Customizing & RepairingTips & Hints. Top Ways To Ruin Your Dolls. I can talk until I am blue in the face about how important it is to preserve your dolls, and I can write article after article about doll conservation--but, sometimes, I think that no one is listening. After all, shouldn't dolls be fun? All that preservation and conservation talk is dull and boring. Well, snap out of it collectors! If you don't protect and conserve your dolls, you'll ruin them. So, read on for my top ways to ruin your dolls! 1. Display Your Dolls in A Bright, Sunny Window Theo Allofs/The Image Bank/Getty Images Leave your dolls in a nice, sunny window!
2. Once you have lots of dolls for your collection, storage space can become a problem. 3. Its so tempting to decorate with dolls--that big one looks great in Grandma's rocking chair, and those small ones are adorable on the table in the foyer. 4. 5. OK...this one is a bit tongue in cheek, but I'm often surprised when visiting homes with dolls how Rover and Fluffy get free access to the rooms dolls displayed. 6. 7. Juan Albuerne's Repaint Class.
Repainting Fashion Dolls - OOAK Fashion Doll Tutorials by VALKYRIE. If you're glad to finally find doll tutorials, and you'd like to help out with server expenses and/or new supplies for me to experiment with, a small If you would like to be notified of updates to these pages or when new dolls are posted, please join my First to Know list! : Yes, it's now a Google group - due to the great screw up of 2010 if you DID belong to the original Yahoo group, you were deleted (by Yahoo, not me) without notice, Google may not be as 'click and point' user friendly, but at least they won't delete the group arbitrarily? Alternatively, just drop me a line! E-mail. Restore & OOAK Doll Supplies - RestoreDoll.com. Tutorials | Doll Nerd.
Making Angel Feather Wings. Fantasy Film Fairy Wings How-To. This tutorial was generously provided by:Deb Wood of Enchanted Hearts Materials: Pattern (shown below) Colored wire-- 24 ga. (or plain wire)----- (I use Fun Wire, it is plastic coated and works so well for this- as the glue really grabs onto it. I highly recommend it. Fantasy Film Gertrude's gifts sells it on ebay: I suggest you buy the assortment pack as this will give you 5 or 6 colors to play with and not have 10 feet of just one color. 3D Lacquer in clear or Clear Gallery Glass 3D Lacquer I buy here: And Gallery Glass is available at the craft stores. I use Gallery Glass if drying time is not an issue. Gem Tac Glue or Ultimate Glue by Crafter's Pick or a similar type white glue that is thick- not runny Aleene's Tacky would work fine too) Art Glitter or Prisma Glitter (optional) Delta Ceramcoat Varnish- matte or satin (optional) Ready? Fairy Flower Dolls: Transform Old Dolls Into Fairy Flower Dolls.
Materials and Tools: porcelain doll parts (head, arms and legs)1 foam ball (proportioned to the doll parts)small, medium and large silk flowersfoam glue or low-temp hot gluesilk leavesplastic cupglass pebblesextra embellishments: ribbons, rhinestones and small fairy wings Steps: 1. Attach the doll head and arms to the foam ball. Once they are in the correct position, hot-glue in place. 2. 3. 4.