So according to Soom’s site my girl will not be shipping until end June O.o
I paid her of end March.
Ridiculous waiting times.
Making me definitely want to consider if I want to invest in more Soom releases or if I should just not bother. Plenty of other pretty dolls out there, especially from Iplehouse and they seem to be able to ship within a reasonable amount of time.
*sigh*
Wooooot!
Beryl got her wings today!
Fullset complete and she is looking absolutely stunning and cannot believe I actually got her finally!!!
Took some pics but ehm, hubby got the mac and I hate the PC to do any image work on so… Later ^^ But oh, she is just soooo photogenic it is beyond anything else.
I am ever so slightly falling more in love with the Beryl face than the Unoa Lusis – Help! I am starting to feel like a traitor! Still think the Unoa body is way the best though, so far not beaten… also not saying beaten by the Beryl but oh, it is a very close race here for me.
Bought lining for a coat for her last weekend before my shoulder turned weird and now thinking it might have been a good thing I did not start it before I had the wings. They kinda need holes at the back of the coat… Maybe I should make it a cape instead… That would actually make more sense… Unless the wings magically grows out of her back whenever she needs them… Hmmm…
Later:
Got the Mac!
Piccies Piccies!
Russion EMS bag – never had one of these before – interesting graphics
Dina with all her goodies!
And Piccies!!! Trying to get decent closeups with feathers in the way = hard when you have a point-and-shoot camera like me. Strongly considering a SLR… As hubby said: You could get one for one of your dolls. He is so right but, I would actually rather have the doll and stick with our ok but well, not very effective camera, for something like this. Under normal conditions it is actually rather good.
Put a feeler up on the MP to sell my Kalix and Delphine.
Not sure I want to though but just not giving them any playtime and I mean, dolls are to be played with and not stuck in boxes. At least they should be displayed and I have no space to do that.
*sigh*
I am sort of hoping that I am getting no offers so I am not tempted to sell.
Maybe I should just take the post down again…
Argh!
They are only pieces of resin, why get so attached?
Beryl outfit arrived today in three little zip lock bags nice and neat – and no customs!!! Even sweeter.
Doll, check.
Wig, check.
Eyes, check.
Outift, check.
Wings – ah bugger ><
One day ^^
Oh – and sort of just found out that Beryl is a yellow gemstone and must be the reason why Beryl is yellow *no shit Sherlock*
Anyway, looking on Ebay they seem pretty cheap so thinking it could be fun finding some tiny ones and make her a really funky yellow beryl gemstone outfit…
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!
After sort of winning her Friday afternoon last week on Ebay (winning bidder pulled out – yay!) I have been holding my breath for her to arrive.
Well, you never know with Ebay but seller had fab feedback and did not look like a scammer so thought, hey, why not throw my credit card out the window with the pin lol!
And after only five days of not being able to breathe she is here!!!
OMG is she just the most beautiful pissed of lady I have ever seen!!!
And she is finally mine!!!
After deciding not to buy her last year due to various reasons none of them money actually, I have been regretting not getting her ever since.
So actually finding one non-modded and with all the parts for a reasonable price within the EU was in my opinion a bit of scoop.
Now I just need to find her her default outfit and wings to make her complete – will keep my eyes peeled!
Came in her original Soom shipping box
Big grey box lurking inside
TA-DA!
OH, what a sight!
Certificate and stuff, might be a good thing having one of these going forward with all the Chinese copy-cats out there…
Wig with pretty beady thingys ^^
Aaaaawwww
More aaaawwww
Horns!
And hoofs! Late, long day and cannot be asked to put them on her tonight but are they cool or what?!!
Wauw!
I am very very tempted in getting this cute little couple.
Not really sure what I would do with them though…
They are just soooo utterly cute and adorable ><
And completely useless…
My main reason for starting buying these dolls were to make clothes for them.
However, as I do not seem to have as much spare time as I would like this happens very rarely.
And making clothes for something like these might just be a little too fiddly?
Allthough I like making fiddly things ^^
+ what would I make?
Cute frilly dresses?
But maybe it could be a challenge…
Hmm…
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!
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 ^^
OMG!!!
Iplehouse released their production schedule for first half of 2009!
So here is the plan:
I either:
A: Have to win the lottery
B: Change career-path and rob a bank
C: Sell something of value
And the reason why neither of the above will work:
A: I kinda have to play to win…
B: I would make a lousy robber and most likely get caught + the banks have no money anymore…
C: That would be my dolls and I am rather unwilling to let any of them go after finally having sourced a lot of them…
So guess I ruined my own plans before they could set of. Bollocks!
If I had all the money, and space, in the world I would get them all!
Since I do not have that much money and absolutely no space I am aiming for the Pierrot boys, Magician and some EID women…
Not that I have money and space for all that either…
Kinda have to have the Pierrot boys though since I got the girls and Akando – all other would be nuts. Why break the family apart?
Magician, sure I would be able to make a fancy tail and coats myself for a standard edition along the way.
Thank goodness Iplehouse produces standards of their limiteds.
Otherwise, I would be in serious trouble.
*sigh*