Christmas Swaps

As I wrote earlier, I was up to my ears in Christmas swaps, this season.
I took part in an Ellowyne outfit swap.
I got the beautiful Florid & Fussy outfit from my swap partner, and I made her the red Santa outfit, a little golden dress & for a bit of fun I added the wine bottle dress.

Then there was the Dawn/Pippa Secret Santa parcel, where I send the following parcel to Yvonne:

There was also a 'Cabaret' toxic-froggy outfit included, but I forgot to take a piccie of it...

In return I got this amazing parcel from Phyllis:

I also took part in the Pippa custom doll swap & the Pippa custom outfit swap.
From Erin I got the beautiful Mary S. custom redhead doll, and from Janet that super cute red & white crochet Pippa outfit. Claire got the white haired Marie, which I rerooted , dressed in a gown that I bought from Chris. I also bought an outfit from Elaine, which she sent directly to Erin, so I don't have a piccie of it.

Last, but not least was the Daisy custom outfit swap.
I decided to try to downsize the Ellowyne Santa dress pattern to make to fit Daisy, and I received the wonderful iceblue outfit and accesories from Helene.

All in all I had a lovely time creating things for these swaps, but I think for this year, I should better start early, to have everything ready when the sign up for the swaps opens....

Festive Dolly Dresses

This years I'm up to my ears in Christmas swaps for the dolls, so I have been rerooting 1 doll (and 1 more to go)

of course I can't show the end result here right now, but I used Saran Lamia to reroot her.
I also decided to see if I could make this holiday madness dress from the Adams Harris Pattern Company.
I had some gold stretch fabric lying around, which I thought would be excellent for this pattern:

Then, just yesterday, when I was shopping a saw a Santa dress & hat for a wine bottle!!!!
Well, of course my dolly minded brain immediately saw how the dress was just the right size for Ellowyne:

I had to open up the backseam, and sew in some darts, and add some poppers....

And the hat is just great for Daisy:

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: