Gamble Acres: Supernatural in 1:6 Scale

  I have three thrifted dolls with the "Nicki" face sculpt.  Here are Taneisha and Denise, above. Since I already had two characters with the same face, I chose my third Nicki to be the Woman in White, a ghost out to get revenge on the living.  I didn't want her to have the open-lip smile, however, so my first step was to follow a  tutorial by Broken Dolly TV on YouTube.  After cutting out the doll's teeth with a box cutter/craft knife and super-gluing her lips together, I cut off the majority of her hair to prepare for re-rooting. Here she is with her hair and face-up removed, above.  I wanted to paint the entire doll white, but for starters, I painted her scalp so I could start re-rooting.  The white residue at the corners of her mouth is super glue from closing her lips. It turns out I am a messy super-gluer.  The pink is her factory lip color that I didn't get totally cleaned up.  (I have gotten better at removing face paint since making...

  Costumes X-mas Fireplace

Retro Halloween Costumes   The photos above show just a sample of my new free printable costumes for Halloween.  I have six designs in all. When I was a kid in the late sixties, and into the seventies/early eighties, molded thin plastic masks and pajama-style matching costumes were the go-to for Halloween.  The so-called "pajama" costumes were made of cheap acetate fabric, but they were super brightly colored.  Masks and costumes often had neon and/or glow-in-the-dark paint.  They came in all sorts of designs, from classic movie monsters, cartoon characters and characters from popular TV shows, to animals and storybook characters for the younger kids. I've wanted to recreate the costumes of my childhood in miniature for a long time, and this year, I finally did it.  To make them no-sew, I designed a simple tabard for the costume.  Just cut it out and put it on the doll.  I used a strip of tape to close it in the back.  On the smaller dolls, t...

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