Two of my furry Babies!

Chicken & Bones Aaron's little Ferret stink men!

Never satisfied...I have re-made that Bratz doll again!

In the next few days I'll put up the new pic's ...watch this space!

All Things Horrorific Headquarters

http://www.squidoo.com/groups/Reasons_To_Be_Scared_Of_The_Dark

This is my Squidoo Group for lovers of all things Creepy and Gothic... Horror movie fans welcome!!

J_aka_Herbie's Bookmarks on Delicious

http://delicious.com/J_aka_Herbie
links to some of my writings on squidoo

Digg / JakaHerbie

http://digg.com/users/JakaHerbie

This site is similar to Stumbleupon only not as cool lol that's why I don't go there very often!!

jakaherbie's profile - StumbleUpon

http://jakaherbie.stumbleupon.com/

This is a pretty cool site to go on...I must remember to add Evelyn's Dolls an more Dolls site to this..woooot max out the views wot?

Doll Hair and How To Re-Root It.

http://www.squidoo.com/customisingdolls_dollhair

Here's a link to my step by step instructions on how to re-root your dolls, also includes info' on different types of hair you can use and which dolls are best suited to each type as well as some links to the best places on the internet I have found to get supplies.

Also contains links to my other squidoo pages which you may or may not find interesting!

My Doll Collection Website

http://www.jakaherbiesdolls.1colony.com/index.html

This website is still a work in progress and sorry folks but as it's a free domain it has pop ups (arrrrgh!)

But if you fancy checking out my collection this is the link to click...It will take you to the Title page from which you can access my Gallery Websites (Painting etc and Doll based works) by clicking on the links on the right of the Title page.

Unknown Had To Have Doll ... She's not Unknown any more!

I have no idea who this little lady is but I fell in love and she only cost 20p lol bargin a?
Her dress is immaculate so I don't think she's ever been played with...anyone got any info on her I'd appreciate it!

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UPDATE - 2011 - Unknown is now known!

It turns out she is actually a Kurhn Doll Clone , I thought she was very similar to them, but as she has rooted lashes and a mass of purple hair so I was thrown, and after my 2 girls arrived from Italy I noticed there were a few slight differences between them all, although as my 2 Kurhn girls are both very different from each other and one of them came without her factory face on, so I had to repaint her, so that could be the reason for that, it threw me even more!

Until one day, I was innocently wandering around Flickr, drooling over other people's dolly collections, and I spotted this upload below, from a user called "topocn2000" ...

Here it is larger in case you can't take in the detail too well, and so you can read the labels beneath the dolls:

So I left a message asking if the one on the left is a real Kurhn Doll and 1 month later, I had my reply:

So now I know:  My unknown is a Globo Flow Fairy Doll... and you do too now!

But there's more, after my short convo' with "topocri2000" another user asked a question, which I found very interesting too as I don't really know much about Italian dolls, except for this one and the Hasbro/Ceppirratti collaboration on the "Tanya" Ice Cream Sindy Doll range, see my other posts...

I'll be looking out for them too now as I'd love to see one in the "flesh" as it were!

Oh while I'm still on this subject, here's a link to topocri2000's Flickr Photostream were I took my screenshots from, while you're there have a look at some of the other lovely dolls topcri2000 has:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/topocri/2897619315/in/pool-72281553@N00%7Ctopocri

1971 Chatty Cathy - For adoption - well she was, I'm not so sure now!!

Face is slightly lighter than body, and has weird mark on left cheek...kinda looks like when some-one crys while wearing foundation and you get them tear-tracks if u get me!

This doll has no markings on her body but there are several number/letter codes under her hair... at the back of her head (right side under hair) it reads chatty then underneath 971 and then after a gap another 1.
She has a few missing hair plugs at the back but these are hardly noticeable  unless you are searching about like I was lol
Her legs are swingy but I think this is due to her side being split from too much laughing!!

Janet Weiss - Ooak Rocky Horror Picture Show Barbie Doll - WORK IN PROGRESS

Janet was given a full face re-paint in the style of "The Floor Show" scene and boil perm, which was then cut, dyed and styled.

Her Floor Show costume has been hand sewn onto her, this was reproduced from re-watching the movie several times (Any Excuse!!)

I am presently working on making the suspender-belt, feather edging for red glove, and black and red transparent boa to finish her off.

I'm still not very good at making small clothing yet, so it's taking me a while and many mistakes to do it... but I'll get there, I'm very tenacious when I want to be, and dolls make me want to!!

More updates on Janet later!

Ooak Bratz Babyz Cyber Goth Doll

Her face was stripped of factory features and re-painted using acrylic paint, then sealed.

The moulded plastic hair was painted black and given cobalt blue highlights then sealed.

Dread falls were made using a mixture of synthetic human hair extensions and brown spun yarn and unspun blue fleece.

The dress was made from a pattern designed by myself.

I hand-made sliver dice and black beaded earrings to finish off her look, and I have to admit I like her so much more now I have made her this outfit, I don't think the other one worked at all well on her.

I'll show you more pictures of her and her twin soon!

The Winehouse Siamese Twins - Ooak Expressions doll

These took a while to complete, after re-locating the arms I did 2 full re-roots using synthetic human hair extensions which I then styled into beehives.

Eye make up, lipstick and cheek piercings were added, then came the fun part - the clothes!

I re-styled several items of clothing taken from expressions dolls into a ooak Siamese twin dress and made white bloomers to go underneath.

More on them later...

Ooak Trick or Treater Expressions Doll:

Hair re-root took a couple of weeks to complete in Tibetan Lambs wool Mohair
The clothes were all designed and hand sewn by me and the treats bag was hand-painted and constructed by me too!
I also made a selection on American Candies and some U.K ones too for her!

More pictures and info soon...

BRATZ BABYZ Just got a whole lot cooler!!!

I found 2 of these Bratz Babyz on my travels, one had no hair pieces - such a stupid idea making them removable - why did MGA do this? 

Unless you were able to swap and change these with different styles etc, it seems to daft to me, but I digress, the other girl had one out of the three she should have had... 

While I was checking them over and deciding if I want to take them home with me or not, by now the idea I could most likely sell them on had taken hold... my Muse appeared and showed me what they could become, so of course I bought them both, took them home and began work with a bit of artistic tweeking.

At the time I was very new to the idea of customising, but as the three-bunch girl had issues with her eye transfers, I decided she would be a good place to start, but oddly i didn't start with her as I'd already had some ideas for little miss two bunch and so...

I removed her eye make up and replaced it with "Snakes Eyes", then I started on her hair, adding cobalt blue streaks, by this time I'd already decided I was going to buy some blue dyed wool yarn and give her some CyberGoth style Dread Falls!
I finished the first one today...(the original is on the right of the above image) and couldn't wait to show her 


The hardest part was making some clothes for her, but I decided to add onto her t-shirt (the only item of clothing she came to me with) and made a skirt, and some lace arm warmers.
I'm currently working on her twin, and will be posting the pic's just as soon as she's finished. Then I'll continue with my plan to sell th

I made her some earrings (she didn't have any of them either) and some "lipstick" and then, I fell in love with her myself, so the idea of actually selling her on went out the window After all I get a feeling that animal eyed cyber-goth Bratz dolls are kinda rare!!

I gave her "nail varnish" and then coated all the painted areas with several coats of varnish to keep it safe and chip-free.

Check out her dad falls!!

I combined the yarn with some black hair extentions sold for humans, I think it works really well, and I'm quite pleased with the earrings too, but ...

I didn't think the dress worked very well at all, and so I made a pattern, then made them both some new dresses.

 But I'll tell you about that, and show you both the completed dolls in a later post!

Kaliedoscope

I guess I've gotten a bit obsessed recently with these Rockyou Slideshows, but oh well...here's another one!

THE MANY FACES OF ME!!!!!!

More Turtle Talk!

Ok so there I am yesterday by the pond, cold can o' beer in hand watching my terrapins basking and thinking life don't get much better than this...when...

All of a sudden Poor Mr.Yang's head's covered in bird droppings!!

I couldn't help myself and found I'd rushed inside and grabbed my camera, somehow managing to keep it steady as I was laughing so much, and snapped off this image or her!

Being a kind hearted soul I decided to put her shame up on my blog for the world to see...awww no I have guilt now!

The Story of Stella....

Thought I'd share the story of how I got my latest shelled person with y'all... 

 Her name's Mr.Stella A'tuin and she's a rescue I got her from a Sanctuary the other side of the Country lol some journey that was to go and pick her up! anyway she came to be there 'cos Bonfire Night some horrible human decided to tie her to a Firework and see what would happen...

lucky for her she kept her head and legs in her shell, and that the rocket didn't have enough oomph in it to lift her although in some ways this was a bad thing as when it exploded it was sitting on top of her so the tremors went right through her body and she suffered burn damage to her shell...how evil is that?

I'm told she's kinda famous as her story was told T.V and the sanctuary did ask if I'd be willing to have a film crew come and record her rehoming!

Anyway, here she is enjoying her new home!

Dolls and Me...

I don't remember when I first started collecting dolls, I just know I aways have.

I had my own doll cabinet full of dolls in National Costumes, these I kept out of harms way, and just took them out on occasion and marvelled at their clothing and thought about how different life must be in all those far away countries depicted by the dolls in my collection.

Every time I went somewhere I always had to return with a doll!

Family members also brought many of them back for me...I ended up with well over 100!

That's without the Tiny Tears, Sindy, Barbie, Victoria Plum, Princess Leia and countless other dolls I played with on a daily basis!!

As I've grown up I have lost most of my original collection, but have recently been finding myself unable to resist when I see a doll similar to one I once loved!!

My collection consists of a lot of newly acquired dolls, ones I had and lost, ones I never had but always wanted but also a few of my childhood dolls remain...and they always make me smile!

I've made this site in the hope that others will also feel lifted when looking at my dolls.

Enjoy,

Herbie X

Oh and I discovered something else recently...not as cool as that Jigsaw but still cool ...Check this out!!

http://www.pictosaic.com/

A Cool ass site where you can upload your own pic's and turn them into multi imaged mosaic posters etc...pretty cool huh?

The site is limited to only a few actions that you can perform and there is only 13 types of images which you can click to have made into your image but it produces some cool ass effects... The thing to do is try a few different types of image, coloured backgrounds etc and then upload to make an original masterpiece...and better still no download required!! wooooot I tell ye!

ok here's a sample ...




Oh and another...showing a close up of what you get wooot!




How cool is that? And you can set it so it makes the multi images more visible from far away or your own uploaded image if you prefer....anyway enough of my rantings...go check it out!!!

This is so cool ....

The picture is so small on that style feed thing but hey never fear Herbie's here!!

Check out this cool as jigsaw...

It's called 'The Founding Fathers'

Man I just gotta get me a poster of this wooooot!!!!!!

Offical Guild Membership Card

Offical Guild Membership Card, originally uploaded by Demonic Angel 1975.

                   I just love Terry Pratchett's Discworld Novels...Can you tell?

pages from my sketch book (experiments)

Pages from my sketch book (experiments), originally uploaded by Demonic Angel 1975.

Thought I'd put a few of my other things onto flickr...seeing as I have gone mad on there recently with my Big Eyed Doll Photos!

hopefully I'll get a few more up before I have to leg it...I'm off to London tomorrow to see the Terracotta Warriors Exhibition....woooooooot can't wait!!