(clicking the pictures shows the full sized version)
I sewed Lea an outfit and took her to the Children's Museum.
I wish I would have done the dinosaur digger one AND a pirate one because there was a great pirate exhibit.
It was kind of hard to get her to pose well without falling into some gap that would require a maintenance man to retrieve her!
I made her pants out of a thrift store pair of Eddie Bauer cargo pants - they turned out rather stiff and I had a hard time posing her in any sitting positions because the pants would make her legs spring out of position and she'd lay down or something
Curt tried to help me, but eventually he gave up because she wasn't cooperating
In the long run we decided she was better left standing on whatever flat spots were available
Unless she could sit without being flat on her butt but the sitting pose didn't look too good.
She could straddle things IF it wasn't in a place were if she fell I couldn't reach her!
But for the most part we just used places where she could stand up.
Little girls at first thought she was a museum toy...but when I told them she wasn't they wondered why a grown up had a doll...if you check out AG blogs - LOTS of grownups have dolls...she's my photo model!
If we do it again I will definately sew the outfit earlier than THE NIGHT BEFORE the outing
I suppose our next trip will be The Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art. I'll have to come up with some sort of Native American getup for her and I don't have any patterns like that right now....Although...I do believe McCalls sells one........
Sometimes the glass boxes they put everything in is a real photographic hardship.
Lea would have LOVED to gotten right in with Jack Sparrows effects!!!
I haven't been scrapping at all lately. But here's what I slammed together for my dolly. The center picture shows the pattern I used for the pants and shirt, Simplicity 4654.
The headband was out of MCCALL'S #6451.
I wanted to do the AllDolledUp outfit I bought the pattern for, but that would have taken a LONG time and because I was working on it the night before we went, I settled for the Simplicity one (it's a tee-shirt pattern....NO collar or buttons =0( )
Summer bought me the hiking boots (and a guitar) as an early Birthday present. I really need to get her camera done, altho, I don't know how she would hold it to look like she's taking pictures. I did not get any of the 'stock' accessories to go with her because I wanted to make them all - stuff in the AG shop costs WAY too much!! I bought Sculpey clay to try to make her a Nikon D3000, but haven't even looked up how to use the clay yet.....oops
