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Learning to sew

Today I’m happy to show my latest re-root momoko. She was commissioned to look like the ooak Private Label Momoko doll. I think if her layers were just a tad shorter she probably would be almost a dead ringer. The facial screening is different too. This is a 9-5 momoko. I’m not quite sure what the Private label doll was originally. Maybe Day off delight? I don’t have her so I don’t know for sure.

She’s wearing a new dress my friend made for me off of the A-line dress pattern from Puchicollective. I’m learning to sew and will hopefully make my own from scratch. I did cut out the pattern on the second dress that my Celia,(pd2a) is wearing and I also sewed on the snaps. I know big deal right? Again baby steps for me 😉 The fun part is picking out the fabrics. There’s a quilt store down the street that has all sorts of fun prints on their fabrics so we had fun picking them out and what’s really nice is you hardly need any. This will hopefully save me a bundle on buying dolly clothes. Also, for my customs, I’d like to be able to dress them in something nice that’s inexpensive but doesn’t look cheap.

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So darn hot!

I can’t believe I forgot to post this re-root! I finished her before the 02PL re-root. She’s a Pure Blue Momoko and the customer commissioned me to do this color and style. Much less demure than her original and a lot of spunk.

Well, I think it hit 115 yesterday. I didn’t venture to go outside until after dinner when we went swimming. Just about all you can do during this time of year. I did finish my Velvet Minuet that I originally botched up pretty bad. I sent her to the dolly doctor to fix my handy work and scalp her for me. So when I got her back scalpless, I figured I might as well go all the way with customizing her. So she’s the first Blythe I’ve sawed into. Once I actually scalp a Blythe and re-root her then I’ll figure I’ve really gone all the way but baby steps for now. I fixed her gaze as VMs look downward quite a bit. Then I sand-matted her, changed her chips, carved her lips out more and gave her new make-up, eyelashes and hairdo. Now she’s so cute I don’t know if I’ll be able to part with her. She looks so much like my 4 yr old-especially the hair.

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Immersed in Blythe customizing

Post author By sylviecola
Post date June 26, 2007
5 Comments on Immersed in Blythe customizing

Today’s momoko is 02PL re-root. She’s another commissioned doll and I just love what the customer wanted. She showed me a picture and I worked from that. I’m having some fun with her with some photo shoots. She’s such a rocker with her shaggy do. It’s always fun to have Momoko visitors, especially the Petwork’s variety. I’ve never seen Pink Lady up close till now. I didn’t care for her even up close though. This new style totally suits her and looks way better in my opinion. Pink Lady’s original hairline was way up on her head too. It was a really high forehead. But she did have a very retro Vegasy 50’s look to her. Well she’s super cool now!

So I’ve been totally obsessed with Blythes and customizing them. I just got several nude ones off Yahoo Japan. I finished customizing my Ebony. I just love her new look. She’s not perfect enough to resell. Darn, guess I’ll have to keep her 😉 Hopefully, I’ll have the strength to sell the other customs once I finish them. Honestly, it’s just not financially feasible to keep them all. I guess I have been able to let go of my custom momokos here and there so perhaps I’ll have the same attitude towards Blythe. I tend to be more willing to let them go once I finish another. I actually let go of Lola, my gorgeous redhead Everyday B-girl re-root, even though I was intending to hang on to her at first. Anyway, here’s Tak again newly customized. She’s had a haircut, chip change, new eyelashes, make-up, some lip carving and sand-matting. She’s wearing Dollsville dress set.