Fully Articulated Skipper!

Hi Gang!

I just wanted to show you my fully articulated Skipper doll.  She is a leg swap doll.  I will have to create a new label for leg swaps because she is my second.  I guess I will call it leg transplant for now.  I do a lot of head swaps.  Look for them under the label HSD. 

If you remember a while back I posted about the Barbie Sisters 2Paks when they came out. That is my most viewed post!  In that post I showed you my Barbie 2 Pak Sisters Skateboard with Skipper and Chelsea. 

When Mattel did this new version of Skipper, they gave her only articulated knees.  What a bummer!  She was a new head sculpt, so I had to have her. But wit he fashionista dolls out I longed for a skipper with more articulation!

Recently Mattel has released a new Skippers with articulated arms one of which is Hula Dance Set. This only made me want a fully articulated Skipper more.  I had seem some pictures on flickr about it remove the legs of the older doll and putting them on the body of the newer doll. Thanks Alrunia! I purchase that set in hopes of one day doing it. When  I met up with Cyano we talked about it too and I was told that it was pretty easy!  So with my new found courage, I tried it!  Here she is!

I put the other legs on the older doll.  She is a complete doll now and will go on my dollpage for sale.

I am inspired by all you other bloggers out there!  You may think that no one care about what you do but we all do!! You send good vibrations into the universe!  And whenever you post we are the happy recipients of your love of dolls!

Thanks For Looking!

Ms. Leo

My Pre-Halloween Leg Transplant!

The Leg Transplant!
I promised you guys I would post Brenda's leg transplant
once it was complete. So her it is.

When I first post Brenda last year at Christmas, She was
on her original body. She didn't have articulation. Now that
she is going to be in stories, she needs to be able to move. I
had been looking for a new body for her.

Another picture of her on her old body.


I loved the graceful hand of this doll I received in trade
form Anika at Dollz4Moi. Thanks again Anika!
They are "prettier" than the hand of the Fashionista dolls
and many of the other dolls with articulation. I swapped
Brenda's head to this body!

The only problem was that she had flat feet! This means
no high heals! She has to have heels! So I remembered a
post from Alrunia where she talked about transferring
the legs from certain types of Barbie dolls. So that is
what I did. The site Alrunia referred to no longer exists
but her comment suggests how.
http://i-luv-dolls.blogspot.com/2010/11/best-body.html?showComment=1288983113415#c5564143468338254418

Thanks Alrunia! This post is for you!

NOTE PICTURES BELOW ARE A LITTLE GRAPHIC!


It works best on dolls that have their legs attached with the
black rubber band style attachment or elastic. I checked to
see if the ballerina had that type of leg joint and she did.




Next I had a donor leg body. It was the Dancing Brandy doll.
She was the first brandy they did. The neck on this doll
was strange but the legs were what I wanted.



They too had the black rubber attachment at the legs.


I cut the legs from the body and removed all black rubber
pieces that had held the legs together on both sets of legs.



I then used elastic to re-attach the legs to the body.


I used 1/4 inch elastic. I would had preferred black but
white was the only color my local WalMark had.



I restring the legs making them tight and knotting them.


I them cut off the extra elastic from the joint.



So her she is! My new and improved Brenda!


I hope this inspires others to do the same and have the
doll of your dreams. If you try it, please let me know.
Thanks for looking!