Katya asked about Aoife and It would be hard to explain in a reply (as well as having nopthing to do with the oringal subject) so I thought I'd make an new post.

First off Aoife started life as 3 VERY abused dollies. They all had ink, chew marks, tears, ripped lashes, no face paint.(with the exception of one head which was mysteriously mint)

I bought these dolls at thrift shops for thier outfits (they had VERY nice outfits), and ended up with a box of mangled horrible looking doll parts I coudln't bear to throw out.

I took the head and body tag (the only thing identifying it as Gotz) off a Gotz who had serious chew damage , and tossed the rest because it was unusable. Then I took the Zapf limbs off a headless "friends of babycakes" doll. Friends of babycakes have plastic torsos, so there's really no way easy way to put a new head on. So I took the cloth torso off of a batatt doll that had also met a dog. I sewed the Gotz tag into the batatt cloth torso (so I would know where the head was orignally from) and then strung the Zapf limbs to the Batatt torso. After she was all strung, I tied her head on and she looked like a brand new doll!

This is foward facing, she's 17" , exactly one inch shorter than Kirsten, with the same body type. She can wear both AG and Bitty clothes well. She can only wear AG shoes beacuse Bitty shoes are a tiny bit smaller than AG ones.

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From the side she also looks alot like an AG because of that Batatt torso.
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And lastly all dressed and pretty. Isn't she cute. I know she's happy that someone took the time to love her instead of just throwing her away.
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