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chocashopaholic
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Re: Before and After....post your projects.

Nov 3, 2009 7:36 AM
This one wasn't too much of a project. She came in the dress she is wearing here and I'd added the hat for her first portrait:



Here she is after getting a new dress and matching vintage pinafore and having her hair done:






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but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.

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wildrose55
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Re: Before and After....post your projects.

Nov 3, 2009 7:50 AM
Oh, those first 2 are waaaaaaay better in the after shots!

My before and afters normally consist of just changing/fixing the hair and clothing. My latest is this Kestner 214. I really didn't like her much after I got her home....tried a few different wigs an outfits, and finally decided this past weekend to style her original mohair wig.

Before:


Second Incarnation with big old ST type wig and pink dress.


After:


*Sigh* Now I have to keep her.:|
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ridesawaytwinkling
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Re: Before and After....post your projects.

Nov 3, 2009 10:08 AM
Great jobs on these needy dollys, y'all!
Love the Italian make-over, she looks so pretty now.
Wildrose, I have 2 or 3 of the 214s- they are among my favorite
Kestners but their fat and somewhat flat in the back heads take
getting used to - they are more character dolls than dolly face dolls..
Yours is pure delight now - of course, I thought she was as well when she was in her first picture, not so much in the Shirley wig!
It's amusing and more than a bit anthropomorphic: in her very first picture, she looks tentative and almost frightened- like she knew you weren't sure you even wanted or liked her- and in the Shirley wig, she looks as though she knows she is in costume, not herself...
and now she looks free and delighted to be loved!

Bella
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wildrose55
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Re: Before and After....post your projects.

Nov 3, 2009 10:19 AM
Bella, you nailed it! She does have more of a character face and had a kind of harsh look....almost vapid expression....that was a bit off-putting. I really like her much softer look now.
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annie652000
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Re: Before and After....post your projects.

Nov 3, 2009 1:34 PM
Wonderful afters, all!

Wildrose, you did completely change her "feeling." She's wonderful and lucky to have found you.



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Re: Before and After....post your projects.

Nov 3, 2009 3:45 PM
these are good!
I don't have any to share


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cookinsupper
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Re: Before and After....post your projects.

Nov 3, 2009 3:47 PM
(.........except for that Ken and ya'll have seen him a million and eleven times...)


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jannilu
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Re: Before and After....post your projects.

Nov 3, 2009 4:17 PM
Wonderful makeovers!! Photobucket

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annie652000
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Re: Before and After....post your projects.

Nov 3, 2009 6:33 PM
A quick clean and 'do for a friend's doll

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carolyn_dolls
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Re: Before and After....post your projects.

Nov 3, 2009 6:42 PM
Wild, I think that doll is an insult to your collection. There is no need to have a vapid looking doll in amongst those beauties of yours. (You know where this is heading.....so get her packed!)

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thishouseisnotahotel
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Re: Before and After....post your projects.

Nov 3, 2009 11:05 PM
Before.



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Re: Before and After....post your projects.

Nov 4, 2009 5:19 AM
Thishouse, those are so cute. I've never seen that kind of set before. You did a great job.

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Re: Before and After....post your projects.

Nov 4, 2009 5:44 AM
I have seen them, and I LOVE them!
Your Snow White has the sweetest face, and Oh My Goodness,
what a fabulous restore! Wonderful!






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mompays
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Re: Before and After....post your projects.

Nov 4, 2009 4:34 PM
I love B & A threads -- and as always, some AMAZING make-overs!!!

Here's my latest project:
First - the "before" pic of my 19" Dollikin -- she had nice hair, but it
was very 80's-Delta-Burke-BIG-hair bushy, and she was wearing a dress from the wrong era.



Here she is, having a spa-day, while awaiting some new clothes.



And here are a series of three "after" pics, with upswept curls, and a
new plaid flannel mix-n-match outfit (and there are plans for a coat or a cape, too, but the dress-maker needs a day off).







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