myling

Making wigs and dresses... and more wigs and more dresses...

These last few weeks I have been very busy with finishing my dolls. I've been making wigs and clothes for them - an iteresting experience since I'm kind of new to making wigs, and sewing is fun for me but not my preferred method of creating things! I want my dolls to have clothes, though, so it has to be done. 

It almost like getting to know them all over again when making clothes for them - what colours and fabrics that suit them and so on. I have found I prefer them in very simple dresses, and that linen looks so beautiful against the porcelain!!

Little Hilma in a grey linen dress. 

Hilma again & Aurora in dresses with bows

More of Hilma!

A newly assembled girl, she is #6! Here in polkadot dress.

And my little ghost girl Beata. She prefers white.

I have also made a new dress for my Marian:

I plan on starting to sell my dolls soon, like within a month! It's so scary, and I would love to keep them all here with me, (some will remain here, ofcourse!!) but it would be so very crowded!! And I would be a terrible doll maker if I couldn't part with them, so.. I am actually excited about selling them, too! 

I will post more info on dolls and which ones will be available here on my blog soon!

See you!

some sewing done!

A weird week! I thought I would get much more done than I actually have, but I got a disgusting cold which slowed me down a little. I managed to get some sewing done, though, and my dolls (not all of them..) have clothes now!

The patterns still need some tweaking, but I'm kind of happy with these two dresses. 

I made a dress and some stockings for Marian, as well! I'm very happy with this outfit, I think it suits her splendidly! It's so Marian.

 

And some photos from my sewing session with Marian...:

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Meet Aurora - the first Myling#1 to be completed!

She still needs clothes and shoes, and she's waiting to move in to the Myling-villa (that would be my dollhouse...).

I have loads to do - I'll have to write more some other day. I want to write about my Myling#1 dolls; why I chose the name 'Myling', what I had in mind when I created them and much more! Well, I'll write all about it soon...

See you! 

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I don't know where to start! I think I have too many ideas and too much information floating around in my head - I need to get organized and just start writing stuff down and getting to work on things - one thing at a time... It's a good feeling though, I'm feeling very inspired!

My dolls are coming along - I have started making wigs for them and thinking about outfits and their different personalities. And names! I have given som of them (the ones I'm keeping) names! 

I assembled my porcelain bjd girl this week... Her name is Marian - named after the Sisters of Mercy song.

    I've been assembling myling #1 dolls too - I'm counting five mylings now! 

More on them soon I hope!

I have waited sooo long to be able to get to this point - to have a finished doll - that I'm feeling a little overwhelmed to have actually achieved this... They are growing up so fast! 

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Assembling dolls and making wigs

That is my plan for this weekend and the beginning of next week. It's very exciting for me to finally see them start coming together! I'm working as fast as I can to realize my different doll-projects - I finally have some time to spend on them now that school is finished.

I hope to post soon again, I have so much I want to write about - but now I'm really aching to get started on the wig-making business!

one of my little 'myling#1'- dolls being assembled...

 

trying hair colours for my bjd bisque girl

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Strange and busy weeks....

...since my last post. I have moved house and am now settling into my new place. I like it - I'm now actually living on an island, even though there are bridges and I don't have to take a boat or a ferry to get anywhere (I could, though - in the summer!). I really like living closer to nature, and it's much more peaceful here. 

I've also cast some more of my bjd porcelain girls in the last few weeks, and I am now cleaning and firing them. I'd almost forgotten how exhausting the whole casting/cleaning process was, but so rewarding and fun! 

Another thing I tried casting was an earwig pendant that I sculpted some months ago but never got around to making moulds from until now. It was very interesting working on something other than dolls - and I would like to experiment on making more jewellery-type things in the future. 

Today I left three of these at a silversmiths to get them fitted with little silver loops for hanging them on chains. 

 

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Here are two of my dolls relaxing in their new sofa after having been a part of an exhibition/show at my school last week - which was also my last week of school.

On the opening night of the exhibition I took a look into the small room where I displayed my things and discovered it had been taken over by a gang of children! Alright, there were three of them. And they were taking turns kissing my dolls! They were very solemn, one of them announced who could kiss a doll and which doll they could kiss. So strange. The children stayed in there for some time (hours?), and when a girl from my class wandered into my little doll-room, they cried "Oh no - a human!"

I think I'm now in a state of shock after having finished school - but I'm also very relieved to be out of there. I spent 4,5 years at that school, enough is enough!!!I have to fend formyself now - in the real world...! Maybe I'll see you there!

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Finally a weekend off!

I spent it working on various doll-projects, something I've been longing to do. I haven't been able to get that much work done on personal art work-stuff, I have been busy with school and work. Also I'm in the process of moving, which consumes so much time and energy.. I'm looking forward to moving though, I'm longing for a change!

Here are my twin dolls that I've been working on now and then since last winter.

Ice Mint Green Eyes

Yesterday and today I recieved a bunch of eyes I ordered a while ago. The ones I have been waiting for the most impatiently are the 18mm Ice Mint Green glass eyes, and here they are!

I don't know which I love the most; the eyes themselves or the name! They make me think of the Cocteau Twins, Ice Blink Luck... I must hear it now!

more photos of 'Josefine'

I like her! 

I'm thinking of sewing her body from white leather, in the same style of older lady bisque dolls. 

When I made the moulds for Josefine I made a mould from the prototypes head, then I altered it and made another mould. So now I have two slightly different versions of Josfine. 

Oh, I forgot that I made two different sets of hands for Josefine as well... Can't wait to show them!!

I have sooooo many ideas for her/them!! I'm also excited about making her body from cloth or leather, it will look interesting I think. 

painting, painting, painting!

I've worked really hard trying to learn how to use the china/bisque paints, and I *think* I finally know how!!!

I have a pile of painted doll-parts on my desk which is growing by the week. I've started assembling dolls and setting eyes!

More soon, I hope!