Where my witches at?

Halloween isn't really a big thing in Denmark. Some people celebrate it, but most don't. I have never celebrated it, but I love using special occasions like this to take themed photos of my dolls.

Back in June, I bought four pairs of leggings from StarrshineDesigns on Etsy and among them was a pair of Halloween patterned leggings that you only somewhat can see in one of the photos. Tori loves Halloween, horror and everything spooky so I thought they were perfect for her. I looked through my doll clothes and found what would be most witch-like. It would've been cute with a little witch hat, but this scarf works fine too.

A few changes in Thalia's story and style

I'm so bad at sharing stories about my characters! When I have changes that I want to blog about I realize that I never shared what the story was before.

So let's start with a bit of the old story about Thalia. She used to be the lead singer in a goth rock band with all men beside her, but she grew tired it and formed an all-girl goth rock band with two of Lise's old characters. After Lise changed her characters I still had "permission" to say that Thalia was in a band with Trisha and Isabelle. Also, she was in an open relationship with Trent whom I don't own anymore. At this time Thalia's fashion style was mostly casual goth and then more dressed up for the band.

Here's a photo of the girl band, Niveous, from a little over a year ago that I also never shared on my blog.

Isi, the imaginary friend

Since I sold Hazuki and Takumi last year, Isi is now my oldest doll. Back when I used to have a little army of SOOM tinies he was a part of some sort of fantasy universe that I never developed much on. They only had a brief personality. Isi is the last one left from back then and I wasn't sure how he would fit in with my other dolls that exist in a world like our own. I was certain that I didn't want to sell him, though, since I absolutely adore him.

Photos: Adventures in The Japanese Garden

After getting into Pure Neemos I started following Azone_Ringo, an Azone employee, on Twitter. I quickly learned that the different Azone models have birthdays and that people post photos with a birthday tag. I thought this was such a cute idea, so I started looking for the birthdays on the models I own. Lycee was the first of them with her birthday being today, July 20th.
 

Introducing Tori

I received my Or-doll Sui back in March 2015 and she's just been a blank, floating head for about two years. She was originally going to be my character Olivia, but some time ago I made a few changes in my doll family and ended up dropping a couple of my characters that didn't have much relevance anymore. I didn't want to part with my Sui though since it's such a lovely head.

Then Tori came along. The other day Lise asked me how I came up with Tori, but I have to admit that I have completely forgotten. I think it had something to do with the fact I wanted to try a different type of face-up than what I usually get on my dolls? So back in April, I got a slot with Raquel Clemente and I got my girl back last week. She turned out absolutely stunning! ♥ I've always wanted a doll with matte lipstick.

Her full name is Victoria but goes by Tori. She is a transgender woman and is still in her transitioning process. She is half Filipino and half British. I don't know much about her yet, but I'm thinking that she met Shay and Charlie through the gay bar, where she told she was a big fan of Yoonie. Shay and Charlie then told that they work with Yoonie and that she could tag along with them to meet Yoonie. Maybe she even gets a chance to work with her idol. I'm not sure yet.

Drastic decisions + Liebster Award #3

Something has been nagging me with my doll family for a while now. It has taken me some time to figure what it exactly was, but now I think I finally know what; I don't think I do well with male dolls. Before I always thought it was the number of "unfinished" dolls (even when it only was a few), the amount of dolls or a too big wishlist. I have tried to cut down by selling a doll to have fewer floating heads, but that nagging feeling never disappeared.

After talking with Nikki on the phone about what might be bothering me I came to the conclusion that it might be my boys. It's not that I don't like them, but when I looked through my photos on Flickr I realized that I rarely photograph them. They just don't inspire me as much as my girls do, whom I have tons of photos of.

Photographing is such a big part of the hobby for me (not that I take many photos lately though), so I don't see the point of having my boys just sitting on the shelf being pretty. Therefore I have decided to sell Takumi, Trent and Caleb. I'm not too sad with this decision since I will be keeping their characters. That way I don't have to change anything in the story and keep a possibility open if I ever should regret my decision.

I get easily stressed when I have too much up for sale at once therefore I'll sell them one by one to make it more manageable for myself. So there might pop a few more photos of Caleb up since I'll sell him last. :)

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)

#ProBJDArtists 2015

I started brainstorming for the #ProBJDArtists day already a couple of weeks ago. I wanted to do something other than 'dolls standing with paper with text', but I've been completely empty for ideas. So in the end I went with the dolls with paper, but as a little photo story with my tinies with a bit of humour thrown in to it.

It was a mess taking these photos. Just as I had gathered the energy to start the sun disappeared behind some clouds. I decided to take the photos anyway. Then halfway through the sun decided to come back. *sighs* Furthermore I've been away from home for almost half of the day both yesterday and today so I didn't have too much time to perfect the editing.

I would have loved to write a more in-depth post about recasts and my opinion, but truth is that I'm exhausted and tired, so this will have to do. Maybe next year?

Even thought Ayla screwed a bit up, I hope hers and Isi's message is clear. ^^

Late Halloween post

The other day I felt like making a new design for my blog, but there's not much meaning in making a new design if I don't really use my blog, is there? So here I am, trying to get a bit back to blogging once again.

Last month Lise was visiting and we went to a Halloween meet together. For the occasion I wanted to put my dolls in costumes. I had a few great ideas, one of them as simple as a ghost, but as always I procrastinated to the last moment and didn't get anything done. So in the end the only one with a proper costume was Ayla as a cute little mummy. I tried putting some outfits together for the others with what I had. Takumi went as a 'gangster' (cause he's so hardcore... xD), Shay as a mori-girl and Yoonie as a witch. I also brought Isi and Thalia, but they didn't have any costumes. Sadly I didn't take many photos from the meet and apparently the only photos I did take were of Ayla, and some of Anne and Avi's dolls, haha. xD

All photos in this post are btw edited with VSCO on my phone. My laptop can't be calibrated properly and has an annoying blue tint. I have a monitor to use when I edit photos, but I was too lazy to set it up for these photos, so I thought I would try using my phone and I guess the editing turned out okay. 

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: Intoxication

As I have mentioned in earlier blog posts I have started on the A Doll A Week 2014 challenge. Originally I wanted to share all of the photos from the challenge here on my blog, but I got so behind on blogging that it just would take too many blog post to catch up. ^^'' So I'll just post a few selected ones. I only have to take one photo for the challenge, but sometimes it turns into a little shoot in stead.

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: Melancholy diva

Wow, I edited these photos in less than a week. Must be a new record. xD

I got kinda sad when I took these photos. Melissa is a very flirting woman and has been with many men and not many of those men have treated her very well. Luckily she ends up finding a very great girlfriend in Olivia. I hope to get Olivia painted next year and to get a body for her so I can get couple photos of them. ♥

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: Natural tune

Ah, I'm getting so slow at posting things here. I even have another shoot from the same day as this one that I haven't started editing yet.

Last time Lise was here (2 weeks ago) we went out to take some pictures. I only ever take my dolls outside when I'm with other people, I don't dare to do it alone. First we went to the botanic garden and later to The Old Town where I did the other shoot I mentioned with another doll. I brought along Hazuki since I realized that I hadn't done a serious shoot with him since January. I can't believe this lovely boy have been with me for over 5½ years by now. ♥

Photos: Waiting for you

I'm having such a huge obsession with my girl dolls lately, but sadly I don't have much clothes for them yet. Charlie does have a bit more clothes than Shay, so the next time I buy from Taobao I really have to buy something for poor Shay! Also I just realized that I haven't taken any photos of Hazuki since January. Ö He has to be my next offer.

Anyways here's some photos I took of Charlie in my bed the other day. ~

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.

Hayden is home

I just realized that my three last posts have been about arrivals. Well, I've just had a lot of incoming stuff and a lack of energy to write anything else.

I'm so happy with my purchase. Milhwa is such a beautiful sculpt, he is even handsome without a face-up. *^* He needs a new wig though. I had two black wigs ready for him, but I'm not really satisfied with them. I need to find someone who can paint him and hopefully someone who will open slots soon. I want pictures of him and Takumi together. ♥ Oh yeah, he also needs new eyes. He is supposed to have green eyes, but I didn't have any extra green eyes home.