On The Craft Table! Working on the Market!

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I have returned to working on my doll market! There is a lot to do!

My previous project! Using contact paper to cover.  Not sure how I feel about how this came out.

As you can see, there are many shelves to fill. I also purchased this! 

I have painted the case, and it is ready for food. I am still working on the register. Here is the case.  I painted it silver.  I used the cardboard cereal boxes to make the back wall. I used the original back as the template. I covered it with silver paper.

Beef!

I have purchased some food from Connie Deshon Runnel. I really love her stuff!

This is my next purchase. It wasn't complete, but good enough.  I started on this by painting it.

More work to do! My next purchase was the Quick Checkout Register. It will need a "15 items or less" sign. I purchased it from CNMCreationsInc, which is also on Etsy.

It says it is 1/6 scale, but it is a little short. I am using Timoko(RM) for scale.

I gave it some height by placing bottle caps underneath. 

It is better now!

That is it for now!

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On The Craft Table! Working On The Market!

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These are not my crafts, but they are on my craft table!

One of my Facebook friends, Connie Deshon Runnels, is making food for dolls.  She sells on Etsy and on Facebook. Just message her. I had to purchase some. I plan on working on my market and knew I would need some items. I made a few orders from her.

This is my first order! She sold me these groceries in a box.

With the plastic off.

I love this wooden box. I know I can use it for many things.

The individual items.

There is a pork and a beef roast set, two government checks, a receipt, charcoal, foil, cheese, and collard greens.

I have drumsticks, breast, and thighs

And I have a tuna steak, salmon, and perch.

Steaks of various types.

And grass-fed beef, and oxtails!

Esther: Girl, give me them oxtails! You know you know nothing about oxtails but how to eat 'em.

Ms. Leo: I know about oxtails! I ordered them! You shouldn't be on here. I haven't introduced you or anything.  There are other dolls ahead of you.

Esther: Don't make me hit you with my masher! I can introduce myself. Hello, my name is Esther Pritchette, and I don't take no #@%$!

These items are really cute. There is charcoal in the bag, and foil in the box.

Then I ordered lunch meat for my meat counter.

I have ham, salami, roast beef, corned beef, oven-roasted turkey, Swiss cheese, provolone, and American cheese.

I just love the grain on the meat.

Swiss, American, and Provolone!

I even got sliced meat! Now I just have to make a meat slicer.

It came in the cute crate.

I ordered some other things, I'll show you later! So, put your order in! I know she will want to spend time with her grandbabies over the holidays!

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Pic Nic Tables On The Craft Table!

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On The Craft Table!

I have a few picnic tables. I recently found two large tables that I had to add to my collection.

I found two of these on Amazon. It was meant to be used for condiments, but I made them picnic tables like the rest of the tables I own. 

The dimensions are 13" length X 5 1/2 depth X 12" wide. Which is significant.

I will cover the top of the table with cardboard. This will cover the holes and allow me to use the whole table.

I will use a tablecloth for now, but I will make a wood-looking top later.

  I will have to hem the tablecloth. Here are a few dolls at the table for scale.

Each table can fit eight dolls, totaling sixteen dolls. This will work well for gathering and celebrations.

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On The Craft Table! Head Swaps!

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I''ve finished my first projects from the craft table and am moving on to more projects.  Stating with a few more head swaps.

AA Fashionista Ken #130

AA Fashionista Ken #130 who looks similar to AA Fashionista Ken Classic Cool. 

Where there are a few articulated bodies out ther close to Classic Cool's complexion there aren't any bodies by Mattel that are articulated close to #130 complexion. So I had to order a IT 1.0 Nubian skin tone articulated body for him.

I saw a few post on FB that they rebodied Fashionista Ken #130  with the Nubian body and it seemed to be a good match.  Once I got the body, I cand see that it is.  

He is taller but the body really works. I used differnt pants because loner legs need longer shorts.

Close up! He makes a great college age guy.

I found a Ginny Weasley for $9.99 nude! What I wanted was the head and not the girl Harry Potter doll body, so that worked.

Harry Potter girl doll body. I nver new why they used that body and not a body that they already had in production.

Ginny is anothe canidate for a Clara 4 Realms body! Here she is on that body. I think she looks better and can interact with Skipper size dolls without looking wierd. She might get a new hairstyle.

It time to work on at least one of the heads that I got from AliExpress!

I found a Disney male body in a box of dolls at a flea market. The owner gave a good price because she couldn't find the head.

It isn't the best match but it will do. I am thinking about changing the eyebrow and the scruf on the chin.

I also found a older Skipper Babysitters Inc. doll in that box.

I think she is this one.

She is not the right tone for a Clara Four Realms body. I rebodied her on a Creable World Asian doll body.  The Creable World body give her articulation.

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On The Craft Table! Craft Table Month!

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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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