A Little Longer Than I Thought

     I've been spraying my doll with clear paint for the last few days. Yesterday I ran out of spray. :(  I live an hour and a half away from the nearest place that has testors dullcote(the paint I use). So now I have to wait 'till Saturday (when we go into town anyways) to get more. I'm taking all my supplies with me so I can work on her at Grams and Grandoug's.
     Hoping to get her put back together over the weekend. It makes me nervous having her in pieces. Can't wait to get her back together again!

Took a leap...

  
    ...And pulled apart my doll, very nerve wrecking. I was just going to spray paint her all in one piece, then as I was removing the layer of paint I had put on to protect her,(the one layer got dirt under it) I got water on her elastic. I remembered reading somewhere that you don't want to leave your doll together if the elastic is wet, something about it stretching out faster. So I've taken her apart, she'll dry over night and tomorrow I'll start spraying her all up. Since I was brave enough to take her apart I'll be paint her in pieces and put her together when she is painted. It will make the clear paint more even. I'm not worried about getting her back together, I think that will be the easy part. :) Looking forward to making her look pretty tomorrow!

Clothes for my Girl

     I finally got around to taking some photos of her in her dress and underpants. I had to adjust the dress when she got here, it was just a little bit to big on the sides. The underpants I made when she got here, used a tutorial on DoA that showed you how to make custom for your doll underpants.
    Her hair is a bit messy in the photo of the back of the dress, she kept falling over. I was getting tired of fixing her hair, only to have her fall on her face again!

Doll Workshop

 

     I went to my second doll meet on Saturday and we had a doll workshop going on. It ended up being only the hostess and I who were there. Had lots of fun putting together doll furniture and talking. She helped me with a couple of problems I was having with my doll, so nice to have someone who understands what I'm talking about and be able to help. I made a sofa and she made a tuffet. Wish I would have thought to take photos of her doll on the chair she made, my brain didn't seem to want to work that day. I kept putting things together backwards!

     I took some photos of my girl sleeping on her sofa with the new lap blanket I made her. I love how she looks like she conked out on the chair. So loving this girl! Now to decide whether to paint her or name her first.

Box Opening!!!!

So this morning I heard the door bell ring and wondered "Who could that be?", looked

through the peep hole and saw the mailman with a box that looked like the right kind of 

box for a littlefee. I thought "Surely not yet?!", opened the door and saw it was from

Denver Doll! I squealed with joy, after I closed the door. :)

Goodies that came with my order, several postcards and a couple of stickers!

                 The bright pink booklet is the owners manual and the bubble wrapped item

is the sleeping head. The blue box is what she came in.

Squee! Was so excited opening her up, if only she hadn't come with red eyes.

Glad I bought some green ones for my practice head.

                                                           My extra hands!

Sleepy head!

Did this one just for fun!

               My beautiful girl after I fixed her foot. Was so glad to have the people at DoA

to help me figure out what to do!

Problem Solved?

        I think I may have found the problem, now to figure out how to fix her.

My Girl is Home!!

 

      This morning the mailman brought me my doll! Very excited that she is here. Only thing is her left foot refuses to go on, so it's off to DoA to see if someone can help me. The ball part is just a tiny bit to big, or at least that's what it looks like to me. I'll put up box opening photos later.

Second Face-up

 

I wiped off the old face-up on my practice head and repainted it. I was not happy with the first one. So this time I read up on different ways to do a face-up and got some advice from some gals at a doll meet. I took the advise from on of the gals to do it in layers, that helped a ton. Used more pastels than last time, found someone on youtube using the pastels as powder with a paint brush, I really like the results from the pastels. I also used water color pencils, made doing lashes a lot easier. :) I'll probably use paint next time for the eye liner, didn't like the way it turned out, I think it would probably look better with paint. I loved the way her blush turn out, I am definitely blushing my girl's ears when she gets here. With her little elf ears it will be adorable!

Waiting...

     So I've made my last payment on my girl and am now awaiting her arrival. As I wait I've been watching some youtube videos with littlefees in them. Watching how to change her head and hands again, don't want to break her when she gets here. :) And looking at some of the amazing poses this doll can do, I forgot about some of the things she can do. Can't wait to get my girl home and try them out myself!
     These are my favorite videos reviewing the mobility and posing abilities of the littlefee...

     I was very excited when noozieviolets put these up, I'd been waiting for someone to review the littlefee and then she did it!

My Girl is in the U.S.A.!!!

     I got an email today saying my doll has arrived at Denver Doll Emporium!! I'm sooo excited, she is very close to getting home. Can't wait for her to get here. It will be so much fun playing with her and learning how to pose her!