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Also did figure out a few necklaces from my collection that completes the outfit. Just in time to leave on vacation the end of next week. She is staying home, although a doll friend would be nice for an adventure. Lucretia takes up more room than I expected with her many layers. So I can either have he take up the table by herself or with one doll friend or move the others to the shelf next to my desk.
I am overall pleased with me, completed luck with Lucretia. I really like the dimension that all the layering created with this outfit. The accessory is really playoff one another really well. I ended up using pretty much all of the two yards of silk dupioni for this doll. If I was gonna do anything differently, I may have gone with a different kind of sleeve, but this one works for now. She is just gorgeous and very pleased to have completed the project.
Stay tuned here for progress on this doll project. Thank you to all my readers for their continued support. Your patronage keeps this blog containing to provide content.
Grateful,
Maureen
Thank goodness for Lysol and Clorox wipes, they can get some things off of porcelain pretty nicely without ruining paint and finishes when gentle. And I wouldn’t use a magic eraser because that’s a little bit more abrasive. Although that’s an option for more stubborn ones as long as it’s not on a hugely noticeable area.
More goodness to come,
Maureen
This time around someone was selling very nice porcelain dolls in lots at one of the local shops. They were the same price whether they had dresses or not. It was $4 for 13 porcelain dolls, which is an absolute steal. They were dolls of various sizes, I was able to carefully bring them home, put them into narrower plastic totes with some padding. It was too much of a deal, not pass up, just because four dollars doesn’t even pay for one day almost of the time.
I did double check to make sure that the number of was right. There were 13 dolls in that particular box. The collection were in fantastic shape. I wasn’t seeing any missing fingers, or limbs. Which is typically a problem with porcelain dolls is condition. They are breakable, so therefore, especially hands thumbs any fingers that are not join together tend to crack, chip, or break.
This particular vendor not only had this one box of dolls. They actually had two more for the same price, and those dolls were fully dressed. So my guess is this vendor must have run into either a collector or massive haul of dolls. If you’ve been following this blog for a while, you know that I’ve been buying dolls that are undressed in order to create, medieval/renaissance clothing for them. So in essence, I hit the mother load! Of all my many years creating dolls you just don’t run into this kind of deal let alone such quality. With this year, I’m out this vendor must’ve had they really price these to move. I will be checking again in case they run into another good box of undressed once they’re still room in the totes.
There were two dolls that were at least 16 to 20 inches tall that more more adult like and those dolls 10 to sell for about 20 bucks sometimes more. And this particular style of adult looking dollars more so what I go for when I am purchasing dolls to re-dress. There were a few other than antique reproduction like, just based on the shape of the lips and the eyelashes. I would say there’s about six of those of various sizes. And then there were more modern porcelain dolls meant to look older, which also work for my purposes.
I had said that I wasn’t going to be purchasing more dolls and I was going to slow down on doll making. Fate had a different plan in mind! Granted the best part about this is if I do create all these wonderful dolls, I can just change them out in my room and you know gently pack them away. They’ll still all be very well loved and enjoyed. My therapist says that if we have a little girl, she will have the best doll collection and I heartedly agree.
Fun times and good deals,
Maureen
Although this blog is to keep track of when a project relatively begins, and when it ends in case my time frames are off. Sometimes my memory is not the best and I will not remember how long ago I did a particular project. Also allows me to cross reference materials, and places of possible purchase of those materials. And other useful pieces of statistics, when it comes to creating all of my art.
Also, I’m going to go through my past SCA garb, see what is able to be altered. Figure out if there is something that needs to be donated, which I actually already have a small pile in the works on that. And see about re-organizing for sake of space and freeing up some totes.
So many good things on the horizon,
Maureen
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| Anna of Austria 1570-1579 Princess of Spain Married Austrian King |
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| Princess Elisabeth of France 1570-1579 |
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| Isabel De Valois- Queen of Spain 1570-1579 |
Also thinking of metallic gold accent colors for this project. Those colors also play in the outermost fabric as well, shot with the color of golden yellow against the blue with a flocked brown floral pattern. I have some really pretty pieces from my costume jewelry collection I have selected for this doll as well. Will have to see what happens when it comes all together.
I love that the expression on this doll's face is more pleasant. The expression on the doll I just finished, depending on how they were dressed and hair styled was a factor that made their expression look unsettling at times. Luckily the re-hairstyling in the clothing really changed that other doll's look. I’m hoping that a little bit of minor hair styling and clothing will definitely improve already a good starting point on this one too.
I may have said in a prior post, there is a lot going on right now. It tends to be SCA's busy season for events but also been some up-tic in activity when locating dolls to dress that fit my specific parameters.
Will post updates as normal,
Maureen
