BOY OUTFIT .....

As you know i dont make outfits for the boys but i was asked to make a boyish coat for a no nose boy so i thought id try and make a shirt to go with it and some trousers so it could be a complete outfit ....
i drew the shirt pattern but when i started sewing the collar realised that unless i wanted an elvis vegas style shirt i had to make a smaller collar , im pleased with how it turned out with the slightly rounded bottom bit but i think if i make another i may make it a bit wider and slightly longer , the plan was for it to do up to the neck but that didnt happen ....

the trousers are just standard elasticated waist that i make all the time .....

I made the coat out of thick grey wool and lined it in the same fabric as the shirt, i could have made it a bit bigger though as the gotz are a bit chunkier , i found it a bit odd sewing on poppers and buttons on the opposite side than usual, i felt clumsy like i was doing something backwards ...

All i think looks quite sweet until i put the hood up , yes the gotz are bigger but i forgot the no noses have larger heads and this one loads of hair so yes the hood goes up but i think he may faint from being strangled if left up for very long .....

FOR JEN ?

Im so sorry that im not sure of your name but i just saw on dees blog that jenane had left a comment to say about how she used to hand smock baby dresses for harrods in the 70s ....i have this vintage baby smocked dress , labelled harrods, i had assumed it was from the 50s but if they were still hand smocking in the 70s it may have been you that smocked it :) !

PRETTY FAMILY....

I love this boy alot with his beautiful original early eyes, he was destined to be a girl but i cant bring myself to do it as hes perfect as he is ...the baby came to me a long time ago , shes very scuffed and i did plan to sort her out as she needs restringing too but all i did was add a bit of blue to her eyes and bunch her hair up and thats how she stayed sitting on the shelf in her pants :)

Before and Afters ...

well the summer holidays seem to be flying by and im not getting much done, im trying to sew when i can to get clothes ready for september but i dont seem to be having much time .....
kendal recently put photos of 3 of my dolls on her blog so i thought id add photos here of how they once looked ....
firstly is the little blonde waif who arrived to me just as a head, trouble is even though i know i took photos of her when she arrived i can seem to find any ! ...her hair was dry and in a ponytail so i cut it into a bob as the top was quite thick and healthy , i really like her with her little scuffed face and slightly sunken look as if something went wrong when she came out of the mold ....

i found these not very good photos of before and after hair cuts ...

and as she is now with a more scruffy look ....

next is my platinum blonde reroot ....i was so disappointed when she arrived , she was beautiful , brunette , matt and minty but had really bad falling hair , i doubt she'd ever been played with and being trapped laying in her box had caused the hair loss, i kept her as she was for a while before i rerooted her ....

as she is now .....

next is my first gregor, (shown in the photo above) when he arrived his box was full of hair, it got to the point when there was hair all over his shoulders and on the shelf where he stood so i had to rewig him ...now a girl she became my main model wearing a while variety of wigs , when i started to reroot all my models i left her to last as she was special and i wanted it to be perfect , trouble is if i put lots of thought into things they tend to go wrong and it turned out to be one of my worst reroots , firstly the hairs too dark, she has had 3 different partings , starting with a very low sidepart that didnt work, then a centre part and now a not so low side part , then i cut it into a bob as i wasnt using her as a model as the hair didnt look right , now she looks photogenic but in real life doesnt look too nice ....

now lots of photos in a variety of wigs ....

first modelling photos in a pintucks wig ...standing in a rather dodgy fashion :)

monique peggy sue blonde/ginger

red dollfie  wig from china

monique peggy sue light brown

monique peggy sue light blonde

rare appearance as a boy in a prince gregor wig ...

and as she is now with her rather harsh hair ...

lastly i found this photo of the first sashas i had .....a rather mixed bunch !....the gregor is from the photos above and the caleb now has lots of plaits but all the others have gone to pastures new ...