Doll No 21

Hello again.

Tonite few wordsand first photos of yet another survivor and extra from my ebay batch. She started a little avalange of gingers renegotiating frames of my "not-a-collection";-)

BTW! This chronological order is killing me btw...I have had 4 amazing finds at boot sale two weekends ago, then I had liek 3 accidental /believe me!/ wins on ebay and a lucky charity shop find (but its platinum + pink and i'm still strong enough to put her on ebay after some pleasant refreshing spa work).

She had very damaged and tangled hair - there is a serious loss... chewed hands and legs...

Yet again, first I really got intrigued investigating molds and trying to track her down and she has spent so much time on my desk I got really attatched...

 Those small turquoise studs with strawberry hair and such a natural make-up is amazing...

 Oh the sweet moments when your head explodes from all those Midges, Mackies and Steffies fo the world... /but you forget that Twist'n'Turn is an important indication:-P/

Anyway in the end I identified her as doll from 1999 Corduroy Cool series 

and her face mold is obviously Mackie.

Colours are great, lovely late 90's mix of clothes yet stil very 'childish' and 'dollish' but slightly more fashionable and tastefull /I vividly remember wearing strips and courduroy myself!/

she used to have a deep plum purple tights...

...and a lovely friends with auburn/chesnut hair/!/ and greenn /!/ outfit...

I'd love to save one liek this sooo ver much

tbc.

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 as extras I will display my struggle with this "Mackie Ginger / Strawberry Blond" 

Google pain and pleasure:-)

so many nude dolls, so little time

...and even more (((here))

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ReRoot 2 and RePaint 1

So.. I got tempted..and then lucky... 

I have found poor /hair-wide/ Bratz in charity shop /with feet-shoes though/. 

You cannot harm them,you cannot make them uglier so I felt no guilt nor preassure;-)

Make-under of Bratz dolls is quite popular and well known practice in internetz...

 

 Mine looked like that:

close-up:

brown eyes, dark hair, lilac make-up..could be worse but still...

here she is without 'lipstic':-)

...necklace, tip, skull and hair;-)

and here hairless in first version of aquarel pencils make-over:

 

not bad at all for the first ever time but I have changed my mind...

got rid of the pale blue eyebrows /i planed frosty white hair/ and added eyelashes...

then changed my mind again /yay for pencils!/:

 less is more even in fashion doll's world;-)

and finishing touches - nail varnish lip gloss /don't try this at home;-)/:

ta daaaah.

very happy:-)

TBC

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My Dolls. No 20

Finally - my stash of e-bay survivors...

I'll start with the least favorite one...who has been sitting on my desk, waiting for transformation long enough to be quite admired in the end - but abut that later.

Oh dear... she was a poor well played doll, singing doll /annoying musical operetta girly voice/, cheesy baby blue satin necklace with heart and never ever ever brushed hair... I started to work on it without taking pictures...aged rubber bands, decorative braids with hair tangled around them oh, and a chewed hand...

 submerged...

 after Spa close-up

and Erika_full_nude as for now:-)

As I don't follow the market i needed to google her by the lyrics she sings and the necklace...

She turned out to be half of the duo of Anneliese and Erica Barbie Princes and the Pauper 2004...

Oh its just horrible - pastels, princesses, barbies, movie, plastic tiaras, commercial supermarket shit and stuff....

I amnot goint to reconstruct this one;-)

new in a box:

the good news is there was a cinnamon girl as well...

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ReRooting take 1

oh the adventures in the world of dolls...

Inspired by all of you and the internetz I wanted to try rerooting.

I have chosen my poor charity shop pet doctor Barbie...

Trick with using a hairdryer to warm-up the vinyl did not work that well -compared to dipping in bowl of boiling water as I've found later... I have managed to break the dolls neck but it was cracked and heavely layed before I guess;-)

cutting hair and hooking the glue/roots was fun - very violent and physical tho.. I'd never do it to new from a box doll...not if you are a doll lover...

 

 

I didn't want to invest iny real doll hair so I played a bit with texture and colour...

always wanting not so cute and all pink Barbie i went for blue woolen dreadlock:-)

...with heighlights obviously. This is how it goes...

never ending story and i got stuck after first row tbh...

its a lot of work...

 TBC

hopefully

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Doctor, doctor, I need a doctor...

So my famous ebay 'loot' is still mostely looking like that:

 

my scandinavian 2 kilo bag is waiting in deny ...

OK OK I ACTUALLY MIGHT BE COLLECTING DOLLS...

yet I go, inbetween school's and nursery's piuck up times to charity shop /where I give up corduroy shorts for me and dark, purple matrioska dress for my daughter/ and what I see...

the materialisation of everything I have left behind in Sweden, or something LOL

two curly and dark heads... 

who turn out to be unusually articulated Bratz with rooted eylashes and dark haired Moxie Girl and they both have shoes/foot... if you know what I mean...

tadaaam only £3 later:

TBC

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Swedish sin

In mid February we have visited Turku, Finland where my sister in law with children lives and Stockholm, Sweden where we used to live. I was just after my birthday /yay, Aquariuses!/ 

so I kind of announced that i'll shop hard - it's official.

Sweden about 6 years ago was where I first bought a second hand Barbie as an adult (beautiful Ginger Lenara /Lea/ from Fairytopia) so I had quite a good association...

What can I say...there was plenty...my partner even joked that Swedes are so politically correct and gender neutrality aware that they gave awa all of their fashion dolls because helll yeah...

 can you see three huge boxes of dolls!!??? I'm very proud of myself I haven't buy too many 

and didn't loose my children in the process;-)

I have picked up each and every doll... tehre was everything...nudes were around 2 Euro and dressed ones of different shapes and epoques were bagged and piced for 6...

There was no African-american or Asian... I started to choose from brunettes and redheads...then I saw really vintage looking Superstars /i have a soft-spot akak post-communistic trauma regarding them;-)/...then some 80s ones with full dress and set which meant to be my investment /but I wasn't too sure and knew it won't be easy to say goodbye/, then million of Bratz of all kinds which i'd love to repaint and dress-down /all feet-less thanks god/, few vintage Sindies a tone of Simbas which I hate, fev unusual and japanese and Moxie Girlz /those eyes!/..even somefully articulated fashionistas with shoes /I have read way too many doll blogs and watched too many auctions/ but I stayed FOCUSED and didn't "invest"!

After exhausting ourselves and having a fight I was made to go to other shops on my own and buy what I want...there were shelves and shelves of omg...like everything but not 'Ethnic' dolls...

not that I did not manage to fill A4 bag with plastic and vinyl...

In the end I have no regreats as I have sined with nude Monsters ;-)

TBC

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My Dolls. No 19

Hello,

In a mean time I wanted to share one of my "spares" with you...

She is an unwanted extra and a damaged one...obviously I have a great heart and can not give

 her home and clothes;-) She could never end up in a bin... essp that she is ginger:-) 

being non-blonde is excuse good enough...

Not until I have played with her hair and gave her contrasting deep purple clothes /after ToyStory 2 action/, through my cmera lense I did noticed her potential...

She obviously needs some help with her 'hairstyle' but look at her pensive, porcelain face/

 ...and those natural and minimal yet detailed eye lines and colors...

At this stage I was intriqued and confused by every non-Barbie Mattel doll and this one had 1991 dated face mold combined with a definitely newer body /belly button meets one-elbow-bended fashion fever or sth;-)/

I would never even start to look her up if not an internet accident - recognising her on somebody else's picture / in somebody else's  collection...

Here she is:

Princess and the Pea - Masquerade Ball, Princess Collection...

look she even has the same issue with her eye...

...and here she comes boxed and with all her accessories:-)

so now I know!

(but is it a Mackie face??)

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Luted lot

I had one of those day or nights when you surf far, far to the end of 'da internetz'...

I burned ot my eyes browsing dolls on eBay... used ones and in mixed 'lots' to save myself nerves, morale and money in reslt ;-)

I stayed focused and assertive.

Found a seller with three batches, ten nude dolls each, ten per auction...

as I saw none of these sold I came with a bright dark idea to make an offer for all tanned, dark-haired or/and 'ethnic dolls'. She said yes, found few more as some had bites on their legs and hands...

 Ebay estimated delivery after Wednesday but to my surprise a not much promissing box arrived on Saturday morning. I'm still enjoying, enjoyg the identification and restoring process... Making stylish, contemporary clothes will take me ages, yay!

Expect a lot of new posts sooner or later...

Look at this lovely mess /with my markings/...

TBC 

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My Dolls. No 18

Hello,

Today i want to introduce one of my favourite kind of dolls - the charity shop survivors.

Pre-loved hard, heavely payed with little hands and dreastically restyled' with toy scissors ;-)

I never had, in my childchood, a propper Superstar face doll with gawn-ready bended elbows...

This done looked really sad and had unusually natural make-up...

Cost me 25 p I guess, and this is how she looks now...

I'm really happy she has found a safe home...

She is now waiting for quite a long time to be taken care off but at least she has quite a company:-)

Update: She is not as vintage as I thought but i managed to recognised her accidetaly on some Polish blog.

In her golden years she used to be a Vet - 'Pet Doctor Barbie' 1995

(source)

TBC

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