Felicity & Samantha American Girl Doll for sale!

Hi all
So I am selling a Felicity doll that I have fixed up, some of the pictures on ebay aren't working right, so I figured I would show them here as well. If you are interested in buying her here is the link for the sale.
Happy bidding!

I also listed Samantha today as well check out her pictures here

Random thought Thursday: Ball Jointed Dolls

Hello, hello one and all!
Welcome to another random thought Thursday. I was hoping to have a video ready for this blog but unfortunately ran out of time between work and starting dance classes again (yay!) but I wanted to share some pictures and a little about my new interest. 
So I have been fixing up two American Girl dolls who have been in need of some love, one has a very thin wig so I figured I would look up wigs and maybe pick one up! I found out that Blythe wigs fit AG dolls and was thrilled because they could keep their old wig and have a new one fit over the top. I have seen BJD (aka Ball Jointed Dolls) before but never really looked into them, though I have always loved the way they look. I was searching around and did some research and found a bunch that I love (I mean LOVE) and quite a few that I can start with as they are less expensive, but just as pretty.
I love the idea that you get to customize these dolls yourself, something I do with the AG dolls, but BJD have the lovely ability to hold millions of poses, plus they are smaller and give me the opportunity to make all sorts of new crafts!! 
I love the Pullip dolls, seriously if you ever want to give me something I will cherish forever here are two pictures and their links Tiphona and Snow White I can't even express how much I love these two!! 

 
Tiphona is on the left, Snow on the right.




















I love these dolls because you can move their eyes and open and close them with hidden buttons in the back of their head (wigs cover them!) 
Anyway, I am waiting for a few more etsy orders before placing an order at junkyspot.com, again an amazing site with TONS of BJD's for sale, best part is they are in the US so no crazy shipping amounts! 
For now I used a gift card I had to buy a pack of Monster High Dolls... Eck, I hate these dolls, I am a counselor and they present alllll the wrong messages to girls, but they are BJD and a good way for me to practice the painting (face-ups) of the face and other things to make the dolls your own! So magic eraser in hand, and paints in the other I got to work, here are the before's and afters :D

 

Oh my! Seriously what is Mattel thinking!?! These outfits don't fit and the makeup is crazy!! Time to change that!!!

I started by using a magic eraser to remove their lip colors, the one of the left (who was a vampire before) had bright red lips with fangs o_O and the sea monster on the left had green lips. It took a lot of elbow grease but I got it all off! (You can leave it on and paint over, but the colors are more true this way!)

 

Here is the beginning of the doll I named Pheobe. I wanted her to be this sort of mythical sea creature, sort of like a Siren from mythology, but not evil like sirens are!! First I gave her bronze lips, it looks great with her purpleish-blue skin. Next I painted over her green eye shadow. I liked her eyes so I didn't want to magic eraser anywhere near that!! Using a 10/0 brush I was able to paint inbetween the eyelashes, and even under the eye as well!

 

 Next up I changed the scales on her legs to a brushed turquoise and painted the details metallic silver to make them pop. I followed up by doing the same thing on her arms, and her gill like ears. I love how striking they look! 

Next up was Seraphina, who I decided was going to be a fairy. I loved her pixy style ears (which you can see in an upcoming photo) and her eyes seemed so sweet. I realized that her eyebrows were to harsh so I repainted them metallic silver. I considered painting her eyeliner and eyelashes in the same color but instead thought I would add a few swirls that came from her eyes instead, the result was more amazing then I originally thought it would be. Here is an awkward photo of her face (sorry about that! better ones farther down!) and a picture of her ankle. Both ankles have a design (though they are both different!) and both arms have one as well. One on her upper left shoulder (that you can kind of see in the face shot below) and one on the lower right near her hand. Also worth noting both dolls fingers and toe nails are painted :D which you can see in the ankle picture!!

Here are the two side by side, I apologize for the nakedness but I haven't made clothes yet x) I am also going to attempt to make wigs for them which should be interesting!! (also I don't know why they look so shiny on the camera, they are actually matte finished, though the vinyl heads did shine up a bit from the acrylic sealant) I plan on writing a bunch of bjd patterns, some will be free here and others will be on sale at my etsy shop! 

In the works are a few AG doll knitting patterns that I hope to put up soon! 

Remember if you want your Harry Potter wand in time for Halloween order ASAP! :D

Thanks for checking it out guys! Would love to know what you think of the transformation! I can't wait to share my future bjd's with you as well!!! :D

Any tips or advice (or doll suggestions) are welcome! I am still super new to this!

<3 

Megan

As always here is the link to my etsy shop :D

Wall of Customers!

Hello one and all!
I thought I would start this wall of customers as my wands are starting to take off. If you have bought a wand from me and would be so kind as to send a picture I will place it here to show what kind of wands I make, and who the happy new owners are. I will not list names, addresses or anything like that, this is just to show off the wands :D
Thanks to all who have purchased a wand from me, it means so much! If you would like to purchase one here is my etsy store link :)
Ok, here we go!

this is one of my favorite pictures! Here is the wand all ready to leave for it's new home. It was a birthday present (how cool!) and this is the reaction from the birthday girl! Thanks for the pictures :D

Thanks so much for the picture! I loved this green wand, it was so much fun to make. I love how the gold gets darker and more brilliant as it travels up the wand. (It's being held upside-down but that's a-ok :D) So glad you guys loved it so much! It was a blast to make :D

This awesome Aunt watches Harry Potter with her niece and used twizzlers as wands! She ordered a wand for her niece and I had to send her one too!! No one should use a twizzler ;)

RTT: Harriets Travels Part One

So I originally wanted to start posting Harriet's travel pictures earlier this week, but life got in the way :( so I figured that I would post some of them today as my other random thought was going to be a bit of a rant about boring things. SO without further ado Harriet's trip to Canada:

Harriet checks out the view of Quebec from our hotel window. Such a pretty city!!

<-- Harriet poses with a sheep outside one of the awesome wool stores. "Hey I'm made from your wool!!"

Below Harriet tries one of the hand made socks on for size... Looks too big!

 

Harriet and I walk around Quebec city. The picture on the left is the Hotel de Frontenac, where we stayed while we visited. It looks a bit like Hogwarts don't you think?! The picture on the right is actually a mural, not a real building. It's amazing to see in person, Harriet wants to live in the building with the green roof on the right!

Harriet and I thought it was funny how they wrote the gas prices! On the right we pose with a Canadian bear mountie! Eh?

We ate out at a restaurant in the lower city, I forget the name of it (and can't seem to find it on google) but the whole place was done up in zebra print (if anyone knows please let me know!) The food was amazing but Harriet preferred the mints!

 No Harriet don't open the bottled water!!! Harriet makes a long distance phone call on a modernized pay phone (it had a place to insert a credit card!)

Harriet enjoyed the poofy pillows on the beds at the Frontenac

Harriet and I pose at a scenic spot overlooking the water. Harriet made some new friends in one of the shops "Please can't we take it home!?"

 Harriet checks out a cannon ball that has been stuck in this tree for decades. It was fired at some point during a battle when Canada protected Quebec from British troops. Amazingly the tree grew around the cannon ball and is still alive today, and let me tell you it is HUGE. I found the fire hydrants here to be cute, Harriet posed with this little red and yellow one.

Harriet checks out some of the shops in the Lower City, they're so quaint :) Harriet takes a break from all her walking to sit on the steps of Notre-Dame-des-Victoires, a beautiful church that dates back to 1723!! 

 On our last day we decided to order room service, Harriet was SO impressed by all the yummy food! She loved how the chocolate was shaped like a castle, just like the hotel. But Harriet is a girl after my own heart, her favorite breakfast food was croissants (below)! YUM!

Hope you enjoyed the pictures, the trip was amazing!! I'll post some more vacation pictures of Harriet ASAP!
Until then!
~Megan

NPM: Finally Felted!

Bonjour all!
As I mentioned I had been on vacation the last week and a half. We visited Quebec Canada and our wonderful timeshare in Smugglers Notch Vermont. It is literally my favorite place in the world!! Harriet did come with me and I have a TON of pictures to share with you all! But I'll get to those later this week since today is New Project Monday. While we were in Smuggs  we picked up a schedule of things planned for the week and to my delight there was a felting class!! As I have mentioned before, felting is the one thing I was never able to figure out on my own. (I now realize that my supplies I used were partially to blame for that!) so I signed up for the class. It was taught by Annette Hansen who you can find here, and here she is great and was so helpful!! It was SUCH a blast! I learned so much and at the end of the hour I had created my first felted friend. A small owl!

Before we started Harriet got to meet a number of critters that Annette has made, here she is posing with some of her new friends!

Harriet was excited about learning how to felt as well. Here she helps me make the shape of my owl. Then we went to pick some colors to felt over the frame: 

Here is my owl now with a layer of soft turquoise felt and cute little eyes. I love how they look on him!

Here Harriet poses with her finished new friend, aren't they adorable!!

Hanging back at the room together!

I picked up a starter kit and a bunch of fleece, I am having such a blast with this and will absolutely be making more felted items! 

I should be posting the first installment of Harriet's vacation pictures tomorrow!!

Hope you have all been enjoying your summer breaks!

~Megan~