More experiments

Told you it is addictive...

Attendion all dolls - crazy woman with varnish remover!

Victim number two is an unidentified platinum blond doll /anybody??/, with slightly mean and not-so-bright look on her face and yes - blue eyes, pastel lips with glitter, aggghhh

(Her body is all floppy - her joints are completely loose at this point:-( )

Before:

oh wait, I have this banal, contemporary Barbie as well...

After (varnish remover + brown point pen) 

tadaaaam:

again - almost likable ladies /Barbie didn't get more than ( seconds of attention obviously;-)

and nicely dressed:

(this time real silk dress - theatre costume scraps and beyond vintage, pre-war lace application from some pillow I can't believe we deconstructed...)

high five!

Stay tuned:-)

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First experiments

Things are happening now like a lot...

I experiment, I order, I shop and first of all browse the internet way too much.

I swear, I almost had Fashion Fever vision/s/ when picking up my son fro school this afternoon

 - so many beautiful mammas! ;-)

Anyway, as I had few spare platinum blondes from nude, pre-loved on-line doll shopping

 I decided to experiment a bit at last.

I only had tiny bit of time before school and nursery, nail varnish remover and a permanent point pen...

1. Victim number one - unidentified My Scene doll

Before - blue eyes, pastel lips with shimmer + platinum blonde

After: tadaaaam!!!! almost lovable doll with neutral make-up! 

All I did was removing the vulgar lipstick and add some brown color on her pupils...

 Then I dig out a classy dress from vintage fabric /like 70's, it used to be my sister's skirt/ I've made in late elementary school and, even more vintage, necklace from mix of crystals and beads which origin i remember so well /made by me in late 80s/...

 

It is very satisfying proceder!

Fast to do with an immidiate effect.

From slut to girl next door so to speak;-)

New life for abandoined dolls, new /after-life for ancient hand-made clothes 

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My dolls No 13

Today i'll share quite unusuall doll for me...

It was new and in a box - i got her from my non-husband because she had this amazing hair

and i am an everchanging in this aspect in red-pink-purple-blue range...

The longest and softest AMETHYST hair I have ever seen! and the bluest eyes ever...

/and cheap solid, hard plastic legs - didn't know such a dolls exist even/

Here she is in an original shot

Hairtastic Barbie

and with all her friends / clones

and here are some of my photos

and a collage where she is wearing, by all means, VINTAGE dress

made by my late mother with pure sky blue silkand vintage, at the time, lace <3

TBC

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Breaking News indeed:-)

This is hysterical and i haven't see  it coming browsing 'ending soonest', 'used', 'good played condition' and mostely 'ethnic' or 'afro-american' barbies on-line:-)

The Barbie Evolution is a true revolution. Thanks Dog I dob't shop for new ones - i'd need to find a job at last and could never decide...

The only downside is the fact that it's not that special to boycott The Blond Barbie - not Caucasian and ones with colorful hair seem to be the mainstream now;-)

...what I love most about them is the absolute lack of make-up - lip-gloss, eyeliner, that's all <3

 <<<<<<<<((((((( 2016 eye candies )))))) >>>>>>>>

all from the official site 

Head-hunter

...so I got so inspired last night that going tothe charity shop was the first thing to do in the morning...

I was lucky - this waisted couple was waiting for me...

Miserable but perfectely slutty,half-nakedand tanned Bratz 2001 

and Peter Rabbit who had few adventures troo many...

I'll keep you updated...

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Oh dear! / the current mood...

<3

bright future in front of me..

so excited!

my dolls vol.12

Today one of my lucky charity shop find...

I guess she was between 75 p and £1...

You  know i have a soft spot for dark-haired dolls and i never had a Skipper kind of doll in my life...

and yes - these green eyes..

here is my new-old doll close-up and haircare process:

Here she is dressed in only one matching item i lanaged to find:

                                    

 Then i moved to 'collector' and 'researcher' work... little did I know...

                            The dark-haired Skippers are actually called 'Courtney' /yet mold is the same/

When i searched for the green-eyed one she turned out to be rather vintage 

1990 model of Baby Sitter Courtney <3 :-)

after: Annalisa Bianca Fornasier

http://www.barbieworld.altervista.org/Skipper%20friends.html

 

 

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Gift Idea - Rag Doll Portrait

The Christmas season is upon us. 

As for hand-made gifts it might be a good idea to start to order them now.

One of the most exciting and inspiring things I have ever done were these portrait dolls made to order from a picture.

Order yours asap writing to: office (at) roroism (dot) eu

ToyStory?

When you watch ToyStory2 with your children...
...a true doll collector's horror movie about forgotten, unwanted, unplayed dolls...

I felt so guilty i have spent all evening taking care of my collection - dressing up all the poor naked dolls locked in shared box...
Now they all look great - slutty blondes look very classy and so called' ethnic' dolls wear the finest vintage silk, handmade ball gowns:-) Now they just need to be photographed...

Black Dolls in American Culture

Amazing article on Black Dolls in American Culture by Brit Benett for The Paris Review.

So interesting for a cultural anthropologist and /unofficial/ doll collector like me :-) 

                                  Dr. Kenneth Clark conducting the Doll Test with a young male child, gelatin silver print.                                    Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress

http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/05/28/addy-walker-american-girl