“New Year’s Sparkle” will be ready for Ebay shortly…

HI everyone,
I just now read the comments and it’s 10:46 p.m. I have been busy all day working to get things finished up for Lavender’s New Year’s set. I am using Linda’s title.. New Year’s Sparkle and hope I can fit that in on the Ebay Title line with everything else I need to include. I could use Farewell 2024 as it’s shorter, but that doesn’t sound as pretty to me.

Thanks for all of you who commented on Elizabeth’s snowmen and santa’s. They are wonderful, aren’t they? I knew you would enjoy them. She has been ONE BUSY lady!

I’m debating about listing this as a 3 day auction so it just might make it to someone’s house in time for Christmas… or I could run it the usual 5 days since it’s for New Years Eve. Any thoughts?

So I have some new pictures to show you… this is what I’ve been up to…

I opened up the back of Lavender’s skirt, (very carefully as this fabric is super delicate) and made it so it snaps at the top and bottom… this makes it MUCH easier for the winner to put it on their doll. I should have done this in the first place. Now the slip can be put on and the skirt just gets wrapped around her waist, snapped and then snapped at the bottom near the hem.

I also sewed some straps on the slip. I cut a piece of the tights fabric (crossways like going around the legs) into about a 3/8″ wide strip and pulled on the ends of my strip. It automatically curled into a tube. I then set my sewing machine on a stitch length of 4 and the widest zig zag stitch my machine would make and holding the curled “tube” at the back of the machine, I laid it down under the presser foot. I pulled the front and back keeping the tube taut and stitched over the straps to the end. They were still stretchy, but it was like a lightweight cord. It worked out pretty well. Trying to get it stitched to the top of the camisole was a little tedious, but I managed. Then I put snaps on the back of the slip…

Now she needed a headband. At first I tried a piece of really glittery stretch elastic and thought it was cute, but it was just too wide and when it was over her ears it looked funny. My picture is after I had already taken it apart and tried something else, but you can get the idea of what it looked like. I did look nice from the front, but not from the side where her hair was pulled back.

So I changed it to a beaded headband with a tiny silver bow added. I think it looks better with the “dainty-ness” of the set. I just liked it better… It is made on a piece of memory wire and when I curled the ends of the wire, I used my glue gun to make a “bubble” of glue to keep it from scratching the winner’s doll’s head. It is best to use both hands and spread the wire apart and just slide it in place.

I thought about making a pin to go on the sweater, but I also wanted to leave it plain in case someone wanted to wear it with jeans or dress pants. So I decided to make a necklace that could be worn with the sweater or not… I found these little glass flower bells that had a hole in the center of them. I decided to take out the gold pin they were on and used a silver eye pin and added a sparkly silver bead in the center hole. Then I added it to a silver chain… and added a magnetic clasp to the ends. Another easy peasy way to put on a necklace for these smaller dolls.

So this is Lavender’s final look. I found a silver ornament that will be included too.

Lavender is a VERY pretty doll. My hubby even thinks so! Some of her pictures show it, but some just don’t. I LOVE her now and this is one of my favorite outfits of the year for me.

I have my pictures all cropped and ready to list it but I’ll wait and see what you think about a 3 day or a 5 day listing…

See you tomorrow,
Blessings, Jeanne