As I mentioned in my previous post (Dolls moving out!), I've traded my Volks YoSD Yuh for a Volks Kun head...and here she is!
Her name is Tommeliesl von Dorfli, but her friends call her Tommie. The wig she's wearing was a gift from RREGUI, the person I traded with. Tommeliesl has blonde hair, so this wig will be going to resident brunette Gwenllian, when she comes back from Viridian House. The blue eyes will be staying though - they're 18mm glass eyes from Luts.
Tommie will be a floating head, I don't anticipate getting a body for her at all soon as she isn't one of the main characters in the story, but she is one of my favourite characters so she probably won't be bodyless for long. She definitely needs a face-up though!
I am having style problems with my Unoa Sist. I originally planned for her to have a mint green colour scheme and wear pastels...so far so good. Only, when I did her face-up and tried her wig on her, Mojito didn't look the way I wanted her to look.
So I changed tack. I figured perhaps Mojito wasn't a minty, pastelly girl. Inspired by ClockworkAngel's amazing psychobilly doll Cherry~Sue, I thought 'why not make her a rockabilly chick?'
So, I wiped off the pastel face-up with the mint green eyebrows I kinda liked, and did a more rockabilly style one, with glossy red lips, dark eyeshadow and eyeliner and some nifty black arched eyebrows.
I ordered her a new wig, a natural black one with curls and waves in a rockabilly style. It arrived today and... what an awful wig. I do expect that there's a difference between a wig that looks good on a large doll and a wig that is scaled down for a smaller doll, but this is barely recognisable as the wig I wanted. It is supposed to be black on top and brown underneath (I was going to snip off the brown) and the wig I received is a multitonal brown/black thing. There are even stray blue fibres in there from another wig.
So, I was forced to wash and restyle the wig. It's currently drying on top of a ball of kitchen paper put on top of a bottle so it'll dry in the right shape without putting a wet wig directly on my doll.
I've started re-reading the Hunger Games and now I want Mojito to be all pastels and fun colours again like Effie Trinket. I really don't know what to do with her!!
In good news though, I've received her feet and I got some high heel feet and option part hands as well, so there are more parts to play with as I try and figure out who she is.
Watch this space!
This morning I put two dolls in the post!
My YoSD Yuh is going to a new home in Spain and my Dollfie Dream is going to her new home in York. Carrying the two large boxes down to the village post office was a bit of a struggle! I couldn't have managed any more!
The money from selling my Dollfie Dream has gone towards a body for my Volks Rose, Gwenllian, and my YoSD is being traded for a Volks Kun head. She has her original papers and Volks headplate, and the person I'm trading with is also paying for the cost of a Viridian House face-up for Kun when Caroline reopens her shop.
I am much happier with a smaller collection, I get a bit stressed when I have over 8 dolls because I can't really do anything with them if there's too many! My current dolls are;
Full Dolls;
Volks SD10 Megu - Mafonwen Enku
Volks SD13 School B - Morideryn
Volks SDC Kurt - Klemens-Ruprecht von Klessel
Alchemic Labo Unoa Sist - Mojito Collins
Volks SD13 Rose - Gwenllian Cyffin
Floating Heads;
Volks F-03 (head only) - Mefyswen
Volks Kun (head only) - Tommeliesl von Dorfli
I am pretty excited about my incoming Kun. I don't intend for her to be a full doll, she'll be able to share bodies with my other SD girls and that's fine by me. She is based on another of my characters, a Schkauss girl called Tommeliesl who goes to school with Gwenllian, Mafonwen and Deryn. Schkaussers can be brash and outspoken, but Tommeliesl is quite quiet in comparison.
I have some 18mm blue Luts glass eyes for her and I'll be getting a Leekeworld wig in sandy blonde. Not sure which style yet. Tommeliesl isn't a main character, so I don't expect to amass the same kind of huge wardrobes and wig collections the other ladies expect, but for me a 'complete' doll is one that has their own eyes, wig, personal outfit and shoes and doesn't have to share, so a complete floating head would be one that has their own eyes and wig at least!
