A Little Light Rambling

  I haven't gotten much of anything done lately. The Giant Baby and I took turns having a bad cold. Then it was time to try to wean him off the antacids he's been on his entire life. We're supposed to try this every three months to see if he's grown out of reflux. He hasn't. Not only has he not grown out of it but the experience was so harrowing that right now as far as I'm concerned, he can take the antacids forever. Then, just as he was starting to seem more like his usual self, his Dad left him in a dirty nappy while I was at work and he got his first ever nappy rash and it was nasty. And he was miserable.
  All of this has made the Giant Baby uncharacteristically fussy and clingy. Even now I can't get him to nap in his cot. He will only nap in my arms, on the couch or in the car. Which limits what I can do at nap-time. I don't want to spread sewing stuff out and then have to madly scramble to put it away when he wakes up. Mostly because I'm pretty sure I'd miss something and he'd get hurt. I can't spread doll stuff all over the lounge room to take photos. Partly because turning enough lights on to take photos will wake him. Partly because if he wakes up, he will turn into a tornado of rage grabbing dolls and my camera and anything else he can reach.

Mega-Toddler! He'll hide the tv remote and then scream because you take too

long changing the channel.

  And he's turned into Mega-Toddler. Can't reach something? Screech. Can't find Mum? Screech. Don't want to do something? Screech. Want to do something? Screech. Every day he falls over or bumps into something at least once, gets told no, tries to do something he's not allowed to do or doesn't have the skills for yet or that isn't physically possible. And his response to all of these things at the moment is screaming. Which is super-fun.
  His Grandmother taught him to say please. I honestly had no idea he was old enough for manners. So now, if he wants something he shrieks "Ease!" in a voice that makes Elmo sound like Barry White. Even better, when he gets angry (usually because the first please didn't work) he'll keep yelling "please" but it sounds more and more like "arse" each time he says it until I start to wonder if he's going to turn into Father Jack Hackett from the tv show Father Ted. Although if I could teach him to say "drink", "girls", "feck", and "that would be an ecumenical matter." perhaps we'd have some kind of routine on our hands. The Giant Husband says this is not allowed.
  Meanwhile between the Giant Baby, housework, work-work, and everything else, by the time the Giant Baby goes to bed at night, I'm too tired to do more than scroll listlessly through my pinterest feed for five minutes before going to bed myself. So my projects have been temporarily put on hold.

  The dress for Not-Glinda in particular has hit a snag. The bodice is done. I need to make the skirt and attach it. Except I have no intention of hemming it by hand which is a problem. I can't use the sewing machine when the Giant Baby is sleeping because it wakes him. I can't use the sewing machine when the Giant Baby is awake. Because there is nowhere in the house that I can set up the sewing machine that he can't get to. . . actually since the doors in our house don't close properly, there's just nowhere he can't get to full stop. So it has to wait until there's a weekend when I'm not working and we don't have plans, when I can talk the Giant Husband into taking him somewhere, even the other end of the house would do.

  The Baby So Beautiful dolls are progressing. Slowly. I'm putting money aside for a new wig for the bald doll. I want screamingly red, wispy ponytails for her. I have a vague idea of what kind of clothes I want for her, but I want to see her finished with her new hair before I make my final decision. At the end of the day it will almost certainly be a simple, high waisted dress. I don't think I will try to make her clothes that disguise her injured hand after all and I think I'll go for something cute rather than something fashionable so it dates better.

  I recently bought a new play doll. A Shibajuku Girl doll. I want to write a review of her here because before I bought her the only reviews I could find of the line were Mum-blog reviews which more or less read "Amphetamine and Lobotomy received this doll for review. They both thought she was pretty. Amphetamine loves her long hair. Lobotomy hasn't stopped playing with the accessories since we opened the box. The end." Which is great but doesn't answer any of the questions I have. Like how is she different to other dolls? She's taller than other fashion dolls but is the extra height just her giant head? Can she wear other dolls clothes? What's her jointing like? What sort of quality are we talking about? How well made are her clothes? And most importantly do I like her? Strange as it may sound I don't know if I do or not. I'm intrigued. But I don't know what I think yet. Possibly because I haven't even had a chance to open the box yet. I have a few extra shifts at work this week, but if I survive that, the Giant Husband has promised to amuse the Giant Baby on the weekend so hopefully I can get that done then. And hem Not-Glinda's skirt.

And now back to the battlefield.

New doll! Tonner Deja Vu Anne De Toile

Not going to lie - I'm a little bit intimidated by how grown up she looks.

I'll bet her family never have to have toast for tea because

she forgot to defrost real food!

This is my first new doll in almost forever. . . nope, that's a lie. This is my first new ridiculously expensive doll in almost forever. Having a baby means that suddenly if you say "I'm going to buy a three hundred dollar doll.", instead of muttering "Whatever" and hoping you don't expect him to pretend to be interested, suddenly your husband laughs and laughs and laughs and laughs. And you laugh too because clearly it's a joke because the Giant Baby outgrows ALL of his clothes every twelve and a half minutes, so all your spare cash is spent on miniature clothing that doesn't even fit your dolls! (Seriously, the kid isn't even 18 months old yet and he's already wearing a kid's size 3!)

 But recently we got our tax refunds and made an agreement. He could buy a stupidly over-priced pair of gaming headphones, if I could buy a ridiculously expensive doll. And I surprised myself by immediately going to the Tonner website and ordering a Deja Vu doll. I've been fantasising for a couple of years now about how great it would be to have an Iplehouse BID or KID. I've been kicking myself for never buying a Bethany doll for my Helen Kish Chrysalis collection. But when I had the opportunity, I didn't hesitate. I ordered an Anne de Leger and even though it surprised me, I don't regret it one bit.

 When the Deja Vu dolls first appeared, I wasn't impressed. The storyline concept was kind of interesting but the dolls just didn't do it for me. (Also on the pages for each individual doll, Tonner used to have little paragraph long mini-stories. That seems to have vanished from the website and there are just extremely factual descriptions of the dolls.) Frankly, this face sculpt has always made me think of. . . a more inflatable kind of doll, if you get my meaning. I think it's supposed to look like the sort of face of a heroine on the cover of a romance novel. And while I can see that, the other thing is always my first thought.

Even now, most of the Deja Vu dolls, I feel pretty "Meh" about, but I really like the Anne de Leger character. Not her name so much, which I always misremember as Anne Legree, as in Simon Legree the villainous slave owner in Uncle Tom's Cabin. Probably not her story either (I think it was something about her suffocating because she locked herself in a trunk to surprise her lover, who never publicly acknowledged their relationship anyway) which makes her sound pretty dense and hopeless - but her clothes! Her lovely Georgian clothes. Afternoon Stroll and Countryside Visit are my absolute favourites but, oh well, I missed the boat on those ones. The one I have Anne De Toile was the only one available when I ordered mine.

 Anne took forever to get here, or maybe about ten days, time blurs, it's hard to tell. Waiting for the baby to go to sleep that day, so I could open her up was one of the hardest things I've done! This warning on the side of the box made me laugh.

With shipping and Paypal's crappy exchange rates, this doll cost me $350! You don't need to warn me!

If anyone under 14 tried to touch it, I would bite them!

(And if I was insane enough to give a $350 doll to a child, I would be too insane to read this!)

 Anne was covered with tissue, when I pulled it back, she looked like she'd had her neck broken.

Seeing this is what reminded me of the story of her locking herself in

a trunk, like a gigantic moron.

 Two little bits of card were on top of the tissue paper covering her. One is a little instruction card explaining how to remove her hands - because apparently not everyone has had an Ever After High or Monster High doll. The other is her certificate of authenticity which explains that she's an edition of 200 and a convention doll.

This will definitely be the first thing I lose!

 I have mixed feelings about this. Yay! I have an Anne doll! Yay! She's a special convention doll! And if you add in the amount it would cost to travel from Melbourne to America for a doll convention to the original cost of the convention and doll, there is no way I am ever going to be getting a convention doll from a convention. BUT I can't help feel, if I had gone to that convention, and bought a convention exclusive doll, I would be pretty annoyed if afterwards the same doll was made available to just everyone online. But it also makes me feel extra pleased with her.

Stuck to the inside of the box were three little plastic baggies.

The staple that held the hat in place, was through the hat, which made me swear, 

but I removed it carefully and I don't think you can tell.

 These held her shoes, earrings and hat. (Note - I realised after I took the photos for this that I've put the hat on the wrong side of her head. Don't care. Prefer it this way and keeping it this way.) 

For some reason I am a little disappointed by her shoes. I honestly don't know why, I just can't put my finger on it. But I still like them. Red shoes go with everything! Although I had a little trouble figuring out how to use the poly bands to hold them on.

The hat. . . well, the hat is a hat. I really don't know what else to say about it.

Then there are the earrings. I'm not a big fashion doll person. I don't really go in for grown-up dolls. And, I guess I'm not experienced with things like this. She's still not wearing her earrings. Because for the life of me, I cannot work out how to put them on! Yes, there's holes in her head. Yes, I would assume it was just like Barbie - stick the post in the hole and push. BUT when I try this they go in for about two millimetres then hit something inside the head. From the angle they're going in on, I'm pretty sure they're hitting the back of her ears and then I worry that if I try to force them, they'll end up sticking out the side of her head! Will, hopefully eventually work this out later, either jiggle them until they go in on a different angle or cut the posts shorter or something. Maybe.

On the upside with earring posts this long, if she ever became a spy or something

she could use these as shivs.

 I like her face more than I would have expected. Especially the fact that the facepaint is fairly neutral and muted. A doll with dramatic face paint is going to look out of place wearing a lot of things, but fairly neutral facepaint goes with almost everything. (And as I type this I'm realising something. I planned on displaying this doll. Just displaying her, not doing anything like redressing her. But so far in this post, I've pointed out that her shoes and facepaint will go with anything, which makes me suspect that part of my brain is planning something that it hasn't told me about.) My one quibble about her face is her eyelashes. Her incredible sky-high eyelashes. They reach right up to her eyebrows. But only in places. They're too long but they're also staggeringly uneven. Like a four year old cut them with a butter knife. I'm considering evening them out but I'm also considering how horrifically wrong that could go and wondering if I actually care that much.

Her left-eye in particular has very uneven lashes.

I'm also not hugely impressed by her hair. The colour is amazing but it's dry and producty and wiry and that bothers me. But I'm actually starting to realise I am incredibly fussy when it comes to doll hair and while I'm not in love with her hair, I can definitely live with it.

Anne in all her glory!

I don't think her dress is one of the more impressive Deja Vu dresses but it is lovely. I love these kinds of prints! There are lots of little ruffles and ruching (I love ruching!) and the lace is real, actual lace made from something other than scratchy, nylon mesh. Which is unusual to see anywhere these days. I love the tiny cameo! I love the sort of pompadour/bustle effect in the way the back is drawn up! I love the amount of detail that's gone into it! 

 I have two issues with this dress. The underskirt is an actual underskirt and goes all the way around (Yay!) but the back half of the underskirt (from the side seams back) is just cheap, white, lining fabric. I'm ok with that - makes the doll cheaper to produce and reduces bulk which can be a problem in layered outfits in small scales. What I'm not ok with is how far forward the lining fabric starts. The overskirt doesn't automatically cover all of the lining fabric. When you stand/pose her, you then have to fiddle around adjusting her overskirt so it covers the fake bit of underskirt.

Fake underskirt!

ANNNNND. . . still fake underskirt

This bothers me because it seems so lazy. If they'd made the patterned part of the underskirt just a couple of centimetres longer on each side, they could have avoided this altogether. I feel sure that at some point in the planning process someone must have brought this up and was probably told "Nah, don't worry about it, leave it." 

 But except for it making me feel a little grumpy and OCD, the underskirt/overskirt issue is really minor. Her sleeves on the other hand! I had a horrible time photographing this doll because I could not pose her arms! Seriously! Her sleeves end in gigantic frills, which have a layer of toile over a layer of stiffened tulle. The trouble with this was that if I posed her so her hands were pointing anywhere but down, she was attacked by the sleeve frills! It was like they'd become sentient and were out for revenge. And when I was done, I was so done with fighting her sleeves, that I kind of plonked her on a shelf rather than even trying to pose her nicely.

HELP! It's got my hand!

Who walks around with their hand like this anyway?!

 All in all, even though she's not perfect, I love this doll. While I have perhaps focused on her faults a tiny bit here, that's because her good points are so obvious to me that it doesn't occur to me to point them out. I'm starting to worry that she's going to move onto my way-to-long-list of dolls to make clothes for. . . actually maybe I could make a slightly more grown-up version of the dress I'm making for Glinda/Not Glinda for her. . .

And, as usual, some photo-spam to finish

Doll Collection Refresh Update - Patience and Baby So Beautiful

 I'm actually a little surprised about how much I've managed to get done.

 Starting with the Baby So Beautiful dolls - Cecily (the blonde one) is back on the shelf. I managed to convince myself to leave her hair alone so all she needed was a dust, a couple of grubby marks wiped off and her clothes washed. I didn't even bother to take any after pictures. She's no different. I did however take a couple of pictures of her locket while she wasn't wearing it.

These lockets came with all Baby So Beautiful dolls and were for the child to wear.

Kathryn (the brunette one) is a little more trying. Her clothes had yellowed a fair bit and it took a couple of washes and soakings to get them clean again. Her hair is a disaster. It seems that originally there was a rubber band around her little topknot ponytail and over the years it has decayed. About half of it was still around her ponytail, the rest was scattered through and stuck to her hair in fragments. I think I've gotten it all out now. Her curls are another issue. I had this happy delusion where I would comb her curls around my fingers and they would be like new and perfect and trouble free. . . no. Her curls got even more messed up while I was picking out the rubber band and are at the moment a frizzy mess. Currently she's waiting to have her hair washed and new curls put in.

The third doll, Kirralee, the dog attack victim has been given a good wash. So have her clothes. I cleaned the paint off her mouth. I wanted to use non-acetone nail polish remover (what I've always used in the past) but couldn't find any, so I used Isopropyl Alcohol. That was me being impatient because I really don't know if that's ok for using on vinyl. It's just what we happened to have in the house and actually did a good job of removing the paint (better than the nail polish remover would have) and since I washed it off straight after, I'm hoping it won't cause any problems later.
 It took ages for me to decide how I wanted to do her face. I didn't want to use acrylic paint - for reasons I won't go into here because this post would get way too long.  I decided to use pastels and possibly water colour pencils. I ideally wanted to use a spray on sealer but I'm pretty sure that would ruin her eyes. I toyed with the idea of cutting the shape of her lips out of a vinyl tablecloth or something, to make a mask so I could spray her face but it would only affect her lips. Ultimately I decided there were too many ways that could go wrong so I'm simply using a brush on, waterbased, craft sealant I happened to have around the house. I'm not sure this sealer is the right thing to use. In fact I have the same concerns about it as I do about acrylic paint, but it was the best option I had at the time.

Not finished yet. Going to take a few more layers yet.

Also the sealer was wet when I took this photo.

 I also tried scrubbing at the staining around her mouth with a magic eraser but I'm pretty sure that has soaked right into the vinyl and if I wanted to scrub enough to remove it I would have to scrub until vinyl was peeling. So I abandoned that and decided to pretend it was dribble rash. And I have absolutely no idea yet what I'm going to do about her hair and clothes in the end. At the moment I'm leaning towards dressing her in something I like and ignoring her mauled hand because I haven't yet come up with an idea for concealing it that I like.

Now, onto Patience. . . and just a warning, I am going to contradict myself several times between now and the end of this post. In fact I will probably sound like a crazy person by the time I'm done.

Wonderland Patience looks nervous about her new look.

 Alice-Patience (I try to just call her Alice, but in my head it's always hyphenated as Alice-Patience) is back on her shelf. Her clothes have been washed. Her hair has been washed and straightened. I could have straightened it more but it was sticking back in a slightly wild way that reminded me of the original Tenniel illustrations so I left it. I decided not to recurl it. Mostly because I don't like curling doll hair (not for fear of damage, it's just incredibly dull) and if something is going to happen even every five years that damages the curls so they need to be redone - ugh. Too high maintenance. It's not worth the effort. (Please forget I said that when I start talking about the other Patience.) I also discarded the idea of rewigging her because I am kind of in love with the colour of her hair. 

 Two sections of Alice-Patience's hair were tied back into little ponytails, then joined each other to make one small ponytail at the back of her head. I cut the threads securing these with nail scissors. I thought it would be easy but the threads were actually sewn to her head which made it more complicated, it also made her look a little bald in back but luckily that effect brushed out. I also had to cut off a lot of hair to get the length even. It was very uneven with it's factory cut. I am never cutting a Patience doll's hair again. Because her big, old, floppy, head just kept wobbling about which made me terrified of cutting at all, thinking if her head had moved there was no way I'd be able to get it even.

New headband!

 To finish her hair, she's got a headband I bought from Dollmore. I was just looking for a black Alice-band but when I saw this one I had to get it. The blue goes with her dress and the cat reminds me of the Cheshire Cat! The headband isn't quite long enough and little bits of her hair kept escaping, just above her ears, so under the headband there's a clear poly-band holding her hair in place.

Don't tell them all of my secrets!

 She also needed a new friend. For ages now Alice-Patience has been hanging out with the white rabbit that came with the large Alice in Wonderland Lalaloopsy doll. But the Giant Baby stole that a while ago, and now I have no idea where it is. So now she has a small Lalaloopsy of Dorothy Gale to play with and they seem to get along pretty well.

Dorothy's book is just weird!

The other Patience. . . Patience as Glinda or as I was calling her - Not-Glinda, is still a work in progress. She got a new name. I wanted to make a Georgian dress for her, so I decided to name her Georgette. . . except since I changed her name I'm constantly refering to her as Gilda. So perhaps her name is still a work in progress as well. Glinda/Georgette/Gilda is where I start to sound like a crazy person. I wanted to redress her because I found her original dress too pink and frilly and puffy. So I'm redressing her in a late-georgian gown of coral coloured silk, which I have to admit is quite pinkish and frilly and puffy! I'm not curling Alice's hair because curled doll hair is too high-maintenance. But at the moment I've washed the product and messy curls out of Glinda/Georgette/Gilda's hair and plan on recurling it neatly. It's almost as though this particular doll is encouraging me to do things completely out of character.

 Meanwhile, I think I said last time that both my Patience's have rooted hair. No they don't. Only Alice does. Glinda/Not Glinda is wigged. And once you wash the curls out her hair is down to her knees! At the moment I'm about halfway done on her dress. I suspect that the design I came up with is a little over-ambitious so I'm taking it slowly so I don't make any stupid mistakes. (Although another part of my brain is pretty sure that the design probably looks more complicated than it is - but that's the part of my brain that tends to make me make mistakes so I'm ignoring it.)

Sorry for poor quality!

Above is the design I'm working from, and yes, it is drawn in a child's colouring book; and no, I can almost guarantee that the finished dress will not look exactly like that.

 I've run out of things to say, so I'll finish with some Alice-Patience photo-spam.

Doll Collection Refresh - Baby So Beautiful

 You can be forgiven for not knowing what Baby So Beautiful dolls are. They were produced by Playmates for one year over 1995-1996. But they're one of my all time favourite play doll lines. Even when they came out, I was a teenager going through a "Dolls are not cool" phase. Even still, I dragged my best friend into a department store to check them out and we spent about an hour deciding which ones we'd want if we were little. As far as I know Baby So Beautiful were the original line. There was also Newborn Baby So Beautiful (which was smaller and younger) and Young Lady So Beautiful (who wore weird out of date ballgowns, up dos and fur stoles) but I'm pretty sure they both came later. Before I wrote this I tried to find more information about these dolls online, and was shocked to discover that there really wasn't any. I'm currently fighting the urge to buy every single one of these dolls that show up on ebay and build a database of faces, eye colours, hair styles and everything else. Unfortunately if I did that the Giant Husband would probably have me commited.

 Baby So Beautiful was a toddler doll with a similar concept to the original Cabbage Patch Kids in that there was an almost infinite variety of skin tones, face moulds and paint, eye colours, hair colours and styles, and outfits. This meant that no two dolls were exactly the same. Each doll came with a "Baby book" (a leaflet printed on magazine paper with spaced to record information about your doll) with "So Beautiful Firsts" printed on the cover, a pink plastic hairbrush, and an opalescent white plastic  "locket" on a gold coloured cord to keep a picture in. The tag-line was "The most beautiful baby in the world is your baby!" and like a lot of 1980s doll lines the pretence was that the child was adopting the doll.
 The dolls themselves are impressive for a play doll. The vinyl is good quality, with realistic inset acrylic eyes, and applied eyelashes. Their hair is lovely, not plasticy like most play dolls, and their outfits are detailed and well made. Two things really stand out to me though. The hair is wigged rather than rooted and the eyes are stationary - to me both these things are unusual in a play doll. But all in all, looking at these dolls now, I can only assume that they were discontinued because they were too well made and high production costs made them unprofitable. As far as I know all of the dolls produced were female.
 I have three of these dolls. Two were purchased at a toy shop in a small country town about ten years after they went out of production, the other is a rescue doll from a charity shop. I'm going to be working on these at the same time as my Patience dolls. Mostly because when I had a look at the rescue doll, she had the look of a doll in need of urgent care.

 Kathryn was my first Baby So Beautiful. And to me, she embodies everything that I remember about the line. This is the face that I remember the most, this is one of the few outfits I've seen more than once, this is the hairstyle I remember seeing. Her eyes are beautiful and clear, she has a cute ringletted hair style, and a sweet outfit. Hers is the best outfit of my three dolls. A pink blouse with lace trim to the collar and sleeves, a floral romper suit with lace frills across the backside, lace trimmed white anklet socks, delicate white shoes (with more lace) and a hair ribbon - surprisingly made of lace!

A sweet, little face

 She doesn't need much done for her. A quick dust, her clothes need a wash and she's lost a shoe. I'm pretty sure it's in a box of Barbie accessories in my wardrobe but haven't had a chance to look for it. Her hair is particularly dusty and her ringlets have loosened on one side. So maybe wash her hair (I hate washing doll hair) and try to fix up her curls.

Dusty, messy curls.

 Her shoes are the only thing about her that concerns me. They're that kind of fake leatherette stuff that's fabric with an incredibly thin vinyl layer over the top. It's horrible stuff. The vinyl always goes melty and peely or sticky and gross. The one shoe i currently have is discoloured and already starting to peel near her big toe. I want to clean it, but I don't want to make the damage worse or clean it with anything that's going to make it deteriorate faster than it already is. So, I'm kind of in two minds about whether I should touch it at all.

  Next is Cecily. Cecily has a different face mould, which I equally love and hate. From some angles her opened mouth expression makes her look slack-jawed and stupid, from other angles it's a look of wonder. I love the small dimple in her chin and her strangely high eyebrows. But I don't particularly like the colour of her face paint. It's too pink but also too dark, but I forgive it because it goes nicely with the colour of her outfit. She's the only one of my three dolls that still has her locket (none of my three still have their brushes or baby books.) but she used to have a headband which I can't find (and I'm pretty sure it's gone for good.) and it's possible she once had a blanket. I say possible because I know that I once had a pink doll's blanket bound in the same fabric as her dress. But I can't remember if it was her blanket or not.

Close up of Cecily's eyes.

  Cecily's dress is like a reject from the wardrobe of Little House on the Prairie. A pink on cream, floral, twill dress, with a double collar - one layer pink, one white; and bootees in the same fabric with bows on the front and white fuzzy pantaloons. Compared to Kathryn's outfit, this seems really lazy and a bit boring.

Cecily's dress in it's full boring glory.

 This doll's hair puzzles me a little. It looks at first glance as though it's in two plaits or pigtails, tied with ribbons. But when I looked at her more closely I saw short hairs sticking out all over her head. At first I panicked thinking her hair was somehow decaying and falling out. Then I realised she was still wearing her original hair net which comforted me a little, assuming if anything was decaying it was more likely to be the hair net. Having looked at her more closely now, I think it's actually not anything decaying. Rather it looks like her hairstyle is actually a short bob with one long strand hanging down on each side in a curl and the short pieces are the ends of the bobbed part.

 Untidy, sticky outy hair.

Faux pigtails

 Cecily needs a dust. Her clothes need a wash and she's somehow gotten a few grubby marks here and there that need cleaning off. I'm not touching her hair. If I'm right about her hairstyle, once the hairnet is taken off her hair will be impossible to keep nice.

The third doll, Kirralee is from a charity shop. At some point she has been the victim of a dog attack. The fingers of her left hand are gone, she has a small hole in one of her feet and very faint bite marks allover. When I got her she was bald and naked with no lip paint. At the moment she's dressed in an old My Child dress, her underpants, shoes and socks are stuff I happened to have lying around that fitted her. Her wig was stolen from a porcelain doll whose head was smashed. Her dress and her wig fit badly. The dress is too short. The wig is too big.

Kirralee's beautiful golden eyes and unfortunate mouth.

 But the biggest problem is her lips. I don't know what I used to paint them but it was wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. It's bleeding into her vinyl. The paint needs to be removed before it ruins her face. Hopefully I can remove some of the staining with a magic eraser but I'm not overly optimistic. Then she will need a new mouth.
 Other than that she could do with a good clean. She needs clothes that fit, if possible something that will conceal this. . .

A new wig would be amazing but that will depend on whether or not I can get the Giant Husband to agree to the expense, which probably means it won't be as nice as I would like. Or possibly something could be done to make her current wig fit better. Hopefully I can get her looking a bit better than she does at present.