In Pieces....

Pulled apart Satomi again. She's been in dire need of a new paint job.

Left side of the photo has the pieces that still need cleaned and the

right side has the pieces I worked on cleaning today. :)

I'll be working on taking off all the old paint for awhile. Then I'll get to work on 

repainting her again. I don't plan on doing a full body blush this time as it wore 

off quickly on her joints last time. I'll be giving her mid body a blush job, repaint 

her face, and give her back her arm tattoo, as well as adding a few new ones. ^_^

 She is also going to be restrung. Her old elastic is worn and not as stretchy as it
once was. So I'll be finding somewhere to order some new strung to fix her up. I'd
also like to try and find some silicone sheets to try sueding her that way. I've
didn't like how quickly the hot glue sueding wore off and the moleskin sueding is
a mess to clean off after it wears out. So, I'm excited about working on my girl
 and getting her all freshly put together!                                                               

Been gone to long

     I am horrified, I told myself I would post at least once a week and realized I haven't done anything for a month. I have finished blushing the hands and feet, they turned out really nice. I've finished dying the white furr pink and making it into a wig. The wig is the perfect color for my girl. I still haven't picked out a name for her, need to get busy on that.
      I'm working on her faces right now. I tried a tricked I read about on DoA to take a piece of tape draw the shape you want your eyebrow to be cut it out and use it as a template. It was sooo much easier that way, didn't take near as long to draw them all on and have them match.
     I have photos of the hands and feet, but right now I don't have a computer to upload them to. As soon as I do I'll post them. I also plan to take some photos of her new wig. And maybe by then she'll have a face also!

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!

First Face-up

    

   I decided to start a blog so I could share the crafts I've been up to with friends and family, the first of these being my first face-up. There are some things I definitely need to work on, but I had fun playing around with it. This head is a Fairyland Littefee Winking Ante faceplate bw skin, I bought it just for practicing on, though I think someday it will claim a body. When I first showed it to my Grandoug with no eye in it's head he said it was quite disturbing, he was fine with it after I put the eye in. :) It amazes me how much difference it makes just putting in an eye. I've already thought of some characters I could turn it into.

    I've passed working day 40 of my wait on my Littlefee DES I order. I am getting antsy here and hope I get some news soon. She will be my first bjd and I'm very excited about getting her. 

   I also took these photos of my faceplate, was trying to be more artsy with my photos. I found my stone necklaces and thought they looked perfect with it's eyes.