Ms. No Good

Art, fart, craft. Tootorials, tips, ideas.

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Ms. No Good’s Foreword

Hello fellow humans. Here lies the blog of Ms. No Good — a gallery of good-for-nothing™ dark arts and dank crafts made with mostly common materials and low-tech methods. Have a gander at these finished pieces and creation process of silly and strange things.

All our public content is copyleft🄯 non-commericial. All wrongs reserved.

Ideas are replicable, that’s how we learn. Images are sharable, but not to be sold. To make a profit, if you must, I encourage you to replicate my ideas but make your own versions of art images and craft objects! To have fun, do the exact-same-thing, but with even less worldly restrictions!

My goal is to showcase mostly accessible craft project and ideas, and to sometimes force you to look at my dolls. If anything I made inspired you to make a thing, please show me!! 

I don’t have much batch production goods due to upfront cost and lack of business foresight, but if you are interested in things I made, here is my Ko-fi page with items for sale and caffeine funding. 

My Instagram, Cara, Bluesky, Youtube. My Neocities site is building up slowly.

Feel free to reblog my stuff or ask me about my favorite mechanical pencil!

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You encounter : A Footed Organizer

Favorite activity: Holding things Strength: Medium Dexterity: Low Friendliness: High Note: Gets excited when hearing the word "kickstart" and interprets it literally

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Do Blythe Dolls Dream of Synthetic Meat 🥩

Mortadella nightie. Handsewn with scrap semi-sheer fabric and scrap thread of vintage dress shoulder pad. New ribbon and lace.

Model: Angelica Nurse of Compassion

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Potato & Fries Doll Sweater

Made with a novelty sock!

This took double the time I thought it would require and so much more fiddling than I expected, but let's be honest if I did know all these it means I will never make anything.

Attaching the sleeves took the longest because of the lettuce hem and I didn't have any clever idea to mitigate it being an extra long length edge besides just stretching out the sleeve's raw edge as I sew it on to compensate. The shoulders gave me a small fight but I won in the end.

Sometimes some projects would be more vexing than expected and in the end I can only feel a sense of relief and less so a sense of accomplishment. Then that itself becomes a little annoying. It is cute at least!

Doll: Urban Ellie Fairy Blythe doll+ aftermarket nylon scalp.

Outfit source: Upcycled sock sweater, Sailing Dominique hat, Tangkou shorts, Shibajuku Girls socks, Ali dupe of Girlz by Simba Toys boots.

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Blythe X FRUiTS Magazine Parody

A photo sesh inspired by the new collab with Blythe and FRUiTS magazine, featuring Fighting Milke Saranghae and her DAM Troll sidekick.

A good few of the old magazines are archived here.

Editing programs: Snapseed, Inksccape.

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Girl Dog Hybrid Doll

She reminds me of Afro Ken.

I put her together about 3 months ago and somehow never made a dedicated post on her even though she deserves one. Today I discovered her secret in hindsight. I took it as a sign to put her on the spotlight.

Just another MGA LOL moment. They keep making the oddest dolls like Poopsie. This isn't a complaint.

Girl dog recipe:

Unknown Little Kiddle head (with a neon pink body heavily staining her head otherwise I don't really want to mess with old toys too much)

LOL Surprise Pets Sleeping Barky dog body

Backdrop credit: Joan Steiner's Look-Alike Jr. book*.

*Anyone who likes Walter Wick's I-Spy books should look at her work as well. They are not the same, but they share a similar cluttered charm. Steiner has more of a Borrower's way of puzzling everyday objects into her photography design.

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Spring Blossoms with my Basaak Doll and a Dudou top I Made

The dudou top was a spontaneous little sewing project without a pattern. It was matching with the apple blossoms perfectly. The magnolia was pleasantly fragrant.

She is wearing an unknown SBL Blythe scalp and Pineapple Princess's jeans.

I free-handed this little dudou top for her, late at night, with meager light. So please don't judge that stitch quality, although I can't say it would have made a huge difference if I did have better lighting.

The satin fabric is upcycled from a Jakks Pacific Isabela Encanto doll dress with damage. It's a pretty stiff fabric and it frayed a lot. A little pyromancy dealt with the fraying and I thought it was better suited as a smaller piece of clothing than a dress. The pattern worked well for the piece.

Today I named her Saaki based off of Basaak, the original doll brand name. But I forgot I actually named her Suzie before because she has hypertropia and I am not too bothered to fix her eye muscles. Maybe she will be a stylized Suzi.

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New mini-sized pants made from old regular-sized pants!

Giving my Love Mission some new clothes. She looks cute in Y2K fashion.

Free pants pattern for Blythe dolls (or Licca Chan probably) from Puchi Collective!

Starting to feel like calling her Maison. The original character this doll was modeled after, has the same Chinese character as my mom's name - Guen. She looks nothing like my mother. So maybe Maison is a good alternative, meaning home, or a brick house, whichever. It also spells similar to Mission.

Knowing how I am with names, I probably won't remember this after today.

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Orc Girl Hybrid Doll

My new doll member. In my head I named her Olga Goeringii. I don't know if I'll remember that later because I'm bad with names.

She's a hybrid custom doll, with Mego The Reptile figure head on a green body that's supposed to be an Integrity Toys clone. I have not seen the movie!

I painted her eyes in gloss black with UV nail paint with toothpicks. They aren't entirely easy to manipulate but they smell less pungent than the kind of resin for 3D printing, so it's at least workable with them outdoors, and they self-level, which is convenient.

Her head is pretty wonky because her neck hole is pretty stretched. I can't decide which side of her jaw is the better side after looking at her a while. She's still beautiful, despite the wonk.

She still needs some light sanding and dry-brushing on her body. I haven't tried dry-brushing with enamel paint, or any dry-brushing. I hope I even have yellowish enamel. Girl needs foundation on her body.

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Christmas Family Foto

Fuzzy Christmas plushie doll thing made with faux fur fiber and vintage clown doll feet.

I thought the feet looked so much like my vintage DAM Troll doll's feet and it would make a great addition to the Troll family.

The faux fur fabric is not the best but it does its job. I handsewn the fabric on itself with a ladder stitch with one edge flat on top of the other because the fabric was so stiff. If I fold the edge in like I normal do with plushies it would create an unflattenable seam and I didn't want that. The fabric don't seem to fray much so it worked out. I sealed the bottom with some old cloth, and sewn the doll feet on with 4 holes.

It stands on its own okay. This was a one-night-make so it's good enough!

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Lil' All-Seeing Eye F{r}iend

Put together a little hybrid doll with LOL Surprise mini doll body and acrylic Halloween eyeballs. Reminds me of the GeGeGe no Kitarō anime. But this little guy has front and back eyeballs 👁️👁️

Just drilled a hole for the neck at the right size and glued with CA glue. The existing curvature of this doll neck is perfect for this combination.

The part that took the longest was washing off the masking tape gunk that the masking tape left when I used it to hold the two eyeballs together for drilling (ㆆ⌓ㆆ) ain't that just the way. I really like him!

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S.A.D girl season

A reminder to take your vitamin D during these dreary dreary days.

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My chubby doll

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Halloween Photoshoot!

The witch (DAM troll) and her apprentice (Blythe fakie)~ with a kitty booper at the end.

Little bugs on Blyth's head are charms I bought with velcro taped at the bottom, inspired by my 90's jewel mermaid Barbie's stars on that matted mane of hers, as well as the Japanese singer Shoko Nakagawa who put cicada shells on her head.

I tailored her shirt from Encanto Luisa's shirt, and skirt altered from Decora Girlz fashion doll Luna. The ribbons are functional ties, which is why they look so high-strung and I wish there is somerthing I could do about it.

Troll witch's hat is handsewn with scrap fabric and scrap thread!

I love these two dolls together with their crazy magenta hair.

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WIP of my Retro Barbie x Blyth project.

The retro Barbie swimsuit is a doozer to try to recreate as a patterning noob! I can't say I love the result but it does a good enough job for the look for now. It is currently held up by ye olde trusty boob tapes ( ಥ ʖ̫ ಥ)

She needs stronger makeup. I am a little afraid of my new airbrush but I have everything ready for a spray paint job besides courage and enough motivation. I do like how she is looking so far!

She's my farewell to summer 🌞

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Love Mission in her handsewn silk tube top made with recycled silk embroidered fabric from an old tie.

I have many vintage silk ties that no one out there wants so I decided they should be useful for once since their retirement from the 90's and be turned into cute doll clothes.

Love Mission's stock tube tank looked really cute and simple so I thought I would reuse the existing embroidery from one of the ties as the design, and it should be a quick one-nighter project! It took me about 3 nights to finish 🙈This tube top doubles as a belt too! As a top it wants to slide down sometimes. So I can see why they made her original top longer so the end can sit on her waist without falling.I also had to do a quick over-dye because the embroidery threads had some dye seepage. It's such a tiny piece of fabric that some boiled water did the trick (but mine wasn't hot enough cause I set the boiler temp wrong so there are bits of unmixed dye at a couple spots). I also used some thin nylon ribbon and cords for the back.

Conclusion: Vintage ties make really good doll cloth fabrics! BUT make sure you rinse them a lot and pay attention to any dye seepage. I chose to make a tube top because I don't want to risk dye transfer on her vinyl arms. I will likely line all bottoms I sew for her in the future.

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silly doll pictures