Astoria Trio

I knew it was going to be tricky taking pictures of the black dresses but convinced myself I could do it. After a full hour taking pictures and trying to edit them, I'm not so sure.

I have taken some full length shots and the dresses show up quite well, but the faces came out to bright. Get the faces right and the dresses are to dark to see all the detail. I'm not so easily defeated so I'm going to give it another go to see if I can get some better shots.

Here are some close up head shots of my three ladys, which came out fine.

Remember to click on the pictures to get a biger view.

Astoria Trio - Black Dress

I'm on to my "Little Black Dress" doll.

I added polymer clay to build up a figure for a tight fitting dress. I used one of Dana's patterns, altered slightly and some old blouse fabric reversed for the dress (too shiney on the right side). It was very difficult trying to get a tight fitting dress without glue showing. I finally finished off the side seams with a piece of very narrow ribbon to hide the last bit of glue that I couldn't remove.

Still trying to think what to do with her hair. I want to keep the goth look but do something different from the other two.

Now where are the finished doll pictures? I hear you asking. As soon as I finish up the last of the trio, I will take some pictures.

Astoria Trio - Fantasy

I finished my bride and now on to the second doll for the minidolllist Grand Astoria Hotel Project ( http://www.minidolllist.com/ ).

This is my fantasy doll, again I'm doing a Gothic style - this one will be modern meets Georgian, well sort of! She just has a few finishing touches and then I can take some pics.

Astoria Trio - Bride

This is my first Astoria doll for the for the minidolllist Grand Astoria Hotel Project ( http://www.minidolllist.com/ ).

I need to create a bride/wedding doll, a fantasy doll and a "Little Black Dress" doll. I also decided to add the additional theme of GOTHIC to my series of dolls (no surprise there).

This doll is being turned in the wedding doll. I have almost finished her, just need to drape her dress and make a bouquet of flowers. Of course she isnt dressed in white.

"Muffin Dolls?"

My first post - finally got around to it.

I made a start on some 1/24th scale dolls, dolls.

I was thinking of calling them "Muffin Dolls" due to their muffin shaped heads but will have to check I'm not copyrighting any names there. I will start dressing them once I have finished the 3 Astoria Dolls.

Also in the picture are a pair of 1/48th scale dolls with the same muffin style head. If they look OK when they are dressed, I will make some more.