After a busy time at IFDC in Las Vegas this year, I brought home all my fun finds in the sales room and decided to mix and match my new Momoko. The Momoko is a reroot with pastel pink hair. She is wearing a dress intended for BJDs and is a little big, but looks really cute with the Momoko shoes and Azone white hat.
Experimenting with Aluminum Foil
An online BJD store I frequent, The Junky Spot, had a photo contest recently and I decided to participate. The goal was to make something out of aluminum foil. I came up with a few ideas and had my Limhwa ladies model the foil fashions. Above is Limhwa Lily wearing a fitted dress. The belt is embossed with a hand-drawn motif to provide texture. Each section of the dress has a paper backing to keep structure and prevent crinkling of the foil.
The second photo is a much smaller doll, Limhwa Sara. She's one of my favorite BJDs in my collection. I pulled out all kinds of fashion doll accessories and went wild. The gems are hand applied. I especially like the Integrity Toys ring on her pinky.
Overall, I can't say I would work with foil again, but it was nice to think outside of the box when designing doll fashions.
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Long Dress for MSDs and Ellowyne Wilde
This new pattern combines a whole lot of things I love -- white eyelet fabric, lace, long dresses, ribbon, and my new KoonieS. As some of you may know, I have a few Peak's Woods dolls, but I was glad to add KoonieS to the family.
The dress pictured is a pattern available in my Etsy shop. I am trying to put out quite a few more digital patterns in the near future, so stay tuned for plenty more dolly sewing options in the weeks to come.
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New Pattern: American Girl Outfit
It has taken me a little white, but I'm finally getting back into pattern-making. I created the digital pattern pictured above, which includes a blouse and capris for 18-inch sized dolls. Some Frozen remnant fabric made its way into the design for American Girl style dolls. Find the pattern here.
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New Barbie Bodies: Petite, Tall, & Curvy
Recently, Mattel released its first wave of new Fashionista Barbies that include three new body types - petite, tall, and curvy. In this blog post, I have included comparisons of different Barbie bodies as well as some measurements.
From Left to Right: Petite, Tall, Curvy, Twist & Turn, and jointed regular Fashionista Barbie.
Curvy Barbie was definitely the doll flying off the shelves around here. More dolls are supposed to be released in May. From what I can tell, there will be four different dolls of each body type. Three boys are also in this wave. I did not purchase a regular Fashionista Barbie in this line; thus, my comparison is to a similar doll I already own.
From Left to Right: Petite, Tall, Curvy, Twist & Turn, and jointed regular Fashionista Barbie.
Although none are pictured, there are several dolls who have flat feet. I did not see any separate fashions available in stores that specifically fit the petite, tall, and curvy types. Some of the face screening and fashions are not that great, but I did not have high expectations since they are playline dolls. I look forward to seeing OOAK dolls of the new body types.
Below are some approximate measurements of the doll types.
