Dark Dollhouse

Started out with breakfast in Camden with hubby before taking the bus to the Royal Festival Hall.

Got there and got a big wave from Twirl’s mum – heh heh.

There was a concert on in the festival hall which basically made us a part of the interval entertainment – bit uncomfortable being the photographed ones but people were nice and generally very talkative and curious in a good way. Gave my card to a nice lady who was very interested in our playing around so if you read this, hello ^^

They played Ravel I think it was, very nice btw.

Headed home for dinner instead of going to Wong Kei so looking forward to seeing pics from that part of the meet.

Hope I will be good to go for the May EXPO…

My Easter themed meet girls

Cinnamon – Bunny outfit from scraps but it worked

Belle (not the bunny ^^) – Andolrea Unoss cat outfit, well, it had ears! And is pink!

Venus – My spring fairy so perfect for a spring meet ^^

Okayyyyy – un-official winner of todays costume contest goes to Blood!!!

There were a lot of other bunnies but he definitely beat them all by tightness of his bodysuit!

In other news:
Mr Super Cool Frankie!

So serene

And the usual touch of madness

All pics here.

Right, made some outfits today – yesterday by now – that I had been commissioned for and not gotten around to actually stitching together… Cut them weeks ago. Must remember to take pics in the morning.

And managed to get a quick outfit done for the Easter theme for Cinnamon and dressed Venus in a quick version of her final outfit… And managed to have her fall flat on her eyebrow on a John Lewis paperbag making it green!!! Rubbed it off and now she has half an eyebrow ><

Oh, and picked Pris out of the alcohol bath after two weeks and honestly, not much difference.
EDIT: And that is not true! Now she is striped on her lower legs!!! And got one white thigh and hand and one yellow thigh and hand!!! >< Sanding it is FFS!

Was invited to come join the London Doll Making Club to come present our BJDs and for us to see what they were into doll-wise.

Turned out that they make their own dolls out of cloth and some are doing their own porcelain dolls.
Would be very interested in making my own porcelain doll…

There was a small selection brought along that the members did show and tell about – arrived in the middle of this unfortunately as they seemed to have quite interesting reasons for being made.

Won some silk in their raffle, found a nice trim on their sales table and digged out a nice piece of fabric in their boxes of stuff ^^

Had some interesting conversations with the members and was told a lot of useful stuff which I unfortunately did not write down and me being rubbish with names, have now forgotten all about. If any of you read this, please tell me again ^^

Actually, got a bit confused over the location as I did not realise the meeting place was in a Church – I kinda expected a townhall/big office building.

Oh, and had my bus from Camden break down on me half way there as well – luckily one of the other busses on the directions stopped at the same bus stop. However, managed to get of at the bus stop after the one I should have been of at resulting in me having to trek the what, 300m backwards ><

And my trip home was delayed by stupid Waterloo Bridge being blocked of by dunno what - so generally I wasted a lot of time on travel today lol - bit like a normal workday. Oh well. London traffic for you.

But despite all my travel woes, weather was fantastic today and was good to finish a good meet with MauMau and Mich at Mackie D's (I learned a knew word today lol)

Mushroom fairy

Homemade porcelain dolls dressed as 2nd world war refuges (someone correct me if I am wrong on this one)

Hilarie’s clothdolls

Love the vivid colour scheme

Close up of the face

Dollhouse size porcelain dolls, a porcelain doll in a very fancy outfit and a sweet clothdoll

And our lot – only picture of Cinnamon and you cannot even see her unless you know she is there! I should be ashamed of myself!

Demian the timelord

Lulu and the timelord

The front man from the Cult tee hee ^^ Love the hat!

Bummer, should have turned the camera more to the right!

Aaaawwwww how cute are they! Dina in my 45 minutes no hemming, oil on straps, no cover stitching, visible and not covered seams slip dress… Well she got dressed! And no knickers ><

Show and telll: And before you stand a winged creature

Mich’s steampunk cat finally seen in real life ^^

Hilarie’s? Think this and the next three were…

Blackravens crew and Chais’ girl?

Mao and Chai slumming it!

We are cute and we KNOW it!

Another month another meet and me again making stuff 10 minutes before heading out the door ><

New people and new dolls so all good - great day with lots of photos and some crazy kids climbing the Hayward Gallery...

So tired - yawn! Must post pics!

Found the emphasis of this meet was on weird random dollparts:

… General weirdness:

… Surreal weirdness:

… And a LOT of this:

All pics here.

Small selection below.

Krowbars’ girl – looove this lady

Einons’ blue boy with cool eyes that light up – of course not in this pic ><

Cool mod looking scary.

This face is just to gorgeous

Akando in stereo – they look freakishly real in this shot

Crowbar, again if you EVER get tired of this girl you know where you can park her permanently

Just see how perfect they would be together!!!

UGLIEST pic ever!

And one of Cinnamon ^^

Twin sculpts

Stop, no more photos, please!

Model boys

Bishop

Blood

Photoshoot

Horse getting in on the action as well with the other photographers

Photoshoot of the photoshoot

Yummy!

Men Men Men!

Abs!

Two limited moulds ^^

Office was closed today due to snow so had an unofficial day off!

Maybe a good thing since I got this nasty cold I cannot seem to shake.

Anyway, really wanted to make a photo shoot outside in the snow but this proved really difficult as the snow kept coming, and a lot of it.

So as the day passed by and the light with it the snow got less heavy and I finally got myself outside and with the help of hubby and a couple of large umbrellas, managed to get a couple of photos.

Unfortunately the light kinda went + underneath the entrance cover thingy due to the snowfall so they are a bit rubbish. Shame.

And now my neighbours think I am mental playing around in the snow with dollies lol!

Jan/ Feb meet came and went and looking forward to the next one.

Started out with the bus just going straight past me at and decided to take a cab instead of waiting another 15 minutes for a new one to show up and potentially pull the same stunt on me.

Got really nice comments on Sommer’s dress including one that thought it was part of a full set ^^ Yay! Thank you, you made my day!

Not much else to say other than I am really beat and apologise to all that I might have passed on my cold to ^^

All pics here.

Beaver man? Very Tim Burton-esque

Another very interesting creation that I have never encountered before – rather disturbing

Luna doing her balancing act

To Candy or not to Candy

Mission accomplished, Candy located!

Help!

T-wirl!

Death by mobile

Soooo big!

Another darker side of Lilu

Sommer

Day of the big dresses

The Twins terrible

Luna in red

Ta-Da!

Stripes!

Off you go! Bosch again came a little to close to the shiny stuff

No, not today! No more piggybacks for you!

Banshee!

Lemon

Scarily real looking!

No more photos, please! Paw off!

A walk in the park ^^

Archie doing his Michael Jackson impersanation

Archie walking like an Egyptian

My Legs! My LEGS!

I have had this idea running around in my head for a while now after seeing some nail decorations in the Japan Centre down at Piccadilly, about making a disco diva doll with a white afro, silvery/blue makeup with sparkly stars and other tiny jewels.

Started to look around for a white afro – with no luck.

So decided that I had to make one myself but was not sure where to find the ‘hair’.

Looked around normal wig shops but the ‘curl’ were a little too big.
Even considered getting a Momoko doll and cutting her hair of but decided that that would be a little too expensive and rather stupid. Why waste a whole doll just because I wanted to make a wig?

Then, when in DK in September I picked up a Panduro hobby catalogue and just before Christmas actually had a look through it and DING! They sell doll curly doll hair by the bag!

When home for Christmas I made sure to pop by one of their stores and grab some white curls in a bag – or three of them.

Only used one, but tangled half of it up so glad I bought the extra bags – maybe I will make another one some day ^^

Took the most of Sunday, while watching the three extended versions of Lord of the Rings at the same time to make the head-cap and sew all of the hair onto it.

Lessons learned:
Use more than one strand of curly hair – use at least up to five or six at a time.
Make the head-cap a lot larger than you think it should be – the attaching of the hair makes it shrink

But, it worked anyway and it looks the way I wanted it to – apart from it being slightly ‘shorter’ than imagined.

Modelled by Cinnamon who is my guinea pig for most of my experiments (guess that is why she is getting increasingly dirty…)

As Mao had a heavy craving for Resin I managed to put together a small mini meet in Camden.

So we went four of us to Edinboro Castle for drinks, pub food and some dollie lovin on this freezing cold Saturday ^^

Minis invading the condiment bowl!

Minis invading Frankie!

Berry doing surreal while her lower body was having a restringing

All done – The diva is back!

Frankie giving Berry a lift up after the traumatic restringing

Afterwards he had his hair done by Einon’s new boy…

Before trying his luck with Sommer…

With no luck he turned to Hei for a shoulder to cry on…

Whereafter Hei decided to try his luck…

Hei/wanna see my abs?

Sommer/Gosh, no thanks!

Hei trying a new aproach – Strike a Pose!

Sommer seemed slightly more interested or just wanted to do a copy pose?

All the Mini Meet attendees – Cinnamon sporting her new Christmas sweater

Pooh – I did not win but hey, I gave it a very small shot

But – What I really wanted to do was to post the pictures which I will be doing now! Woohoo!

All the pics here.

And with a little delay adding some of them to view immediately ^^

The Nisse-Gang Dark Dollhouse Style

Lille My (little My) doing the Nisse Style (Named after the character in Moomins)

Audrey sporting a 20′s inspired outfit

Scarlett being Scarlett just with the addition of a santa hat

Marilyn in all her frillyness

Cinnamon doing her best Nisse-interpretation that she mustered

Just chillin in Nisse-Clogs

There was this meet and all of a sudden a hat with feet turned up from nowhere created by the Big Hand.

Cinnamon noticed the Santa Hat with feet – Rather big feet.

/Wonder what could be hiding under the hat…

/Taking a peek!

/Huh?!?!?

/What is THAT???

Bosch/Mwahahahahahah – Meet the mighty Bosch! Nice jewellery you have there… mmm