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.