Psycho Sally

I found Sally at the thrift store, she had flat painted on eyes, ugly dreaded hair that seemed to be one giant clump, and she was totally naked. I looked at her and said "You're perfect!"

The first thing I did was cut out the flat painted eyes with an exacto knife, didn't take a before picture unfortunately. I then replaced her eyes with bigger sized eyes. I kept the original eye lashes, being careful to not cut them off when I cut out the original eyes. I pushed the new eyes pretty much all the way forward on the face, so they look bulging. 

I decided she needed some stitching, I cut into the face with an exacto knife, and then threaded some leather cord that I found in the beading section at Walmart. I debated on this thread for like two days, because of the price. It was like 9.99 or something which I considered outrageous for a little thing of leather sting. So the first time I purchased a less expensive string that totally turned out to be not what I needed. So I sucked it up and purchased the leather cord. Love it. Should have followed my gut the first time.

The leather cord it somewhat stiff, but you can thread it without it unwinding. The major problem with it is that it is kind of thick, so you need a needle with a big threading hole, had to buy one especially for it for a couple of bucks. 

The second hindrance is then threading it though the plastic of a dolls face. As I mentioned before it is thick, so it will be a major pain in the ass to thread it through without first making holes to thread it through. I uses a cork screw which I have found to be the jack-all-tools, its good for popping out some eyes too. So save yourself some hard work and just pre-punch holes and then thread through holes. Or not... perhaps you like to suffer:)

Psycho Sallies "toy" I simply stitched the eyes sockets, after removing the eyes. FYI save ALL your eyes you remove. Sometimes those eyes end up being the most expensive part of the doll (especially a thrift store find), and one dolls trash eyes become another dolls... you get the point.

I made her dress from the sleeve of an old shirt I had, and added just a little lace for the bodice. Remember the ugly dreaded hair I told you about? I went through with scissors and cut out dreaded locks. Totally LOVE her hair, I could never have created the dreaded messy crazy look of it myself. I'm sure that doll took years to make that hair! The final touch was a hair bow that I cannibalized from another shirt I had.

Sally is not totally finished yet, she needs some sharp weapon in her hand, a doll sized butcher knife that I have yet to acquire, and I may stitch her toys mouth as well.