12 Dolls of Christmas: Last day!

On the 12th and final day of Christmas (even though that really ends on January 6th!), I present to you, Miss Momoko Jones. I sold her earlier this year, so this picture is obviously not recent, but I wanted to pay tribute to an amazing doll. I still love Dollfie Dreams and I'm still a bit sad that I sold Momoko, but at the same time if I hadn't my collection would have been too big and a big collection makes me all stressed and unhappy.

I hope that her new owner is still enjoying her a lot!

12 Dolls of Christmas: Bella

Happy New Year!

On the eighth day of Christmas...

My DalxMomoko hybrid, Bella!

I'm not sure which Momoko her body came from - I bought it without a head from Mandarake (a Japanese site), and it was in an official Sekiguchi Momoko box, so I don't know whether it ever actually had a head.

The Dal head is from Magical Pink Chan. I didn't intend to make a hybrid when I bought my Dal, but I much prefer the Momoko body to the Dal one, so when I found a body in a close colour I decided to go for it. The neck piece needed quite a lot of modding to get the Dal head to fit, and I don't think it would take a Momoko head anymore, but I'm happy with my hybrid as she is.

Clumsy

 8 hairplugs down...so many to go!

Disaster has struck too. I am notoriously clumsy, but I usually take trouble to be careful when it comes down to my crafting materials and I try to keep them neat...but I dropped my skein of Cognac saran hair as I was measuring it out and it's been so impossible to untangle I had to throw it away. I had enough for my eight hairplugs above, plus some that I was able to detangle and store using a candle as a spindle (pic below)

This is pretty frustrating!

My options now are to blend Hazelnut and the remaining Cognac and give her streaks of colour at her temples so at least those areas are matching and reroot the rest of her head in Hazelnut only, or order a new skein of Cognac and wait a little longer to reroot her.

It's annoying because I like to prepare a lot of hairplugs in advance because once the hairplugs are done it makes rooting the hair with a long needle a much faster job. It's not as fast as using a reroot tool, but it is far more secure. It will require a little glue to stay put, but because it's knotted it's not likely to slip out.

So...what do I do now? I have a headless, naked Momoko with a tuft of hair over her right ear! I guess I'll start making her some clothes so at least she won't be naked!

Happy Summer Guaranteed

A couple of posts ago, I wrote about my incoming Momoko, Happy Summer Guaranteed Pink ver., who was being sold as junk on Mandarake!

Well, she'll arrive tomorrow! The Post Office and Parcelforce have been closed for Easter, but post should start moving again and according to the tracking she's ready for delivery in Deeside!

What makes this super exciting is that her new hair arrived on Saturday! I ordered the £3 skeins of katsilk saran hair in 'Hazelnut' and 'Cognac' colours from MyLittleCustoms.com and they look great. The Cognac hair is quite a bright brandy red, but once it's mixed with the Hazelnut it won't be too overpowering. I'm going to blend the colours so that each hairplug has some strands of each colour, making her hair colour multi-tonal. I want to avoid giving her definite streaks of colour in case they don't blend well and I want her to look fairly natural.


I'm not sure about names just yet. I'm thinking Shiloh might be a good name though. I've been learning Hebrew at a slow pace for a month or so now and Shiloh is the first word I was able to read and understand!

Adventures in Crafting

Not content with the other outstanding projects I've got on the go, I've found myself a new one!

I was browsing the Mandarake site when I saw a forlorn Momoko being sold as junk because her hair was cut and her lips were partially rubbed off. When I looked up which Momoko she was she became a must have - she's a Happy Summer Guaranteed Pink ver. Momoko, which means she's the rarer, alternative version to the standard Happy Summer Guaranteed. She's a tan skin doll with blonde hair and pale lips. Although I didn't much like her in her original form, I can't wait to transform her into a new doll because I've always wanted a tan Momoko!

I'm going to reroot her in a blend of hazelnut and cognac saran hair (from My Little Customs again) to give her a multi-tonal hair colour. Warm brown mixed with the dark red is going to look awesome next to her tan. I'm going to paint her lips coral or a tan brown and paint in her teeth. I may gloss them a little as well.

Pretty excited about this project. I'm making clothes for her as well because she won't have a stitch when she arrives.

Rerooting Repainting

For the past couple of days I've been looking at fashion dolls rather than my usual BJDs. I've always liked fashion dolls, but they've gone by the wayside a little while I've been more interested in BJDs, mainly because I've found BJDs to be more customisable...but! Almost everyone I know has been busily getting into Monster High repaints and while I enjoy doll painting, I'm not under any illusions that I'm half as good as any of the amazing repainters out there.


Instead, I've been looking into rerooting dolls, which seems like a fun (permanent!) alternative to wigs. My Sekiguchi Unoa doll has a really mean fringe and blonde locks that I don't mind, but don't care for terribly either. I wouldn't want to ruin her by doing a terrible amateurish reroot, but I really do want to have a go. Payday is a week away, so I'm thinking of buying some nylon hair and a rerooting needle from My Little Customs and having a go rerooting an unloved Momoko or Monster High doll. They do sell Monster High girls in work, but I know that as soon as I buy one boxed I'll want to keep her mint and I'll feel bad about cutting her hair off and pulling it out :s


I've been scouring eBay and Flickr for adoptable MH and Momokos, haven't found the right one yet for the right price. I really want a Momoko because I know she'll fit in, but I'd work with a MH doll too.