Little homes

Supper is almost ready! (yep, lil' plastic ones get hungry, too)

I am so in love with those Sylvanian Families dollhouses I have to refrain from building an entire lilliputian city. Not to mention my huge 1/6 doll house. Some scrapbook papers arrived today and I am 90% sure I have wallpaper glue on my hair right now. I have to finish most of what I can before next saturday when I'll be leaving my home for a long, long time (and that makes my heart feel a little bit smaller than it actually is... but on the other hand it makes me happy as I realize now my heart has finally started to call this place home).

But for now I gotta be happy, because the sun is shinning after almost a week of tedious grey skies and rain - and it's time to finish wallpapering the doll house, fill up my iPod with good music and pack some dollies.

Jubilee.

My frizzylicious cutie pie is home.
<3

We're here!!

I'm not really impressed with the new Takara hair. Really poor quality if compared with the previous releases. It has made me wonder if Ichigo Heaven would really be worth the price. But I'm very impressed with FTS gorgeous pale skintone and makeup, and StarDancer RBLness... Now I want an Aubrey, too. :P

And those two have fringes now... StarDancer got a haircut too. I still don't love her hair madly, though. I will probably end up dyeing it black or rerooting her. As for FTS, the hair is far from perfect too, but the colour is just adorable - so it's staying. ;)

The girls need new eyechips... And names, of course.
Will make myself a good cup of coffee, retreat to my bed now and read my Baby Name book.

Blythes to Arrive: Jubilee (Blonde Kenner)
Current Blythe Wishlist: Ichigo Heaven, PD2 Aubrey

tiny outfits addiction

The cute amimonopop tops arrived this morning.
They are absolutely perfect, tiny works of art.

Thank you so much, Caroli. :)

Of hats and booze.

I promise it wasn't me who bought all these bottles!

Well, at least the apples at the bottom are organic...

And here some of my girls (still sobber) sporting the adorable hats I got from Lily:

Thanks a lot dear, they are all made of cuteness. <3

Gorgeousness

She arrived on saturday morning, I was in the attic and had to go downstairs literally jumping - as the postman is not the one who likes to wait by the door. I'm in awe and wanting to start a small platoon of Lishes. Seriously, I need to contain myself. Haha.

Spent the day cleaning some bits of the house and most of all, reorganizing things. I love that. Finding new (and better) places to things make me feel smart and useful, which is always welcome when I'm a bit depressed. I've even made a list of things that need to be done around the house, and that gave me some boost to actually start making things happen. I'm tired of looking around and seeing a mess and not knowing when it's gonna change.

Well, one step at a time, it's starting now. :)

Welcome Home, Little Princess

I've just ordered a bunch of shoes from Luts. I really hope they won't let me down, as it was the most expensive order I've placed for dolls accessories in my whole life. And I also joined a preorder for Enchanted Dolls eyes. I only did it because the colours I've always wanted for my dolls (apple green and rose) are impossible to find in cheaper versions.

Little Moyra (a temporary name?) should have arrived on tuesday (fast as hell, considering she was shipped from USA... EMS rocks), but I left the house to enjoy a beautiful morning riding my bike after a few rainy, boring days. As I was leaving my street, I saw Jersey Post van turning the corner. I had a feeling there was something for me, and that it was not small enough to get through my mailbox...

I had to go and rescue her from the post office yesterday morning, got a lift from hubby who was late for work but I just *had* to see her, after more than one year I've been wanting her.

Here's my little dream girl. She will deserve a better shot sometime, but for the time being it'll have to do.

WHY on earth nobody told me that MSDs were SO damn cute?? I even feel like selling my SD-sized girls. The poseability is just awesome, she holds ANY position nicely, even standing (bare feet!) and on her knees, what my bigger dolls never managed to. I've always failed to understand people who had several Lishes, several Heaths, several F-08s, etc. I though, expensive as they are, I'd rather have some diversity... But now I'm seriously considering to get Moyra a twin. She's absolutely gorgeous, photogenic, cutest cheeks, sad looking... perfect. A victorian porcelain doll, so life-like it makes me love her even more.

The eyes and the wig she's using now are mine. She came with lots of wigs and eyes, but these I'll probably sell - still don't know).

Blahblah

Got my Keane CD today in the mail - yay!
Eagerly waiting for my Yomo to arrive.

She isn't even here and I'm already buying her stuff from Ebay and DoA. *sigh*Updated the ball-jointed doll section on the website with Dominique's profile. Though that picture isn't great and will hardly be there forlong. I still need to update Dominique's gallery.

I look at Isobel so beautiful and feel awful that I'm considering to sell her. She is absolutely gorgeous in person, but very hard to photograph sometimes. As I do not have the time to pose her and sew clothes that would make her look like the victorian princess she was supposed to be. Let's see, I haven't made up my mind about it yet.

The fact is that I'd love to buy a CP body, but couldn't justify the expense as I really don't want any more 60cm dolls. So I thought I'd sell Isobel with Agnes body, then buy a standard Lishe from Luts and alternate her head with Agnes. But it's still only a plan. I am yet to send Dominique for a new faceup. So many decisions, so little money. That's a doll lover life.

Guess who??

Thanks God - I was afraid I had been scammed or something as the EMS number given to me by the seller just wouldn't work.

The traditional deboxing pics. Nice silver FCS box, by the way.



Papers...

And here she is:



Yes, she's an SD13 F-08 as some of you had already guessed. I bought her second hand from a girl on Den of Angels. I had asked Aimee to get me a FCS from California, but as soon as she told me they would take THREE months to get the doll ready to ship, I gave up. Really, what the fuck? Sometimes I think Volks only survive in the dollie world because of the mystique they created around themselves. Otherwise, such behaviour would be unthinkable.

Anyway, a few days later I saw a girl selling her FCS with eyes, wig, box and papers on the forum for a very reasonable price and, though I really didn't like the makeup, I though I could always comission someone to fix it for me later.



Notice the excessive redishness around her mouth. I really don't like it. It looks worse in person, especially on the side of her face. Looks like the poor thing has been slapped or sunburnt.

Here is she trying Isobel's wig. I think she looks pretty as a ginger. But then again, here's Miss Red Hair Sucker talking, anyway... :)

Just a few quick piccies. ONE DAY I'll be able to settle down and set a decent picture spot for my dolls, I promise.

Here in her default Volks wig. I don't like the colour, it's so pale it's almost white. But the quality is simply awesome. I am not sure if it's OK to dye it, is it? I would love to have the same one in auburn... The glass eyes are nice, but nothing out of the world, plus I believe that the girl used a very odd type of putty to keep them in place, it looks like... gum. It's all goey and melting, really yucky.



As for the body... She is a bit chubby if compared to dollmore/dollstown bodies (what a FAT ARSE, haha) and the tits are perfect. The feet can wear high heels, but I wonder if this would affect her standing abilities. As for the poseability... She poses great, but her strings are SO tight. And I do not know how to re-string dollfies. I'm lost, as you may have noticed, haha. I am planning to blush her body in the future, but not for now.



What should I use to REMOVE makeup? Really, all this red stuff on her face is getting me upset. Apart from that flaw, she's perfect and I'm SO happy I finally got her. :)

Now on to a MSD and maybe in the future a male BJD (an El, probably), so me and mom will be able to sell clothes to a wider range of dolls, hehe. ;)