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.

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Belated Easter Outfit Post

 Hey Gang,

I know I missed Easter but I wanted show you what my dolls got anyway.

Easter Outfits!

A few of my doll have gotten new outfits.  I am sharing them with you and hope to let you know about some great sellers.

 I got his sets from a Etsy seller named H2H Dolls. She normally sells the reclaimed doll and outfit together but she agreed to sell me just the outfit. 

Set #1 

They went to KiKi! Here she is in the first one. It is two piece and has a top with a tulip long skirt.

I couldn't use the shoes that came with the set on her so I found some shoes in my collection.

Here she is in the second outfit. It is also two piece. I love the way these prints look on her!

These outfits can be mixed and matched...

and if you don't mind a short dress, can be worn alone.

The Shoes didn't work for my dolls so I will use them for dolls with smaller feet.

My dolls need jewelry to go with these outfits. 

Set #2

The thing I liked about these outfits are they fit on regular and curvy dolls!

This is the Comic Book Dress!

Emily-Ann has a kinda funky style and this dress works on her.

Each outfit was package separately in a baggie. I am showing the dress with the shoes here.

It is always good when you can wear sneakers with a dress.

Next outfit overalls.

I love the hand painted details and rips in these overalls.

Emily-Ann isn't sure about the hat and top but she lovers the overalls! Here she is wearing them alone.

Not a part of the two sets from Etsy are this jumper from ebay seller-chkfo-92

She got what I'm calling the "Love Dress". This was from Ebay seller ams_doll_house..

This isn't a clothes maker site as much as a resale shop. I spotted this dress while surfing ebay.

I got this dress from Etsy seller UkleksaUS! I call it the "Daisy 2" dress!

UkeksaUS makes clothes for Barbie and Ken.

Her original dress being the Daisy 1!

After seeing all these clothes come in, Miss D. is upset because she hasn't received any new outfits. I guess she needs to get something!

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Elizabeth Taylor!

 Hey Gang!

Today is her birthday-- Elizabeth Taylor!

I posted photos of her when she passed in my post-- Her Time In The Sun Is Over! which was a take-off on A Place in the Sun.  I love the photos that I did for that post because she was in the the shadows and out of the sun. 

It was a happy accident. 

She was also in photos with my Divas when the new dresses I ordered off of ebay came in. She was rebodied on a Disney body with her blog name of Liz and personality in Five Lovely Ladies In New Dresses! 

Liz in her dress!

The Divas in their dress before Liz and Ms. D. got into a argument and Ms. D had her banned from the blog. That is why you haven't seen her since 2013! She is no longer banned and back in the blog.

She is finally documented on the blog!

A short snippet on Lix Taylor from Wikipedia:

Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor DBE (February 27, 1932 – March 23, 2011) was a British-American actress. She began her career as a child actress in the early 1940s and was one of the most popular stars of classical Hollywood cinema in the 1950s. She then became the highest paid movie star in the 1960s, remaining a well-known public figure for the rest of her life. In 1999, the American Film Institute named her the seventh-greatest. 

Born in London to socially prominent American parents, Taylor moved with her family to Los Angeles in 1939. She made her acting debut with a minor role in the Universal Pictures film There's One Born Every Minute (1942), but the studio ended her contract after a year.  She was then signed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and became a popular teen star after appearing in National Velvet (1944). She transitioned to mature roles in the 1950's when she starred in the comedy Father of the Bride (1950) and received critical acclaim for her performance in the drama A Place in the Sun (1951).  To read more, go to the wikipedia link . 

There are a few releases of Elizabeth Taylor doll by Mattel with the Elizabeth Taylor face.  I purchase the White Diamonds doll when she was released back in 2000 because she was on sale with a makeup purchase that became a Christmas president.

White Diamonds!

They did a really great job with the eyes!

There is also the Father of the Bride doll!

She looks like the fashion Icon that she is!

Elizabeth Taylor in her Iconic roll as Cleopatra!

Closeup!

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