My Dolly Blog

I have a modest collection of dolls & a healthy appreciation for creativity!

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Help. (via olliepots)

[real-annori]

Holt Hyde

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Draculaura

[thestarthemoon]

The girl and flowers

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#doll #bjd #dollrepaint #dollphotography #ooak #mu #balljointeddoll #faceup #repaint #ooakdoll

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I’m a little late posting pics of my newest custom for my Etsy shop. This is Ella, with the fabulous red curls. I really liked the purple-y Brown eyechips, which I think go really well with this shade and fired hair.

[splendidlysinister]

Pawla loves storytime with Clawdeen! 📚

[phenix-c]

Final look of the KALA MER'ri #monsterhigh #ooak #doll #dollrepaint #mu #monsterhighdolls #dollphotography

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there is soooo much beauty in being a good person 

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Ruby Rails. 

I thought I’d do a post about the design of this little figure. I spent a lot of time  dreaming up what this character might look like and then designing it into a figure. Getting the freedom to design a black doll that had black features was a big part of why I loved this project. Often other ethnicities aren’t properly represented in toys because of costs, but this was a really important thing to all of us at Goldie Blox and getting to execute on that vision was phenomenal for minority like myself. 

It takes a lot of time and math to get these things right, and the involvement of many talented individuals. I was lucky to work with an the amazing toy director of Goldie Blox at the time Clint Cope, a great sculptor by the  name of Jason Loik and a very passionate hair designer by the name of Karyn Byrd from Natural Girls United.

I’ve detailed some of the steps that go into making these, but there are many more int he entire manufacturing process, the initial creative looks funner in a tumblr post though. It takes about a year to complete one of these so it’s a very long process, but very satisfying when you finally see it on the shelf. Needless to say I’m excited to see it out in the world! More to come on a lot of what I worked on and created at my time at Goldie Blox.

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I’m so excited to finally post photos of the completed Rey doll I was commissioned by @corariley to create for her! Thank you so much for being so patient, encouraging and such a pleasure to collaborate with. This Rey doll is made from a Made To Move Mattel doll Barbie and I repainted her face, restyled her hair and created her grey vest outfit stitching all her clothes by hand. I’m so thrilled with how she turned out and I know her new owner will love her.

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last summer on Flickr.

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AND she’s finished! 

[thesnadger]

When I was in school, one of my art teachers used to say “this world needs more creators. There’s more than enough destroyers in the world today.”

Just a reminder, if you create anything–art, writing, food, machines, ideas, equations, knits, tools, gardens–the world needs you.

[sylviawitch]

This makes me happy.

Happy creating, everyone

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[angelbabyspice]

seeing these warms my heart so much. these were the first bratz dolls i got! i remember the packaging was SUPER hard for my parents to open for some reason lol

[phenix-c]

Jinafire Long#monsterhigh #ooak #doll #dollrepaint #mu #monsterhighdolls #dollphotography

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