Doll plans for 2016

I hope you all have arrived safely in the new year!

I've had this post ready for over a week, but I've been so exhausted after celebrating New Years with my sister, brother and sister-in-law, so I didn't have the energy to finish it up before now. I do have a few more hopes/plans for 2016, like more heels from Taobao, but these are the plans I want to focus most on!

1. Get face-up on at least two heads
I have two blank heads at the moment, Olivia, my Or-doll Sui and my nameless Switch Uhui. These are the two I will prioritize in 2016, but I do hope I can get a new face-up one some of my other dolls too, especially Trent.

2. Buy at least two pairs of urethane eyes
Only Trent and Olivia are missing urethane eyes. I want light brown for Olivia, probably from either Enchanted Dolls or Doll Bakery. For Trent I'm still not sure. Originally I wanted a greyish blue colour for him, but I've fallen a bit in love with the colour of his temporary eyes which are more of a light golden brown. Maybe I'll buy both colours and see which I like best.

3. Buy at least one bodies, hopefully two
It might change which bodies I end up buying, but at this moment I'm most interested in buying a Withdoll SWD female body and a Popodoll 68cm male body. My intentional plans was to start the year with a layaway on a Withdoll SWD girl and then sell the head, but I remembered something else I wanted to buy first..

Photos © Withdoll & Popodoll

4. Buy more clothes for Thalia, Caleb and/or Trent
.. which is two outfits for Thalia from Iplehouse (plus another outfit I hope some of my other girls can fit)! I'm so much in love with these outfits and would really hate for them to be sold out before I would be able to get them. I currently don't have any specific plans for clothes for the Caleb and Trent, but I don't doubt I will be able to find something.

Photos © Iplehouse

5. Look out for the perfect wig for Trent
Trent has not been easy regarding wigs. I've only ever bought one for him, so luckily he hasn't been expensive yet. I know that is has to be dark red, short in one side and longer in the other, but he hasn't really been satisfied with the few I have found online so far. I've been thinking about trying to cut a mohair wig myself, but I'm not sure. Maybe I should just commission one of the excellent wig makers out there. 

6. Practice sewing 
I really want to be able to sew some simple things like skirts, so in 2016 I hope I will dig out my sewing machine and start practising!! 

I just noticed that my plans are more focused on what I want to buy. After reading a few other 2016 goals/plans post I was reminded that I also want to try making wigs, making props, take more photos and blog more often. I could add all these to my list now, but I'm afraid it will be too long and get more impossible for me to accomplish. I will try to do these things in 2016 and otherwise I might put them on my plans next year, as I feel like my dolls are getting closer to being as complete as they can be this year.

Review of 2015 plans

It's that time of the year to see how well I did with my 2015 plans. Seems like everyone else already has done it - I'm late to the party as usual. xD Apparently I didn't post my plans on my blog so I took them from the Danish BJD forum and translated them.

Let's see how well I did!

Buy Keegan - BNBdoll Back-ro head.
No Keegan this year and for now it seems like I'm cutting this character off from my wishlist, so maybe it was a good thing I didn't buy him. Btw, if you don't know BNBdoll you should go check them out! They have some handsome boys!

Buy Thalia - Iplehouse EID Stella.
This one happened and at a really great deal even. Nikki over at Resin Romance found her for me on eBay. It was really nerve wrecking as she only was for sale in The United Kingdom at first, but I cut a deal with the seller that I could buy her if no one else had when the auction ended. In the end I saved about $200 + the custom fees that could've been about $250 on her! ♥

My beautiful Thalia together with Trent.

Buy at least one body for my floating heads.
I didn't get to buy any bodies this year sadly. Hope I can make up for that next year!

Get face-up on at least two heads.
Only my Immortality of Soul Sezz ended up getting a face-up this year. I'm still waiting for him to return from Pearls of Danube though.  

Buy new wig for Takumi, Caleb and/or Ayla.
All three of them ended up getting new wigs and luckily I'm satisfied with all three.

Buy clothes for Caleb and/or Ayla.
I bought a small amount of clothes for both of them. Like a vest for Caleb and a shirt for Ayla. Both of them need more, but at least I got them something. xD

Buy at least two pairs of urethane eyes.
I had to check a bit up on this one. I'm currently waiting for three pairs of Enchanted Doll eyes with Nikki's Peak's Woods order and one pair of Mako eyes, but I couldn't remember if I had bought any eyes earlier this year - I hadn't.

Buy hands for my Volks YoSD and/or SDGr body.
I bought two pair of hands for Ayla. She got the peace and pointing hands. I still want more for her, but I should focus on getting some hands for Shay in stead. ^^'

Try to avoid buying more than two heads. 
Another success! The heads I bought this year was an Or-doll Sui and a SNG Uhui.

Practice cutting wigs. 
I was surprised that I actually got this one done as well. I'm still not good at cutting wigs, but I cut at least three wigs this year. At least I'm not as afraid of cutting wigs now as I was before.

One of the wigs I cut. It's not perfect, but I still need practice. Original wig.

So in the end it's two missed and one half done. That's not too bad! I had imagined I did much worse. I hope I can keep it up next year. ;D

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

I've been thinking..

I was planning to buy an Infinitidoll girl body for my Dollgru #12 head, but today I starting thinking about buying a girl and a boy body from Fdoll instead. I've had an Fdoll body before and it wasn't exactly the best body, but since then they've got double joints. Also, since I've been borrowing two bodies from my friend, I've just gotten more eager to have more complete dolls and I think I would be okay with a few of them having some half decent bodies for starters. I could always buy them better bodies later on. I'm still not completely sure, but the idea is really growing on me!

Why does Fantasy Doll not have an European dealer?! >_<