Poorly Patience

Garden Patience and I had a lot of adventures. I intended to blog all about it, but somehow didn't get to it.
When I went on summerholidays in Denmark, Patience came with me, and I intend to write more about that when time permits.
With Halloween there was the first Tonnercon in the UK, and of course Garden Patience came with me too. We got to meet Robert Tonner and she got signed by him.
And then the 4th of December came, not a special date, but a silicon wigcap for Patience had arrived, and I decided to start using it for her.
I never used a silicon wigcap on a doll before, and whilst I was putting it on, I heard a snap, and all of the sudden my poor girl got decapitated.......

I was devastated, and immediately emailed Michelle at Wilde Imagination. She forwarded my email to Dr. Noreen from the Tonner doll hospital, and first she thought I should probably send the head and the uppertorso to her, to get her restored back to health.
I also posted about my poorly girl on one of the facebook groups, and the lovely Peggy Foggio from Westportdolls, offered to give me some instructions on how to get out the neckbutton, and to phone Dr. Noreen for me, as to sort  a different way of repairing her, to save on shipping. (Yes, I live in the Netherlands, so sending something outside Europe will cost over 18 euro, which is uninsured, so in case it would get lost with all the Christmas post, I was considdering sending the damaged torso signed for, which would cost 25,60 euro).
With help of all these lovely ladies, I got out the neckbutton, and dr Noreen posted the uppertorso to me.

Poor Ginger spend Christmas in bed, and couldn't wear the new Christmas outfit I had been sewing for her.

Late in the afternoon today, the post came, and there was the new torso!
Dollyplay and repairtime!
I'll just add the pictures here, as a picture says more than 1000 words....

for anyone who's curious what Patience looks like on the inside

underarms are swapped and uppertorso back on the rest of her body

the magical tool for dolly surgery

Done!

Of course I have to remind everyone doing this on your own is completely at your own risk!

Here she is, restored back to former glory, and wearing her new outfit:

One happy dolly, and I am simply over the moon!

A Exciting Tonner & Wilde Imagination day!

Yesterday was quite an exciting day at my home.
In April Wilde Imagination anounced the 6th Annual Poetry Contest. I'm a relative newbie to Wilde Imagination & Tonner, as I bought my first Ellowyne doll in May 2013, so I didn't even know they had poetry contests, until I got an email from them.
http://www.wildeimagination.com/ennui-poetry-contest
Although english isn't my mothertongue, I decided to take up the challenge, and have a go at it.
And I managed to send in my poem the last day of the contest, nothing better than a deadline when it comes to getting productive!
This was my entry: 
 

Every day I try to escape my ennui,

Pru keeps telling me life can be lots of fun for me,

Lizette is like her beautiful exotic birds,

While Rufus joins a club of nerds,

But one look from Amber is all I need,

To make me sigh and let my heart bleed.

A few weeks later Tonner Dolls organised a Story Contest.
http://www.tonnerdoll.com/half-pint-story-contest
Each and every entry will receive the Tonner 20th Anniversary DVD, so again I decided it would be worth a try. This time I got inspired a couple of days before the deadline and wrote a story which was based on some of my mums childhood adventures.
I sent my entry the 2nd of  May, and much to my surprise, yesterday I already received my copy of the DVD, so this was really so fast! 

The DVD is well worth watching, very interesting and inspiring!

I decided to go to bed early, as I fell on my tail bone a couple of weeks ago. So lying in bed I spent some time on facebook, and when I felt it was time to really go to sleep, my husband came upstairs, and told me there was an email that I had won a 3rd prize in the poetry contest!!!!!!
Well, of course I had to go downstairs and check my email:

Hi sweet lady!

Congrats!!  You are one of our 3rd Place WINNERS in the Ellowyne Poetry Contest...

So many amazing entries, trust me, picking the winning poems wasn't easy...with placing in the TOP 3 you will receive the lovely little Ennui Poetry Book, I'll be sending it to your address you provided below...I'll also be sure to send an email receipt to you too so you know it's been ordered, going to try to get these in and done this week! (As we are off to convention next week)

Thanks again, such fun to read and savor and we had many people "weigh in" on them, ultimately Robert made those final decisions, so sweet!

THANKS so much!

Enjoy!

Michelle

As you may be able to imagine I had a hard time going to sleep after that! It was so much excitement, a real adrenalin rush pumping through my body!

 A huge thank you to Tonner & Wilde Imagination for organising these fun contests!

 

Amber the Prom Queen

A few weeks back another girl arrived, and I think she's one of my most favourite girls; Amber, the Zombie Prom Queen.

Opening the box:

The tiara looks quite fragile, but by handling it gently I managed to bend it back into shape:

Here's a close up picture of her gorgeous shoes:

Isn't she just amazing:

When I had another photosession with her, she told me that Ellowyne had knocked her down with Freddy's baseballbat!

Even the back of her dress is stunning:

And of course another portrait:

Amber the Zombie Prom Queen, nothing Zombie about her, if you ask me....

Meanwhile, my Dark & Stormy night Amber (or Ginger from now on), had convinced Ashley (Disquietude) to switch clothes, as this really sets of their eyecolour so much better!

Ashley wearing Easy Does It & Ginger wearing A Little bit Darker

portrait of Ashley

portrait of Ginger

My 3 Ambers together:

A Website for Ellowyne

Of course it had to come; a website where I can showcase my Ellowyne's and keep track of their names. And also a place where I have everything nicely organised, so it will be easy to find back what I am looking for.
Although I know some basics when it comes to building a website, it's much easier to make a website using a template. So, I went to freewebs, choose a template and got started.
Here's the link: My Ellowyne Collection

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: