McDonald's diner progress...

I have made some progress today working on tweaking the McDonald's diorama in Barbietown. Today I did alot of printies- pictures of adverts for the signage , which is what was missing, as well as making a door. I still have to tweak the door and window- the window is originally supposed to be a view of the playground outside. Still working on those, but for now- pics!

Enjoy the pictures- more are in my Flicker albums!~Lisa

Atelier Lisa- Custom Bespaq Gold Cheval Mirror

Introducing- Atelier Lisa, or rather, more of my customized Bespaq!

This item is currently up on Ebay on a 3 day auction. Low starting bid of $25

Item is handpainted with gold ormalu and embellished with a blue handmade tassel, that is removeable. Mirror has been re-worked to be taller- instead of the normal 12 inches, this item measures 14 inches wide, 5 inches high. This will also be useful for taller dolls such as the Fashion Royalty girls, and antique or reproduction french fashion poupees.

Enjoy the pics- we also have more Bespaq in 1:6 scale up on Ebay, so browse our auctions! I will be working on more customized Bespaq items for Atelier Lisa!

~Lisa

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter everyone- from the One Sixth Scale dollhouse!
Lots of fun was celebrated...Her Highness the Baroness got her Easter basket, and Easter tea was served. Evie (Spring IT Direct exclusive lottery doll) and Betty Draper also were present.  The kids were dressed for Easter and the Baroness was happy to receive them and give them their baskets of eggs.

Next Betty organized the Easter baskets and egg hunts for the kids in Barbietown.

Barbietown's Boutique was dressed up for Easter as well, Evie did some window shopping before heading to the mansion to help Betty with the Easter egg hunt.

Happy Easter !
~Lisa

New custom Tattoo Love doll & other doll stuff...

Meet Rose, my newest custom doll. I had been wanting to do another doll with tattoos, since Buck (shown here) was done over a year ago. Shows how much creative dolly time I have if I haven't picked up my paintbrush in over a year and a half- I think Buck was done in 2010! 
Rose is a hybrid doll- I had purchased a Racquelle Fashionista for a body swap with my Mini Lisa who I am working on as well. (I gasped when I looked at my last blog entry- 7 days no dolly pics or entries! cute gasp!) Since racquelle's head was laying about- I figured I would create this doll since this was technically a holiday weekend. I also had bought the LIV doll in bikini from walmart when they went on sale for $6 bucks so I knew I had the perfect body to experiment with her tattoo/punk rock look.
The tattoes consist of roses, on a vine, with leaves that go from her back to the front of the breast. On her back she has LOVE written and a small heart dangling- the vine of roses & leaves goes up and onto her arm, cresting in a rose with 'ROSE' written & shaded with white acrylics. I may do more on her arm later- the rest of her tat goes to the front breast, and has a butterfly at the end of the vine near her breast. Since the LIV doll body has no 'formed' molded breast nipples, I mixed the paints and painted them on- it really makes the front of her tattoo snap! Her eye makeup I darkened with black and did her lips darker and fuller as well.  Her hair was done from a flocking tutorial and I left the front of the Fashionista hair which I then chopped, so it would hang at a edge in the front of her face. I used basic flocking I found in a bright pink at Michael's on sale...
I think she turned out really well. I also did another butterfly on her back calf of one of her legs, perfect girlfriend for Bucky there. She will really look great in Barbietown as I like 'real' looking people, not just model look alikes.
More going on in the One Sixth Scale dollhouse...
I bit the bullet and ordered from Cotswold Collectibles as I had been lusting over their Asia Scale Store chairs! One thing- shipping is high for this baby, understandable- it is made of resin and they come in a variety of colors and finishes. And they are only $19.99!!! I originially wanted the white with silver finish but got the gold with brown and am glad I did. I recommend them and will be ordering more from them. Be aware though- your order has to total $25 before they will process it. They only take credit cards or check cards, or check- no paypal. Don't worry- it is quite easy to spend OVER $25 at this site with 1:6 scale goodies!
Enough talk, onto the pics!
Of course my Anja fell in love with it...

Of course, Anja has a new dress as well- found on Ebay! Just in time for Easter. I am trying to get diorama items together for the dolls to have an Easter egg party in town with baskets, and the dolls wearing hats as well- just like the old fashioned Easter parade I used to attend as a kid after church on Easter sunday, so much fun to walk about in your Easter outfit.
I might have to settle just for the easter bunny /egg hunt part since making all those hats for all those dolls would be mind boggling...
MORE Diorama finds...
I was on my way to UPS & the post office today, and while driving saw a very large yard sale. Hubby was with me and wanted to stop on the way back, so we did. I kept calm when I saw the stuffies and toys and old Barbies but never expected to find this!

It is TWO count 'em TWO store counters that fit together and have a modern cash register with the digital readout- must be from the 1990's I estimate. $1 is all I paid for them. The clear window counter evidently had shelves but they are missing- these can be made with balsa. The stickers are adorable but I do not know yet how to repaint the items without harming the stickers. the display window has a crack in it. My first thought was to make it pristine- then I thought of grunging it up a bit more...it would make such a GREAT donut counter since the stickers sell pretzels and coffee for .99 cents. This will probably go into the stash until I figure out a scene for it. I am so addicted to shops and diners and restuarants for the dolls...my dolls love to eat junk food, lol..
That's all for now- had alot of catchup to do!
~Lisa