Raouken corset review + Liebster Award #2

When Nikki visited me back in January I had the change to try her new gorgeous corset from Raouken on my dolls. First I tried in on Shay and it fit her perfectly. Thalia tried it next, but as I already had thought it didn't fit her at all. I could also have tried it on my Classydoll body, but since it has a large bust, I didn't even bother to try.

After tying and untying the corset a few times I regretted not getting photos of Shay in the corset the first time she had it on. xD That thing takes time to tie!

Returning again + Leibster Award #1

First off I want to explain my silence for the last one and a half month. When the Liebster Award tag started going around I was tagged three times, then I found a fourth tag and in the end I was tagged six times (over about a week or so). Don't misunderstand me here, I really appreciate every last one of those tags and will do my best to do them, but I was overwhelmed. In stead of doing the tags one by one I completely shut down and just slowly disappeared without trying to answer any of the tags. Now I have started to miss blogging and actually have a few things I want to share with you lovely people. Therefore I have decided that I will include one Liebster Award tag in the next six posts I'm doing.

As the first post in a while I just want to share a bit of the photos I've taken lately. I have a few other old shots that I haven't uploaded anywhere yet, but some are still unedited and one comes with a small review. ;D

Trent (Luts SDF Abadon) and Thalia (Iplehouse SID Stella)

Photos: Vivid matter

Saturday Lise, Maria, Michelle and I ventured out in the cold, and went to this abandoned building by the port to photograph our dolls. I usually don't freeze easy, plus I have this very thick and lovely winter jacket, but it was friggin cold that day. Other than the cold, inspiration had left me, but I did manage to get a few decent shots nonetheless. I love the contrast between Shay being all cute and the decayed, grungy surroundings. 

Photos: Happy holidays

On Saturday I took quite a few Christmas-y photos of my dollies. They're a bit simple as I was too lazy to do a big setup + I don't really have much stuff for a big setup, but it's better than last year where I didn't get any Christmas photos at all. xD

I actually also did another shoot at the end as a test and I think that some of the photos turned out good. But I'm a little unsure if I should post them since I wanted another outfit for the doll for the shoot. So in the end I think I'll save these photos and then try to re-shoot it when I get a new outfit for said doll. :3 Maybe I could edit one of them sometime and post here as a teaser?

HAPPY HOLIDAYS! ♥~

Photos: Felicity

Finally got around to edit these photos I took of Shay from last month.
Thanks to the lovely Lise for letting me borrow her beautiful set from Angell Studio. ♥

Photos: Vintage vibe

I actually had these photos edited a while back, but I really wasn't satisfied with the result. All of my usual editing methods just didn't look good with the black in Shay's hair and the shadows in the shots. So for a while I decided to forget about these photos. Then I searched for some editing tutorials on Youtube the other day and I found a method that worked perfect! So have some photos of my beautiful Shay. She looks so good in every wig I try on her, which is very good since she's a model. xD

Photos: Daydreaming

A few weeks back, when Lise was visiting me, I took some photos of Shay. I was playing around with her wig and got this style out of it. I think it turned out pretty cute. :D She borrowed the April Story body from Charlie since it's a lot prettier than the Fdoll body.

Box opening: Fdoll bodies

I've been quite busy the last week, so I haven't got the time to post this before now.
Back in February I placed and order from the European dealer Think Pink, where I bought a Fdoll girl body, a Fdoll boy body, high heeled feet from Resin Soul, shoes from Angell Studio and a carrier bag from Dollzone. It took forever for the things to ship, but on Wednesday last week my things finally arrived.

I even have another body to pick up at the post office, so expect another box opening soon. xD

Yet another doll maker

Yup, I seriously have a weakness for these things! :3 I use way to much time making my characters in them. This time it's only my girl characters, since the boys were more troublesome to make. I don't have Ayla and Natalie home yet, but I wanted to add them anyway since it would be boring with just 3 characters.

Link to the doll maker here.

Photos: In little time

Took some pictures of Shay yesterday. Very uncreative, but here they are nonetheless. Sadly I don't have the same kind of inspiration with my SDs as I have with my tinies. Or maybe it's just cause I find it much more difficult to photograph big dolls compared to small dolls? Hopefully I'll just need some practice. ^^

Charlie and Shay face-up preview

I think I mentioned in an earlier post that I sent out Charlie and Shay for face-up commissions. I shipped them out in the begging of the month and the face-up artist have already finished both my girls. She did such an amazing job, they're both so damn beautiful. I can't wait to get them home! :'D Sadly neither of them have much clothes yet, but I hope I still will be able to spam lots of photos of my girls.

 

Photos and face-ups by talented Shaiel.

My dolls as chibis

I've had this post in my draft for way too long by now. It's about time to publish it. Besides I've made new chibis on another site which I also want to post, but I thought these should be posted first. xD

I have btw sent Shay and Charlie out for face-up commission in Poland at Shaiel's. I'm so excited about getting my girls painted!

 Make your own chibis here

How "finished" are my dolls?

I have bought a lot of stuff for my SD crew lately and it has made me think about how much they're "finished". It makes me so happy that Hazuki and Takumi are close to be "finished", but I still have a lot to buy to get the others "finished". D:
And it's not that Hazuki, Takumi and Melissa won't get more clothes or shoes, but the others don't even have a complete outfit or any shoes, which is why I wrote it for them.

Hazuki
Urethane eyes

Takumi
Urethane eyes

Shay
Urethane eyes, a body, clothes, a face-up

Trent
Urethane eyes, a body, clothes

Melissa
Urethane eyes, a new wig, a body, shoes

Charlie
Urethane eyes, clothes, shoes, a face-up 

Onto a new year

I promised to make a post about how my 2012 has been and how I hope my 2013 will be and here it is. I like bullet point lists, so this post will just be a couple of those.

I didn't have too many plans for 2012:

• Buy a SOOM Bygg head for my grey skin Teenie Gem body.
• Buy a new sculpt for Hazuki. 
• Ship either Hazuki or Takumi out for face-up commission. 
• Perhaps buy a SD body.

Here's what did happen in 2012:

• Bought a SOOM Bygg head.
• I did buy a new sculpt for Hazuki (LLT Little Edria), but ended up changing my mind. Kept my Shiwoo as Hazuki and made the Edria a new character.
• Jointed a SDF split for an Abadon head.
• Shipped both Hazuki and Takumi out for face-up.
• Bought a Dollgru #12 head.
• Bought a Rosettadoll Agave head.

Other than that I gave up on doing face-ups myself and sold all my face-up stuff (which I now regret) and I sold 3 of my SOOM Teenie Gems, mostly to focus more on the SDs, but also because I want new sculpts for them.

Things I hope will happen in 2013:

• Ship Shay or/and my new girl (still nameless) out for face-up commission.
• Buy bodies for at least 2 of my heads.
• Buy a new wig for Melissa and Eli.
• Buy urethane eyes for at least 2 dolls.
• Buy clothes for Melissa, Trent, Takumi or/and Shay.
• Practise my sewing.
• Get better at taking pictures more often.
• Get new face-up stuff and start practise again.

I hope I won't buy any more new heads this year. Hopefully there won't be released some too tempting sculpts. I think that most of those things is do-able, I already plan to buy those 2 bodies soonish.

Sorry for the long entry! There was just too much to write. :3