December 2011 ~ UPDATES !

LAST POST:  November 4, 2011 ...

I finally opened my etsy shop ... YAY !!!

I have been busy with photo shoots, listings, a few sales, and even more CREATING!

I have also received a NEW GIRL!!!  I got her for such a great price, and of course, I LOVE HER!!!


She is an Ashton Drake Galleries (ADG) Pleasant Peasant, with the most gorgeious BLONDE HAIR, with a right-side part.  She is probably NOT going to receive any customization from me, except PERHAPS a gaze correction ???  We shall see .....

Introducing:  HOLLISTER HARMONICA

She is just SO BEAUTIFUL !!!

I have to admit ... I DID add a row of eyelashes to her stock plastic ones, that seem to bug me ... the way they just jut out, straight, no personality ... And I didn't even glue them on ... I just sort of "placed" them there on the top of her existing lashes   (thus, in some pictures, you can see where they have slipped ... oops!)


In all these photos, HOLLISTER is wearing MY DESIGNS ~  Available now at my little etsy shop, named "Swan Love Designs".

I have made a lot of simple little dresses, but added a silver or gold-tone buckle (metal, not plastic) and added a length of coordinating or contrasting TULLE .... which I make into an OVERSIZE DRAMATIC BOW ... which could be worn in the front, or the back .... and also, the tulle can be replaced with different color tulle, AND/OR ... even ribbon!  The possibilities for these dresses to change their appearance is ENDLESS!

HERE is Hollister with her ADG Sister:  NENETL  (ADG Aztec Arrival):

(They are my etsy girl models, of course !)

Introducing: ASHLEIGH AQUA; Little Big Eyes doll

My VERY FIRST, so of course she is special in that way ...

ASHLEIGH AQUA:  My very first Blythe CLONE doll;  a LITTLE BIG EYES doll, by Streetwise Designs, 2001

As mentioned, her face, her pout reminded me of a very young girl ... Named Ashley ... who left this earth in 2004, and had a MUCH bigger impact than she could, in her young 19 years, EVER imagine, on people she barely even knew.  My last view of her … sadly … well, let’s just say, she looked just like this, and that is why, any modifications to her face will be very minimal.  Nothing too drastic.

Actual auction site photo:  Her outfit was a black long sleeve slinky tee;  hideous gold pleather type pants;  black ankle boots;  and her straight black hair in bangs, tacked down by factory plastic ties, etc.

The “Leigh” portion of her name is for THE BEST MOST TRUE FRIEND I have EVER had.  She would NEVER, EVER even THINK of throwing me away.  No matter WHAT.

“Aqua” is for the name I made up when Jason was little … it was a contender for the next kid I never had.

Hideous "factory" / stock GREEN EYE CHIPS.  This "deer in the headlights" is precisely WHY these dolls get their eyechips changed!  Geez ...

After spending the better part of TEN YEARS inside their factory boxes, these LITTLE BIG EYES dolls, who came out in 2001, were ready for some pampering.  As each one arrived, she had a little spa robe, and maybe even a little "pet friend" to welcome her to MY HOME.   I DO love them so.