I've gone through several 18 inchers over the last year but realized I had to cut back on them, so I settled on having Sunny and Meriel, and two Our Generation girls from Battat. The first was Winter Rose.
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| Sunny and Winter Rose |
Our Generation girls are noted for their bad hair. So first I tried cutting it.
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| Merry with her curls and Winty with her bob. |
It was actually pretty cute. Then I got Haila, a blonde Our Generation girl. Apparently I didn't take any pictures of her with her original hair. Basically, she looked like Winty only with blonde hair. After I rewigged Merry, I got the urge to rewig more dolls. So I took the two wigs I got from the Doll Parts place and tried them on Winty and Haila. A new type of Dolly Fever was born -- Dolly Wigging Fever!
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| These clothes are all tagged Battat but they seem a bit tight. |
I had to cut off their hair close to the scalp, because they had rooted hair, not wigs.
As an added bonus, Auntie Berman repainted their lips a more pleasing color.
Now I took a good look at my 14 inch hard plastic girls. We had been picking up wigged porcelain dolls when we could and had quite a collection.
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| Sally before |
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| Sally after |
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| Noelle before |
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| Noelle after |
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| Penny before |
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| Penny after |
I am keeping my eye out for another wig for Penny. I like this one except it had a circlet of roses glued on it and when I tried to get them off (heating the glue with a blow dryer), a lot of the glue just melted and got caught in her hair. But I like the style.
And now for my two masterpieces. We found Caroline at the Salvation Army Warehouse, dumped in with a bunch of miscellaneous stuff. Even though she's not my usual type, being vinyl and from the 60s, I had to rescue her.
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| Caroline before |
(She has a bad case of Green Ear, but we try to ignore it.)
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| She was dressed as a bride |
Well it seems Caroline was really meant to be a blonde!
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| Bouncy blonde curls! |
Later, we found Juliet, I think at Goodwill Bargain Bin. She was dressed as a bride too.
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| The rejected bride |
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| She has jointed knees |
She is also made of vinyl, and from the markings on the back of her neck, I found out she is a Valentine Doll and is a ballerina. She has a tiny touch of Green Ear, but nothing like Caroline has. Her transformation was amazing.
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| This is the True Me! |
And then there was Baby Barry, now named Gwennie. I wasn't real crazy about her but now I like her a lot.
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| "Help! My hair's coming off!" |
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| "I like my brown hair." |
And that is all the wiggings I have done so far.
