Contest Winners 2099

This is a fairly new hobby for me. For years I've been seeing One of a Kind Dolls on Ebay and wondered how in the heck people make these awesome dolls. There are many book Character Dolls I'd love to have, but they are so freaking expensive!

Then in August I was searching the web to find cheap doll clothes patterns to make my daughters doll clothes and came upon several One of a Kind Doll tutorials and help forums.

I joined one and spent hours reading about how to do a doll of my own. I have make figurines out of clay and painted pictures of people so it didn't seem that hard to remove the factory paint of a Barbie or Tonner Doll and repaint them. All I really needed to know was what materials were needed and well, I kind of needed to learn how to sew if I was going to make some outfits. In this blog I plan to take you on my adventures in making One of a Kind Dolls!

One of the forums I joined (and the best I think) is the Legends by Valkyrie site. She makes awesome dolls. On her forum she also has a contest. I entered her contest for this year and won 1st place for Beginners in both the Face and Hair catagory and the Total Make over catagory. I am beside myself with excitment. I love to create and this is the first time I've been publically recognized for one of my Art Projects.

Above is a Tonner Tyler from 2000 to the left is her after her Makeover. She won first place in the Beginners Face and Hair catagory. I am still learning this form of art

The second entry I did was for the full Make over catagory. She's a basic Mattel Barbie doll. This is her after my makeover. Almost everything in this picture is hand made, her outfit, broom table decor and were all designed and created by me.