New dollies

Some new dollies came over the Christmas season :) 

Proper introduction coming soon 

Merry Christmas

whising all my readers a very merry Christmas and a happy new year . 

More fun posts in 2016 :) 

gallery update

i have updated the gallery section of my blog, yay 

lots of pretty pictures to look at :)

also i have added a new page: my dolls !

irwin toys sailor moon find :)

a couple of months back my mum and i found a full set of irwin toys sailor moon dolls at a yard sale/car boot 

;o

i was so shocked and excited to find such rare dolls for such a great price.

 here they are, in pretty good condition for 10+ year old dolls. They still had all their earrings,tiaras and chokers which is amazing. The only accessories that are missing are sailor Venus's bow and shoes and all of the gloves (excluding sailor mars' gloves).

 as you can see here the absence of a missing bow.

 their hair was a mess total disaster, look at sailor mars for an prime example of bed hair  >-<

 here you can see sailor Venus's missing shoes  

 a nasty pink mark on Jupiter's leg. : {

 and a small mark on mars's ankle/

 here is a closer look at the gloves.

now to restore them :)

 top:after

bottom:before

now they look much better. for reference i removed the marks with acetone(thoroughly rinsing afterwards) and gave the girls hair a good brush and boil wash. i will eventually get round to making some gloves for them but that's a project for another day ! 

happy national zelfs day !

Today is national zelfs day, hooray. 

This gives a collectors a chance to find out more about their favorite zelfs and help new people discover the zelfs! There will be tons of fun activities going on to today including giveaways :) So check out the national zelfs day website for more info.

How will you celebrate? go zelf hunting, open up some new zelfs,reorganize your collection?

To help celebrate here on my blog I'm going to post a zelfs photo gallery of the photos i have taken over time. I have collected zelfs since the very start :) and as a result have more than a few.

here you go:

why not take a look at some of my other zelf related posts?

happy zelfs day :) 

Contest entry for requiem arts back to school competition :)

Hello again dear readers,

Today I'm posting about my entry for requiem arts back to school doll contest :) 

This is my pullip doll Alice, I have been unhappy about her wig and clothing for a while and as a result I didn't play with her as much as I would like. :( 

 

When I saw Requiem arts contest it gave me the motivation to get started. 

I really needed a new wig so I thought to make my own, I went for a pullip papain style of wig.

Firstly I made my own wig fibre by brushing out some wool/yarn

It took about 2 hours.

Then I spent a good while removing all tangles from my wig fibre.

Next was the wig cap first I carefully cut up a sock and sewed it together this took. About 30 minutes. Once I had my wig cap made I wrapped my doll in plastic put the wig cap on and began to apply the wig fibre with glue. 1 hour 30 minutes later I had a wig :) 

 Whilst that was drying I set to work on her outfit.

I made a little jumper dress from a sock and then proceeded to sew tiny cute little pom-poms on it.

This took me another hour and a half.

 And then she was done :)  

I'm so happy with how it came out and Alice gets played with a lot more as a result of this.

Here is the before and after shots :

 My photography has improved a lot since the first photo so please excuse the before shot :) 

Before 

After 

toy haul :) in the USA

a few weeks ago i went to the USA on holiday :)

there i was able to find toys that i couldn't find /were very expensive in my home town.

here is my haul and a peek at the items i brought home !

some of these toys will be reviewed here on the blog :) 

here goes :)

 group shot

 while at toys r us times square i was lucky enough to find an ultra rare zelf i couldn't believe my eyes when i saw her on the shelf :) her name is pearleen and she is an angelic mermaid zelf, too cool .

i also got  royal P  the peacock zelf too :) 

 i was also over joyed to find these tiny monster high mega bloks figures :) they are so tiny and adorable i just had to pick up the whole collection ;}

 i got these little studio pets figures on sale for $2 at claires accessories and thought they would make brilliant pets for my dolls :)

on to the my little ponies !

 i got four really cheap ponies from walmart to customize, how they shall be customized is a secret... 

at least for now ;) 

 i got a lyra heartstrings and a  toys r us exclusive rainbow dash as i have wanted these figures for a while but was unable to find them  in my home country. 

 i also got a cupcake keepsake derpy hooves figure as it was adorable and derpy is my favorite pony :)

 these funko pop figures of my favorite comic book/disney

 characters were too adorable to resist :) ...

 as was this sailor moon figure 

 i got these disney dolls on a crazy clearancedeal for just $5 each :) which was awesome as i have wanted some of these charcters for a while .

 i got a gorgeous make it mine doll from the mim website :)

 the 17" monster high doll goolipe jellington, who is absolutely amazing, was brought for me by my aunt (thank you if you are reading ) 

i also got this rilakumma plush and an adorable Artemis plush from sailor moon :) 

so that wraps up  my haul look out for a new post about my trip up soon :)

updates

hello again readers :) 

i have recently returned from a holiday in the United States, New York and New Jersey to be exact, which obviously was very exciting for me but should also be exciting for this blog and it's readers. This is because I will write special posts relating to my trip and have managed to obtain toys to review which i have not been able to do so at home. 

new posts up soon :) 

and a little pic to tide you over:

Awesomeness at never grow up toy blog

Check out this amazing toy blog celebrating its 5 th anniversary and a giveaway Here :)

Monster high custom frankie stein :)

recently i have been working on a custom monster high doll. i used ghoul spirit Frankie stein doll as my base.  her face up is done using airbrush paint, acrylics and chalk pastels. her hair is fully re rooted in nylon and hand curled. i went for a sweet lolita dolly look and think she came out adorable :) 

after 

before 

here is a short photo shoot of her:

the dress is handmade my me !

here are the shoes ! repainted too :) 

i need to think of a name for this sweetie post any suggestions in the comments box !