Whats next?

...I have this serious and even a bit sceptic, naked and bald doll in deep plum purple

 wearing peach and mint tights...

Why not a heather colored dreadlocked...ballerina!?

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Custom order brothers - update

hello again!

Little guys are all ready now - body parts put together, hairstyles finished.

They already wear their favourite cargo pants and denim shorts.

I' m waiting for the delivery of orginal stroped tops to make them hooded sweashirts et voilà!

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Ivy girl

A new autumn / winter doll is ready to be listed on Etsy!

Fabulous grass / ink hairstyle, 

openwork cape with vintage buttons, 

embroidered folk skirt:-)

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Portrait doll - made from a photo

My customer, mother of below mentioned two, was so happy and inspired 

with our cooperation that she has ordered spontaniously a portrait doll of her mother. 

The Birthday grandma was going to celebrate her 70 years in a great fashion. 

Literally as I have made her a stylish set of clothes after series of e-mails with ideas and fabric samples.

 

Mother / Grandma doll was a gift for the 70th Birthday.
She has hand embroidered face on pale ivory/ rosy canva and dove gray weavy cotton boucle hair. She is wearing a simple sky blue top and floral cotton jaket with frills (mainly hand-stitched) accompanied with a stylish pair of loose, pine green, textured linen trousers and
deep purple tights and a hand-made stones and beads necklace as well.
 

 

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Custom order - update

My rug brotehr dools are doing great.

Limbs and bellies are alreday stuffed.

Faces embroidered and hair attached.

It has been a great fun and pleasure to design their faces - trying to make

 them a psychological portraits at the same time.

The older 'chesnut brother' is super happy and smily and has a light blue eyes...

Younger one, blond one, has super blue eyes, thick eyelashes and is very thoughtfull...

Their original t-shirts just arrived so I can start dressing them up in a sentimental souvenir type of sweatshirt :-D


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Custom order

A local Cambridgeshire lady, mother of two, has contacted me asking to make dolls from a photo.

It showed two lovely brothers - slightly ginger- and dark- blond ones with blue eyes and stripy colorful clothes. How cool, meaningful and inspiring!

Dealing with holidays and my own two little monsters I am ahppy to announce that siblings limbs and torsos are not only cut, sewn and filled - I am finally scatching faces and choosing threads to start embroidery. Oryginal clothes will be delivered to make clothes:-)

webpage

hello again

please excuse this silence

i have been moving countries, homes and two kids... pus all the clothes and supplies :-)

fresh start in new place - here is my newly opened roroDolls webpage:-)

roroDolls

my dolls, vol. 9

Today i'll show my Austrian Barbie.

Not only thet she is from my fav national / folk costume collection - she also has amazing features.

I absolutely adore olive green & pink color combo on her outfit, but this out of this world porcelain white skin contrasted with rather strong, for Barbie, eye brows and perfecely coral pink lips:-)

+ really pretty ash blonde hair and green eyes!

here she is shoot by me, stll in her oryginal dress:

here she is shoot by Mattel:

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Ukrainian Dolls and more...

I'm deeply touched with the raise up at Ukraine.

In respect to my neighbours (for good and bad;-)) I'm presenting few stunning 

hand-made works of local artists:

absolutely perfect, raw, /and beautifuly photographed/ folk rug dolls from Grainfield

talisman dolls from RADONESKA

slender beauty from SAHARAskaska

oh...and I cannot resist:

 the cutest teddy bear in Ukrainian costume :-* by HandyHappyTeddy

all the best dear friends!

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my doll collection vol. 7 & 8

the next two dolls might be an actual begenning of collection.

I got them in my teens - first ones i was never playing with - just to adore, dress and posess ;-)

they still are embodiment of my dream fasion doll.

looking more like me - with natural, sun kissed brown hair.

not being soooo pink... and first of all - something very unussual in early 90s -

green and purple eyes, again, with vey natural make-up.

Sindy doll has quite an impresive history too (1963),and yay! its English :-)

you can read history (((here))).

"Sindy's "girl next door" look made her more popular than Barbie in Britain" sais it all.

here are my deer-eyed beauties:

 and here they are in oryginal packaging/outfits:

Monte Carlo Sindy 1993

Paradise Sindy 1994

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My doll Collection vol.6

this is a really interesting one...

again... as I hunt for unusual and 'ethnic' editions, while paying for below mentioned 'grandma' doll 

i have noticed some 'dolls of colour'. 

It turned out to ba a whole family of 4 with clothes and accessories!

Nordic Market seller in Luxembourg said these are her old dolls, 

like 30 years old, but she still sold them really cheap! (not that i am such a good player LOL)

They have pretty used hair and seriously 'loose' legs but i love them!

look look!

bebe nr 1 with accessories!

 bebe nr 2 - look into those eyes!!

 papa

 parents

took me some time again to find this is supposed to be african-american edition of 

"Sunshine Family" dolls by Mattel...

Cannot find exact edition of my dolls but here is interesting blog post about them with some pics:

cool!

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My doll collection vol.5

Today few words about another doll I am really enjoying.

I love unusual editions -tis one not only she is not a platinum blonde pink princes - 

she had rather short hair, completely unique face... 

I was so surprised finding her in a stash at garage/boot sale (Nordic market) in Luxembourg.

 close-up by me w/ glasses

 styled by me with a hand-made kimono blouse and vintage beads necklace (after my childhood barbies)

look at those great small breasts and natural waist  perfection!

took me sometimes to find out she is not a tv character but just a "grandma" 

(sure good looking one!) from Happy Family series...

picture source

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my models / doll collection, vol. 4

As an ethnograper and folkore lover I definitely have a soft spot for dolls in 

traditional / regional / ethnic editions.

This one is a Polish Barbie Doll. She is wearing costume from region of Cracow /which happens to be a national one/ - the city where I come from :-)

She has classic Barbie face and smile but I am really enjoying 

her pale carnation and bloody red lips... She also has a very simple make-up for her era.

close-up in original outfit

with her folk blonde girlfriends;-)

and official (1998)

picture source

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