CHRISTMAS with MY GIRLS ... 2011

Merry Christmas Season !!!

So many MAGICAL things have been happening this year ! I would like to HOPE that I had at least a part of the * magic * that is happening, in that, I have been WORKING my a** off, all year ... not only at my job, but at my ultimate goal of getting to a point where I have enough inventory of items to open my etsy shop!

WHICH I DID ... in November :)

I opened my shop with my awesome TURKEY DRESSES FOR BLYTHE ... which no one purchased.

For some reason, I am not going to take this personally ... I mean, these people don't even know me  ... YET ... and I must be patient, and just keep plugging away, little by little .... Keep in contact with as many as possible on etsy ... on this blog ... on flickr ... and maybe some day, I will list just that "right" fashion that will catch on ... THEN, I can re-offer my little Turkey dresses ...  I did not offer them for SALE, at a reduced price, because I worked really hard on them, and .... there is always Thanksgiving 2012 ...

I then listed my CHRISTMAS FASHIONS .... Little Santa Dresses with full ice-skating dress type skirts, and little belts in black shiny pleather, with gold or rhinestone buckles ... and little Santa Coat styles ... and Angel Dresses with real white feather wings (which I made into PINS, because I thought if I attached them to the dress ... the customer would not be able to wash the dress, OR be able to use the dress again, and SINCE the Angel Dresses are ALL WHITE ... again, using the basic dress over and over again, adorned with any sort of Holiday colors, the possibilities are endless.

I think that would be the attraction of ALL my fashions ... my little TULLE BOW dresses, can have so many different possibilities AFTER they receive them!  They can put ribbon through the buckles, and different colors of tulle ... I even offer them to the customers ...

Made a couple of visits back to PALM SPRINGS, to visit my Mom ... who had complete knee replacement surgery!  She is such a trooper,and I am proud to be her daughter, coming from such strong stock and resilient genes!  Our other sister had brought her a Christmas Tree, a small but beautiful flocked one, SO, I took advantage of that photo opportunity,and posed a few of my girls "under the tree" ...

 L. to R.  Nenetl Nenetl;  Lena LaRosse;  Bertha Belle;  Hollister Harmonica
ALL wearing SWAN LOVE DESIGN dresses
Knee-Thigh socks and lace ankle-socks:  from ebay
Hollister is wearing a special little Holiday Mini-Dress I made:  Angel Face Dress with Angel Wings on back;  Her lacy leggings are made by me :)
All shoes are also "made" by me:  Stock mary-janes, painted and/or glittered;  Stock Barbie boots that I attached fur trim and white satin ribbon/bows.

Hollister Harmonica, my ADG Pleasant Peasant

 Nenetl Nenetl (ADG Aztec Arrival) and Bertha Belle (my Little Big Eyes) ... wearing their CHRISTMAS RED Party Dresses :)

LOVE these little LACE EDGE SOCKS, and the Ruby Slippers I made :)

Little BERTHA BELLE and HOLLISTER HARMONICA 

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 ...