The Celebration Dress

This was actually the first outfit I made.  I couldn't resist the white after all the gloomy black she wore.   This was the second cape I made; the first one was ruffled, and I didn't think it matched the "petal" design well enough.

The dress is a purchased Barbie bridal gown.  I added a tie shaped piece made out of white fabric and used gold and brown paint to create the design.

I used extra doll hair to make the headpiece since I don't do hair well. The diadem is made of seed beads on wire, both dark and light gold.   The fan is a iridescent material on a wire hoop, with gold wire and plastic pearls securing the ends of the wire.

I used Fray Block to keep the edges of the iridescent fabric from fraying, both in the fan and the petals.

celebrate1.gif (151354 bytes) What a beautiful face!

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