#OOAK dolls

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I'm late to announce this here, but three button witches are being given away this month on my patreon through a "name to win" event! (LINK)

All current & new $6 "jester jackpot" patrons can suggest up to two names per doll for a chance to take one home - I ship worldwide from Ireland, at no extra cost (deadline to enter is January 30th)

[bloodvampyr]

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[wtfrepaints]

So I'm gonna make a list of people who are pretty good resources on learning new things for taking care of and customizing dolls here. Please feel free to send me recommendations.

Great glue seepage infographic made by MisfitDollies on here! It includes a tutorial on taking care of it with goo gone specifically but I have been hearing people are getting better results with oxyclean lately.

Doll hair care/styling/rerooting:

Peace love and plastic

PLANET HIMM

ZombiexCorn

Rodney Rainbow

Draculijah

Minor alterations and crafting:

My Froggy Stuff

Delightful Dolls

Adult Doll Collector

Repainting and Full Alterations:

Of Crafts and Curios

Dollightful

Poppen Atelier

hisnameisAkin

[ponderousorb]

My Lies of P Puppet-Style dolls are complete!:

[anyaboz]

Spice Shukat Room Guardian

They go live in my shop this Sunday 11/12 at 12pm EST.

The Spice Shukat has a rose quartz crystal heart. It stands about 10 inches tall and it has a coat of high quality faux fur that is very soft. The head and feet are cast in resin from an original sculpt. The hands are sculpted out of a flexible clay that does not break when bent. The neck, legs, and tail have a fully posable plastic ball and socket armature inside that will not wear out over time. The arms have a posable wire armature inside.

See how they were made in my Patreon.

[satancopilotsmytardis]

I haven't named her yet, but my new doll custom based on an inkcap mushroom!

I think I may reinforce her body harness with some extra fabric glue, but after that, she'll be ready to go to a new home!

[drmistytang]

This Disney Descendants doll was in need of a new head! And what better head than a freshly hand painted pumpkin? Additionally, we got extra creative and dyed his body a rich brown to further evoke the feeling of fall. This Fall Gentleman comes with: burlap hat with fall leaf trim, sensible coat with fall leaf trim, yellow check shirt, brown check pants with fall leaf suspenders, burlap bag with flower details, fall leaf staff with glitter and twine details, boots, and the doll himself! His body is FULLY articulated, and this gentleman also has the exciting feature of being able to turn his head!

https://www.etsy.com/listing/1777106048/ooak-rescue-doll-the-fall-gentleman

[emmabirb8]

Behold! My custom doll tribute to the legendary mysterious untamable force known as *looks at smudged writing on hand* Johann Vasculitis? … Oops, uhh, I mean, Jhonen Vasquez! 😜😆

It's Mini Jhonen! Or perhaps Mini Vee?? Y’know, instead of “mini me?” 

I had a blast at Animate Des Moines this past weekend, and I was SO HAPPY the legendary elusive Jhonen Vasquez graced Iowa with his presence so I could have the opportunity to present him with this doll. I was ecstatic when he enthusiastically accepted it as the gift I intended it to be. 🤩🥰💖

This project started out as a long-haired “signature looks” Ken doll that I transformed into Jhonen with a full face repaint, cut and styled hair, and an outfit that looks like something he’d wear. (Not based on anything specific, just my attempt to fit his general style & aesthetic.) The clothes had to be bought from Etsy since I unfortunately don't have a sewing machine. Shoutout to Bouutique for the pants and to CraftsDepot2017 on Etsy for the shirt!

All accessories (minus the glasses), including the Question Sleep felt bag, mini Zim felt plush, and mini JTHM comic book were made by yours truly. Felt stuff was largely sewed together with needle and thread, and mini Johnny was simply resized printed sheets from the Director's Cut edition that I fixed to sturdier paper and cobbled together into a functioning tiny book. :P Please feel free to ask me any questions about my processes for any handcrafted work you see here!

This was the opportunity of a LIFETIME for me, and I'm so glad the stars aligned just right for me to experience something so amazing. I'm still reeling!!! 🤩🤩🤩

(My full post about the convention itself can be found here!)

Please enjoy! 😊

[gaykanani]

september 30th: orange shirt day / nation day of truth & reconciliation

to honour & remember the victims of indian residential schools

[mmdisney200]

It’s you and me, that’s my whole world ✨ Oh hi! Here is my one of a kind 17” custom Taylor doll inspired by the iconic eras tour 💖

- I’m so proud of how the outfit turned out (I was scared for a min) It was so much fun to bejewel this, after that I just want to put rhinestones on everything. Thank you to @sorrygottasew for sewing the bodysuit for me 🙏🏽

-I used the Aurora doll as a base cuz TS always reminds me of her. The amazing @monsterstoystudio did a gorgeous job with her face 🫶I wanted it to look like Taylor but also cartoony.

[thedolldoctor]

A brand new pair of 27” book dolls! These will be staying with me, but I do have a larger 30” book pair, as well as a 15” pair on my Etsy shop!

[slocotion]

September's "name to win" contest is live over on my patreon, this month with two prize dolls ✨️

All current & new $6 "jester jackpot" patrons can suggest up to two names per doll for a chance to take one home (I ship worldwide from Ireland, at no extra cost), deadline to enter is Sept 29th 23:00 GMT+1

Instagram / Patreon

[zesty-goblin-trash]

Ayeoo, finally working on my doll again. Small victory for me because my mental state has been chaotic to say the least.

I don't remember what, if anything, I've shared on my current goblin-self doll? Actually I can save this as a draft easily, lemme go check.

Oh g's like nothing. Okay. Welp, grab a snack cause I'm about to overexplain everything up to this point!

Right, so I made a custom Monster High doll a while back and for my first ever attempt at it, she turned put pretty good. Especially since she was meant to just be a practice piece for stuff as I was working on another doll along side it to be my first. Never finished that doll, but I think I have to high of expectations for it compared to my skill level right now.

Jump forward to G3 Monster High being released, and I decided to remake my test-doll-turned-goblin-self with a G3 Draculaura body because it much more accurately represents my body style. I got all the way to having the body painted, my own tattoos added, and various scars and marks detailed. And honestly, I was pretty happy with the result! Here's some photos of that;

Love the colors, and I was happy enough with what I'd done to keep moving, except for the face. It was driving me crazy that I could still see the line where I added the Apoxie Sculpt to the jaw so clearly, despite it being sanded as smooth as I could get it. So I wiped her head and was going to try again. Not sure what my plan was, to be honest, but she got shoved to the corner of the desk for a good while.

I ended up finding another G3 core Draculaura at Value Village in one of their hanging bagged toys, and for $8 bucks with all her accessories I couldn't pass it up. At the time I didn't plan on it, but ended up deciding to start over completely on v2 of my goblin-self using this doll. The core dolls have an articulated chest, unlike the budget dolls (Day Out which I was using, the 2 that came with the car from Costco, ect.), and there were a couple of things I think I could have done better on the body when it came to the joints.

Jumping forward I did all the prep work on the new doll, sanding everything to remove mold lines and smooth it all nice, removed the face up and hair, yadah yadah yadah. I then attempted to dye the new body with some Rit dye and whatever brand it is that's sold at Dollar Tree, knowing it wasn't going to take correctly because the Rit wasn't for synthetics. I was really only hoping to dye the joints darker, because if you've ever seen or customized your own dolls, body repaints rarely stay painted at the joints. It's kinda inevitable if your doll moves at all. I just wanted to reduce the jarring difference between OG light pink skin and the new green skin.

It sort of worked, the teal Rit did nothing (as I expected), but the red-orange Dollar Tree stuff dyed her a bit. I didn't do her head at all since this was just meant to darken the parts that'd be rubbing together.

If all the different plastics on the body would take dye the same way this would have been a cute color honestly 😂

Skintone differences aside, it did darken down the plastic used for the wrist and elbow joints, which was my main goal. But I had another idea I wanted to try as you may have noticed in the image background. Alcohol inks! I wouldn't recommend. At least not directly from the bottle dripped into the joint.

The high concentration of alcohol in the inks very quickly made the vinyl of the lower arms get gummy. It's the same reason you don't want to use acetone on the bodies of dolls basically, it just destroys the plastics a bit too much. The pigment did start to take to the plastic, but with how quickly I had to blot it back off to stop the plastic from melting it just didn't have enough time to stay. However it did make me think of another way to essentially stain the joints. I think the same could possibly be done with a brush and alcohol inks directly maybe? But my hubs has Prismacolor Alcohol based markers so I switched gears to bring those.

And yea! A very good option! At this point I'd already washed and resanded the body to remove the outer layers of the dye from the hard plastic parts so in that image she's pretty light again. It takes extremely well to the hard plastic parts and because the concentration of alcohol is much lower it doesn't make the vinyl arms feel sticky like the inks did. I have a video of the joints moving I'm going to upload on its own after. Cause I really think this might be a viable way to help reduce the obviousness of joints in skintone changes, and I don't want it buried in my nonsense 😂

I ended up coloring the whole body with the marker, not just the joints. The hard plastic took the pigment so well that if the paint does end up scraping off anywhere it was worth it to have the marker color underneath everything. I know that spots like the knees and the butt were getting scrape marks on the first repaint just from posing, so hopefully this helps those spots look good well after I'm finished the doll!

At this point I've now gotten the body all prepped and ready to paint with the new skintone. Sanded, dyed, MSC'd, and waiting! I started working on the new head while I was figuring out the dye situation.

I wasn't planning on making this a multiple post thing (other than the video) but I think I'ma split it up here! I'm still going to type out the next post now but I'll schedule it for later 😂 Because unlike Insta, I can do that and not have to remember to come back and actually make the post later.

And thanks if you've read this far ☺️ I apreaciate the interest! See you in the next one!

[amethysia]

First day of Fall picnic~

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I have been collecting a lot of mini foods for these two, lol. Re-ment is a great size for them and I hope the Make It minis I've bought are also good! I want to get a uv light for nails or something to set the resin they come with properly though. I also bought a super cute toy refrigerator for them! And one day I will get them furniture and make a Home dollhouse~

And Julie needs more clothes! xD I'll get around to it eventually! \;w;/

[so-i-grudgingly-joined-this-site]

Finally got a shelf that can fit these four together! I hope to add another near it to fit the rest of The Endless when I get around to making them.

Unfortunately, Delirium's custom-made stand broke (and wouldn't fit on this shelf anyways), so she just gets to hang out with the Yellow Submarine for now. I switch out Morpheus's outfits between his different looks every so often.