Bodysuits, The Hiding Sewing Machine and Cat Noir

I attempted to make a pattern and sew a bodysuit again, in a smaller scale, but alas, I made the sleeves and the pant legs very narrow! Add to the fact that I chose a not so good fabric that doesn't stretch. (I chose it because it's shiny, unlike the black t-shirt fabric that I have.) What a waste! I cut off the sleeves and the legs and gave the suit a try on Lottie.

Seems like the collar has too much fabric. That won't happen if the fabric is thin but stretchy.

Mental notes... Mental notes...

I would have been faster if I used my sewing machine, lol. I decided to check it out from storage.

Here it is under a Christmas themed microwave oven cover. I had to tuck the sides of the cover with binder clips.

Tada!!! I have to re-learn how to sew on this thing. That's going to be my goal in 2019, lol.

May these pictures of Cat Noir and Antibug from Miraculous inspire me to make the bodysuit/s that I need.

Speaking of Cat Noir, I found one from an online seller, and I should get it later this week. He's missing one hand, his tail and weapon, but I don't mind. I asked the seller if Cat Noir's bodysuit fits an Ever After High boy doll, but the boy doll she had is Daring Charming with the sculpted shoes (Ew!), so she couldn't get Daring's feet through the pant holes. But she managed to try Cat Noir's bodysuit on Monster High's Clawd Wolf and it was quite a good fit. Still, I'd like to dress up my Hunter Huntsman doll with a bodysuit for a custom project, and I know that EAH boy dolls are quite bulkier than MH boy dolls, so I think I just have to make that suit on my own soon.

More Doll Dress Up Games (with Zomby Gaga)

So I played at StarSue.net again!

I did this a while back. It's a dress up of Mira Shards from Ever After High. I made her look darker because her character is evil.

I don't know what I was thinking when I dressed up Miraculous Ladybug this way. Maybe I was projecting Jollibee onto her, lol. But I actually had a marathon of Miraculous episodes two days ago, so I thought it would be fun to make another one for Ladybug. Here is my old dress up of her.

Shoppies Poppette from Shopkins. I like her original popcorn themed outfit and didn't want to stray far away from it, so I didn't give her pants or shorts. This is all right.

Teen Tinkerbell from Fairy Tale High. I wanted her to look more rough and boyish, but those pink wings are a mistake. I couldn't get rid of them without resetting the whole look so I went with it.

Zomby Gaga from Monster High! I haven't talked about her yet on this blog, ha. Lady Gaga's doll will be available next year! I enjoyed making these the most because of the music playing in the background. It's so catchy and fun!

I don't like her hair here as much as the others because she looks like she's balding, lol.

This is my favourite look for her. I wonder if I can do something similar on an actual doll. Oh ambitions.

Miraculous Dress Up Game

I have only seen a couple of episodes of Miraculous episodes and found them enjoyable for the fact that the love quadrangle/square (???) between Marinette, Adrien and their superhero counterparts Ladybug and Catnoir make a good story. I also like the colours red and black, so hey.

I forgot that I actually played a dress up game for Miraculous a while back, so I want to share these photos I saved:

Cat Noir's dress up game doesn't have a lot of clothing options, so I just decided to make his outfit have more accessories and more gold in it.

I made Ladybug look more preppy and athletic, but I doubt this is a suitable fighting uniform, haha.

A Photo Dump! [Part 8]

Finally took a photo of my dentist's posable skeleteon which I mentioned in this post. 

Look, it stands right below his bigger skeleton companion.

It comes with its own doll stand.

Quite tiny and delicate.

I put it back on its stand and posed it. It's not as posable as I thought it was, but still very cool.

The Ever After High dolls at Toys R Us Glorietta.

That's Darling Charming. She's really beautiful.

Melody Piper.

Rosabella Beauty. She's pretty but I'm not digging her outfit.

Faybelle Thorn. I don't like her lips. It's weird.

Farrah Goodfairy. At first, I was a bit thrown off by her smile, but she grew on me. She's really pretty.

Bunny Blanc, vacant and widely-spaced eyes and all.

Holly O'hair style doll.

The only Dragon Games doll I saw.

Dragon Games Apple White.

Budget dolls with sculpted tops Ashlynn Ella and Apple White. Raven Queen is missing, but I saw her at a different toy store.

New Fashionistas.  There's even that Dolled Up in Dots doll hidden in the back row but I didn't bother to take a photo of it.

So this is the brand new version of the Kelly/Chelsea doll I thrifted last time which became the base for my quick custom doll, Cattleena. This new doll is much more expensive than the lot of dolls I thrifted that time, whew.

A Ken fashion pack. I don't think it's common here.

At Tickles I spotted these soccer themed pens.

Those shoe charms are very interesting. I was thinking that if I get four of these pens, I can make additional shoes for my Moxie Girlz doll, or a Bratz doll (if I have one, which I don't). I can probably carve a hole in there for the doll's pegged feet.

But nope, these pens are so expensive. P99 per piece. NO. Definitely not. Tickles shop items are so expensive, so I pass.

New Sparkle Girlz dolls at a local department store.

They have pastel coloured hair. There were even mermaid dolls, which I think have a better shaped waistline than the regular ones.

Speaking of pastel coloured hair, I have this Frozen Anna bootleg doll that I tried customising into Anna's iced version in the movie, but I failed miserably. I never finished it and lost inspiration, so I thought of a way to salvage her.

I painted her body with glittery red nail polish. I know you shouldn't really use nail polish on dolls because of the damage it can do to the vinyl, but this is a cheap bootleg anyway and it's a fast method to get the job done.

Et voila! My custom Ladybug doll from Miraculous. I don't mind that her hair is lighter than Ladybug's and that she has no bangs. After all, she was intended to be different custom so I'm kind of saving her from being a failure, yes?

I placed too many dots on her suit but whatever. I tied red ribbons on her ponytails, by the way.

Ack! It was too dark so I lightened this photo.

Speaking of Anna, I rebodied my Mattel Anna to a Liv Sophie doll, and Mattel Rapunzel also got the same treatment. They were bobble heads at first, but to fix the problem, I placed a small piece of foam on the neck knob before I attached the head.

These outfits are temporary:

Rapunzel: clone Barbie halter top which I pulled high up her neck to make it look like a crop top, Winx Club Flora skirt

Anna: Barbie sleeveless top, and unbranded shorts

I switched their tops (after taking the photo above) so that they could look more coordinated with each other.

No shoes at the moment. I find it difficult to find shoes that fit Liv dolls. It's quite tempting to just carve their feet smaller with a craft knife so they can fit in Barbie shoes, but nope, I don't want to ruin the dolls. They can stay barefoot for now.

From a trip to a thrift store.

A small doll made by Wilco in Hong Kong. I'm having trouble identifying her.

She has generously rooted hair, a removable top with velcro on the back, posable body (but I find it hard to pose her in the sitting position) and painted pants.

When I tried to look for more information about this doll, I ended up finding photos of a line called We Teens. It seems like this line is the predecessor of the Bratz dolls? Hmm.

The head of the doll can be removed easily.

A photo of the doll's face. I can actually put this doll's head on my miWorld doll's body. I didn't take a photo of it though. :-/

A small bucket of food. The detail of this is pretty good. Oh and I took a solo top shot of the food but I wasn't able to upload it. Oops.

I was pleasantly surprised that this is actually a 3D puzzle of some sort. Nice!

I leave you with photos of bootleg Tinkerbell and The Pirate Fairy dolls.

They have clone Monster High bodies in brown and flesh. There are no normies in Monster High except for Jackson Jekyll, but he's not a girl, so I don't think any Monster High character can match this skin tone.