Paint thinner is not a moisturizer

So I've been doing home repair and upgrades for the better part of a year now, and really kicking it up a notch for the past two months.  No sleep, no real healthy nutrition, and I use the treadmill as an expensive coat rack.  Why I post this on the BJD site instead of crying about it on the other blog is because my cat was playing with Nena and Jakob (without my permission), and I had to look up their names before I could type that sentence.  That's how long it's been.  BJD adoption is an expensive hobby and I just let them sit, untouched my human/other hands for over a year....

Soul crushing guilt aside, my friend is buying a wig for my bald-headed Jakob and I will try again.  I am apparently way better at boy doll clothes than girl doll clothes, so hopefully we will see some pictorial awesomeness soon.

We Belong to the Night (Gown)

So I started this nightgown project as a simple alternative to starting my pajamas and teddy bear project (which has been postponed due to lack of suitable fuzzy fabric).  Also, it will be summer soon, and the last thing we need is for my doll to overheat.  Finally, I don't know the effect of flannel on heavily body-blushed resin.

Anyway.... nightgown.  I cut out a gigantic (for her) size piece of powder pink cloth for the front and back, and stitched them up the sides.  I then folded the whole thing down the middle and cut out armholes and a huge sloping neck opening.  My first little sleeves appear to be a success, despite accidentally sewing them inside the nightgown at first, and I was able to figure out how to sew the teeny tiny stitches connecting the pieces.

The problem arrived, however, with embroidering the nightgown.  To date, I have never sewn a nightgown without at least a few embroidered designs;  I was not prepared for this, though.

AAARGH!!!! If only I hadn't insisted on freehand!

Self, for future reference, PLEASE embroider the pieces before sewing!  It will be much easier and the designs will be more elaborate!  I thought I had forgotten all of my embroidery skills until I realized the scale problems.  I looked like the "Coulda Had a V8" guy for a while at home, absorbing my idiocy at stitching after sewing.

Sigh.  I would say "Never Again!" but that would make me a liar.  Next week:  socks and shoes! (Probably?  Possibly....)

Sigh, another month barefoot...

Dress You Up in My Love (Due to Lack of Fabric)

The stage was set to at least have one dress done for my poor, nameless Minifee Miyu.  The skirt was sewn, the top was done, and finally, to attach them together... and it didn't close.  It turns out I had cut the line and not the dotted line as originally thought.  Too tired to do anything further, but tonight might see a new corset top for her!  And hopefully a name...

 "What do you mean, I have to stay in a sock for another day????"