Ready For Transport

I've been decluttering lately and figured that I should already set aside the dolls that don't need my immediate attention or look somewhat complete to me. They will be transported to my new place soon.

Disney Store Pocahontas and Aurora (Sleeping Beauty)

Both Pocahontas and Aurora were from the thrift store. I bought them nude and their hair was frizzy so I had to boil wash and even trim their hair a little. I got Pocahontas' dress from an online seller, and Aurora's dress from the thrift store recently. I love the length of Aurora's dress. And I'm glad it cleaned up well because when I bought it, the white collar was brownish.

My unarticulated Jasmine would be glad to be reunited with them.

As much as it's fun to dress up my Liccas, I'm quite satisfied with them wearing matching maid outfits.

Bratzillaz' Meygana Broomstix. I really like her side glance. I don't have any ideas yet of what I could add to her look. Until then, she's getting stored and later on displayed.

Jem from Jem and The Holograms. I finally trimmed off her skirt, but I got lazy to hem the skirt so I just taped it down, lol. I also do not want to paint her shoes magenta anymore. She's a big girl, so she's going to stay behind the smaller dolls and her shoes will be hidden from view anyway when I get around to organising my doll shelf.

I'm thinking about Zombie Alice if she should stick around until Halloween because... Halloween. I mean, who would be the one to eat brains during this day when she's not around, right?

My three male dolls. Gaah look at Justin Bieber's crazy looking eyes due to the glare.

Pierre is wearing the outfit he was wearing when I bought him from an online seller. I still haven't made him a nice dark coat to go along with his outfit, but I'm not in a hurry, you know.

I don't have a lot of Ken stuff, so Justin and Fred ended up with baggy shirts and loose shorts/pants which I tightened by tying the loose waistband with rubber band.

So remember my two Liccas earlier? I made them wear uniforms. Too cute.

This bright blue outfit is made of fabric and felt cloth! That's why the jacket looks stiff.

Lastly I decided to dress up a rescued Barbie Fashionistas doll and made her wear a 2011 Holiday Barbie dress meant for a Model Muse Barbie. I'm glad it fits her. I have a problem with that shoulder strap though because it's quite difficult to put it on her shoulder so it ends up hanging on her arm, but that's OK. I had to use a saddle stand for her because if I use a generic Barbie stand, then the stand gets caught up in the skirt and I couldn't display the skirt properly. Underneath, Barbie's feet are somewhat floating. I already made her wear Barbie clone heels but she's still floating a bit. Could it be that Model Muse dolls are much taller than regular Barbies? I have no idea because I've never seen a Model Muse upfront together with a Barbie to be able to make a comparison.

Barbie's earrings are her stock earrings, and her necklace is just a ball-and-chain key chain I wound around her neck twice.

I still have other dolls I've put aside that I haven't photographed yet such as Jenny, Mimi, Twilight Sparkle, Chiffon, and Simba Cinderella. Soon. The dolls above are not going anywhere just yet anyway. They're just stored in two reusable bags, ready for transport right now.

What I have left in my toy box now are the rest of my Barbies, my Liv doll hybrids, some bootleg dolls, and my broken Monster High and Ever After High dolls. I consider my Barbies and Liv doll hybrids as models so they do not have permanent clothing, while my Monster High and Ever After High dolls need work on their replacement arms and new handmade clothing before I set them aside. I still have a lot of work to do! After I'm halfway done, then I can finally move on to making a backdrop for photography, and even simple dioramas to make my doll photos more interesting. So many plans, hey.

My Celebrity Dolls

In my previous post about playing doll bingo, I wrote that I have no dolls made in the likeness of real people. Well, now I do, but I didn't acquire these dolls because of that bingo game, no. It just happened.

Last year, the seller at Vivo Citi had two Olsen dolls and they were selling them to me at P400 each. I couldn't afford them.

Recently an online seller put up things they were letting go and one of them is a Mary-Kate Olsen doll. She was very cheap at P50, but the shipping cost set me back at P100. When I think about it though, it would cost me just as much if I opted for a meet-up instead, so it was a deal.

When I received her, I was very surprised because Mary-Kate is actually much taller than Licca. Too bad I didn't make a comparison, but maybe next time when they get together for a photograph.

She can fit into this Daiso room dress. Her feet are not as arched as Barbie's so it's quite tricky to give her shoes.

I also noticed that her makeup is a shade of brown which I thought is odd because it looks faint or dull. I tried identifying her then and found out that she's a Super Spa Day doll. Oh! Here's a commercial of it:

It turns out that her makeup and nails on her hands and feet change colour when you apply cold water to the doll. That is interesting, because I used to have a similar doll like that. I didn't have very cold water in the fridge, but there is ice accumulating on the walls of the freezer, so I scraped some and put it on her face, hands and feet. It kinda works, I saw the colour change somehow into a darker shade of brown, but I think the colour change would look better on Ashley, the other Olsen doll, because her lips are closed and the colour looks more solid with her lips like that.

Also if you notice, the Super Spa Day dolls are wearing slippers. I have a similar pair of clone slippers like that from a cheap shoe pack, so I think I found footwear for Mary-Kate, finally.

I also found a Justin Bieber doll at the thrift store! He's part of my wish list so I am glad I got him. He has articulation in the neck (side-to-side), shoulders, elbows, legs, knees, and ankles. His joints are pretty tight so I am pleased.

His body is stained though but the stains remind me of tattoos. I could pretend they really are tattoos because the real Justin has some on his arms.

Looking like bruises.

It was difficult to dress him up as I do not have a lot of male doll clothing. But I have this mini t-shirt I found in our garage a while back. It's the kind that gets printed on with logos and stuff, and I hung on to it hoping I would find it useful someday. I sure did. When I put it on him, the length seems to be all right, but the width is too much for his built, so I used a safety pin to secure the fold on his shirt at the back.

His shorts do not fit him well because it just ends above his crotch. It's the pair of shorts I got from a teddy bear. His shoes are mismatched Ken clone shoes, bah. I'd probably get him better Ken clone shoes.