Good Girl Gone Bad

Well for such a long time now I have been very good and not purchased any dolls . . . can you believe it? Yes, it's been SIX MONTHS! I didn't cave in once, not even when being tempted by Sharon. I was feeling so proud of myself, then . . . I saw the recent photo of Alejandra's CCS girl 17SS Ruruko (2017) and it was all too much, I could resist no longer.

However, when I saw how expensive she was (once her price was converted to AU$'s) I thought of Christmas and resisted. But wouldn't you know it, it was too late, I had been bitten by the bug and couldn't help myself and so the search for Ruruko began
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AND GUESS WHAT??? I found her (on sale), she was one I could afford without breaking the bank . . . she's perhaps not quite as pretty as Alejandra's, but I really adore her wardrobe and I think she will do nicely . . . very nicely indeed.

CCSgirl 18SS Ruruko by PetWORKs Product Info:
Release Date May-June 2018
Ruruko is 1/6 in scale (about 8.5 inches in height)
Body: Pure Neemo Flection XS
Hair Color: Platinum-White
Eye Color: Ochre
Skin Tone: Natural

18SS Ruruko is wearing a CCSgirl outfit
(CCSgirl is a sister fashion brand of Close-Clipped Sheep)
Furisode Top
Obi-Ribbon Tiered Skirt
Headdress
Tights
Round Toe Mary Jane (STOC)

She is coming via slow mail and I will show more photos when she arrives . . . so what do you think? Am I really, really bad? Or was it time I indulged myself and had a new doll to call my own?

I'll be back posting again as soon as I have finished sewing. Hope you all have a wonderful dolly weekend!
Big Hugs,
X

Project: Pippi Longstocking 3

This is the second time I have attempted this post! The first time I accidently zapped the whole darn thing after I had uploaded photos and typed a good four paragraphs . . . was NOT HAPPY JAN!

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I began my post with an excerpt from Chapter One (Pippi Moves into Via Villekulla) in my Pippi Longstocking book by Astrid Lindgren.

"Her hair was the colour of a carrot and it was plaited in two tight plaits that stuck straight out, Her nose was the shape of a very small potato, and it was completely covered with freckles. Under her nose was an exceptionally wide mouth with nice white teeth.

Her dress was quite odd. Pippi had made it herself. It was supposed to have been blue, but there hadn't been enough blue material, so Pippi had decided to sew on little red patches here and there. On her long thin legs she wore long stockings, one of them brown and the other black. And she wore black shoes that were exactly twice the length of her feet."

As you are already aware, my Pippi has carrot red hair. I have since combed out the curls, plaited and wired them. Freckles are now scattered over her nose and she already had a wide smile that showed off her tiny white teeth, so that needed nothing.

I've begun from the bottom up, although I have selected the fabrics for her dress too, but more on that later.

 I didn't have any brown socks, so I tea dyed a white pair of baby socks and the black doll stockings I found in my stash were far too long, so I cut the top off one, made a hem at the top and threaded elastic through to hold it up.

The extremely large shoes Pippi wears in the story, were hard to come by. I had lots of large shoes, but not black, though I did find a pair of long boots that were large, but not quite twice as long as my Pippi's feet. They are, however, certainly much bigger that her feet (probably half the length again). I thought they would be okay if I cut the height of them down to a size that looked reasonably like shoes.

So that's what I have achieved so far, pictures of the dress will follow later.
Big hugs,
X

Feeling Blue . . . So Add a Little Darjeeling

This morning after breakfast, I wandered into my doll room and found Lady Grey in a very low mood so I asked her what was wrong . . .

It wasn't too long until Darjeeling arrived, she was most concerned . . . it wasn't like Lady Grey to be so down in the mouth, she's usually quite the life of the party.

So it was up to Darjeeling to make her feel better.

That had made Lady Grey feel so much better . . . that was until she felt a drip on her head, then a drop run down her face. She held out her hand.

But you already know, that when there is rain mixed in with a little Darjeeling sunshine, there are rainbows. And of course at the end of every Darjeeling rainbow there are . . . NO! Not pots of gold, nor are there leprechauns . . . but there are fairies . . . lots of very pretty fairies!

And so . . . as the story goes . . . all is well that ends well.

Hope you are all having a happy week!

Hugs,

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