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vrijdag 8 november 2013

Adventures with Amelia Thimble

What? Another doll? Yes, that's right! I've got her quite a while already. I think I bought her back in June, when she was on sale at the Wilde Imagination Website.
Amelia Thimble is quite a tiny doll, which stands just 4 inches tall. She's made of resin and has changeable inset eyes and is a wigged doll. She's also balljointed, so she is very poseable.
I bought the 'On Pins & Needles' doll.





 With help of my english friend Ralph, I also bought her the 'Sprinkled with Love' baking set


A cute little pair of trousers I made for her, which go so well with the baking set
I took her with me on holidays to Deal, as she is just the right size to put in a handbag.













As you can see, she really had lots of fun in Deal, and she also came with us on a daytrip to London!
There was just only a tiny little problem, she had the 'kicky leg syndrom' so it was always a challenge to get her to stand on her own and pose.
Finally I found an online tutorial about restringing Amelia, so I scraped all my courage together, and had a go at it.




There she is, all in one piece again!
Here is the link to the tutorial: restringing Amelia Thimble tutorial
During the fall holidays I had been making a couple of lace nighties for her:














And just this week, I felt inspired to make her a new outfit:

maandag 28 oktober 2013

finishing a project and some more new gals

Just about a week ago I finally finished sewing the first outfit I had started sewing for Ellowyne.
Yes, I know I already finished quite a few outfits for her, but this one was a real challenge.
Probably because it was the first one I started sewing for her, but mainly because of my choice of fabrics, which were quite hard to work with, especially the fabric of the overdress.
So I had been sewing the shirt, the bloomers and the overdress, and after that I kind of lost my courage, and didn't seem to be able to get myself to sew the apron and craft the hat.
But, I had Ell sitting dressed in her unfinished outfit in my livingroom, which was bugging me so much that I finally decided to get that outfit finished.
Here you can see her sitting in the background whilst I was working on the reproduction of red, white & very blue
 So I on saturday I cutted out all the patternpieces and fraychecked them, and on sunday evening I sewed the apron and crafted the hat.
Although it isn't flawless I'm really quite pleased with the result, and I did learn a lot of things along the way.
Serious Intention wearing my version of 'like Clockwork'

the moment I saw the pattern I thought th ehat was one of the cutest thing I could imagine , I love how the purple colour of the blouse goes with Ell's eyes

On thursday I had a new arrival; one of the first Essential Ellowyne's, the redhead came to join my collection.
On friday we were going on holidays for the weekend, but just before leaving home, the postie came with a super large box! In it was something I had really been dreaming of getting it for months; the Wilde Rose Vanity for Ellowyne. How lucky can a girl get?
On our weekend away, I had to take something with me, to fiddle around with, and as Amelia is quite tiny, she was the lucky one that came with us on holiday.
I had some lace with me, and ribbons and some poppers....
So I created this cute little nightie for her, and a similar one with yellow accents:
The little filly pony is not Amelia's, but DD11 allowed me to borrow it for the picture
When we arrived back home again on sunday evening I found out the postie had been here with yet another parcel, and would come back again today. DH was really not impressed I had to pay another customsbill.....
(well, I can't say I like that either......)
This morning I decided to take pictures of my lovely redhead and the vanity.
So pretty! The jewellery is the prize I won in the 'it's only make believe' contest, donated by Carol

It was a nice challenge to try to only get the reflection of EE red in the mirror

She's really even lovelier in person

The other 2006 girls I've got captured in the mirror too!
Another doll I really like pretty much is the new Feeling Drained 3, but I already have FD and FD2, although only the red wig for FD and the black wig for FD2. I compared FD2 and FD3 with the online pictures and decided that if I would get the blonde wig of FD3, that would be good enough for me.
Guess what happened when the wig arrived? The girls started a cat fight over it. EE5 red, FD2 and FD all tried it on.
Guess who's the winner:
Feeling Drained wearing the FD3 blonde wig

Although we had the most severe storm today since 1990, the postie arrived early in the afternoon, getting me a lovely box of mini's from a NZ supermarket (well, it came from a friend in NZ) and of course the parcel I had been eagerly awaiting since the Wilde Imagination sale a couple of weeks ago.
How much fun can it be to open up a dolly parcel!
first peek

DD11 really wanted to help deboxing her and getting her hairnet off

Look who came up to my frontdoor!

Woefully Romantic

such a pretty girl!
 Because of the storm I was a bit worried about taking pictures outside, but a bit later in the afternoon it seemed to be safe enough, so I had some fun taking pictures of my latest new addition.....