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Sunday, September 3, 2023

On The Craft Table! Craft Table Month!

Hey Gang!

The craft table is where I prep for dioramas. I think about what I need to flesh them out and hope to make what I don't have to do it. I realized that I have a lot of projects! So I needed a Craft Table Month.

On the craft table first is a few quick fixes!

I have these sombreros for Walmart.

I used them for Carlos and his brothers in their mariachi band.

Nice and cheap enough at about $1.00 for 4 hats but the trouble is the print is only on one side!

So I purchase a second set of hats hoping to give them a better look by duplicating the print on the underside. Inside the crown of the hat I want to be black. I thought about painting it but the cardboard minght warp. Felt might change the size of the hat. I am hoping to glue black paper inside the crown and then glue the same pattern brim to the underside of the hat.

I remove the brim from the dup.

I need to line up the holes from the elastic so that I can restring it later.

Once I put in the black paper for the brim, I will then glue the second brim into place.

The finished hat!

When I purchased new outfits for KiKi, I realized dthat she needed necklaces to go along with this outftis.

I made this necklaces to go along with her outfits but they can be used for other dolls too.

My beads

Turquoise necklace

Garnet necklace

The red works well with the outfit.

June and Nakoma in the necklaces!

Next up is a few head swaps!

First up for a head swap is BTS RM (Kim)

He is the tallest member of the group but all the dolls are the same hight so I wanted to go for a taller body for RM..

I got a taller body from AliExpress. The body has a smaller neck than Ken dolls and work well for pale dolls with small necks like BTS. This is Kim! He is an artist and love painting walls in his graffiti style.

I redressed him out of the suit into this casual outfit.

The difference in the height of the bodies.

I like this body's hands better too.

I have two V dolls. The original wiht pink and blonde hair which I've kept on the original body.

and this Prestige Doll one with all pink hair.

Closeup.

I love him with the one tone hair.

I put on a BRM Man Bun Ken body.

I admit I have stuggled with the colored hair of the BTS dolls and how to style them. I watched a few of their videos and I think I'm getting the hang of it. I'm sure they paid good money to be styled and I should take advantage of the styles that they used.

OK, Thanks For Looking!

Friday, December 17, 2021

Have You Ever Bought A Doll Just For The Head?

Hey Gang!

Have you ever bought a doll just for the head? I know I have! So this time I just bought the head.

I have been wanting the 2015 Prince Naveen Classic doll the but there hasn't been a Disney store locally for a while and the eBay price for him is ridiculous. I know, I do have two other of the Naveen dolls in my collection. The Mattel and the first Disney store doll but not the 2015. I have even seen him modified on Instagram. I thought WOW! That's what I want to to! So when I found a head for under $5.00, I had to get it! And wait for it...I got a $4.00 coupon which meant I only spent $1.65. Woo Hoo!

I had a Flynn Rider body that I wan't using because I put Flynn(Gavin) on another body. It isn't a perfect match but it will do for now.

OK, Thanks For Looking!

Thursday, August 19, 2021

Becoming Queenie Jenkins!

Hey Gang!

Granny Queenie and her great granddaughter LaToya are having lunch in the park!

Queenie looks up at the sunshine thinks to herself "look at the day the lord has made!"

Just then a handsome young man walks by. Malik: Good afternoon Queen! How are you this fine day?

Queenie: Just fine young man and you?

Malik: I am well Queen! Enjoy the rest of the day and don't forget to hydrate!

Queen thinks to herself "If I were fifty years younger..."'

LaToya: Did you know him Granny?

Queenie: No honey, I don't know him.

LaToya: But he knows your name! He called you Queen!

Queenie: Oh honey, it just a term of endearment!

LaToya: A what?

Queenie: A nickname or a pet name! He probably calls all women or all women my age Queen.

LaToya: Oh! Well I have our lunch! That food cart is great!

The eat their meals.

Queenie: Well that hit the spot!

LaToya: I wonder if she has ice cream today!

LaToya: She makes the best ice cream! At least it is the best I have had!

Queenie: The best ice cream I have ever had was at this Church up the road for the town I grew up in! She smiles as she thinks about the ice cream.

LaToya: Really? Like... you have been around for a long time! It was the best in all your years?

Queenie: I'm 95 years young and it was the best I have had! Those old church sisters could cook! They churned the ice cream by hand in the kitchen of the church! Oh, and fried chicken!

LaToya: They didn't get if from the store?

Queenie: Honey, ice cream in the store ...ice in general is a modern thing! We had and ice box and not a refrigerator when I was a child. And we were considered well off! A man came and we bought a block of ice and put it in the ice box to keep things cold. Those church women used real cream from the top of the milk to make the ice cream.

LaToya: WOW!

Queenie: It tasted sooo much better than anything you can get from the store!

Queenie: You better catch her before she leaves!

Granny Queen!

I have had the idea for Granny Queen for a while. It is her job to keep the family together and grounded. She lives with her granddaughter and her great granddaughter! She also spends time with other granddaughters too. She augments her retirement by tutoring and hand-knitting sweaters that her granddaughter sells them online for her.

How she started! This was a thrift store doll that didn't sell! She has been sitting around for a few years!