Tim Burton stripes are back, big time, and I’m also in love with bustles again!
Not that I ever stopped loving the bustle silhouette, but wow I am suddenly so excited to wear it and draw it and see it again. The goth and burner fashions of San Francisco in the Oughts were absolutely marvelous, and I am personally ready to bring these looks back in Berlin. It’s gonna be cold drawing at outside events this Fall and I am happy to wear some layers 🙂
Like this little commercial maid doll who I radically upgraded into the goth maid my dollhouses need!
I used fourteen different trims, ribbons and micro-picots plus three fabrics to do this customizing! Of course all the original articulation of the doll is preserved, and a cool bonus to narrowing her skirt silhouette and loading it with ruffles is that she now stands on her own!
I hadn’t touched my black-and-white trims bin in years and it was marvelous to see how many cool things I had saved every scrap of.
Below, the doll (I have named her Myrtle the Maid) with my biggest Little Shop of Horrors Audrey Two, made last year. The last image is the original doll before mods.
If you’d like to see more of my doll customizing, check out the Dollhouse and Dollmaking category on here, or these specific stripey-doll projects:
Gothic Lolita Nico Minoru custom
Gothic Burlesque Bride of Frankenstein
Other bricolage dolls and fairies I have made:
Fancy Wasp Dolly
Reserved Parking for Eliza
Valentine’s Monster Doll Armada
Snow Queen/Jadis
Fearless Pink Gay Santa
Gothic Rococo Horribella
Horribellas
Mummified Fairy King
Evil Mermaid
Opal Fimo Mantis Doll
Earliest dolls! with bad photos!
The Rod or Staff of Asclepius is a symbol of medicine and healing.
A snake twines around a wooden staff, borne by Asclepius. The Greek god Asclepius was sacred to physicians; his daughters include Hygieia, Panacea, Aceso and Iaso, all associated with healing and recuperation.
This is the first snake embroidery I‘ve ever made!
