What I used:

• Left over straw from the hat
• Hot glue (because it was an experiment, you could easily stitch it to make it look more polished)
• A couple of pretty flowers

So first thing I did was stretch and break some of the fibres in the straw so it was easier to bend it to the shapes that I wanted.
Starting with a small spiral and fold the end over itself:

Glue in place.

Keep following the spiral around getting bigger and gluing along the way.

One it’s big enough to be the top of the hat cut and glue the edge in place.

Ending up with something like this…

Next it’s time for the middle part. Start by measuring around the circumference of the circle you just made.  and form a loop of the straw, glue together!

Spiral it down until it’s tall enough, cut and glue 😀

Something like this:

Now the last part before it’s all put together: the brim.

Again spiral it out and glue in place.

Now it just needs the top to be put on!

And that’s it! Much quicker when you’re making them doll sized XD

The view from the top…

And after adding a couple of flowers it looks much cuter! Mine looks a little dodgy with excess glue because I was experimenting as I went but I’m sure if you were more careful you could get it perfect ^_^

And that’s it! Quick and easy so your doll can be as stylish as you 😀 Do you guys want me to try and make more dolls things or do you all prefer people sized things?

So first thing I did was give her face a make over. The make up she came with was all orangy and yuck so I used black acrylic paint and gave her some eyeliner with wing ends.

I used this pink glitter paint to give her eyeshadow and subtle blush. I did her lipstick with my favorite nail polish! I undid her hair fluffed it out a bit to see how much volume I could get.

Looking better!

I did a little test run to see if I could dye her hair and as it turned out it was really easy!

After sectioning up the top area which would later be used for the hime pouf I combed through her hair.

Using the same dye I use for my own hair I added the pink gradient. But instead of washing it out, I left it to dry over night.

After brushing through the next day it was all soft, bouncy and exactly the way I wanted! 😀

I experimented with a couple of ways to put her hair up, at first I was going to use a rat inside made of tissue paper but it was too hard to keep in place.

Not working…

So after tying the rest of her hair back and considering the fact that she’s a doll and it doesn’t really matter if her hair sustains long term damage I just teased/backcombed the hell out of it!

After hair spraying the crap out of it this is what I got…

Side:

And back:

And with her hair out…

Last thing I needed to work out with her hair was put some bouncy curls in! I covered her up in some thick paper towels so nothing was damaged.

Then using disposable chopsticks I curled up her hair and held it all together with an elastic. After everything was secure I spent about 10 minutes with a hair dryer heating up, cooling down, heating up, cooling down, heating up, cooling down etc  ^_^ This was enough to reset her hair without melting it. Very similar to styling synthetic hair pieces.

So the result of all that work was this:

And from the back:

At that point it was time to work on the finishing touches. Little details like painting her white stockings etc make a big difference to the end result. I thought about doing something with her little shoes but couldn’t decide in the end so I left them.

I stitched up a little dress out of scraps and added some hair flowers. BAM! Mini Violet 😀

Then it was just a matter of painting her dog to match. I coated him in white first…

Then added pink sparkly details and repainted his whole face to look less sad/creepy and more happy/adorable.

And there you have it! I couldn’t be happier with her make over! I think she’s going to be a great edition to this blog too because she’s looks better in photos than the real Violet XD

I asked James to take a bunch of photos of her with his new lens so pic spam ahead!

I made this little hat for her too, tutorial coming soon!

Who wouldn’t want a picnic like this?

Looking longingly out my window at the gel stars that I stare at all day from behind my computer.

Very photogenic!

So all in all I thoroughly enjoyed my first doll make over experience. I don’t know if I’m completely addicted but having a little army of them would be pretty sweet!

What do you guys think? Did I do a good job on my mini Blythe?