Swedes & Silks

       Another doll from my old batch which was patient enough to try some items from my ancient doll's wardrobe.You ma recognise the hand-painted pre-war brown silk - bits of this blouse were used to dress Esmeralda few posts ago.The rusty/curry open work knit belonged to my late mother - she wore it in 80s a lot:-)

       Here you can see, hard to recognise in these lovely earthy tones, Swedish Barbie. She came with Mbili and Polish Barbie and I did not much attention as she has platinum blonde semi-short hair etc. - but since I brain-washed myself with lots of our blogs I know Mackie mold is a thing to love:-P

clever teenage-me to use this technique to manipulate fabric!

TBC

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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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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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