Restoration Project

365 Toy Project: Day 169, originally uploaded by esmereldes.

Ok, I'm falling a bit behind on my blog posts again. The weather's been wonderful, I'm on a deadline at work, and I'm busy with a couple of projects at home. All of this is not enough to keep me offline completely, I've just not been keeping up with everything...

This is one of my projects. I have some old cloth dolls that are very badly damaged that I am trying to restore. This one is probably one of the worst for wear, but I'm hoping I can help her. She is a doll I had as a child, and tho I was not one for dolls back then, I liked that she was a brunette with blue eyes - just like me. So I took all her stuffing out and am trying to wash and probably bleach the stains out of her. I may need to redo her hair completely, I'm not sure. I'm moderately terrified to wash her face, because I'm afraid of the colors on the thread running, but I don't really have any choice, I don't think, unless someone out there has a brilliant idea for cleaning her otherwise?
(dry cleaners don't really like to dry clean dolls, apparently... The pieces are too small to go thru the machines well...)