Four Faces of Emily

Emily was my first Blythe ever, a PWP ADG and I have put her through so much, from a really bad dye job (cause ADG hair is just not very versatile) to a blue bob wig she wore for over a year while I re-rooted her old scalp with Thermal changing orange saran. I'm really happy she hung in there and is still around while others have left.

I have to say that the thermal changing orange saran and I guess the whole thermal changing series of saran colors are just a dream to photograph. Since the hair itself changes from orange to yellow and back in response to heat and touch, you never know exactly what you're going to get when you play with it! I just love that! It's so experimental and alive. I get my saran from My Little Customs usually and when they're out of what I need I go to Restore Doll. Both are superb resources for Saran and rooting tutorials as well as other dolly custom materials. I can't wait to get started on my alpaca re-root. I'm hoping the coolcat scalp will get here sometime this week.

Does anyone know how to perforate a black scalp? How big do you usually male the holes? What pattern do you usually use? And what about thatching? I'm still a bit intimidated by thatching but clearly I need to get over it so any advice or tutorials you can offer out there in dolly land would be greatly appreciated.

You'll feel better in a couple of days

You'll feel better in a couple of days, a photo by Zanalee on Flickr.

Emily has been tied up since Friday night when I finally completed her Orange thermal changing Saran re-root. WHEW! I started the thing in 2010 people! Oh, that sounds crazy just hearing it!

But anyway, flaws, part thatching still pending, it is done. And I'm not taking the rubber bands off until tomorrow because it's a lot of hair and I am not going to be happy if it falls off because I didn't leave her wrapped up long enough. That happened to to me more times than I care to mention with Bowie's "Simply Mango" scalp and all her flanges are completely intact. It was just a scalp switch. But the scalp was constantly falling out of the dome! Finally I just ended up adding Crazy Glue in with the Tacky glue. That was that.

I think I will release Emily from her rubber band torture sometime tomorrow evening.

I'm waiting for my blank coolcat scalp to come in so that I can start on Whitney's alpaca re-root next. I'm hoping that by making the holes in the scalp myself which will be the first time ever for me, I may be able to make the whole re-root process a little easier on myself. We shall see.