a doll by any other name

[thanate]

After drooling over that anotherspace cinderella dress for months now, I finally got around to making something similar for myself. (because, um, I *will not* allow my price points to slide so far that I spend $75 on an outfit for a doll, only half of which I actually want anyway. There's also an essay on financial responsibility lurking in the back of my head.) My design is clearly far superior, as it has both pockets and buttons. There's also a ruffle to go on the outer dress that I haven't attached yet; I'm still trying to decide how I want to sew it on. And she will also need bloomers, but I have to dig out the proper color of muslin for that first.



Which brings us to the problem of the doll with three heads.



I seem to have a thing about square-edged eyes...

Anyway, I've been collecting this doll; she's got a working title of Princess Languidere (who, for those of you who missed the original Oz books, had thirty heads and did not, as Mombe did in the Return to Oz movie, have to steal them from anyone first.) At present, she's only got three, which happened due to a strange convergence of the stars (or maybe it's that new comet?) and while I love all these pieces individually, I'm having trouble with the fact that NONE OF THEM MATCH. Gr. Ok, I have sealant, I have pastels (they're in storage, which has gotten nearly impossible to get to due to roadwork between here and there, but still, they exist) and I can theoretically fix this. And then I will indulge my tastes for extremely strange dolls. Or move on and, um, plan my wedding...

Meanwhile, I've been having fun with the eyeless wigless doll. (Unlike the face-ups the other two came with, this one is kind of cute, so I haven't wiped it off yet.)







The lawn has kindly provided doll-sized flowers. And my mother doesn't want them taking over any more, so she encourages picking them. (If anyone local wants snowdrops, we've got plenty to share!)

Comments

[cheshiretiffy.livejournal.com]

Oh that IS a cute outfit. $75 does seem a little steep, though.

[thanate.livejournal.com]

Yeah, and I'm already feeling odd about the amount of money I've spent on the various bits of doll. :/ So, while I may have spent more than seven hours of my time putting this together (because I'm an idiot, and hand-sewed the *buttonholes*) it didn't cost me anything. In fact, I'm pretty sure the only things I spent money on rather than acquiring as hand-me-down supplies were the buttons and the needle I used.

[stanci.livejournal.com]

I like the freckle-eyed doll head (and the outfit, it is sooo cute!).
Though there is something vaguely disturbing about the reddish tint to the eye holes in the pictures... :)

[thanate.livejournal.com]

Think of it as being like light shining through skin and catching all the blood vessels.

(indeed-- now I want to make one for me, but I'm supposed to be making a wedding dress, which really ought to take precedence.)

[astormorray.livejournal.com]

sigh... It's wonderful. If you ever want to make clothes for Suzanne (http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/oEC0stx1g3B8FKS_PlCcgA?feat=directlink)... I wouldn't complain. ;)

[laeticiav.livejournal.com]

Who are the doll heads? One looks very familiar, but I don't think it can be him.
I love the Cinderella dress!
Which part of the Another Space dress did you want? I might be open to a *trade* in return/partial return for something you could make. Let me know :)
Actually, I really would like to commission you anyway, if you have time (the need for Frock coat getting pressing now Snape is finally getting a body).

[thanate.livejournal.com]

I suspect you do recognize head #1 (I split him with kittymaru, who was starting to regret not buying the fullset earlier) and now I feel kind of bad about not doing anything with him. He had a temporary partial paint for a while in indigo watercolor, which included celtic swirls and ancient greek lettering, but the MSC went on unevenly and so the paint went on blobbily and it looked rather bad so I wiped it off. Now that it's warmed up, I need to re-coat everyone properly. We'll call the heads (for the sake of argument) Genji, Miho, and Rain. The volks resin matches best (although my twiglimbs is a bit pinker) but looks oddest for some reason. And Rain is supposedly from before they changed their resin over, but he's still very pink.

(and yes, the doll is a she, but independently all her heads are still male.)

Time? What's that? I'm making doll clothes because I don't want to deal with making my wedding dress. ;) But if there were an actual commission involved, you should e-mail me with measurements and things, and I'd promise to actually get to it.