144 Doll

I've made me first 144 dolly :)
I think she'll help me a lot in building new houses - to have an idea of convenience for tiny people :)
She's not perfect and I won't sell her - she's just for me!

she's 11 mm tall

And this is the beginning of a new shabby house. The dolly checks if she likes it.. I think she does! :)

Thx for all your great comments! Have a creative time:))

The first warm day! And the winner of the giveaway!

Today was the first really warm day - it was about +26 and we were finally able to go for a walk. Unfortunately, my daughter recently got allergy and I do not know the reason - apparently it's something springy. That was unexpected since no one in the family reacts on anything, but I guess that just happens sometimes..
Here we are together, me wearing the dress with the elephant - how symbolic - that's exactly how I feel right now :))

Now, for the Giveaway part :) 

Thank you so much for participation! Since we didn't have too many entries, I decided to go old-fashioned way. Here we are, writing names. Well, not only names:)

These are all participants. Arina managed to write 5 as well. We'll see if she has a lucky hand!

And the winner is...

 Carmen from http://pekevasion.blogspot.com !
Congratulations :) I'm waiting for your address, please email me at prus.daria@gmail.com
And also please let me know which bear do you choose. I'll try to do my best to send the prize at earliest.

And here's a little photoset of my fawn-doll on the street. Gosh, her face is even scarier under sunlight. I was right: she is a vampire!

Even an evil vampire wants to be a lady! So she's got her manicure and pedicure done. Lucky girl!:))

The arm band repeats the waist belt. She has style! :)

Scary face doll finished:)

As follows from the post name - she's finished. And she has a scary face:))
I don't think I remake it once more - to do this I need to mix the colors again so that it matches the body and it's quite a job. I shall quit making dolls from plastic leftovers and by doll-appropriate plastic someday. Anyway. Her "code name" is Fawn-doll. It's my evil sarcasm.. I'm quite satisfied with the body. The proportions suits just fine and she's very posable. There are some mistakes and that's why she can' stand on her own and quite clumsy. But overall the poses are pretty "human".
I think it's a good first experience and I see know what can be done differently. I'm busy doing clothes and shoes for her, so I suppose you'll meet her again fully dressed soon)

 My husband always laughs on the pose below. He calls it "anti-sex". Indeed, I find it very laughable as well:)

 And here is the better head (i decided to go with the vampiric one, just changed the eyes, so she looks more human). This one, on the other side, seems quite sad. But it's much more smooth. At least I know now what to do to make it smooth :)

I have ordered natural doll's hair, so my next doll won't have these troubles with hair style.

Some finished photos and my current occupation

Hi folks!
I was absent for some time - that is due to the rest I need to have each day, according to my doctor. I must force myself to lay during the day now - there's so many things I wanna do and so little power in my body right now :)
Anyway, here's some photos of finished roombox under the daylight. Unfortunately it's still gloomy and rainy here (couple of days ago it was snowing so I have nothing to complaint about actually:)

 There's nothing new - only the tiny flower on the window-sill. But at least now it's all set and done and I won't be adding anything else:)

 And here is what I am busy with. The idea was sitting in me for some time: I want my doll. On some blog of yours I see dolls that make this mini-journey with you. They "help" you do you work and evaluate the results. They have their own character. And I want such mini-helper of my own. I must say: I am fascinated by the process. She turns out the way she wants - not me. It's so exciting! I'm not showing you other parts and the head because I'm not sure if I keep the existing version or re-do it. But the part here is finished and it is so amazing:) (I'm not thinking too much of myself though - I see a lot of much more beautiful work - but we all need to start somewhere, right?) That is my first ball-jointed doll and I want to understand the basics on her. I'll do better anatomy on later attempts.
What I can say: she is tiny. she'll be approx 13,5 cm high. With the head of 17 mm. Right the size of 1/12th mini-doll, so that I can make my future projects for her :)

Have a great week!
I'm stopping by by all your entries - you all inspire me :)

Girl's bedroom. Progress

Hello everyone!
warm welcome to all my followers, I'm very pleased to see each and every one of you :)
This weekend I finally got some time to make some progress on my project. Boy it takes time! Making everything for the first time, trying to figure out how to and simply getting used to new techiques..
My girl now is no longer bald! Here she is, ginger:

 I found out that I have the whole bag full of artificial hair - 3 years ago I've made afrobraids of four different colors - yellow, brown, orange and red. I've only took couple od braids for this doll and I have like 500 left, so I feel lucky that I kept it: I can practice on a lot of new dolls before I start using expensive materials :)
These photoes I took under elecrtic light and here's definitely something wrong with colors: I couldn't make her eyes look not so scary-black. In real life she has green eyes and white eyeballs. Shame that I'm not a photogrpher: She has to be a scary little monster now :)
I've measured her and she's approximately 10,5 cm which is quite a good size for 1/12 7-8 yearold.
I have also started with the bed for her - now Ginger's accompanying all my work and waiting for her bed to appear quickly: she really wants to sit on something that is hers and not on all of my boxes and tables :)

Here's what I managed to do today: a matress and details for future bed.

The maress cover is covered with cheap Ikea towel - it has just  right texture for the matress.
I feel I must give credits to all the tutorials I've used. Here they are:
Doll's wigging: http://www.dollmakersdream.com/Doll-wig-video-tutorial.html
Matress and bed (partially): http://1inchminisbykris.blogspot.ru/search/label/how%20to%20make%20a%20no-sew%20mattress%20and%20box%20spring

A very special thanks to Tatiana, for her lilac tutorial here: http://mylittlelittledream.blogspot.ru/2013/03/miniature-lilac.html It is due to these pretty lilacs (and the ones I've managed to create myself) I decided on the color of the whole future room - it would be different tons of lila))
Again, there's something wrong with colors on the poto. IRL the flowers look much more green and purple.

And here is a little scetch I've drawn to have an idea of how it all shall look like:
I hope to make more items this and the next week. I really wish I had more time :)

Thanks again for wisiting me :) Your comments are always much appreciated :)

Tiny sleepy. Not so tiny:)

Here she is, waiting for her wig. I've made the same mistake again and she has a very small forehead (and huge feet :)) But still she looks nice (though my daughter finds her scary :))) She'll be a red-head and surely be better with hair than without. She's very small and it's really hard to work on such a small scale for a doll. (I shall really try bigger dolls! However, I do not want to, because I don't see a doll just for the sake of making a doll - I like it in the environment and it shall be 1/12 or less. Dilemma.)

Yes, I know she doesn't look like picture I've shown, but that was rather general idea and not a pattern to make.

New project. Tiny sleepy.

That was a very rough week at work and I had no time and power to do anything. Today I finally had inspiration and I have started my new project: tiny sleepy.

Here's a picture from the web that I managed to find that a least displays something similar.
Behind this idea two main reasons:
1. I've bought instruments for clay and I'll test them on a doll
2. My husband made me a beautiful present: Dremel that can polish, cut, drill etc. I do not want to make something big at the very beggining, so creating a bed looks like a perfect way to start :)

Today I've made a head. It is slightly better then the one that was on my first doll but still I am somehow dissatisfied. May be the size is too small, but I wanted to stay near 1/12th range... It is very hard for me to get all the face features right. I still hope to polish it somehow. Maybe after painting and wigging it'll look better.
I have also tried another way to make eyes. The doll from bakery had painted eyes. This time I prebacked eyes' apples, painted them with acrylic paints and glossed with the varnish that allows high temperature. Perhaps that is totally wrong: Now I'll need to bake them into the doll already after they are painted. I am pretty sure that is not how acrylic paints shall be used. However, the eyes are so tiny that I have no opportunity to paint them under eyelids afterwards. Anyway, that's another doll for me (or my mom, since she really likes what I am doing now) so I'll have the chance to view the result at a long distance.
Ok, here she goes :)