I haven't forgotten!

I haven't forgotten my blog!

I've been having computer problems and it's been disheartening to take doll pics and not be able to process them or anything, so I've just stopped taking them :(

I'm using a temporary computer to keep up to date with DoA and emails and things, but most hobby things are passing me by.

I successfully traded my Saintbloom for a gorgeous Soom Appini/Nobledolls hybrid who still needs a face-up, but my plans for her are coming along really nicely (she really suits the Leekeworld limited wigs in Bright Lime, so although I intended them for Mojito, they've gone to Lily (or to give her her full name, Lilithencadonatravitanenda!)

Dahlia

Pretty close to an agreement now, so I can start being a bit excited!

It always seems to be the way that the dolls I have first-hand never seem to stay. The only first-hand BJD who is still with me is Prince Rupert. My Soom Glot was sold pretty quickly after she arrived and I traded my MiniFee Rheia for a Volks Yuh (since rehomed.)

 Picture from inkwear.co.uk

Looking forward to painting a new calavera!

¡Hola! Me llamo Marigold

This is my Monster High Skelita Calaveras' debut!

My amazing boyfriend bought me Skelita for Valentine's day - it wasn't an intentional gift, I bought him a present and he was just going to make dinner for us (which he did, and it was incredible!) but when we were walking through work (we work in Tesco) I saw a Scaris City of Frights Skelita on the shelf and got all excited because she's been so hard to find, and she was the first Skelita I'd actually seen in person.

B asked me if I'd like her as a Valentine's present and I got a bit shy and said yes, so he promptly bought her for me and yaaaaaaay I have a Skelita!

Naturally she was never going to stay in the box!

When dolls don't work out...

Hmm. I feel a bit of a meanie pants.

I did write a bit about dolly doubts last month and it seems my fears were realised yesterday when Kahlua actually arrived :(

She is a very, very cute doll and the tan colour is really amazing, but the more I looked at her and the more I thought about it I don't think she can stay. It's sad, but this is the risk with limited dolls. You get into a flurry about whether to order during the time you have left and worry about whether you can find the doll again if you don't order from the company...and sometimes this works out quite well...but other times it really doesn't!

Poppy

Poppy has a new wig!

Dolly Doubts

Sometimes during the wait for a new doll, the doubts set in.

After the original shipping date of 31st December, the new shipping date is 31st January to 15th February for the brown tan Saintbloom Rosemary dolls. I'm excited about Kahlua, putting her together and making her look awesome, but at the same time I feel that perhaps I got too caught up in the 'OMG, affordable tan doll!!!!' hype and I should have thought about putting that money towards a body for Poppy. Especially since once Poppy has a body that's my doll 'family' completed. My other SD heads can share bodies and I'm happy with that, but for what I have in mind for Poppy I think it has to be her own body.

Ultimately, the whole hobby is about luxury. These are expensive toys and there's no obligation to 'finish' one doll before another doll arrives, but the momentum I had with Poppy (designing her face up one day and putting the finishing layers of sealant on her just 7 days later), I just haven't had that with a doll in a while and it would be awesome to finish her.

Shoes!

Now, everyone who knows me also knows that one of my biggest passions is shoes! I have loads and loads of shoes of my own, but I also have quite a sizeable collection of doll shoes.

There are 26 pairs of shoes in this picture, (I actually have 28 pairs, but I'm missing a boot from the LE Volks SDC Kurt fullset outfit & I couldn't find a pair of Dollheart heeled boots.) They range in size from SD13 to YoSD and there are so many different styles.

Swapsies and a new family member!

I took part in a DoA Christmas/Ides of January swap! It was so much fun to do - getting new stuff is always fun, but it was a lot of fun to go through the list of things that your swap partner likes and try and find the perfect things that would fit their wishlist.

12 Dolls of Christmas: Last day!

On the 12th and final day of Christmas (even though that really ends on January 6th!), I present to you, Miss Momoko Jones. I sold her earlier this year, so this picture is obviously not recent, but I wanted to pay tribute to an amazing doll. I still love Dollfie Dreams and I'm still a bit sad that I sold Momoko, but at the same time if I hadn't my collection would have been too big and a big collection makes me all stressed and unhappy.

I hope that her new owner is still enjoying her a lot!

12 Dolls of Christmas: Blind Mag!

On the 11th day of Christmas!

 

This is an awful picture of Mafonwen, but she's cosplaying as the amazing Blind Mag from Repo! The Genetic Opera. This is quite an old picture! She and I cosplayed together, but I didn't get a picture of us both. Mafonwen's cosplay has gone on to a new home now since I don't see us duo-cosplaying this particular character again, but I do still have the piercing blue eyes, so I'm sure I could rustle something up if It had to be done :D

12 Dolls of Christmas: Rupert

On the tenth day of Christmas...

My boy doll, Rupert, very rarely gets photographed - which is why this is an old photo of him trying to get my attention while I'm doing some work for my MA!

12 Dolls of Christmas: Poppy

On the ninth day of Christmas... last year's mod triumph!

It's ridiculous how proud I am of this doll. Yes, some of the lines are a bit wonky, perhaps I could have been neater in places, but this is the first face-up I've actually been happy with, ever, and my first ever doll modification all in one.

My plan for this year is to get her a body at some point. I want a Doll-Chateau body for her. I did think about getting one in Normal-Yellow resin, but now I'm wondering whether WS resin would be better? She's yellowed anyway, but since her face-up covers the majority of her head, I'm not really concerned about resin matching. We'll see, anyway.

12 Dolls of Christmas: Bella

Happy New Year!

On the eighth day of Christmas...

My DalxMomoko hybrid, Bella!

I'm not sure which Momoko her body came from - I bought it without a head from Mandarake (a Japanese site), and it was in an official Sekiguchi Momoko box, so I don't know whether it ever actually had a head.

The Dal head is from Magical Pink Chan. I didn't intend to make a hybrid when I bought my Dal, but I much prefer the Momoko body to the Dal one, so when I found a body in a close colour I decided to go for it. The neck piece needed quite a lot of modding to get the Dal head to fit, and I don't think it would take a Momoko head anymore, but I'm happy with my hybrid as she is.