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Rat doll! Rat doll! Rat doll!

I printed this last night, it's one of Aelith Art's Runway Rodent dolls (a doll that I suggested the name for ☺️).

This doll is his take on Trashion Alley, I also printed an additional faceplate that I modded.

Excited to get them cleaned up and strung. I'll be listing prints of these on my Ko-Fi soon (with the one-part foot). The second photo is from Aelith's product listing for the files.

I printed and will be selling the version compatible with G3 MH clothes (not shoes though because of proportions).

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Let's talk about Frankie's yellowing hair problem.

It's unfortunately not the glue seepage as it's also happening to g2, which did away with the dreaded glue head. Saran is already an off-white when it's white, and it wasn't that noticeable at first, especially against her green skin. There is also the fact that I prefer the off-white to the stark white for most of their dolls.

This is a lineup of g1 original elastic hips Frankie, g2 from the dance line, g3 that I got for Christmas, and a g3 skultimate secrets I picked up around Halloween I think? Maybe longer.

The g3 SS doll, as you can see, has the whitest hair of the lot even if it's older [has been outside and in sunlight more. Idk when the batches were made] Then the g3 basic. That's because they unfortunately have polypropylene. I don't have any dolls with white poly hair, so I don't know how long it's going to stay that bright, but I'm willing to bet it lasts longer than the saran.

That being said, I think I still prefer the saran for now due to texture and how well the fiber holds. I will say against their new blue skin tone, the yellow stands out a bit more imo.

Just a wild comparison shot to g1 Frankie

Now some of you who want to avoid yellowing hair might think "Oh, but what about nylon?

Well I wondered this too so I wnt and grabbed my Rainbow High dolls with white hair to check it out and we'll it doesn't seem so bad but it's also not as old as G1 but there is a noticeable difference between Heather and Amaya who are about 3 years apart, though Amaya is a rescue who had been previously played with. So that might factor in some.

Though notably amaya and g3 Frankie have similar shades of white currently so we're already staring off brighter with Nylon as she came out around 2019.

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This Deuce I drew in 2022 still get likes here sometimes, so I wanted to share with you that I actually repainted my new son following this old sketches I did. ^^

[I might paint the snakes later but he looks fine for now]

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Fixed two dolls with one pair of feet!

Both Luca and Griffin had broken right ankles (poor Griffin's had broken once before but the fix didn't last) @pandaskywalker sent me a pair of Taeyang feet which Luca got and using his non broken ankle fixed Griffin's foot, Huzzah!

Thank you PSW! The boys send their love❤️

#ooh I don't see a lot of taeyang love around here

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On April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first human to venture into outer space on a spacecraft.

That was in fact his only space flight, as he was back-up crew for a later space flight which ended in disaster, and he was banned from participating in any further missions, lest he experience tragedy and Russia lose a hero cosmonaut.

April 12 is now the international observance of International Day of Human Space Flight, also known as Yuri's Day or, in Russia, Cosmonaut Day.

Barbie has herself been an astronaut many times. In fact, it's a top 10 career for her, depending on how you calculate the careers.

It's really no wonder - space flight has captured the imagination of the human race since well before Yuri Gagarin's initial flight, and continues to this day, more than 60 years later.

This year, 65 years after Barbie debuted, and 63 years since Yuri Gagarin's first space flight, another astronaut Barbie has hit shelves, and I hazard a guess that it will not be the last.

So onward and upward to Barbie, to her enterprising little sister Chelsea, and to Yuri Gagarin and all astronauts and cosmonauts that followed him.

#lmao mattel celebrating a milestone event with a series of shitty half print jumpsuits #sorry but like to me this looks like mininal commitment for the gimmick not a celebration

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I can’t figure out what color eyes/style of eyes to do with this pink hair. I’m open to any suggestions

#oops i was late to the party but yes i like green side eye

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Purple or green look good.

I like the side-eye though

I can’t figure out what color eyes/style of eyes to do with this pink hair. I’m open to any suggestions

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I was making a video about the Wild Hearts Crew and like.... mattel really tried it huh

#I don't think i saw any in the uk lol

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I made a custom Tintin doll! I used a Chat Noir doll as a base because that's the one petit male doll I could find that was articulated and still affordable. The amazing @bubblekidaesthetics photographed him as seen above!

Details about my process below. Warning for weird doll photos.

His jumper is made out of a pair of baby socks, his plus fours are made from an old tablecloth, his shoes are made from cardstock, his socks from some trainer socks and his trench is made from a pillow case I found on offer during a sale! The shirt is the one item I didn't make, it's a Ken shirt but as a result it's a bit too big for him.

I had to hack Chat Noir's head down with a box cutter because I found the vinyl too tough to pull off, then I sculpted over the remaining head stump with tin foil and a mixture of milliput and green stuff.

I painted him with acrylics for that vintage doll feeling rather than using pastels and MSC - he's orange in the second picture above because I was colour correcting the green putty.

Snowy was made with a My Little Pony, armature wire, tin foil and hot glue!

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A dress I ordered finally arrived and it looks sooo cute on Dottie 🥰 it’s a little big on her so I might end up giving it to another doll but for now she’s gonna wear it cause she looks too cute 💕

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m-me being a weeb in 2024...haha thats so unlikely..

eee excited to start a series of cosplays with Sunny, first up is Miku!

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ngl it's pretty hilarious just how quick shadow high dropped the shadow theme

Like first wave is grayscale, a perfect opposite to the colorful Rainbow High

Then the Storm twins are released and they're oil slick themed but y'know still dark so they still "shadow" like

Then Neon Shadow came out and you just know they stopped giving a fuck

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Housekeeping:

Spirit the horse 15", found in the trash, no before pictures (yep i've been terrible at that lately), fixed up hair (saran!) scuffs and stains.

-- Donated to the charity shop.

Elsa by Jakks Pacific 14" found in the trash with the horse : snapped arm, hair a ball of frazzle, body stained by the teal dress. I've taken her apart to fix her arm and her electronic-filled dress to clean, done a basic but tedious comb-though and face clean + reblush. Not sure she's worth the destaining and full detangling as that hair will frazzle again the moment it is touched.

-- Pending

Cali Girl Lea: long term wishlist gal. Thought she might be super wonky but she just had different sized pupils and slightly off-centre smile: needs tidying with a light and magnifying glass for those pruned hairs and eyes.

-- She stays!

Translucent pink glitter Barbie scooter can actually sit a Barbie! I'm impressed.

-- That'll be going to charity.

//// This is where I got a single hit of dopamine from Monique Verbena and lost the usual choice to sleep on it and think it over: yeah I just smashed "buy it now" a few times ///

Alwayz Bratz Sasha bald: I thought i'd made a stupid rash decision out of FOMO - I don't like the promo pic or any of that stock, I wasn't sure I even liked the aliexpress head! The facial screenings on the repros have been so obviously off or different (Except surprisingly, for the GCDS and Kylie Jenner). Maybe I got lucky with a misprint that somehow clicks with me.

The coral lipstick is garish but with a hint of shimmer for dimension and with the matching eyeshadow and a choice blush, she's making it work. The eyes are a nice dark khaki in person. Aside from some black smudging, she's well printed.

-- She stays.

Rainbow High Scarlet Rose: What's wrong with the picture, looks like a couple of smudges on her head right?... Somehow I missed the off-centre and misprinted eyebrows plus a disk shaped chunk of lashes, eyeliner and blush missing.

I need to fix that single lash to be symmetrical with the other side and add a teensy bit to the brow but did a seriously decent job matching pastels and using melamine sponge on a toothpick.

Her stock, hair colour and skin tone is so me (okay okay I had to re bleach my hair from that gorgeous prune tone back to pale peach earlier this year because I looked too ill)

-- Going to fix her up before deciding, but it's probably a no.

Daiso yukatas and Ellie, I thought I was buying just the clothes for $7 and sent the seller a message saying I was happy to cancel when I realized it would be more. Thankfully economy shipping was just €4.20 for them and €4 import fees for me. Ellie is a blow molded, pp hair flimsy doll in a near paper like dress, the rainbow dress is a hot glued see through thing but Daiso's yukatas are fabulous and well worth it.

-- Ellie, the dress and shoes will go to charity or just pay postage.

#I didn't know cali girl lea was on your wishlist #i think i have one of those that I'll not use in account of her huge feet #unless i find spare feet but ill find a whole body faster

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Little Miss Love

Needlefelted 90’s Barbie friend. Look at her smile!

Available for adoption!

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This Mattel Hattie Happy head arrived with rhinestones in the eyes, replacing the original (and fragile) eye chips. I painted irises and upper shadow over them, and that blended well with the rest of the original eye paint.

The head had been in the parts box for years, waiting for an appropriate body. I stuck it on a Cave Club body as a joke, and...it kinda worked? But I didn't like the lack of shoe options for the Cave Club feet. It turns out the Cave Club lower legs are easy to remove, and I had had some Bratzillaz (or possibly Project MC2) lower legs in for a while. I really liked the proportions of the lower legs on this body, but I was never happy enough with the actual legs to go ahead and paint them to match.

I dug the doll out again recently and noticed how much the Cave Club thighs looked like G1 MH thighs, just scaled down a bit. @musicalmeowsandcandiedlemons had sent some MH legs a while ago (thanks again!), so I cut them apart to get the lower legs out, then trimmed a bit of plastic off of the knee pegs, and they fit into the Cave Club thighs pretty well.

They didn't match, though. (they had been Draculaura's)

I still didn't feel like dealing with the airbrush, or with mixing (or buying) paint to match, so I rummaged through the Citadel paints in Husband's stash and thought Bestial Brown looked close. I applied it with a broad brush, and it is a little streaky and dark, plus I wanted to protect the paint from possibly sticking to the insides of the shoes, and hosiery addresses all of those issues.

I do not like sewing for dolls this small, but that also means I don't have much that fits them, so I have to make something sometime, and sewed this dress specifically for her today.

#might order some fakie MH bodies for caveclub leg replacement purposes

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Tutorial: MH Creepro neck and Arm fix

Posting this here because I keep getting questions about how I've been fixing my MH Creeproduction bodies to look a little less janky! Most people already have these techniques in their arsenal (and can definitely do a better job than me) but I keep getting questions on Twitter about how I manage to fix mine so I figure I'd just post a tut on Tumblr that I can link to lol This is an add-on to my previous post about the neck issue with both waves of Monster High Creeproductions in addition to another issue where the Creepro arms cannot lay flat against the sides of the body. Tutorial below!

Supplies Needed:

-Shitty creepro body

-Some sandpaper, I've been using 320 grit

-Boiling water We're going to start with the neck since that one is pretty quick.

This is the neck peg to start with, compared to an original G1 neck peg- the section we're concerned with is the circular peg right above the neck hole:

(Creepro on the left, original on the right) the Creeproduction peg is significantly thicker, which is causing the head to sit lower on the neck and cause the vinyl to deform. We're going to fix that by sanding the underside of the neck peg until it's much thinner, but not quite as thin as the originals (since original g1 dolls frequently have loose necks lol)

First you'll want to cut out a rectangle of sandpaper and fold it in half; this is both to make the sandpaper less flimsy and also because the folded edge is good for sanding nooks and crannies.

Now you're going to sand all around underside of the circular neck peg shown here, until that whole circular peg is thinner:

Make sure not to use the folded edge of the sandpaper for this part of the tutorial, we don't want to accidentally carve into the "stem" of the neck peg and cause it to snap. I like to sand off a bit, try the head on and then sand off a bit more if it's still not sitting as high as an original MH neck would. Make sure you're heating the heads prior to removal or you might break the neck peg. And also chop off that stupid hook on the top of the circular peg, it does nothing but cause misery lol This is typically what it looks like when I've sanded it as much as I need to for most dolls:

(after on the left, before on the right) Some characters have heads that sit much higher on the neck originally (like Spectra) so I'll sand off a lot more for them, but ymmv.

Now onto the body!

So, this is the Creeproduction body as-is:

This is the flattest I can get her arms to her sides. Some creepros can get them flatter, but not by much. Original G1 body arms already tend not to lay flat enough in my experience, but Creeproduction bodies are even worse lol We're going to fix that with sandpaper and boiling water! Provided below is an illustration of the general places that we are going to sand:

The notch under the ball joint of the arm, the area directly below the armpit and a tiny bit of the round area on the underside of the upper arm. We're going to sand a little off of each section.

For the notch in the arm, you're going to use the folded edge of the sandpaper to carve out the notch until it's a bit deeper than previously.

No, it's not pretty! Thank you for noticing lol

Next we're going to sand the armpit area, using the other edges of the sandpaper because we don't want to dig into the arm at all accidentally:

As well as this rounded area of the arm , not too much but enough to make it just a little flatter:

I left it raw to better show exactly where I'm sanding; most of the visible sand marks will disappear after washing but you can clean it up more with a finer sandpaper when you're done if you want. I'm just too lazy to do that lol

After all of that, your arm should sit more or less like the arm on the right (left unsanded for comparison)

Much better, but not quite there yet!

Modern G1 bodies have vinyl upper arms that are easy to manipulate with heat, so in order to get them as flat as possible we're doing to boil and reshape them. I like to boil my water in the microwave, and then dip the entire upper torso into the water until the arms are super pliable. At this point I will pull them out, pinch the arms right up against the body with my thumb and forefinger and then run them under the tap until they set. Your final result should look something like this:

And that's it! Hope that helps lol

Some shoddy before and after photos lol:

(Spectra was also rerooted lol)

#if the sand marks on the torso are too visible after a wash #usually a nail buffer will fix that #the finer the sandpaper the better tho kids

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He needs more show accurate clothes, but I also kinda like him like that.

I'm also planning his skateboard gear and a pet of his own.