cosmomoore

[cosmomoore]

This outfit started with the tights, which I'd originally made for the Francie outfit, but they weren't quite right for it. The fabric is very stretchy, so I decided to try them on a DCSHG body--with its relatively large feet and really long legs--and the fit was really good. So! Made the dress to go with the tights. The lace and trim all came from my scrap bag.

[cosmomoore]

I got these rainbow high shoes for the Moniques: Verveine and Verlaine but they're for flat feet. The beach rainbow high? The junior dolls? Thanks to @cosmomoore and venivididolli: they are masquerade Mckeyla's boots

Either way, big feet Cali Lea was on hand and they fit perfectly, she can even stand alone. Maybe that opens possibilities for beach barbies to get shoes?

Please excuse the chihuahua hair everywhere, Talia is shedding her winter coat and I've not been well enough to do the daily heavy brushings.

[cosmomoore]

I got these rainbow high shoes for the Moniques: Verveine and Verlaine but they're for flat feet. The beach rainbow high? The junior dolls?

Either way, big feet Cali Lea was on hand and they fit perfectly, she can even stand alone. Maybe that opens possibilities for beach barbies to get shoes?

Please excuse the chihuahua hair everywhere, Talia is shedding her winter coat and I've not been well enough to do the daily heavy brushings.

#those shoes aren't rainbow high #but they are sold with RH shoes a lot #i think they are MC Squared though

[cosmomoore]

5 min tutorial for trcelyne, hope it helps! 

[cosmomoore]

*heavy southern accent*: terfs aint got no friends

[cosmomoore]

wig

Decided to make a super long wig for my SmD (mostly inspired by my Bratz x Mowalola dolls except way longer lol)

Mullet wig from Taobao to serve as the base:

Removed almost all of the wefts in the back with my seam ripper and replaced them with matching 31" wefts (Jennifer serving as the mannequin as per usual) 31" was the longest I could find, otherwise I would have gone even longer! I also doubled up most of the wefts to make sure it would be thick enough to make an impact

The wig is so long that I had to attach jennifer's head to a tripod in order to flat iron the new wefts lol

Success!!!

I also flat ironed the remaining wefts to use an extension, because even 31" isn't as long as what I saw in my head when planning this look lol

[cosmomoore]

This Hasbro Marvel Rising Secret Warriors Patriot originally had bright blue glove hands. Now, there's a lot of weirdness with the doll's body design, but the bright blue glove hands were what put it over the edge into unacceptable for me, so he'd been in the To Customize box for a while.

Last night (when I was falling asleep), I realized that the Moana hands @queenofsquids had sent (thanks!) just might be a good size and skin tone match. Not perfect, but good, and better than I thought I'd ever find.

I had to clip off the nubs at the ends of the wrist pegs, and drill out the forearms + heat them in boiled water, to get everything to work together. Even with the skin tone mismatch, I like them! The stylization matches much better than any action figure hands would have.

Also, I just discovered that this pair of Rainbow High guy shoes fit the weird short broad feet on this body really well, too.

[cosmomoore]

skateboard thing I did.

close-ups under

[cosmomoore]

cable management? she doesn't care, she's got it under control.

another monster high robot girl custom. this time the recipe is one elle eedee + some transformer wings and gundam bits. she is from 2022, though i did some repainting before taking these photos because i just might have had 16 projects on my desk and 67 on my mind when i first made her & the paint job felt quite unfinished.

[there is never a time when i don't have 16 projects on my desk and 67 on my mind, but i do try to have the patience to see all of them through eventually.]

[cosmomoore]

My roses are blooming!

[cosmomoore]

Mod Malibu Ken head on a gymnast Ken body, with the original hands cut off and the arms drilled to accept articulated wrist hands, and with the eyes painted over to be brown.

[cosmomoore]

Shep and Caterina. They're friends.

[cosmomoore]

This is Shep! Shep is a Barbie Extra #2 pet head on a My Scene guy body that was spray painted white to match.

The biggest challenge was getting this head--which only has a big squared-off cavity inside where it was attached without rotation to the original small dog body--attached to the old-style "the head has a flanged knob that goes into the otherwise flat neck" Ken body. I'm sure I could have rigged up something that would allow for tilt, but, since the body was being painted, a rotation-only cut joint was fine (there's less chance for paint rub with that kind of joint.)

Not too long ago, I realized that twisty lip balm tubes could be scavenged to make a cut joint, and this is the first project where I tried that out. I trimmed the tube down close to the base and puttied it into the body neck opening with the cut part down, making sure the end could still rotate freely. I put a small screw into the center of the end, to provide more for the putty to grip; I also put the lip balm cap into the head, open-end-up, to fill some of the space inside. (I'll mention here that I also Dremeled the head opening to be larger and rounder so it would fit without conflict where I wanted it.) Then I put more epoxy putty around the screw and smooshed the head onto it so it was low enough to hide the putty holding the lip balm end in place, then let it cure. The connection is solid and the head rotates freely, but with enough friction to hold a pose. I'm happy it worked!

[cosmomoore]

Fascism sells a synthetic nostalgia.

[cosmomoore]

Everything is 5% off in the ShopShifty store this week!

Coupon applies automatically at checkout! This works for Junk Boxes and sticker packs, too!

[cosmomoore]

I have been saving this since last year. Happy Earth Day everyone.

[cosmomoore]

I liked the part where the possums ate fruit