NYW Creations

While I'm waiting for my new grand baby to arrive ( any day now ), all of my supplies are packed away. So today my 5 year old grand daughter helped to make a project with only what we could find around the house. Paint. Tape. Box from ice cream sandwiches. A button and some stickers. Not bad for a first try. She loves it; and has proudly placed it her 'village' of store bought houses of different sizes. She said it's an ice cream shop; since the printed part of the is now on the inside.  So cute.:-)  Sorry no pics of the village-what little girl's room is clean when you need for it to be*.*

2 MOXIE girlz; $2.99 w/accessories and $1.99 in pj's  I already packed all of my other fashion projects to get ready for my big move; which as it turns out won't be as "big" as I thought. So I needed a thrift fix, and there they were-cute as could be-waiting for me. I'll pack them away for now, but it was $5 well spent. Hey it ain't crack or fast food:-) HAVE A GREAT SUMMER all of this and 2 pairs of shades. I think it's part of a boutique or salon set up-nice stuff both have the same face, and both have their feet, that never happens.

First try: repainted eyes and lips Felt hat and matching purse    

The blog mentioned below does have a lot of other works featuring the Artist Huxley King, I just focused on the paper dolls:-) Thanks.

http://www.huxleyking.com/huxlux-magnetic-paper-dolls/ I found these on a blog that appears to not have been active since 2009, but these are for magnetic paper-dolls. This image just really struck me for it's strength, and character in the faces and the poses. This artist hand drew this. So much talent. I like it so much, I don't even mind the "underwear"-they came a sheet of magnetic clothing according to the blogger. COOL. If I could learn to repaint/restyle fashion dolls like this, that would be awesome. We all must find our own style, for this diversity I am very thankful , since I am no artist; but there might just be room for my folksy style,w/ a bit of this type of flavor-flava:-) Thought I would share-Be happy*.*

There were alot of DORA items and these BARBIE doll outfits from 2002 celebrating different cultures-I picked Egypt-, but it's not close enough to payday for a splurge:-) The TM close to me rarely has anything good, doll related or otherwise, so I'm glad I popped in on my way home from work. On Friday, I hope they still have an assortment of outfits-the one for Canada has a pink fur coat...but none of them came w/shoes.   LIV is too small for the outfit, but her head is too big for the crown. she is wearing her new wig-it's windy outside. these must have been marketed overseas, and this one was imported from Barcelona, Spain. The inside cover sheet is actually a book about Egypt, like a tour, guided by various nationalities of Barbie dolls. The packages were dusty so it's not too hard to believe that these may have been sitting in a warehouse somewhere for the last 10 years.

LIV Doll wigs. a two pack in blond and pink, and a long brown wig w/ beads and accessories. More pictures to follow soon.

Decided to take a little inventory. 20 in total, not bad for 2 months. Now to figure out what I'm doing, but I'm having fun finding out. It's the thrill of the hunt. Good thing I don't have much surplus money or this could get dangerous:-) includes Orange Blossom-new a 20 year old G.I. Joe- held together w/duct tape that belonged to my son who is now 25 . don't know how he ended up in my stuff, but you know Joe, he's resourceful:-) my new cutie black man, wearing a long black coat that looks like a robe. My second try didn't go so well. Neither did my closet. The scale is off. the rest are thrift store finds, waiting for their lives to begin.. and hopefully they will get to wear some clothes*.*

felt jacket-to test out the sizing on my alterations. recycled blue jeans-my own easy pattern to include side seams white sweater-recycled sock fleece  scar f

I have been sewing since I was a child; Countless generations of skilled tailors, quilters and seamstresses. I just consider myself a quilter and a crafter and clothing construction has never been my strong suit-just ask my kids who have all at one time or another worn "home sewn" clothing of my creation. So when I re-discovered the world of fashion dolls, it seems that they have all been discovered w/o any clothes on. So making clothing is now my mission. Especially for the males...dresses are easy...jackets etc, even for a doll take a little more thought. So i went on the hunt for patterns and they seem to be a rarer breed that a black ken in a retail store:-) These are 3 of the books I have come up w/so far... This one was published in 1972 at the genesis of "Barbie Fever". And the author made a point of stating that she intentionally omitted patterns for that doll, since so much was available at that time. The male patterns wer...

Hazel eyed LIV doll-Alexis. She has tan skin and  dark brown painted on hair. Her makeup is pale pink, painted lashes.

Yea...welcome "Hey It's Muff" . You're blog is awesome. And on another tip- I have had 1515 views of my my blog. It's exciting-I don't get out much :-)

Just arrived at the party... after a few:-) and why I've been hanging on to random beads and broken jewelry for 20 years. This such a small sample of what's lurking in boxes and bags, and nooks and crannies:-)

3 babies and a crib and... 2 pair of black boots-awesome!!!

I was going to go on-line to buy him, but happened to go into Toys R' Us on friday...just in time for this 2 daysale. YEA!!!

I finally saw "my moxie" in the store. Now I get it...she's a teenz, and the one I always see in   walmart  is the "girlz". After I compared them they do look like pre-teens. So mystery solved, for good:-) Thank you for all the input, it really is a wide undiscovered playground out there, and I'm ready for some fun.

This one is my favorite. She's about 14 in. tall. She has full eyelashes and is articulated at the chest, but not at the waist. She's bald, but she is not a "LIV" doll, since there is no hole in her head, but I'm just assuming she did come w/a wig at some point. I love her bald; however I own enough weave hair to make several wigs at some time in the future*.*  When I did a "google" search for her, I found so many that looked similar, but she seems closest to the original "MOXIE" doll. I guess she was taller when they first were introduced, where now they look like younger teens.-I don't own one for comparison-sorry. So if you know who she is, please leave me a comment, thanks.

I have all kinds of ideas for these, but I'm working on a quilt, that should have been finished a while ago-first things first:-)

She looks like a bridesmaid or maybe part of the wedding party. There's a story in there somewhere:-) Still working on the hair. I hate to glue in hair, but I really don't want to take her head off to re-root such a small amount of hair. We'll see*.*