Bru Jne

My dream is to make a Bru Jne doll. I bought the last of the Byron 19" molds to create her. Now all I need is a kiln! I've put the request in with God (and my husband) and now I wait. In the meantime, I have been buying a few inexpensive Bru Jne reproductions, and I'm trying to fix them up. Here are some pics of a Bru Jne head I found on ebay.  I've named her Anne (after Raggedy).   I found an inexpensive 80s body with nice hands at a thrift shop. She has no holes in her shoulder plate so mu attachment process is "unique". I then bought some hair wefts at a beauty supply and made her a wig, and I replaced her German glass eyes with domed French paper weight ones. Her eyes are 13 mm, but the eyes only come in 12 mm and 14 mm. In the picture above she has the 14mm.

Here she is again with 12mm eyes, I don't know.  Which do you like better?

Her wig wefts are real human hair!  I didn't realize that until after I made the weft purchases from the beauty supply.  They were so inexpensive.  I misted her hair and set it in curlers. It took the curl more strongly than I thought they would.  I guess human hair curls more intensely than synthetic.

I tried to find a real bru jne with a similar look to my Anne. :-)

June 18, 2017

     This is a lovely reproduction Bru Jne head is from the 1990s that I purchased from Etsy.  Her name is Adelle. In the photo below I had her head on the body is an antique German composition body from Ruby Lane. I eventually gave this body to one of my antique German heads.                                

Here's another reproduction Bru Jne.  This one is from the 70s. Another frugal purchase from ebay. The lady who sold her to me was so nice! I named her Farrah because of her hair style! In this photo she has french glass paper weight eyes that I think are a little too big.

January 12, 2018

Here is my unusual collection of Bru Jne reproductions. The one one all the way on the right, the tallest one, is Adelle. Here she has a mohair wig and brown glass french paper weight eyes. She's borrowing a cotton dress that I made for Addy. Her body is a French composition body that I love. To the left of Adelle is a Bru Jne reproduction head and shoulder plate wearing an ashen blond mohair wig. She is on an 80s porcelain and cloth doll body. I've named her Luna. Then you already met Farrah. Then to the left is Anne, and the smallest here is a little Bru Repro that I picked up along the way that I've named Chloe. Chloe is wearing the first doll dress that I ever made.

And as of March 31, here is my group...

I bought another Adele. She was on ebay. This one came on a body that was 100% bisque! Her joints all have felt lining in them to prevent scraping! The red hair girl is new and I've named her Romy. She has a similar face mold and body to Farrah. Adelle #1 on the right is only wearing a slip in this photo.  At the time of this photo I had failed to sell Luna, the shoulder plate Bru Jne in the first group photo. I'm waiting for some new brown eyes to come from China for poor Luna. I gave her violet eyes to the red haired Romy. I'm going to give Luna a face up so stay tuned. And speaking of face ups...

where did Adelle#1's original blue eyes go? 

This is a Journey Girl 18" doll from Target that my kids didn't want. Her original eyes were these sleep eyes that were so popped open she looked like she had too much caffeine! I tried so hard to fix those eyes, but only ended up destroying them. So I replaced them with Adelle's glass ones. I redid her face paint. I'm having fun. lol