#barbie reroot

[dolligrafik]

Dusty pinks and teals.

The pale pink poet shirt is one of several that I have sewn for my dolls this summer. The tote bags were also sewn earlier this summer. The hoodie with the partially mesh sleeves worn by the Looks Fryda doll and the baggy pink and teal pants worn by Letitia (the rerooted Looks Tamika doll) I made last winter. The teal print capris worn by Fryda (does she need a new name...?) were made at some point earlier, I don't remember exactly when.

[crashpit]

Dedication post to this barbie looks doll I gave a yarn reroot. I decided to unravel the yarn to get the specific look you see there.

[dat2ndaccount97]

Yeah I'm just gonna Reroot her, I'm not feeling this hair. There's just not enough to really make it look good.

[my-plastic-life]

Nancy Drew

Fun fact: Nancy Drew, the famous teen girl detective, turns 90 years old this year! Hundreds of books have been written about her mystery-solving adventures, plus some movies, TV shows, and even PC games. I've always loved Nancy Drew and decided to turn one of my extra dolls into her as a tribute.

I own all the Nancy Drew PC games, and never mind that the boxes say for ages 10 and up - I still need a walkthrough to get through them! :D I've also been enjoying the CW series, though my favorite is the 2002 movie starring Maggie Lawson.

Nancy is always described as having titian colored hair and blue eyes. We never actually see her in the PC games, and it seems each TV show or movie depicts her in a different way. So I took inspiration from book covers and the CW show since it seems to be the most accurate for her appearance, to create the doll.

Nancy's signature color seems to be blue. She always has a blue Roadster, and most of the books I've seen show her wearing something blue. Even the CW series where the waitresses wear different colors show her wearing the blue outfit. She also mostly wears flat shoes and a gold locket as a keepsake from her late mother. I gave the doll a blue dress with a somewhat vintage vibe as a shoutout to her 1930 origins.

I dug in my stash and found an old Barbie flashlight and magnifying glass, and knew right away they'd be perfect accessories. The doll was the Barbie Look Tea Time doll, but I painted her eyes and had her re-rooted from my good friend Barbie Tiffany Tran.

So behold, Nancy Drew! Happy 90th birthday, teen detective!

[chibikinesis]

Working on rerooting Michelle with yarn and DAMN and I glad I grabbed the ombre gray 😍

[littlewalken]

She’s had this reroot coming forever. Missing plugs, crispy hair. Nasty brown glue inside? And her head is getting sticky so she’ll be getting a lot of talcum powder. I ended up using a lighter blonde closer to her original color but we’ve been together so long I forgot what it was. 

Her hand is somewhere but you know how it is with your old friends who ahve been loved nearly to death.

Don’t ask, I don’t do commissions.

[humblezombieponders]

Finished up one of my rainbow pattern reroots, yay :D I think it worked out well.  (I used this reroot pattern.)  I’ll probably trim the hair... eventually.  I think I kind of have to, the orange is quite a bit shorter than the rest.

[dolligrafik]

These small abstract sculptures at a park look like big sculptures for the dolls 😄