PALM SPRINGS VACATION; Summer 2011 with my GIRLS

MY BIRTHDAY is in JULY, so I LOVE SUMMER ...

Took my GIRLS ... all of them ... on a ROAD TRIP to PALM SPRINGS, CALIFORNIA !!!

ROAD TRIP !!!

I made all my girls "matching" ... but different" sundresses JUST for this trip to PALM SPRINGS

I had little toddler size sun-dresses that I got at the dollar store, in GREEN, BLUE, and ORANGE,

So I made each of them in different styles ...

Just some fun photo shoots we had ... Granted, at this time, I had not studied as much about the photography of my specific camera  ... Canon G10 ... so these shots are just not that great ...  Plus the fact that I felt "rushed" and hurried for these shoots ... and I do not like the way they look like "dolls" ... just stiff-limbed items placed in a frame.


HOPEFULLY when it comes time to sell my fashions, I will be able to do a better job :)

ENTERING PALM SPRINGS ... There is an awesome PALM SPRINGS sign
I just had to stop ....
even though it was about 110 degrees!
And of COURSE all the girls kept falling over ... It was quite horrible actually
but I HAD TO GET THAT PICTURE !!!

TOO, this is on the MAIN HIGHWAY with all the traffic going by ... !!!

My Little NENETL ...

PHOTO SHOOT

I took pics of all the girls together in their Summer White crochet dresses

and each one separately ...

This is my ADG Aztec Arrival Blythe:  NENETL

After her major hair cut, too.

I TRIED to get the "yellow tint" out of this pic ... but NOPE ...

This is MOLLY

(my Little Big Eyes; Grape hair doll)

This is KIRSTYN; 

She is wearing Barbie pearly-white ankle boots

My little LENA

in her new Disney Fairy body

(that is why her dress looks so huge on her ...)

 

BERTHA BELLE:

Little Big Eyes Lemon Hair Doll

EmAly EriKa:

At least I LIKE the way she is posed in this pic ...

(she is my 2nd Little Big Eyes Grape hair doll;

now wearing her ash-blonde extensions)

AshLeigh: 

Wearing a crochet mini-dress,

 over a tube skirt (which is actually a dime-store tube-headband, that I cut to size)

Jay~Anna:

Her hair looks SO BRIGHT in this pic ..

she, too, has her NEW Disney Fairy body.

She is wearing one of the "Bridesmaids" dresses I am working on;

re-purposed from a white lacy knit top; I added crochet at top and scallopped edging at bottom)

CAYLEE CAMRYN CANE:

She has the Blybe body now; 

I replaced her spindly limb body (CCE)

She is also wearing one of my "Bridesmaid" dresses

I am working on ...

 

MY GIRLS:

WHAT a weird picture ...

I was RUSHED at this time, trying to hurry and place them all...

I simply do NOT like the way they all look dis-jointed,

I have SO MUCH to learn !!!

 

AshLeigh

(with resin bulldog)

 

KIRSTYN

 

BERTHA BELLE

 

EmAly EriKa

 

LENA

 

NENETL

There was a cool TREE outside,

so I attempted more photo shoots ...

MOST of the photos I do not like, so am only posting a few ...

This one is JAY~ANNA

 

THE GREEN SERIES:

(I made all the girls little "matching" sundresses for this trip ...)

 

LENA ...

Introducing: JAY~ANNA JULY ~ Little Big Eyes doll

(okay, I skipped a few letters of the alphabet ... I will most likely catch up later, but I had a brain-freeze with the letters  F, G, H, and I .... )

Jay-Anna July

She is one of the Little Big Eyes dolls, that also has very special meaning to me.  I was searching the on line auction site, as usual, and I found a lady who was offering THE ENTIRE SET OF 4 Little Big Eyes Dolls!  Not only that, but ... ALL AT ONCE, in ONE auction! 

Well, I know I already have 3 of them ... but I figured, for my DESIGNS, I will NEED a lot of models, so I sent her a little message, thanking her for offering them "all together", and her reply was so sweet and she said she wanted them to "stay together" !  Now, how sweet is THAT???

Further, after I won the auction, she introduced me to the ENTIRE BLYTHE (and clone) WORLD on flickr!  She is a very special person, indeed!

ACTUAL auction site pic from seller (Patty)
L to R:  JAY-ANNA, Lena, Kirstyn, Molly
All 4 are LITTLE BIG EYES dolls, by Streetwise Designs, 2001
Series 1

So, the "4 sisters" arrived from New Jersey, and my mission was to make them all into "CALIFORNIA GIRLS" !   These girls ALSO had special meaning to me, because I AM ONE OF 4 SISTERS as well :)

Jay-Anna is my "favorite" .... there is just SOMETHING about her raspberry color hair, I LOVE !

She is named after my son, and ME!

Jay-Anna … Me and Jason

JULY is my birth month  :)

JAY~ANNA JULY
Little Big Eyes doll ~ raspberry hair
Pictured here with her STOCK pink eye chips; shiny face, original make-up and hair style
She is wearing corduroy overalls and tee from my extensive Barbie collection fashions
(plus a little RUBY bracelet I made just for her ... Birthstone for JULY ;)