Kim Arnold, who sculpted and did the outfit for my fullset Trinket Box Cookie, tends to do fullsets reminiscent of Cicely Mary Barker’s Flower Fairies, but she made an adorable deviation with Raggedy Cookie. Inspired by Raggedy Ann, this Cookie has a wig of fabric strips [kind of like yarn] and a similar skirt. Her faceup simulates stitching [down the center of her face, for example], as well as the red-apple cheeks that form part of Raggedy Ann’s signature look. The large eyes and wide mouth of the sculpt work very well with this style.

After seeing this iteration of Cookie, my ideas about a simulacrum BJD have come up again. The marionette concept wandered off into rag doll territory, as I think this Cookie, plus Aimerai Doll’s Scraps, look really cool simulating fabric. I like Raggedy Cookie because her whole faceup gives the impression of fabric, while Scraps just looks like your standard human character with large squares of fabric decorating her face for some reason. I do, however, like the fact that Scraps’ patches and stitches are sculpted onto her face, giving them more realism.

So clearly what I need here is some sort of rag doll marionette that has jumped its strings. I could probably best achieve this in 1:6 scale, since I have several BJDs in that size in my parts bin. Body would possibly have different pieces dyed different colors. Outfit would be partly fused with body in the form of thin fabric glued directly to the resin with either sculpted stitches made of Aves Apoxie Sculpt or glued-on stitches made of yarn. The other part of the outfit could be Ellery’s patchwork skirt!!! Hair would be yarn.

Loose stringing. Eye hooks [ouch!] screwed into top of head, back of hands and tops of feet.

Head would require some modding. Eyes would be closed and smoothed over with Aves Apoxie Sculpt, then replaced by buttons. Eyebrows would be painted to look like stitches. Mouth would be the most realistic, painted to look like a Glasgow smile, with more sculpted or glued-on stitches where it extended past the lips. Red circles for cheeks.

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