Busy Sewing and New Ebay Listings

This past week I sewed twelve doll dresses.  Twelve.  Granted, they were a simple, sleeveless style, but still.  I have been finding quite a few 18" Madame Alexander dolls each time I head out thrifting, and more often than not, they don't have any clothing.  I can't put them on Ebay naked--well, I guess I could, but no, just no.  I put so much time and effort into cleaning them up and fixing their hair, they just have to have a pretty, new dress to complete the look!  So here's the pile of dresses I've completed so far:

You may have noticed I said "so far".  Yeah.  That's because I've brought home a few more dolls since making these dresses, and now I have to make more!  But at least not twelve.  Twelve was a big number, even for simple dresses.

Here is a group shot of some of the dolls that I have listed this week on Ebay:

I'm only listing seven of the twelve dolls that are ready because I didn't want to flood the market with too many of the same item.  You may notice that there are eight dolls in the photo--the second one in from the right in the back row is an "Elsa" doll, and she already had her original outfit, so I didn't need to sew her anything.  Phew.

Here are each of the dolls a little closer up:

2010 Madame Alexander with strawberry blonde hair and blue eyes.  Her hair is so thick and pretty.

2012 Madame Alexander--Blonde wavy hair and blue eyes

2013 Madame Alexander--Auburn hair and Brown Eyes 

She is one of my favorites.

2010 Madame Alexander--Brunette with Brown Eyes

She has adorable braids and wears probably my favorite dress of all the ones I made.

2012 Madame Alexander--Brunette with Blue Eyes

2009 Madame Alexander--Blonde Hair & Blue Eyes

2011 Madame Alexander--Pale Blonde Wavy Hair & Blue Eyes

Love this one--my favorite face mold of the MA dolls

2014 Madame Alexander ELSA doll from Frozen

This was my first time coming across a "Princess" doll by this doll company.  I know they made others, but this is the only one I've ever seen in person.  Beautiful face mold, and extra dark drawn-on lashes to accentuate her eyes.

I also have two of the 17" Disney singing Princess dolls listed. The first one is Tiana, from "The Princess and the Frog":

She was naked and horribly messy when I found her.  She got a complete spa treatment to get her hair back in shape, and then I made a replica dress to match her original one.

I'm really proud of this dress! I think it turned out so nice.  She sings "Almost There" from the movie.

And here is Cinderella:

Luckily, she had her original dress, but her hair had come loose from it's bun.  I wound it back up as good as possible and secured it with a rubber band.  She sings "A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes".

And last but not least, sweet little Rapunzel, a 16" Disney Animator doll:

Rapunzel is my favorite of the animator collection.  Her face is just adorable and her hair is so long and silky.  She wears her original dress.

I suppose tomorrow I will pick out some fabric in order to sew three more dresses.  But first I will need to clean my sewing room.  I am a messy seamstress.  Seriously.  I don't know how it happens, but somehow in the midst of creating, everything ends up on the floor!  I'm actually a very neat and tidy person everywhere else, so it always amazes me how my sewing room gets so out of control.  I guess that's just how I operate.  But I actually like cleaning and organizing, so I'm looking forward to getting everything under control again tomorrow!