I got an early B-pressie from hubby today: Spanking brand new Canon EOS500D with a basic lense.

Opened box and manual was in French O.o
Well, I do understand and read a bit of French but ehm, not so much that I will be able to decipher a manual.
However, I am not a big fan of manuals anyway.
The way I see it: If a product requires a manual it is not very user friendly anyway. Functions should be intuitive and logical and work in a common sense kind of way.

So, started playing around with varied results which I decided to share for all to see lol!

Enjoy!

First meet of 2010 was full of new people and lots of new dollies.

The badness was somewhat limited but there was a lot of posing dolls on their heads…

And I forgot my phone at home so no tweeting O.o which was a bit frustrating but survived.

Picked her up today and it was the nice Parcelforce man who knows me by now who accepted the ransom note so it was a little less painful.

Looking stunning *sigh*

Got this leaf dress idea but need to get printer fabric… Hmmm

Tried new wig that just arrived today on Sommer, not quite right but not for her anyway so…

Sommer with her right wig and Polaris still in the Topaz wig. It is actually massive on her, think I need one of those wig cap thingys and fill it out with something lol. Think it suits her though

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!

Finally finished her dress!

It did not quite turn out as I started out imagining it.
Think my first idea was long flowy sleeves. Bit too sterotype.
Then it was a very fitted long sleeve top but gave up on the sleeves, mostly due to time + the fact that the Elfdoll body is absolutely no good. Really bad silhouette and the breast are just really really weird looking, even when dressed!

So ended up as a sleeveless empire line flowy dress instead.

Skirt pretty much turned out as I wanted it.
It has two layers of soft tulle underneath, each with circular frill attached to add volume at the bottom.
One top layer of chiffon.
All three layers are two double circles of fabric sewn together to give the volume.

Forgot the whole bias issue so it is not the same length all over but when worn it is actually not that obvious.

Closure on back is made by crochet and pearls.

All in all I am pretty satisfied with the outcome.

All ready for the Sunday London Meet ^^

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

After months of waiting finally brought her home on Wednesday but had little time to look at her until this weekend.

Halloween, Filmfestival, work that kinda stuff…

Wauw! She is just gorgeous! I got her a milk coloured wig from Iplehouse and it seems to work fine, slightly weird it looks a bit pink… Also bought some white eyes for her but quite like the lavender ones she came with… Might keep them for someone else.

Made her a crochet coat over the weekend as so much easier than pulling out the sewing machines. Took pictures of the whole process -the sleeves and planning on putting up a tutorial at some point should anyone feel like making something similar.

Time time time…

Now she just needs that floaty dress underneath – will get to that at some point before the Christmas meet as planning on bringing her.

Named her Sommer (means Summer in Danish).

Skipped the ‘working late and having no life’ part tonight and headed for Parcelforce before 7pm.

Same guy as I dealt with Saturday who remembered me >< and who raised the question: What are in these parcels? I should not have asked that, sorry - what IS in them?

To that I had to giggle and answer: Dolls - I am one of those scary ones with a doll collection. He did not seem fazed.

Anyway, brought a backpack-bag and a shoulder-bag and planned to carry the rest - and it went well. One on the back, one over the shoulder and two in my arms.

Hubby met me half way home and got a minor heart attack ^^ (He thinks I am nuts… He might be right)

From left and clockwise:
Elfdoll Soah Limited Elf Aurora
Noctarcana Circus Tatiana and Tiana Pierrot
Unola lights Flourite and Azurite
Unoa 1.0 Sist White Version