#mc2 dolls

[hellodollstuff]

Inventory part 28

Mc2 and Liv dolls

[thedollcafe]

Adrienne Attoms and McKeyla McAlister (Project Mc2 dolls) by aeris1708

[thedollcafe]

Adrienne Attoms and McKeyla McAlister (Project Mc2 dolls) by aeris1708

[afinedoll]

A New Technique

You know sometimes you look at pro doll makers - the kind that charge hundreds or even thousands of pounds for their dolls - and you think, ‘wooow, I wish I could make stuff like that’? Well, a little before Christmas I stumbled across the DeMuse dolls by Nigel Chia - or rather, the making of videos on YouTube.

And it didn’t make me think ‘oh wow, I wish I could do that’. I thought, ‘huh. I could do that’.

Let me make one thing clear - I don’t actually like the dolls themselves. It’s the faces, they’re really severe and sneery and I think if they were real people they’d probably not like me at all. I’m far too common. But that aside, we’re talking here about the lace applique technique he’s using for the dresses.

I have so much lace stashed away, you guys. So much lace in different colours and sizes and so many beads, I could do what Chia is doing here and honestly? So could any of you. I have in fact tried it. It is not hard, although it does take a certain amount of focus. Wanna see the result? Of course you do!

This dress started out as the simplest of simple pale pink shift dresses with a white floral print - I can’t even remember which version of this dress it is, I think it was originally sized for a Barbie, although it won’t close around her shoulders now, but it fits Adrienne here, and therefore also Momoko and Blythe too.

The lace was a chunky white fringe that I didn’t know what to do with and I think came free with a magazine - I cut the bubbly parts off and laid them diagonally across the front of the dress, and the top line along the bottom edge. The beading goes on last and of course takes longest, but there’s no special technique other than with the seed beads threading five or six on the needle, go down through the cloth, come up in the middle of the strand and stitch again through the last three on the thread. Watch the video and see how Chia does it, it’s easy.

Incidentally those adorable boots I bought from... someone on ebay who I can’t remember now for my knockoff Blythe doll which I will show you all once I have put her new eyes in. But I was delighted to discover that MC2 dolls fit Blythe clothes, and very surprised since they’re so much taller.

And that’s another thing I have been up to! Stay fine, everyone!

[momdusa]

These were three of the experiments that were available for the Mc2 girls, there's also a bubble gum one but I don't know what it does? ( the rock candy one, you make your own rock candy jewelry. Yum. Potential for ants, but YUM)

[lansupantsu]

Did a little doll hunting outside of my usual orbits today. I was in the Hobart/Merrillville mall area of Lake County, Indiana. The TRU across from the mall had Frightseers, Cleo and Deuce, FDC Rochelle with the playset, FDC Toralei, a mountain of Kiyomis, Mansters 2-packs, and Scaris 2-packs, a couple of the WTW girls (Apple and... not Kitty anyway idk I don’t EAH bc sameface). Also saw the Beatrix Girls on clearance (not a good clearance price, only like 5 bucks off) and those new MC2 girls. They were just wedged in around the clearance, they don’t seem to have a designated home yet. I think the new Bratz were out? Is one of the new Bratz lines a sleepover set? She even had real feet. gasp!

The Target across the way was the usual wasteland of FF budgets, SDC, and re-releases. And Wave 1 vinyls. Where is Wave 3, Mattel? :T