with her already. I have sweet girls!
She is a one of a kind and her Certificate of Authenticity didn’t have a name written in, SO… since she is a Christmas gift, I decided to name her Holly. She is a “Monday’s Child” Boneka doll and is just slightly taller than Noel, my “Tuesday’s Child” Boneka doll. I thought it was cute to have a Noel (already named when I got her) and now a Holly! :o)
She came with a long brown mohair wig and the cutest pair of pink sandals. She was dressed in a sweet cotton print dress but the “gifter” also sent along a second dress and shoes. It’s adorable and that hand embroidery is incredible! Noel said she’d be happy to model them for me… :o)
I guess most doll people start seeing what other wigs they have that will work for the new “girls” and I did just that.. I found a few and thought I’d show you how Holly’s looks change in each one.
I decided Holly wasn’t much of a redhead… her coloring was too off for that…
Okay, so I’m back to today’s post…
I thought Holly was cute, and I’d love to have a sister who models things when I show Noel, but her skin was a bit on the shiny side and her lips were pretty bright in color. I thought I could change her a bit and make her a little cuter. (yikes)
Here is a close up of her before…
It’s pretty scary to strip the paint off a dolls face because there is NO turning back once you start. I liked her blue eyes and had already added some eyelashes to enhance them, but didn’t think I was talented enough to do brand new eyeballs, so I tried to work all around them, VERY CAREFULLY, to get the eyebrows, lip color and blush off. She even had her whole face blushed, so I had to be very careful, holding her upside down when I was working around her eyes, so I wouldn’t mess up her eyes and eyelashes…
I started with her eyebrows… I thought they were too dark and thick… (just my personal preference) and wanted something I could use a blonde wig with if I wanted to.
One eyebrow off…this is what I mean by no turning back… EEK!
Now, no eyebrows and no lips…
My hubby said she looked like a few cancer patients he had seen… Poor little thing…
I took her outside to make sure I had gotten all the previous paint off…
Then I cut out some little sticky “eyeball covers” since I didn’t want my Mister Super Clear Spray sealer to give them a matte finish. They were glossy and I wanted to keep them that way… Mister Super Clear has to be sprayed lightly a couple of times on the dolls face before you do anything so the paint/water color pencils/chalk pastels will have something to grab hold of.
I did her lips first and had to do them a few times… before I was happy… I really needed a slightly different shade of water color pencil, but I made do with what I had… then I blushed her cheeks and lightly on her forehead with chalk pastels.
Now her eyebrows were a different story. I bet I tried 15 times… no joke! I think eyebrows are the thing that gives the doll her personality, her curiosity, her sweetness, her charm, and I was struggling to figure out what I wanted from her. Eyebrows raised too high make the doll look startled, too much to the side, makes them look too curious, too flat makes them look harsh, too curved looks unnatural. I had seen all of them, and then used a kneaded eraser to keep taking them off. Finally I decided these were okay… not perfect, but close enough…
After I finished her face, I had to put those little stickies on her eyes again and seal it once more with Mister Super Clear. Ahhh… done with the face..
Now, about that hair… the wig she came in was a mohair one and a bit on the wavy side… and a bit straggly at the bottom… I decided she needed a haircut if she was going to wear it…
Here’s the back now…
Now, let’s see how it all looks when we take some pictures… The moment of truth… the camera never lies and if something is wrong it will be so obvious when you see your pictures on the computer…
This is that before shot…just to remind you of what she looked like…
Here’s a pretty one of her laying down looking up…
…and a few more of her making her “new” Debut…
I’m pleased… Holly’s pleased… now how about you? Do you like her?
With her new looks and locks, she might have to be my next Top Model! :o)
Thanks everyone,
Blessings, Jeanne
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