Madame Alexander Cissy

There are usually several dolls on the go at once here.
Cissy is a Madame Alexander doll from the 1950's.                                                                                                            

She is made of hard plastic with a painted finish. She unfortunately has a cracked head, a bad DIY face paint job and deranged hair. Oh, and is missing most of her eyelashes.

Cissy was a high end doll in her day. She would have sported an elaborate hairdo and very nice clothes.






So she starts her renovation...

This is Cissy with her DIY paint scraped off and her wig removed. That is a large crack!

This is Cissy with her crack repaired and painted.

 This is Cissy with new eyelashes and freshly painted facial features.

Cissy's wig has been washed and re-styled.

Almost respectable now :-)

Her owner wanted a dress made from modern sequined fabric. I  patterned the dress from some original Cissy dresses so she still has hints of 1950's glamour.

'Rosie'. A composition doll.

 'Rosie' arrives in the mail for restoration. She is another composition doll who has seen better days.

She once had a mohair wig but sports only remnants now.
She has had lots of loving!

She will need to be dismantled to access the eyes and to make her a new body.


















Progress....Rosie is dismantled and her old cracked/peeling pain is removed.

This is Rosie's head minus all the cracked and peeling paint. Some composition dolls that were sold with wigs have molded hair under the wig. Rosie's molded hair is nice but as she had a wig originally, she will get a new one.

This is her head after filling/sanding/priming and a base coat of flesh color.

Now Rosie has a completed paint job

Her limbs have been repainted and she has a new body covering. Her stuffing and voice box are original.

She is waiting for a wig and clothes now.

A new mohair wig and some clothes and she is ready to go home.