Bernadette, the composition doll.

This is Bernadette, a family doll who has had much loving! She ha s arrived to fix her eyes and get beautified.

There is something very wrong with that right eye. Those eyebrows could use some work too!

After the usual decapitation I can extract her eyes. They are constructed by glueing celluloid caps onto wood globes. The right eye cap had come loose and had rotated backwards. An inventive person had drawn a replacement eye onto the bare wood globe. This makes an easy fix as I can just reglue the cap and re-insert the eyes.

Now that her eyes are done, I can contemplate what to do with her very sparse mohair wig. There is not enough left to style so one option is a bonnet.

Another option is a full new wig. Bernadette is a big doll. Large mohair wigs are hard to find and expensive. Synthetic wigs are cheaper but less appropriate for her age.

Yet another option is hair extensions. 

Her owners are consulted and extensions are decided on. Mohair can be obtained in wefts and sewn into her existing wig. That is what she gets.

 

She goes home like this.