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Happy Saturday doll folk!

I wanted to share my OOAK Tonner Mrs. Coulter Nicole Kidman repaint which is up on eBay now. The auction ends Monday. View the auction HERE

Nicole has such a piercing gaze and an intense look that I tried to capture. I think she’s one of the most interesting faces in Hollywood :o) I really enjoyed painting Nicole, (surrounded by pictures of her of course, lol!) I hope you like her and will cruise over to eBay and check out her auction!

Have an excellent weekend all!

~awsumgal

Well……. I didn’t think I would, but I have kind of been taken in by the Monster High girls! I thought I was immune to these dolls, but, apparently not, lol! I just couldn’t resist painting them :o)

I have finished a Frankie Stein repaint. These ladies are quite addictive and are a joy to paint. Here’s Frankie before…

Off with her face!  O.o

And so we begin :o) We’ll start with some subtle pastel shading in blues, greys and pinks…

I considered mauve-ish eyes, but she really wanted blue. So blue it is! Maybe the next girl will get mauve ;o)

Here she is almost finished…..

She still has no eyebrows or eyelashes in the above pic and her lips need more work…..

I decided to leave all of her Frankenstitiching on her body, though I did remove the one on her face. She’s still Frankie Stein to me, so I wanted to leave some of her Frankie-ness intact :o)

Here she is finished sealed and as she appears on eBay…

This ooak Frankie repaint is up on eBay for a five day run. You can view the listing HERE

Now there’s a little matter of a Draculaura that needs attention :o)

Thanks for reading and have a great night!

~awsumgal

Happy 2012 to all!

I know I’ve been quite neglectful of the blog in the last six weeks or so.  First I was away for  a few weeks, then the Christmas and New Year’s holidays kept us hopping around here! We’re only just getting back to normal routines again.

I have been hard at work on a long term project that is near and dear to my heart. I am very close to finishing but as luck would have it, ran out of a key component! I have ordered what I need, but who knows how long that will take. …sigh…  Work on that stage of the project is stalled until the postman makes me a happy girl again, lol!

Not that there aren’t lots of other fun things to do in the studio. I mean there’s never a dull moment :o)

I found a very 60’s retro looking gold and ivory weave that I just had to work in for Dawn and Pippa. I mean it looks like a fabric Topper and Palitoy might actually have used! Not easy to work with though. It’s a wild one, lol! Frays like nobody’s business… all edges had to be carefully edged, enclosed and otherwise tamed.

I did a long form fitting sleeveless sheath dress with a quilted ivory satin short jacket with a fur collar and finished the look off with a  pretty charm purse with a gold chain strap. It’s up on eBay now.

~Opening Night!~ on eBay

Right, now to go and find something else to do…. maybe I’ll just go and sit on the porch and wait for the postman, lol!

Thanks for reading and have a great day!

~awsumgal

Well, I’m off on a bit of an odyssey! I’ll be doing some traveling over the next three weeks and I will have only sporadic access to technology, lol! In a break with tradition, I won’t be bringing my computer, gasp!I want to spend my limited time enjoying the culture, the landscape and the people, not surfing the web and typing, lol! I do hope though to be able to pop online a couple of times and maybe even upload a photo or two. We’ll have to see how that works out!

This time Wednesday I will be at the airport waiting to board a long haul flight to Hong Kong. Sadly I’ll not be there long (that’s another trip I’d like to take) An one night layover and another long flight to Jakarta, a quick connection to catch a domestic flight and boom baby, I will have arrived at my destination in Indonesia!

I know I’ll be gaining all sorts of inspiration and élan and a little creative fire too, in my travels! My small camera and my sketchbook and journal are the most important pieces of luggage! And hey, if they lose my suitacse, I’ll just buy all new clothes, lol! The camera and the sketchbook are carry on!

I seriously considered bringing a doll with me for some fun travel shots, but my traveling companion will think I’m nuts! Not to mention the locals, and anyway… who should I take? I could bring a lovely Dawn, she’s nice and small :o) (but which Dawn? I can hear the fighting beginning already!) I’d love to bring a Sybarite, but she’d need her suitcase for fashions and wigs and shoes and she’d probably want her own seat on the plane too, ha ha! Plus she’s heavy! But don’t tell her I said that she’ll take it the wrong way!

My Uneeda Dollikin would love a little vacation, but she’s pretty big too. Blythe girls like to travel the world. You see pics of them in the most amazing places. Maybe I’ll take the one named after my wonderful daughter, then a little bit of her would be with me :o) Hmmm, one wonders what they would say in customs? She would probably look really weird on the x-ray don’t you think?

I sure wish you could bring knitting needles, crochet hooks, sewing needles and thread snips on airplanes! It would be such a great time to knit! My traveling pal on this trip will be checking a bag, so I may as well do the same. This means that I can bring some for when I’m on the ground, but I don’t know how much time I’ll be able to devote to that, so I might just have to go cold turkey and leave the needles at home! I’ll have my sketchbook and some “light” reading. (ok, I confess, it’s not really light at all! Maugham and Dostoevsky, a little Buddhism and Romeo Dallaire’s book “Shake Hands With the Devil” about Rwanda in chaos) What can I say? I like the thought provoking heavy weight stuff when I travel - when I’m not reading my other favorite genre, science fiction and fantasy!

Off to the planet of the dolls (the other room, lol!) to see who if anybody, will be joining me on this little jaunt :o)

Until my return, stay safe, have fun and be nice to each other :o) Thanks for reading….

~awsumgal

This lady is all put together and dressed in all of her finery! I’m so happy to see her ready to walk down the aisle. My dear client will have a find her a suitable mate, lol!

Anyway, it’s time to show the final studio shots of this pretty bride :o) Here she is with her long hair fall, but without her veil, tiara and earrings….

Here she is with her full regalia, veil tiara and all :o)

Here’s the original, the image we started with :o)

And here’s the miniature version :o)

Now to carefully wrap and protect her for her impending travel to her new home! Thanks for following along. I hope you enjoyed it :o)

~awsumgal