Sore Thumbs and Lovely Surprises

I'm hoping to get a post out tomorrow or on the weekend on the Obitsu 48cm posing but today, I'm going to talk about my re-rooting projects and some more lovely things for Eve I got in the mail today.

I got the gorgeous skirts for Eve from Studio 1283. Aren't they just lovely. I also got some nice surprises including a gorgeous ribbon that I can't wait to use to make some SD chokers. Thank you Xanadu!


My FMD order came in.

These are the hair colours I will be using for re-root. I also ordered some cute little hair clips and got the mirror as a gift from FMD.

The hair is lovely, soft and silky, however they are hard to re-root with as they are slippery. Maybe good to use for those hard caps that you glue hair to rather than re-rooting but I was determined to try anyway.

My Pureneemo girl, Freya gets her hair removed. This took me an hour and a half. Then I removed the black paint on her head and repainted with a complementary colour for the new hair. I then began the slow method of re-rooting using the knot method and a doll needle (those are the long doll needles you can usually find at your local sewing store).

I found my thumb got sore after pushing the needle through the tiny holes and read that some people used pliers to pull the needle through the other end - helps save mangling the poor fingers!

What you see here is around 4-5 hours total of re-rooting (spread over two days!). It's slow going. I work with wet hair as I find it's much easier to knot and doesn't tangle. It's a very slow process. I think this will take a few weeks to do. The yarn may go quicker as I only have to do every second plug rather than every plug. We'll see.

{ I just noticed, the pinky colour kind of looks purple here. Must be the light! }

Random photo of my bowl of heads.

Picked up one of those thread holder contraptions yesterday to put my heads on. It works a treat!

The blonde Barbie you can see at the top is all shiny because I was experimenting with brushing on Liquitex Matte Medium. So far, it comes out a bit shiny and is still tacky even after two days of "drying". I really can't see the brush strokes but I'll take a photo with my Macro filter later.

The big female head down the bottom I will be spraying with Liquitex Matte Medium with my airbrush to see the difference.

I also got a blank Obitsu head (the one with rooted pink hair) that I'll paint and will put on my M size Pureneemo spare body.

That's it for the WIP projects. The face ups are slow going. I'm having an issue with making the eyes symmetrical, especially when using acrylic to paint the eyes! Will soldier on though. It's all practice.