Princess Rowena (a Photoshoot)

Happy Saint Patrick's Day everyone! :D 

To celebrate I thought I would post a photo shoot that I had been saving of Rowena: 

I like this angle. 

I like how this photo turned out. I actually didn't edit it at all. 

I like the way this one turned out. 

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Which photo is your favorite?

-Quinley 

Custom Doll Project: Titania

Hello everyone.
I thought I would share another custom doll project, which I finished.
In this doll project I didn't use a reference for how the character looks, though there have been multiple versions of the character, Titania, from Shakespeare.
I decided I would do my version of Titania instead of someone else's.
So let's begin:

This doll always reminded me of Titania, so I thought 

I would turn her into Titania, with a little repainting. 

(But with no nail polish remover, I have not yet figured out 

how to safely use it on a doll without accidentally removing a layer of plastic.

So if anyone has done this successfully on one of their dolls, I would love to hear about it

in the comments.) 

The first thing I did was paint over her lips, 

and make them redder. 

And then I took a gold paint marker, and began dabbing gold 

spots underneath her eyes. 

The next thing I did was to paint a crown onto her head, 

which was inspired Boudica. 

And took a white paint marker and covered over her existing irises. 

And then started making my own, which were in a different place 

than the original. 

Then I took a green paint marker which was more vibrant than her original eye color

and began painting it over. 

I then added in red parts at the corners of her eyes to 

make it look more realistic. 

The first time I added the pupils in, it didn't look right, 

so I waited for it to dry and painted over them with green.

I then painted on yellow and gold eye liner and eyeshadow. 

I then added reflections in the eyes, by adding white dots,

and made her bottom eyelashes more visible. 

Once I finished painting over her existing paint, 

I used Mod Podge to stop it from scratching off. 

I found out later, that the Mod Podge had a gloss finish, 

but it felt perfect for her, since Titania is an immortal fairy. 

Next I began working on her outfit, 

I used brown felt and began gluing on silk leaves and flowers. 

Next I glued on two pipe cleaners, and started adding on silk 

 leaves. 

While working on her wings I also glued on 

some sequins. 

And then I glued the wings onto her dress. 

Before:                                            After:

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Which character from A Midsummer Night's Dream is your favorite?

Have you ever done a full doll repaint before? 

Love, 

Quinley 

Happy Valentine's Day (Post by Aphrodite)

Hello people of the internet, it's Aphrodite, and I thought today that I should make a "blog" post for Valentine's Day, the day my son Eros (aka Cupid) gets to make everyone fall in love with people, and sometimes random objects. Anyway getting to the point, Valentine's Day is one of my favorite holidays, so I'd thought it was a good idea to make a list of ways I like to celebrate:

1.Making people fall in love (Eros likes doing this, too). 
2. Magically making Valentines (partly because I do not have as much talent in art as Athena, but do not tell her that). 
3. Wearing my magic girdle that Hephaestus made, it makes me even more beautiful. 
4. Listening to the Muses' playing love ballads. 

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What do you like to do on Valentine's Day? Feel free to comment below with your answer. 

-Aphrodite 

Custom Doll Project: Guinevere

Hi everyone,
 I thought I would post this custom doll project, that I hinted on in this post :

Her hair was already cut and I didn't exactly know what to do with it when I started...

I wanted to reroot her hair (though I still have no idea how to, and wouldn't really want to try). Instead I decided that I would cut the remaining hair she had and glue on yarn, like I've done before with my previous doll projects (including Newt Scamander (see the end of the post), this doll project, and this one).


This isn't the best image of the book, which inspired my custom doll of Guinevere, but it at least shows what my inspiration for her hair was:

(Image from Amazon,
https://www.amazon.com/Young-Guinevere-Dell-Picture-Yearling/dp/0440412919/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1547844841&sr=1-1&keywords=Young+Guinevere)

I began cutting her hair, 

                                          I then got some orange yarn, and began brushing it out.

And then hot glued it to her head. 

                     

Until I completely covered her head with yarn. 

                                         

And then I wrapped a ribbon around her hair, 

until it looked like the reference photo. 

Then I began working on her clothes, I used felt and wrapped it around her. 

And then glued two small pieces of felt to it to make the apron. 

I made her dress, which I then slipped the apron over. I didn't take

very many pictures for the progress of the dress unfortunately. 

                 Before                                                                                                   After        

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Do you have a favorite character from the Arthurian legends? 

Love, 

Quinley