#american girl custom

[honeycombdolls]

My beloved Jackie!

She is my Creole baby from Louisiana. All my dolls get a small piece of me in their lore and Jackie gets the tiny piece I left somewhere in the Bayou when I moved out. She speaks French and ASL (and some English after she went to college)

Jackie is a customized 26 with a light faceup (freckles and blush) and a discontinued zazoudolls wig. the necklaces are all from @/allldolledup on Instagram (middle 2 were custom made for Jackie!). the belt is a necklace from the 80s. all the clothes are handmade but I got them secondhand so I do not know the artist. :( shoes are the original Kit meet shoes.

[sailor-rose-princess]

Sewn a new dress for Ellie, found this cute South Park print fabric. It's the first time I learned how to sew puffed sleeves like this, and they look darling! I also found out that the South Park movie will be having special screenings in June for the 25th anniversary (and it's a sing-along version lol), so Ellie is coming with me to that (she's the one kid who's allowed to watch stuff with swears lol).

[gluevah]

A kind redditor gave me a Josefina doll, in super rough condition, for just the cost of shipping c: They got her along with a couple other dolls that they planned to fix up and donate to children, but poor Josie was in quite a state, and was offered as a freebie to anyone who might want to send her to the doll hospital. I asked for her because I wanted to try and fix her myself! She was so much fun to fix up! The last photo is how she came to me.

Her leg had come off, because the tension cup cracked. I took off her other limbs, removed her original wig because it looked like there was missing hair under all that matting, cleaned her limbs and her body and face, put her back together again, and rewigged her. I think the short, wavy hair really suits her! It was between the short hair, and a super long, thick wig which also looked really pretty on her but I ended up preferring the short. Now I want to find another doll for the long wig 😁

I might rename this doll Azucena, because she's not quite a Josefina anymore. I'd love other name suggestions though!

[ashleyloob]

I randomly got dragged to Mormon church and met the illustrator for A Series of Unfortunate Events who is apparently a bishop at the church, and now we are Instagram mutuals. today was so bizarre

[duckgens]

I have finished charlotte sweetly doll she turned out so pretty🥺🥺🥺

[kavikasharma]

"Some day I'll wish upon a star / And wake up where the clouds are far behind me / Where troubles melt like lemon drops / Away above the chimney tops / that's where you'll find me"

[historicalfictionsims]

Josefina's Fringe Shoes - BGC

This pair of beige lace-up boots with fringe on top were sold as part of Josefina's extra shoes and socks set. They were also modeled with her party outfit.

Comes in the Wood Tones palette.

Unisex child and toddler versions.

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[shesmyscar]

today i bring you the custom lisa swallows and creature dolls i’ve been working on for the past month. tomorrow????

[meltycatdolls]

doll customization Q:

can you put an our generation doll's head on an american girl doll body?

answer:

yes!

how it works:

OG doll heads are held on with a ziptie and a couple of stitches at the base of the neck!! i forgot to take photos of quinn (OG aubrie)’s head while i was removing it from the OG body, but the ziptie fits into the little groove at the bottom of the neck (pictured in the first photo). i cut the stitch at the back of the OG body's neck, then had to cut into the fabric around it to expose the ziptie. you could probably repair this if you wanted to reuse the body for another project. it's a little difficult, but once you expose the ziptie, you can carefully work a pair of scissors under the it in the groove, then snip and remove it!

AG doll heads have a larger base that helps the heads stay on with string! so when you attach the OG head, you'll want to pull the string tighter than you would for an AG doll, since OG heads rely on the groove to keep heads in place.

why do this?

OG dolls IMO have some very pretty sculpts and hair, and they’re cheaper! i really fell in love with quinn when i saw her at target. but i’m not crazy about OG bodies- they’re lighter weight and not as posable, and i had an extra AG doll body hanging around from an old project! plus, i couldn’t find online where anyone had done this, and i was curious if it would work.

i think the doll body i used was from a rebecca doll, which was a good skintone match for quinn! the head is a little looser than an AG head, which i kind of dig because it opens up possibilities for more realistic posing, like a slight head tilt. added a slight faceup of extra lashes, thicker brows, and additional freckles, and she's really a beautiful doll that i’m excited to display alongside my AG girls!

[coconutlicorice]

Actually the cutest custom I’ve ever made, I think?

[shakespearefreak]

So I'm currently reading the second Kaya mystery, The Ghost Wind Stallion. I'm not very far yet (no Spoilers, please!), but I love how much it focuses on Speaking Rain, and it got me thinking again about Speaking Rain customs.

I've always seen people use the Kaya face mold for Speaking Rain. That makes sense, because Kaya's is the only female mold with a closed mouth; but still, I don't like the idea of them looking exactly the same except the eyes. Recently on Marketplace, I saw a custom for sale where the artist had used something to fill in the lips of a doll, hiding the teeth (I think the intent was to make the lips fuller, and the teeth were just a side effect). Anyways, I thought the Nanea mold, with her narrow face and wide eyes, would be perfect for Speaking Rain if someone did that. I started out just daydreaming, but then I was so enchanted with the idea that I ended up spending far, FAR too long making this edit (it's currently 7:43 am local time and I haven't slept yet). Anyways, I think she is gorgeous and now someday (probably years in the future, but someday) when I have the money, I'm going to commission someone to create her for real.

[sailor-rose-princess]

My collection of dolls so far. I think now I have enough to call a collection, my childhood self would be so happy lol. And I won't be stopping there!

(from left to right, Cyborg Noodle, aka Cy, Celestina Damon, Colleen (still thinking of a last name), Kami Thomas (and mini Samantha), Ellie Fitzel, Lindsey Bergman, and Samantha Parkington)

[agrosehamada]

My custom Nimona is finally complete!!!

Everything but the boots and belt made by me, I even cut/styled the wig!

One of my more ambitious projects but I'm really proud of how it turned out!

[talkethtothehandeth]

I love seeing american girl dolls with wheelchairs, with hearing aids, with diabetic kits, with guide canes, with service dogs, with crutches, with allergy and asthma kits, with braces and hospital bands and gowns.

I love seeing disabled and chronically ill dolls

[duckgens]

I was recently commissioned for an off bway jane doll. didn’t have much time with her, so I took a ton of ship pics about it LOL

[midsummerdolls]

I set up a corner with a good photo backdrop and felt that everyone deserved new portraits that are fun and visually interesting.