Updates

So many things have happened and I forgot all to write about it.
In may 2011 there was the Pippa convention in Stratford upon Avon, and yes, I took loads of pictures, so I might write something about it later.
Then in April 2012 I organised the first Daisy convention ever, which was a lot of fun. I've got a few pictures of the making of the convo doll on my website http://www.freewebs.com/the-ultimate-daisy-page/daisyconvodoll2012.htm 
And by the end of may there was Pippa in Manchester, Pippa's 40th birthday party!
So, lots of things to blog about. Will try to make a start with it soon.

Fleamarket finds

Today I went to a fleamarket in Bennekom, which is just a couple of km's from my home.
I didn't really have much hope, as I haven't ever found anything Daisy or Pippa on a fleamarket before, but I just kept hoping and searching.
Well, it finally paid off! I found 2 Daisy's and a Pippa!!!!!!!
Here are a couple of pictures of them.

Poorly Havoc

On thursday a poorly Havoc arrived. Her hair was a mess (especially at the back), but worse; she had a broken arm.

First I gave her a nice warm bath, to soak off all the dirt she had collected during her missions and travelling. After her bath her condition seemed even worse:



So, I first removed her underarm from her upperarm, to be able to glue her, withouth getting glue on her joint.



when I had the glue applied I put her underarm back to her upperarm, and hoped and prayed the glue wouldn't touch the joint.



It all worked out fine, so she finally can move her arm freely again, withouth any problem at all.

A quick comb and setting her hair with hot water (600ml cold tap water/400ml boilingwater, mixed together) took care of her hairdo.

After that it was time to get dressed. I finally got hold of her green catsuit, it was quite tlc too, but I managed to restore it back to acceptable.





Now, isn't she just gorgeous!!!!!!!

Another new dolly

Last week I received a nice joblot of Daisy dolls.
One of them a stunning brunette, so I had to decide on an outfit for her.
Not easy at all, because I have so very many outfits that I don't have on display, even though there are 100+ Daisy dolls in my display cabinets.



Well, I finally decided on Promenade.
This outfit was featured in the booklet 'read allabout my giftshop'.



Daisy is wearing it on her visit to New Zealand looking at boxes and other gift items made from iridescent paua shells.
I got this little piece of paua shell from one of my lovely fellow Daisy collectors, Frankie.
Isn't it lovely?

New Daisy doll arrivals

Last thursday a 'new' Daisy doll arrived, a lovely sidepart, which is one of the dolls of the later era, the'80s.
After giving her a nice bath on saturday, I decided such a lovely dolly deserved a special outfit, so she's wearing Cinders now. I only need the belt for this outfit, but even withouth belt I think it looks lovely.



Some of my other recent wins are this outfit, as long as I don't know the name I will call it the blue variant of Jive:



And then I had another variant of HeyDay arriving as well, it is the one with the small red flowers (on the right in the picture). The hats of the 2 outfits with read flowers are not original, I bought them in a craftstore, and they will have to do, until I find the original ones.:



As far as I know I only have 1 more variant of HeyDay to hunt down now, which has small orange, brown, white and yellow flowers. There's a picture of it on Helene's fabby website http://dollsallover.webs.com/daisyladyinredandblack.htm

Jasmine's Geisha updo finally finished !!!!

Woohoo!!!! I finally finished the Geisha updo on Jas' !!!!!!!
I started on it after my first Pippa convo (in Farnborough). Dianna got me inspired and has a great 'how to- section' on her website. http://www.diannas-dollsbydesign.com/
Well, the first step of rerooting Jas wasn't that hard, but after that I needed to make a 'donut' for the Geisha updo. I asked Dianna, and she and Lisa showed me how to do it on the next convo, in Plymouth!
After that, when I arrived home I was already busy with turning Tammie into a mermaid and when she was ready there were so many other things that took up my time and attention that I never got round to working on it.
Until I got a bug, about 4 weeks ago.... I had a terrible flu and I'm still recovering.
Upside of this is, I didn't have the energy to do much so I grabbed my box with reroot projects and started working on them, boy, I really enjoy this much more than all the boring tasks a mum sometimes has to do...
So I tried to finish Penny, but I still need some new bags of hair to finish her (and work on other projects again,lol)
Also I've been rerooting a doll for the next convention, to be held in May of this year. That one is on her way to Tracy Farrant who will style her hair and pretty her up.
Than I did another reroot, Rosie turned into Mariposa, as per request of my daughters, she still needs styling.....
And of course I came across Jasmine, so I tried sewing a donut for her. It was too big, so I might hold on to it and try if it works for a Disco Girl (I think Dee, but I keep forgetting their names...):



So I had to have a second try and this time I thought it was ok:



When I had finished sewing enough hair around the donut I realised I needed to buy straws and hairspray.



Bought that on monday, and today I finally finished her.





The kimono is a pressie from the lovely Lisa! Thanks so much Lisa, hope you like the final result.

Daisy Paper dolls books

Today I received some very much and long wanted items, the Mary Quant Daisy doll Paper doll books number 2 and 4.
I already had number 2, but not all of the outfits, so it is lovely that it's now complete!
The other one, book number 4 , I had been looking for for years, so I'm completeley over the moon I've now got it!
I haven't scanned or photographed them yet, and mine are loose, but I had a cd from the Jenny Bloomfield collection, on which she has the images of everything that is in the books and those books she scanned are mint!
Here's the front cover of book number 2:



The dolls are the same in both books:





look at those sexy outfits:



Front cover of book number 4:



Glamorous outfits: