Very cool Bugeye Sprite

© May 2008 Sarah Saunders

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sprites

worsted weight

100% wool

8.4 oz., 471 yards total

From these batts.

So turns out my favourite doll head seller on eBay is selling heads of the Water Sprite doll which I’m glad about cuz I always wanted her but couldn’t justify the $100 for a doll I was gonna strip, and modify to my tastes. I adore her sculpt and face paint but I hated her model muse body and tinsel hair so this solved quite a few problems.

I decided to go with a Poppy Parker body cuz I had one that was floppy as heck and had stains and mismatched hands so I knew the collector style body would suit the head. I used Tamiya Fine Surface Primer and it coated the body really nicely. I then rubbed in blue pastel on the surface so it matches her well enough and it brought out a lot of the details without it looking too off.

I was in pains trying to figure out a hair colour for her cuz all the blues I saw were too dark or clashed with her skin tone and paint, but then I pulled out some random hanks of hair and found this Ashy Silver saran was a perfect match for her eyebrows. I opted to give her obscenely long hair cuz she was a holy grail doll of mine and I was already trotting out the best work for her lol.

Of course I’m adoring how she looks but I lack any sufficiently opulent clothing for her. She looks amazing in anything but I really want a nice, well made romantic and ridiculously complicated outfit for her cuz she’s worth it.

She's so interesting.

She's literally the best grandma to ever have.

I've never connected so much with such an older woman before.

We share a lot of the same qualities, we are both strong & independent & we rely on only ourselves.

I love her with all of my soul.

Taken with Nikon D5000.

Sprite just chilling on the bed, before being hoofed out into the living room for the night.

Outside Idaho Falls

Tenuous Link: cylinders painted to look like something they're not

This is a Sprite. It is blue and happy.

1:43 scale models by Detail Cars & Ebbro.