I Know It's Plastic Love

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Check out my Patreon on here!

So I finally have created a Patreon! Please check out my profile link! This is for people who have wanted to support me more directly as doll customising and sourcing parts can get quite expensive.

As for right now, all my Patreons will be getting content about a week early, and individual tiers will allow for some perks that won’t be available publicly such as having input and seeing work in progress stuff I am not sure will see the light of day otherwise. 

If you don’t want to pay, don’t worry as I will continue to share more work, it’ll just be on a staggered time schedule. I figured a Patreon would allow me to explore more ideas without feeling overwhelmed as much.

[queenofsquids]

alright, take 3 on the crochet hat

mostly following this video but smaller brim

it's adorable but needs a lot of styling to get there. just plopping it on the head looks silly. have to pinch and situate everything just so. a little too tedious for my tastes, I'm more of the plopper type 😆

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had a wild hair and finally painted and ... hair-ed ... this pony in one evening (highly unusual for me)

price paid is no symmetry whatsoever, but that's not a problem if I only photograph from one side at a time 🤪

not sure about the stylization at all but hell, I went for it

need to sincerely invest in quality acrylics that aren't 50 cent bottles older than my kids. this is so lumpy 😅😅😅 gets the main idea across at least

[dolldirt]

So cute!!

[queenofsquids]

crocheted a hat today from this tutorial.

the whole time I was thinking wow this is tiny I'm doing so good this is totally gonna fit a Barbie but in the end it was too big 😅

but I managed to squeeze it onto little Betsey Clark instead

[queenofsquids]

smaller thread, smaller hook

after this I found a much much older video (six years) of almost the same hat, but that has several differences in rows and I think I'll try it next for more volume and a bigger brim

(kinda hate how crochet content is just endlessly regurgitated slash outright stolen and presented as new videos ... can never find the original maker of anything 😞 )

[dolljunk]

I love Stop Motion movies so having Coraline made was always going to be on my list of dolls to make and having my one with my Nightmare Before Christmas and Corpse Bride dolls feels satisfying to do....

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I must admit seeing the official Skullector Coraline has taken a lot of my excitement over working on this doll since I spent a lot of time trying to track down accessories and sewing to even finish her and I wasn't really enthused by the time I finished her.

I sewed her jeans and raincoat since I feel like this specific combination of clothes worked well for her tomboy-ish character instead of a dress, and I actually used a knockoff Coraline doll for her sweater to get the right scale pattern and fabric. I actually had to add a panel on her back closure to make it fit but I think this is the definitive Coraline outfit for me.

Her button key and butterfly hairclip are also from a Coraline charm bracelet and I like how they add to her character.

I did intend to add more accessories and pieces but the official doll coming out really dampened my enthuiasm for finishing my custom doll.

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I've been procrastinating on this doll because I couldn't find the right face sculpt and body sculpt but I kind of forced myself to continue by using a short Ever After High Lizzie Hearts body even though I wanted to use a MH Little sister body. Her head sculpt was the hardest for me to do because the stop motion puppet has a distinct head shape and that I wanted a head with a strong nose bridge, something a lot of MH dolls lacked.I finally settled on using an Ice Girl Create A Monster doll head because she actually has a strong nose bridge that I think worked for her character and the proportions work well for a slightly younger character.As for her hair, the Coraline puppets actually use saran hair that they got from the japanese Volks doll company so it was actually quite easy to pinpoint what exact shade of blue Coraline uses. Unfortunately I couldn't track down a supplier but my friend pointed out G3 Cleo uses that colour so I ended up stealing hair and scalp on the Ice Girl head lol.I must admit I wasn't that excited since by the time I finisherd her I saw leaks of a Skullector Coraline doll and it took a lot of wind out of my sails.However I did finish my doll so here she is...

[dolljunk]

I do feel like Gaenna and my Xenomorph doll are two sides of the collector coin and the fact they're on opposite ends of the sci fi spectrum.

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A majority of my collection is still in storage but I really wanted to showcase Gaenna with a few of my other robotic dolls.

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So I think sci fi elements are missing in fashion dolls and while I've tried to do my own customs in the past, having an official Bratz cyborg doll was really amazing to me.

I think @capdollz did an amazing job 3d sculpting this body and I love that while it maintains the Bratz aesthetic, it's so amazingly detailed and I love how it looks.

I really do like how unique @lolliword doll style is that I do feel like my take on their style is pretty intimidating but I love how Gaenna looks.

I am so grateful to @doll_pants for this wedding gift because it is such a unique piece and it means so much to own this. I really do feel like a Bratz novice but this has been a great peek into that side of doll customising....

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I was kind of distraught that Bratz released their first cyborg Bratz doll through a fashion collaboration, Gentle Monster, since the price was definitely out of reach for me.

However, I had a friend, @doll_pants, who found a damaged Gaenna body and sent it to me as a wedding present so I was really overjoyed at owning a small piece of an elusive doll.

Of course it came without a head so I actually dug through my Bratz parts box to find the right base doll. I honestly am ignorant to the subtle differences between Bratz sculpts but after carefully examining UV sculpt heads and original sculpts, I can see the sculpting quirks being a lot nicer when held in comparison.

It's why I settled on this older Cloe head rather than buying a new Bratz doll since it really felt obvious how much nicer this sculpt looked compared to the UV sculpt.

I've never done a Bratz reroot in my life, but I was surprised Cloe's scalp paint had rooting guide lines and that it was spaced pretty evenly compared to other dolls I've done. I also used a heatpad and it helped make the provcess go by quickly. As for the hair itself, I just followed the rooting pattern and I was surprised how thin the overal hair was but it was made up by how much hair went into the parting.

As for the face up, I must admit I am intimidated by @lolliword and their paint style, but I wanted to do my own take on their style since I really like how unique it is.

Since Gaenna doesn't have eyebrows I wanted an eyeshadow that matched her hair and it was pretty purple heavy until I put her head on the body and decided to add silver to bring her body more into the design.

I really do feel out of my element with Bratz customs but I'm really proud of how Gaenna turned out and I like how my face up complements the amazing body.

[queenofsquids]

Dream Besties Get Ready With Me Brooklyn finally went on sale so I got one. 💕 She's a sweetheart.

I am definitely past the point where I need to put more thought and care into arranging the Besties shelf better 😅 There are a lot! My first "large" fashion scale doll collection. I don't have any techniques for tiering or stands or organizing anything. Gotta figure some stuff out ...

Definitely plan to obtain the Weekend series coming this summer. I really just love the Dream Besties line 🥹

(Also, embarrassingly, last year I thought $20 was too much for the swimsuit line and only got Malibu and Brooklyn. Regret that and now am reduced to scrabbling through online listings just to find any Teresa or Renee for less than $40. I learned my playline lesson ok ... why secondhand prices gotta be so cruel)

[queenofsquids]

alright I finished both sleeves and though I'm not in love with the quality of my work, I'll let it slide because here is the whole reason I made such a mustardy cardigan:

this fabulous, perfect shirt material I found at the thrift store

now I just gotta ... actually sew a shirt ... out of it ...

[dolljunk]

Here is Frankie Stein with her franken family. While I loved GDT's movie, I did try to make my version be more Monster High style to fit in Frankie's family tree. I love this story a lot so doing my own whacky take is fun.

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I really tried making my Frankenstein's monster to be as different to his base doll, and I really like how he looks with my Neighthan.

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Here is my custom Frankenstein doll based on Guillermo Del Toro's movie. His outfit is from a pair of altered BTS doll pants, a Pullip corset top, and a custom fur coat I sewed myself and a pair of EAH doll boots I altered by gluing on fur and adding 1inch thich platforms to the sole.

This is more of a Monster High take on the design so he leans a bit more stylish than slavishly recreating his look as I wanted him to slot into my collection. I added the choker as a throwbgack to the character's early life in the film where he's chained up and thought it was a fun detail to add.

I really do love Guillermo Del Toro's work and have attempted to do dolls before but I felt really inspired to complete this doll the moment I saw the movie in theaters.