Gwenllian!

My Volks Rose, Gwenllian, is usually the most consistent with her appearance of all my BJDs. She has brown hair and grey-blue eyes and pretty much always dresses in clothes her character would wear.

 

As this doll is based on one of my original characters and was made to be a doll of the character, I've always been quite protective of her image and wanting to keep her looking the way she does in my head, whereas my other dolls wear in character and out of character clothes all the time as and when I feel like it.

 

The other day, for some fun, I dressed Gwenllian in a more modern outfit than she would normally be dressed in and I thought she looked really nice. (see above!) She's wearing a different wig to her usual brown bob style and she's wearing the gorgeous teal cardi with fox print I got from Dorset Clothing on Etsy. She's wearing a Nepali turquoise around her neck as well. I think this combination of colours really suit her and I'm more relaxed about what she wears now.

So, in the spirit of that relaxedness I decided to try my Crobidoll Thor girl's clothes out on Gwenllian! She looks so different!

She's wearing a pink ForMyDoll wig, blue acrylic eyes with butterfly shaped pupils, a grey cardi from a Volks set, a black Dollheart skirt as a top and a River Island bracelet as a necklace. I think she looks fabulously different, but it also makes me a bit sad because I really want this Crobidoll head to come so I can put my ideas together into this new doll. :( Hopefully the seller will have more news for me soon.

Crobidoll Thor Girl: Part II

Photograph by Tatiana Adamenko

 

A picture of a sprawling flamingo because it looks like my plans for a colourful flamingo BJD girl are also sprawling :(

I paid off my layaway for the Crobidoll Thor head on Friday and the head was supposed to be posted today, but I got a message from the seller saying that they couldn’t find the head and asking whether I would like a refund :( I’m really disappointed, because obviously I was super excited about getting her, and I said I would rather hang on for a week for them to find the head rather than have a refund straight away. This head is no longer being sold by the company and I thought I’d really lucked out by finding it on the MP.

I really hope and pray the head is found super quickly. I really want to put my doll together :(

Exciting things!

I've got some very exciting things coming up!

 

Firstly, in early May I'm going to Manchester to join in with their monthly doll meets at the Rosylee Tear Rooms.

 

Next, I have my cousin's wedding at the end of May in a real live castle!

 

Then I have another wedding in early June, my friend is getting married at Bangor University.

 

Then in August I have the amazingly exciting Nine Worlds Geek Fest to go to!

 

So, I'm in a flurry of excitement because I want to pick which doll I'm bringing with me to Manchester, I'm planning my wedding outfit(s) and I'm planning who to cosplay as for Nine Worlds!

 

This is a picture of Deryn from our photowalk last week!

 

With the doll meet, I'm leaning towards bringing Deryn. She's probably my most recognisable doll (because I take pictures mostly of her,) and her body is the most stable in terms of posing ability. If I stand her up I can be reasonably confident she'll stay standing up, whereas Gwenllian does her own thing. I'm also thinking that because Deryn is an SD, she'll be that damn big that I won't lose sight of her!

 

I'm still gathering inspiration for my wedding outfit, but I'm pretty sure now that it's going to be the Hell Bunny 'Sassy' dress in blue (it has a design of parrots and pineapples on it,) I think blue will be best because my best net underskirt is pale blue and will work with it straight away, so I don't have to buy anything beyond the dress. I also have a little parrot brooch which will look cute with perhaps a white cardi or blazer. The rest is to be decided.

 

Today I kind of upset my own applecart for Nine Worlds, because I thought I was set on my two cosplays for the weekend (it's a three day event and I only want to cosplay for two days. I'm planning to bring a BJD, so I would rather not cosplay every single day and just focus one day on carrying my doll around,) I've found I have pretty much everything I would need for a third cosplay right here without having to buy anything.

 

I was originally planning to cosplay as Cheery Littlebottom, the dwarf sergeant of the Ankh Morpork City Watch and Captain Kirk, legendary Star Trek captain, but I still have plenty to get for those costumes whereas I could just put on this baggy red dress, tie a pink ribbon around my neck, wear black tights and boots and put my hair in a top knot and...instant Little My from the Moomintroll books! So that one will save me money and time that I could put towards another cosplay. Both Cheery and Kirk will need work on my part and I think I'm more attached to the idea of playing Cheery than I am Kirk, but we shall see. 



Crobidoll Thor Girl

So... I kind of actually bought a new doll head... and changed some plans!

I had so much fun putting Tommeliesl together when her head came back from Viridian House that it inspired me to try and get things done with my DIM Bellosse head, but irritatingly, DIM's NS is no where near a match for Volks' NS and I don't really want to buy any new bodies right now, especially since all my other heads can use the bodies I have, I wouldn't want to limit myself by having a body that I couldn't use for any other head, as cool as the Doll Chateau body is. However, I still liked the plan I had for my Bellosse and didn't want to abandon that.

Enter Crobidoll Thor. This head has a young look, as DIM Bellosse does, but is lacking the vampire fangs and pointy ears Bellosse has. I've decided to hold off on creating my alien character, Ziylora, for now and I'll use that inspiration and colourway for the Crobi Thor head I've found on DoA. I paid the first instalment this morning and the balance is due on March 14th, so I don't really have long to wait to get her. In the meantime, since Thor isn't going to be Ziylora the alien, who is she?

The two human girls in the inspiration collage, Emma Hellier (hairstylist on a Rebel & Romance photography shoot and owner of Emma Hellier Salon in Bexhill) and popstar Katy Perry, are gorgeous and I especially want to channel some of Emma's cheery awesomeness and Katy's attitude and cartoony style into whoever my Thor girl is going to eventually be.

 

I'm going through names and having fun again :)

Dydd Gwyl Dewi Sant Hapus!

Today is St David's Day, the day dedicated to Wales' patron saint, Dewi Sant. His last sermon to his congregation reminded them to "do the little things," ("gwnewch y pethau bychain") because little acts of goodness and kindness done by everyone add up to a lot!

My Volks Rose, Gwenllian, is dressed up in traditional Welsh dress - when St David's Day falls on a week day lots of younger children go to school dressed in traditional clothes, I did every year in primary school.

I made the hat myself and boy do I have the stabbed and pricked fingers to prove it! Ouch! I think this is the last Welsh hat I make for quite some time!