Everything about my dolls

doll blog || sideblog of @gelbekritzelei

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incredible thrift find. the only lol omg doll i've ever really wanted. hair looks messy but seems manageable. most of the outfit pieces are there but i mostly care about the blue outfit anyway. lip paint has a scratch but i'm p sure i can fix that. she's missing a hand but maybe i can substitute it somehow or 3d print a prosthetic or something

she also came with this little film reel picture frame(???) but i can't find what it's from so any info would be appreciated

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soooo excited to have finished this. this redesign of clair from g1 was done by @sassmaster-artjay (original post) and it really inspired me to make a doll based on it.

i tried to make it as close to the drawing as i possibly could and it was a very fun challenge! i had an absolute blast

the base doll is a g1 ghoulia. i would've loved to do this with a doll that matched the body type more closely but ghoulia is what i had and her skin tone is a pretty good match. plus i've been wanting to do some kind of alt/goth look with a black lip on this ghoulia anyway

i'm also very happy with the face considering i haven't done this a lot before (i had to do two attempts tho bc the first eyes came out wayy wonky lol)

more pics and rambling under the cut!

i've been wanting to make a cropped sweater with baggy sleeves and a top with a ribcage on it for forever so i think this is what really jumpstarted me into action lol

it's not as wide at the torso as it should be but i was so pleased with how it came out that i decided to keep it.

also i was thrilled that i had the materials to make the necklace (the gem was originally a long diamond shape and i just cut off the tips hehe).

the skirt is supposed to be a slip dress but i couldn't figure out how to make it both fitted to the torso and keep it sleek looking, so it actually only goes up to under the boobs but that will be our little secret.

the fabric is giving me a lot of trouble tho bc it really really wants to curl up at the ends.

wig is made with the trusty yarn weft method

yarn hair won't hold that kind of shaggy wave from the design by itself but i decided not to use any product because if i put hair gel or something in there and it ever gets messed up it'll be pretty impossible to fix

the shoes i already had and they were a pretty close match. i just put the chains on. the black stripes on the stockings are also handpainted.

and here she is on a spinning charcuterie board <3

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took out the buns bc they looked a bit messy and i thought it was the perfect opportunity to try out the tiny crimping iron i found at the thrift store

i'm so blown away by this doll. probably my fav lagoona ever

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aaaaaaaaaahhhh i didn't expect them till january

i'm so excited to finally have g3 dolls thanks to a gift card 💖💖💖

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these glasses are so cute in theory but

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The Percht

Perchten are creatures in Austrian and Bavarian (among others) folklore. They roam from December to January and rattle with bells and chains to cast out the evil spirits of winter. They are not the same as Krampus! But in my experience there is a lot of overlap visually.

I am beyond excited about how this guy came out. Started a year ago and he was chilling as a wip for a long time but now i've finished him just in time. Mask and horns are air dry clay, hair is a mix of doll hair (underneath) and yarn wefts on top and for the beard. i kept the sneakers from the base doll (a jimin bts doll lol) and just painted them because this is not really an animal spirit creature - it's a guy in a costume :P

more pics and details under the cut

wire in the tail for posing; hands painted and claws added, they kinda get lost in the big sleeves tho haha

perchten masks usually have horns from real animals, often ibex, which was the reference for these

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i could do this for hours

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playing around with some clothes before i style her hair and make her shelf-ready :)

the lighting makes it look like her lip color matches the roses but irl it doesn’t lol

sorry she doesn’t have her hands on in any of these but they’re too hard to get on and off on this particular doll so i didn’t wanna do that between changing outfits 😩

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guess which hand was really hard to get out lol

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my entire rainbow high collection (so far hehe)

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didn’t like the way her hair was rooted in the front so i redid it. i also gave her a full ponytail but i might go back to the half up half down she had

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switched their eyes

it took a lot of putting them in (almost) boiling water until i got them back in but they took it surprisingly well. i kind of expected that at least the golden glitter glue eyeshadow on ruby would crack but it held up perfectly despite the intense squeezing of the head lol

if you wanna try this i recommend doing it before any hair styling because you WILL ruin it haha. i’d like to give my sunny different eyes too but there’s no way i’m redoing her hair anytime soon lmao

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violet willow with light customization

i pulled out her bangs and rooted those streaks in the front, gave her purple eyes and cut off the big star hoops from her earrings to make them just little studs. choker is from gabriella

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ruby with blue eyes

i felt like she needed them to complete that disneybound look lol

last pic is with her original eyes for comparison

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Dizzy Descendants

first one is her original outfit, the rest is miscellaneous stuff. i just wanted to try out some things i had lying around (i had high hopes for the overalls bc i’m itching to use them for a doll but i’m not entirely feeling it on this one idk)

another problem is that i have no shoes for her other than the ones she came with lol

i’m gonna leave her in her original outfit for now. she’s still pretty cute

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little mermaid inspired look

the pants are a little more green irl and initially i had sth a lot more green in mind but this was the only color they had at the store and i couldn’t not use it hehe

the shells are painted with acrylic paint and iridescent powder

i love ruby with her hat on but unfortunately it doesn’t go with this outfit. i still feel like she might need some kind of head accessory but i’m not sure 🤔

also i ran out of gold beads so i had to improvise lol

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i made a simple top and shorts and also gave her a new hairstyle bc i could NOT get those buns back in lmao. i don’t love how the curls came out but i don’t feel like redoing them 😭

also i randomly found these glasses among my mother’s old sewing supplies. the frame is actually metal :D and who knows what they were part of orignially but i’m pretty sure they were destined for sunny hehe

btw didn’t we say the pearly sheen was baked into their skin? bc i removed her blush with acetone and the shiny layer came right off with it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯