I finished the branches, sort of, for Miss Hot Mess. They still need their leaves and a bird, which I have, I just haven't gotten to attaching A to B. The brown branch color did not come out as I had hoped and I did not think I would have a problem making "brown" but I did so it's actually more of a burnt gold color with a black wash, so if I squint and look at them from an angle, they look like burled oak. And for some reason, I had mixed the polarity of the magnets in the branches so when I was examining them together, they attracted to each other and while separating them, they ripped their own magnets out and had to be reglued, which takes a day to cure. Attached, they looked way too big on her forehead so I have moved them to the hair and now they look like part of a headband.
In keeping with my color-retardation, I dyed the remaining hair weft I had "light pink." The box said "light pink" and everyone knows the boxed dye is much weaker than the bottle dye so I thought I would have to do two go-rounds to get a faint pink color. Wrong. I dipped, not even dunked or soaked, but dipped the weft in the dye and got this color. Forty rinses later, that is the result. I threw a rather hideous Sugar Mag dress in the dye bath while I was finished to see if the orange gingham would change to something less hideous. After about fifteen minutes of being boiled, it came out hot pink and orange. So, slightly less hideous.
Also, sewing weft onto a CoolCat scalp is rather easy. I didn't even need to use a thimble. I suppose I could have gone the extra mile and used thread that matched the hair color instead of using a contrast color that shows through but really, that would have been asking too much of me.
Also also, I made the Obitsu dog a collar because he really looked like he needed one. I looked around for a tiny studded dog collar, like a GI Joe accessory or even a belt I could cut to size but no dice. So he's wearing a cut down plain doll belt with some rhinestones for pizazz. Pizazz! I used to wear that crap in my hair in junior high school. Lies. It was ninth grade.
In keeping with my color-retardation, I dyed the remaining hair weft I had "light pink." The box said "light pink" and everyone knows the boxed dye is much weaker than the bottle dye so I thought I would have to do two go-rounds to get a faint pink color. Wrong. I dipped, not even dunked or soaked, but dipped the weft in the dye and got this color. Forty rinses later, that is the result. I threw a rather hideous Sugar Mag dress in the dye bath while I was finished to see if the orange gingham would change to something less hideous. After about fifteen minutes of being boiled, it came out hot pink and orange. So, slightly less hideous.
Also, sewing weft onto a CoolCat scalp is rather easy. I didn't even need to use a thimble. I suppose I could have gone the extra mile and used thread that matched the hair color instead of using a contrast color that shows through but really, that would have been asking too much of me.
Also also, I made the Obitsu dog a collar because he really looked like he needed one. I looked around for a tiny studded dog collar, like a GI Joe accessory or even a belt I could cut to size but no dice. So he's wearing a cut down plain doll belt with some rhinestones for pizazz. Pizazz! I used to wear that crap in my hair in junior high school. Lies. It was ninth grade.
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