Friday 25 November 2011

A REPAINT, HELP NEEDED and A MYSTERY !

I would love an early redhead girl but i doubt unless i win the lottery that i will ever have one !, this girl has been rerooted by Bettina and has a repro outfit by Rosie Bloom and her eyes have been beautifully repainted by Shelly. I dont know if she is a one off or there maybe more of these girls around, there is a lady in america who has one on her blog, (without repainted eyes) so i dont know if this girl was once hers or maybe she is unique ?

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Even more than a redhead girl, i would like an early redhead boy , so quite a few years ago i decided to buy an 80s redhead and repaint his eyes. He was a bit of a disaster from the start, i saw him while scanning ebay in america late one night, there were minutes to go on the auction, he was extremely cheap with no bids, the description was good so i bidded and won, i realised the next day why there were no bids as the sellers feedback was the worst id ever seen, pages of red marks all saying "avoid". I was pleased that he actually did arrive but he was in pieces, i think he must have been placed together for the photos, as he was laid down, i contacted the seller with no response , paypal got no reply either, so i got refunded in full by paypal and ebay gave me a £10 voucher to say sorry for the inconvenience (not sure things like that still happen )...i got to keep the doll so i set about repainting, i thought this would be quite straightforward but soon realised it wasnt and it felt like an impossible task, over the years he has had lots of different eyes but ive never been happy with any of them, his latest look is passable at a glance BUT where i have removed the acrylic so many times it has left a slight dark look to the eye sockets and i cant get it off. This only shows slightly in natural light but i know its there and its gonna bug me, I dont want to remove the eyes again without knowing how to get rid of these marks...so any help would be welcome ! maybe the paint is engrained in the vinyl and will never come off ? i purposly included a photo that makes it look worse than it is, so you can see what im talking about as with a normal sunny camera setting it didnt really show up.....(this photo has also made the eyepaint look slightly darker than it really is)

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This next girl is my "mystery girl" mainly because of her lack of eyes....the jury seems to be out on why this is, one opinion was that someone had removed them and not repainted them back on, another is that this is the print from the factory, its the wrong colour for a blonde and the mistake was noted and the hand finishing was never done. Next is her hair, she has a near full centre part but stops just short of the bottom, did the person doing the hair realise that her eyes hadnt been done, stop the rooting and put her in the reject pile ?...shes strung with striped elastic that looks to be original and shes got lots of sand in her joints as if shes not been played with.....i will get round one day to reglueing the hem of her dress !

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Wednesday 23 November 2011

68 BOYS..........

Two lovely boys from 1968, most of my dolls usually have some defect or other but these two are perfect and i feel so lucky to have them !

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Saturday 19 November 2011

NO NAVELS......

I dont know if i should be drawing more attention to the events of last weekend but i feel i should say that the storm thankfully has passed, we have spoken on the phone and the air is now clear and now just want to get on with what we enjoy doing....(no more comments please as i dont think my nerves can take it !).......
i didnt plan to sew in december as there is always far too much to do and had planned to photograph some of my dolls instead to keep the blog interesting but i have decided to bring this forward and have started with the no navels (on a very cloudy day !)......my dolls arent going to provide the "eye candy" of steves dolls but hopefully you will still enjoy seeing them.......

This 1969 girl is my newest addition, as you can see her hair has been cut but you cant see that her body is caved to one side maybe from a doll stand, its not really causing any problems so i decided to leave it as it is, i was so pleased i took the risk on this ebay waif....

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A 1970 girl this time with lovely soft long hair, i put her hair back in an alice band as there was so much of it, it kind of swamped her delicate face

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This pretty girl is from 69 and her hair is totally different from the others, its layered and much silkier more like an english girls hair....

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Ive said before that i think this 1970 girl looks like an angel, the lighting today (or lack of it) really doesnt do her justice, her fringe has been cut but i think it suits her being swept to the side...(looking at the photos again im not sure why shes looking so orange !)

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