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Doll Repair and Restoration
What happens when your doll breaks or gets old? Bbeauty Dolls documents our doll hospital case studies to help teach how to both customize and repair dolls that have seen better days. This includes taking apart and putting dolls back together, changing eyes, restringing, cleaning remedies, fixing limbs and cracks, and much more. Join us on our journey of fixing dolls and bringing them back to their best condition.
Our Save the Dolls Mission in Detail
Not to go too far back, but my mother married and was divorced at a young age and didn't re-marry again until I was about 11 years old. ...
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All is not Lost - Restoring a shredded antique doll dress
A very poor conditioned Patti came to the hospital barely hanging on. She needed restringing, her dress was shredded and tattered, and...
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Jul 53 min read
Fixing American Girl Blinking Eye Eyelashes from Separation issues
American Girls use a 16mm Blinking eye which has eyelashes attached to the lid. If your doll is missing eyelashes you pretty much need...
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Jul 51 min read
Humans Give us Your Unwanted Items for our Dollies
I love the bigger dolls simply because sometimes you can borrow from the human world to dress your doll. This is the case with Patti...
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Jul 51 min read
The Best Cleaning Fluid for Vinyl Dolls
For Cars or For Dolls? I know you are probably reading that headline and going what in the heck? What do cars have to do with dolls? ...
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Jul 53 min read
Tacky Glue or e6000 What Glue do I use on my doll?
If you've done any crafting before or even entered the world of industrial strength bedazzling, you will be familiar with the glue known...
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Jul 54 min read
Taking Apart Dolls - What does the inside of a My Twinn Neck Look Like?
When I'm giving presentations to doll collectors what always seems to catch me off guard is the question "What's inside the doll?". It...
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Jul 51 min read
The Truth about Color Changing in Doll Collecting
It's a subject that us older collectors are getting to know more and more, but that stumps the younger generations as they get into doll...
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Jul 54 min read
Changing Eyes on a BJD Doll
If you've ever done an Eye Change on a vinyl doll, you will be pleased to know that changing eyes on a BJD is the simplest eye change you...
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Jul 52 min read
Helpful Links and Tutorials for Repairing a Ginny Doll
Restringing and repairing Where to buy elastic bands and repair kits GINNY REPAIR KIT ( thedollhospital.com ) About Ginny: Ginny is an...
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Jul 51 min read
Dye, Highlighter, and Permanent Marker Stains on Dolls. How to remove them.
This is a subject that comes up quite frequently because children seem to discover these pesky little drawing items and color our beloved...
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Jul 52 min read
Doll Wigs - Side Parts, Middle Parts, No Parts, Skin Parts, and Sewn Parts. What are they?
As you get out there and shop for wigs, there might be a few things you notice when comparing wigs and that is the way that the wigs are...
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Jul 53 min read
Pro Tip: Maintaining Doll Wigs
If you have been using your wig a little while or a long while and your doll is in play (we aren't talking about the dolls you are...
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Jul 52 min read
Pro Tip: Tightening limbs on an American Girl Doll
If the legs or arms have gone a little slippy slidy on you and you find your doll leaning or not being able to stand upright anymore,...
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Jul 53 min read
Changing a doll from having rooted hair to a wig
Now you are probably thinking, why in the world would anyone do this? The truth of it is, there is a very good reason to do this. It is...
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Jul 54 min read
Changing Eyes on an American Girl Doll
Changing Eyes on an American Girl Doll Changing eyes on any doll can be very intimidating, especially if you haven't done it before, but...
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Jul 55 min read
What to know about buying a doll wig
Re-wigging a doll is one of the more fun and easy things to do to customize your doll and make it your own. As well it is an essential...
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Jul 54 min read
Restringing an American Girl Doll
You know that point where you are playing with your doll and you lift up an arm or a leg and it comes right back down? Or you are holding...
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Jul 57 min read
Replacing your American Girl Zip Tie with a Neckstring
You might wonder why you would even do this, the zip tie holds the head on tight and why would you ever want to remove it? The reason is...
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Jul 52 min read
Tips on Removing Wigs from Vinyl Dolls
Tips and Tricks: Removing Old Doll Wigs from Vinyl Dolls Tip #1: Using the back end of a spoon (or our eye changing tool), you can gently...
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Jul 53 min read
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