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My tiny Bobobie Sunny doll is modeling a tiny outfit that I made just for him that I simply call "Little Green Outfit." I sewed the outfit myself using a tunic and pants pattern from Venus A. Dodge’s book The Dolls’ Dressmaker that I had to re-size in order to fit such a small doll. I used a quarter-square quilt fabric that’s sold in Jo-Ann’s Fabrics & Crafts for $1.99 a square. (The pattern on the fabric is perfectly scaled for a tiny doll.) As for the gold trim on the collar, sleeves, and pants, I used a combination of metallic gold paint and sparkly varnish.
This is dedicated to a doll that I call "Red Hot Fantasy". In my last entry I mentioned how I made a doll outfit called "Red Hot Fantasy". I also made a customized doll wearing that same outfit that I also called "Red Hot Fantasy". I sold this doll at the 2006 Crafty Bastards Festival in Washington, DC but I still have photos to remember this doll by. Some of the photos are NSFW but I put those photos at the bottom of this entry so you can just scroll down to the first few photos to get an idea of what she looked like.
This doll was a customized Obistu 1/6 doll. Aside from a minor trim, I kept her hair long. I painted her face and blushed her cheeks and body. I also painted her fingernails and toenails.
The cape was made by following instructions in Venus A. Dodge’s book The Dolls’ Dressmaker. The cape is made from a red sparkly spandex material and is lined with red felt. The horns on top of the cape are made from air-dry Makin’s Clay that has pipe cleaner armatures inside the horns. The shoes were made from Bake & Bend Sculpey
The dress was taken from a skirt and top pattern set that was originally created for the RnD Angels and was published in the February, 2006 issue of Haute Doll magazine. The pattern was reduced in order to fit a 1/6 doll and the outfit was converted into a dress by sewing the top and skirt together.
Here comes the NSFW photos. You’ll get an idea as to how busty this doll was.
And now here are two dolls modeling their outfits side by side. The doll on the right is the "Red Hot Fantasy" Obitsu 1/6 doll. The doll on the left is the Soom Mini-Gem Uyoo who is modeling the outfit in these photos.
Here is an outfit that I made from scratch. It’s meant to fit Barbie and 1/6 scale dolls. A Soom Mini-Gem Uyoo models the outfit in these photos.
The cape was made by following instructions in Venus A. Dodge’s book The Dolls’ Dressmaker. The cape is made from a red sparkly spandex material and is lined with red felt. The horns on top of the cape are made from air-dry Makin’s Clay that has pipe cleaner armatures inside the horns.
The dress was taken from a skirt and top pattern set that was originally created for the RnD Angels and was published in the February, 2006 issue of Haute Doll magazine. The pattern was reduced in order to fit a 1/6 doll and the outfit was converted into a dress by sewing the top and skirt together. The dress is made from a red cotton fabric with a tiny black gradiated pattern.
This is an outfit that I made for my Volks Dollfie Dream. Cool Velvet is an example of an outfit that someone with limited amounts of time and money can whip up really quick without breaking the bank.
The tube top is really a human-sized wristband that I purchased in a local Claire’s store.
The pants is made out of black velvet that’s lined with a ribbon of fringed beads at the bottom. (I purchased both the velvet material and the ribbon of fringed beads from a local fabric store.) I sewed the pants myself using a pattern from Venus A. Dodge’s book The Dolls’ Dressmaker.
This outfit was originally created for a doll costume contest that took place during the Otakon convention in Baltimore in August, 2005. The inspiration for this outfit came from a few drawings in the manga series Dolls by Yumiko Kawahara. I managed to construct a similar outfit using patterns from Venus A. Dodge’s book The Dolls’ Dressmaker. I was also lucky enough to own a wig that was similar to the hairstyle of one of the plant dolls in the manga series.
The manga drawings that inspired my doll’s costume.
Since it’s Easter season, I’m going to feature this special Easter-themed outfit that I made for my Volks Dollfie Dream a few years back.
My Volks Dollfie Dream is modeling an outfit I call "Easter Bunny Lover". I made the dress using the pattern in Venus A. Dodge’s book The Dolls’ Dressmaker. The dress is made from a printed cotton Easter Bunny-themed fabric with a white cotton collar that has a decorative Peter Rabbit button in the middle, white sleeve cuffs, and lace trim around the sleeve cuffs, the collar, and the dress bottom–all of which I purchased at a local Jo-Ann’s Fabrics & Crafts store. The fabric waistband is made from the same material as the dress and it is decorated with a white floral accent in the middle. The outfit comes with a tiny straw hat that I found at a local Michael’s Arts & Crafts that I decorated with a hat band (made from the same fabric as the dress) and a white floral accent.
In some photos she can be seen hugging a Ty Beanie Baby bunny that I found in a local gift shop. In other photos, she’s clutching a tiny rabbit-shaped purse that I found in a local Target for only $1.
Well, anyway, enjoy the photos!
Since today is St. Patrick’s Day, I decided to show off a holiday-themed doll outfit.
You can view more photos of this doll modeling this outfit on my website.
My Volks Dollfie Dream is modeling an outfit that I call "Irish Lass". I made both the dress and the pinafore using patterns in Venus A. Dodge’s book The Dolls’ Dressmaker. I obtained the St. Patrick’s Day-themed fabric, decorative Shamrock-shaped button on her pinafore, and lace from a local Jo-Ann’s Fabrics & Crafts. The charm necklace is actually a human-sized St. Patrick’s bracelet that I found in a local Five Below store. The tiny leprechaun hat that she wears came from a local Michaels Arts & Crafts store. (Believe it or not, that hat was actually marketed as a party favor for children and adults, even though that hat would’ve been too small for a lot of human heads.) As for the St. Patrick’s-themed Eeyore bean bag, I found it in a Disney Store.
This is my Volks Dollfie Dream modeling an outfit that includes a doll-sized Pink Floyd t-shirt that I made myself. I got my inspiration for this outfit from a fashion trend that’s been happening in the United States during the first decade of the 21st century where people have been wearing reproductions of vintage t-shirts featuring rock bands from the 1960’s and 1970’s and wearing vintage clothes from that same era.
The t-shirt pattern came from Venus A. Dodge’s book The Dolls’ Dressmaker. The t-shirt is made out of black cotton fabric with white lining sewed on the inside in order to minimize staining on the doll. The t-shirt design is based on the cover of the Pink Floyd album The Dark Side of the Moon, which was scanned into the computer, printed on special transfer paper, then ironed on the t-shirt.
The pants was based on McCall’s Pattern M4860 for 16-inch Tonner dolls. (I had to enlarge the pattern in order for it to fit my Dollfie Dream.) The pants is made out of a stretchy cotton fabric that was recycled from a pair of capris that I owned that had literally bitten the dust and was in too bad shape to donate to Goodwill yet some parts of the capris could be salvaged for doll clothes.
Yesterday was Mardi Gras but I’ll continue with the piece of New Orleans-themed art that I wrote about in the last entry. I created a few t-shirts that grew out of a classroom assignment when I took a Commerical Illustration class at a local community college during the 2004 fall semester.
As I mentioned in the previous entry, I did this illustration of a crawfish playing a saxophone using the traditional Mardi Gras colors of purple, yellow, and green and I titled it New Orleans Jazz. A few months after the class ended, I created a digital version of that illustration to archive as part of a digital version of my art portfolio.
On August 30, 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast with such a fury that it not only flattened several towns (such as Biloxi, Misissippi) but it broke the levees in New Orleans, which flooded the entire city. As a result, there were mass evacuations of the residents, many of whom lost everything (including even loved ones in some cases). Hurricane Katrina has gone on record as being one of the worst natural disasters to ever hit the United States.
I took the digital New Orleans Jazz file and used it to create t-shirts that I sold on eBay (through its Mission Fish partner) as a fundraiser for AmeriCares. I created three different shirts in three different sizes.
One was an adult human-sized t-shirt in an XL size.
The other two were doll-sized. For the doll shirts, I made them myself using t-shirt patterns from Venus A. Dodge’s book The Dolls’ Dressmaker.
A Volks Dollfie Dream models the larger doll t-shirt, which fits most 22-24 inch dolls.
A vintage 1970’s Crissy doll models the smaller doll t-shirt, which fits most 16-18 inch dolls. I sewed small snaps in the back neck of the smaller doll size t-shirt in order to accomodate a variety of doll torsos that crop up in the 16-18 inch dolls. (The larger-sized doll t-shirt had no snaps.) The snaps could be used on the thinner doll torsos (such as the Crissy doll in the photo) to hold the t-shirt on the doll while the thicker doll torsos (such as the American Girl dolls) could opt not to use the snaps at all.
You can view more photos of the dolls modeling the t-shirts at my website. I quickly sold all three t-shirts, which was great since all the money went to AmeriCares in its effort to help the survivors of Hurricane Katrina.
This entry is devoted to the first doll outfit I’ve ever sold.
You can view more photos of this outfit at my website.
My Volks Dollfie Dream is modeling the "Valentine Lolita" outfit in the photos. I based the outfit on a pattern that was in Venus A. Dodge’s book The Dolls’ Dressmaker. The dress was made out of a mix of white cotton fabric and black cotton fabric that has pink and red hearts printed on it. A tiny red decorative button graces the collar. A pocket graces the bottom half of the dress. The dress is trimmed in white lace at the collar, sleeves, pocket, and bottom hem. The outfit came with a necklace that has a heart-shaped charm that’s cut like a gemstone and two small barrel-shaped beads. (The three charms came on an adult-sized necklace that I found in Party City of all places but I had to re-string the three pieces on a different string in order to fit a doll.) The outfit also came with a special small stuffed Valentine-themed Stitch doll that I purchased from a local Disney Store in January, 2005. The Stitch doll holds a red (with white lace) heart that has "You Will Love Me" embroidered in white thread on it. When you press Stitch’s right shoulder, his cheeks flash a glowing red color for a few seconds.
I finished work on the outfit on February 3, 2005 and I sold it on eBay just six days later.
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