Oddly Sweet Dolls

I Love Shopping! HAUTELOOK Deals!

Since I have two boys ages 2 & 4 I never get to shop for little girls clothes. Shopping for my reborn baby girls is always so much fun! Since I am about to finish two toddler babies my Kristaleta by Laura Tuzio Ross and a custom Arrianna by Reva Schick I am looking for good deals on super cute clothes! I am the master at finding good deals on clothes and I rarely pay full price. That's why I can  generally send my babies home with a few different high end heirloom quality brand names at a fraction of the price. Creating a baby is already expensive enough.

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 One of my favorite online stores is called HAUTELOOK. HauteLook is a premier members-only site that offers private, limited-time sale events on the world's best brands. Members receive an email invitation to the newest, most exclusive sale events on the best merchandise for men, women, kids, home and beauty - at prices up to 75% off retail. HauteLook is free to join and everyone is welcome - there are no commitments or charges for membership.
 

The cute dress is by Beetle Juice London $34.99 retails $94.00-63% Off. Thats a good deal!

Just the other week they had Baby LuLu and I purchased some adorable sets for almost 60-80% off retail price. I looked at the retailers website and they had all the same items only marked full price. The only catch is you only have so many hours to purchase items. If you get the newsletter in your e-mail they give you a heads up of what brands are going to launch and what time. 
 

 

                                                                          

 I am totally in love with this jacket. It is adorable. Anything with frills and ruffles! Beetle Juice London $37.99 Retails $98.00 61% Off!

If you would like to sign up it's free! I think I'm going to get this jacket for one of the toddlers and pair it up with a cute pair of boots. The smallest size they have is a 2T, but if it's a little big it's o.k, I would not mind more of a dress anyhow.

They have new brands everyday so check the website often! In my e-mail they had some good brands coming up through out the week.

If you would like to visit this website, click here! :)

Kristaleta kit Laura Tuzio-Ross UPDATE 7/9

UPDATE 7/9 This little lady is finished! Will be on eBay July 11th!

I am so in love with this toddler kit! For those who are not familiar with her she is a brand new release & will be a 28" standing baby.Sculpted by Laura Tuzio-Ross. One of my favorite artists. She is such a great size and I am so thrilled to be working on her. Kristaleta has the best chubby legs you can see on Laura's website. 

Her paint is slowing coming along, about 60% finished. Still loads of work to be done. Her blue eyes are not the color or type I am using, I just don't like to weird people out with no eyes hehe... I am still waiting for her dark blue glass eyes to arrive in the mail. She will have blonde hair and I am also giving her two baby bottom teeth! 

I'll update more photos as she is coming along. Kristaleta will have a body armature that will help her with certain poses. 

 

 Stay Tuned...................

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UPDATE 7/9 This little lady is finished! Her auction will be on eBay July 11th, at 8:15 pst.

Aww I finished her today! Yippyyyyyyyy.... Since she is 28" tall! I put an armature inside her body through out her legs, body & arms. What a pain! After the armature is in, there is hardly any room to be able to put fiber fill/stuffing around it to fill her arms.I had to gently push stuffing in with my two fingers and then use a long rod to jam it all in place.  Her legs were the easy part. 

So I sat and watched Curb Your Enthusiasm for a few hours last night as I filled her body. I have a weird crush on Larry David, what can I say. He makes me laugh so hard I cry.

It took me at least 2 1/2 hours to get her put together. All worth it though. She can move her arms up and down, side to side and hold little toys and such. It's really a nice feature. Kristaleta still needs a little help standing on her own, so she may need a stand. I have mine hidden behind her. You would never know it unless I told you haha. She now has her german glass eyes in and they are gorgeous! I will post more pictures later when they are finished today.

I hope you like her!

 

Testing LDC Air Dry Paints.....(updated 6/24)

 

 My LDC air dry paints & Angelica kit by Reva Schick came in the mail yesterday from DollDreams.net! For the last year I have been using Genesis Heat Set Paints to paint with. With GHSP I will paint a layer on the kit I am working on and bake each layer  for 8 mins. @ 265 degrees in my oven. I currently live in Arizona and the weather here is hot! 105 degrees today and rising. Yuck....

I told my husband I would try these paint out and hopefully in the future only work with them. They only require water and the paint is 100% non toxic. By the time I have finished the head, arms and legs I can go right onto painting the head again. No waiting, no baking, no heat, no turing on my air condition higher than normal and hopefully a lower power bill! Well I am testing them out on a Shyann Kit by Aleina Peterson, I have my fingers crossed I will like them. It's just the learning something new part I am not fond of haha.

 I have about 6 layers going on so far. I'm not sure what to think yet. she looks kinda blaaaa. I guess she has a nice base, but I would really like to lighten it up.

I have to go about painting with LDC differently. They dry fast on the vinyl so I cannot let the paint sit like I do my other paints. All the colors are different so I have to figure out my painting pattern. I don't expect this kit to be amazing, but then again who knows? I just started. :) 

I read that the first thing you do is coat the kit with Matte varnish and bake it on so that the paint will stick better. I did that but I am not liking the texture. It's not as smooth as I like it. I may need to go and ask friends what I should do. I also read you can go back and do that after you have painted but need to wait a couple of weeks for the paint to cure or your paint will turn orange in the oven. 

 

Angelica by Reva Schick is a 5 year old 42" tall girl. I have never worked on this size before. Her head is massive! You can see the difference between Shyann's little newborn head. I will be blogging about her journey starting next week. I need to finish my custom orders this week before I can even think about starting her. 

Thanks to everyone who answered questions about LDC paints on all the forums. If you have any great tips, feel free to Facebook me or e-mail me!

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UPDATE: 6/24

Working all day yesterday and this morning trying to see if I like these paints, I will say this. I do for the most part! I switched her dark brown glass eyes out for the green hazel eyes and they suit her complexion better so far.

Pros: 

• I was able to get this far on her in 1 day! With other paints it would take me at least 2 weeks to get to this point 
• Paint dries fast. By the time you are done with the head, legs & arms you can move right onto the head again
• Water is all you need to mix paints
• No baking (except for the 1st matte varnish coat)

Cons:

• Paint dries fast! You have to work inch by inch. I'm used to painting an entire area  and going back over and pouncing down the color. 
• Learning how to mix colors to get what you really want
• Matte varnish kinda feels rough. Although today her skin has been pounced so many times it is so much smoother now. 
• Take a few weeks for paint to cure, but that's ok! 
• Hard to fix mistakes
• Learning something new hehe

I feel like my colors are really flat right now. She looks to have more of a grey complexion at this point. This over time will be corrected. I don't mean the paint it self is flat, just the way I have painted her this far. I'm having a harder time with my mottling. That's probably because I don't have the right sponges. I need to get some like Debbie has in her tutorial. Make up sponges are not holding up well with the LDC paint. I have to brush the paint onto the limbs and then pounce it down.  I normally take tweezers and pluck out tiny holes out of my make up sponge and apply a thin coat of paint (on the sponge) and lightly pounce that on to create little that effect. If you are a fellow reborn-er then you know what I'm talking about.

 So far so good! I won't be quitting the LDC paints any time soon. I will be selling this Shyann at some point and at a fair price since she is a tester baby. I can see from the pictures what I need to work on. Highlighting her T zone, lips and eye area.

Leg work is coming along o.k as well. It's a start! 

 

 Visit again soon. I'm sure I'll have more pictures in the next few days

Feel free to comment or give me pointers if you are also

working with LDC paints! :)

***HUGS*****

Noah kit Reva Shick Finished!!!

UPDATE:6/24 Charlotte has been adopted/sold! TY! Her new home is located in the USA!

It's about time I say hehe... This little girl took a while to complete ( since before April) but I could not be happier with her results. I am having a hard time letting her go up for adoption. She could really be a keeper here in my nursery! When she was half way finished I really thought that she was going to be a boy. Once her hair & eyelashes were micro-rooted her appearance was all girl! 

I think I am going to call her Charlotte. The name Charlotte comes from the French origin. In French The meaning of the name Charlotte is: little or womanly. Of course her new mommy can re-name her what ever she wishes once she is adopted. Charlotte is a pretty name and suits her well I think.

 

 Charlotte has full really soft vinyl legs and 3/4 arms. I gave her a chest/tummy plate for some beautiful photos ops. Reva Schick sculpts some of the most adorable kits. I have been lucky enough to reborn a few of her kits but I have to say "Noah" is certainly my favorite! I just finished her photo shoot and will be creating her auction on eBay. I would look for her tomorrow night Wednesday (6/16). I think I am too tired to sit for another hour and create her listing, so tomorrow I will work on it while my boys take naps.

If you are friends or a "Fan" with me on Facebook then you will be the first to see the auction links. If not please add your self. I have a link on the top left corner of my blog-site.

 

Here is the before & after photo so you can get an idea of just how
 much work goes into creating just one baby. Lots! hehe :) 

 

 Thanks for peeking!

Reborn Michelle kit Evelina Wosnjuk (Adopted)

I was able to finish my Michelle kit over the weekend. Michelle and a custom Arianna toddler is all I have been working on :).   You can see all of her photos on eBay right now. She is at auction at my reserve price with a buy it now button if you want to make her yours right away. 

"Lilly" is what I re-named her. I waited over a year to work on this kit and she was so worth the wait. I just adore her! 

UPDATE:6/15 Adopted. Her new home will be located in the UK!!

 
 
 

I tried out "Spit Bubbles" this time and I really like how it came out. Iv seen some done way over the top so I tried to stay away from that look and keep it natural. I love her little mouth, it is so precious!

I think it's important to show as many details I can. My camera will capture detail that you will not be able to see with your naked eye or make it look larger than it really is in real life. So I hope that my zoom photos will help you see the difference. You can't see the bubbles from a normal range, but if you get up really close you can see the little details.

 Isn't her nose just the cutest!?!