National Puerto Rican Day Parade

Día nacional puertorriqueño. ¡Deseando a mi familia y mi gente un fantástico dīa de celebración!

Customer SnapShots Grand Opening!

It has been a very long time since we posted 'recently sold items'.  Originally we did this to showcase items that sold in our various shops.  However, as promotional time shortened due to our very busy design/production schedule, we set aside this event

We would love to bring it back.  In the meantime, one of our VIP customers sent this photo!  Today we launched a new Pinterest folder to showcase our customer snapshots.  Enjoy!!!

Customer SnapShot!  Featuring: Journey Girl Kyla,
in Khaki Shirt Dress, Red Gladiator Sandals, with camera!

Keep sending us photos of your dolls dressed in B.O.C. Fashions and we will feature them on our social media pages to display!

Not Spring Yet...

But our Journey Girls are anxious to see the sun, warmer weather, and the first chance to put their pedals to the pavement!  At Beauty of Creating, we look forward to sharing with you our new Spring/Summer 2018 Catalog!

Journey Girl Kyla by Toys R Us, is seen here on her bike, while wearing
an original Beauty of Creating ensemble
featured in the 18th Birthday/Anniversary Raffle Grand Prize.

"Think Spring"

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18th Birthday/Anniversary Raffle

Purchase Tickets:

Purchase your $10 Entry Here.  Live drawing on Facebook!

Early Bird Special is Closed.

The first 10 slots for the 18th Birthday Raffle are filled.

Early Bird Gift Pack will go in the mail this weekend!

The drawing for the Grand Prize is February 15th!

Purchase Raffle Tickets

Behind the Scenes...

How did I achieve Kyla's hairstyle in the 2017 Dolliday Photo Shoot?

Beauty of Creating, presents Journey Girl "Kyla" 
for the 2017 Dolliday Promo Card Cover themed Pajama Jam 2017. 
Kyla is wearing a white flannel nightshirt in Christmas Village print, 
candy cane stripe fuzzy fleece slouch socks, 
while holding a silver bell Christmas ornament.

While preparing the schematics for pattern selections, pattern designs, and of course sewing/fitting our beautiful Journey Girls for the event, Kyla was in great need of a quick updo!

I did not want curls so big and perfect that they took away from a relaxed themed "Pajama Jam".  Instead, I opted for a quick bantu knot set, sprayed with peppermint water, and made about 12-15 bantu knots, securing them with bobby pins.

After a few hours, I released the pins, let the curls fall naturally, then whisked them up into a loose relaxed ponytail! This signature look of huge soft spirals only took about 20 minutes to set, maybe 4 hours to dry!

There you have it!  You can achieve this look without rollers, rods, or heat!

Journey Girl - BOC Re-Imagined

For the Fall 2017 preview, and a featured outfit in the 6th Annual Detroit Doll Show, this re-creation was an amazing adventure, from sketch to finish! It will appear shortly at eBay and direct sell, as well a feature in the Holiday 2017 Brochure.

When I spied the original outfit on the net, it immediately screamed 'fall and shopping'.  One of the things I love to do during the fall is visit the orchard's, and thus the sketch-work for a re-creation began!

Instead of an "UGG" style boot from the original conception (which are arriving in the Holiday Catalog 2017), I decided to go with a short combat boot in caramel vegan leather matched with a Commuter Purse (#10313).

Beauty of Creating presents a re-creation for Journey Girl Kyla,
Original (1), Re-Imagined (r).  Farmer's Market Day, featured at
the 6th Annual Detroit Doll Show

This outfit was not difficult at all to design since all of my pattern pieces are a mixed compilation from other patterns I constructed this year, like the leggings and the tunic top. The top started out as a tank in the original outfit, sold on eBay, Relaxing Summer Outfit, with a few more left in the series. I reconstructed it to produce long sleeves and lowered the hem to hip length. This tunic can offer an option as a dress when extended more towards the knee.

The leg warmers are from a draft I composed in 2015, while playing around with a Flashdance movie motif.  In order to be fashioned to be worn comfortably over leggings, I widened the tube.

Most of the materials used here in Farmer's Market Day hail from Fashion Fabrics Club, except for the purse and boots fabric, purchased at JoAnn Fabrics.

You will see many variations between the inspiration and the Farmer's Market Day version by Beauty of Creating, where I also included a farmer's tote and shop props to authenticate a real shopping experience.  Instead of the big side ponytail Kyla wears a high knot bun.

The look is completed with crystal stud earrings and a sterling silver triplet french rope necklace. 

Welcome Journey Girls, Kyla and Callie

Toys R Us has a mission it seems.  Recently their Journey Girls have reached incredibly low prices and I am not one to let events like this pass me by, especially since two Journey Girls evaded my collection.

Without further delay, Beauty of Creating welcomes Kyla (l), from the 2015 Italy Collection and Callie (r), from the 2016 New York Collection.

I love both Kyla's and Callie's starter outfit.  This means that I am in no hurry to discard their arrival dressings.  They can remain dressed until at least late summer.  I am sure however by Fall they will model Beauty of Creating designs. They do remind me just how much I need to order more doll stands.

I have to say that these two are truly dolls after my own heart.  Kyla is an artist, of Latina descent, while Callie, a fashion guru of biracial Latina/Asian mix, represent cultural and lifestyle experiences of which I am very passionate.

Stay tuned to see future designs and photo shoots, as Beauty of Creating features these two beautiful dolls!