Dark Dollhouse

Was initially planning on going to Expo on Sunday but plans changed along the way.

First there was the big hoohaa about wristbands that had to be worn in order to even be allowed to be on Exel grounds. This meant a lot of people that I wanted to meet up with decided not to go anyway. They were either sticking to Saturday, for which they had bought tickets or just staying away, because they had no intention of buying one in the first place.

Me, I was going to wing it but then the YHJ! incident with Airi happened and since Jezatron was going Saturday and could not let the poor lad suffer a week more of waiting for his dream girl, decided that Saturday would be a good day to attend.

Also, turned out there was a figure.fm meetup being arranged by CookieDude_2332 on Saturday so another reason to go Saturday.

Decided Friday evening that lugging around big box that Airi came in as well as camera bag, suitcase and handbag was not gonna happen. Ordered a mini cab for 9am instead.

BAD idea.
First, driver went around the block because his GPRS told him that the street was over on the other side of the road. How about getting an AZ + learn how to read signs???
Secondly, he hit on me! Offered to come pick me up afterwards, free of charge O.o I am broke but I am not that broke!
Thirdly, he sent me a txt!
Lesson learned: Do not chit chat with your mini cab driver under any circumstances! Be grumpy and wear headphones!

Arrived at Expo with all my luggage and went to find the coffee bar with the nice couches. Bought breakfast and sat down to chill and announce my arrival.

Was soon joined by DOA peeps and later on the figure.fm/ DC crowd as well.

Jezatron seemed very pleased with his new wallet breaking purchase ^^

Me, I was enjoying having twin Mio’s.
Finished their rock chick outfits at 3am Saturday morning.
Found the GNR socks in Next Friday during my lunch break and instantly saw potential for some cool DD outfits.
After finishing Krowbars’ outfit around midnight started on my own thing.
Socks turned into sweaters. That was easy. Quick job. Only finishing was a time eater.
As short of time and really did want to go to bed at some point before I was getting up, I decided on skirts instead of hot pants.
Cut knickers without a pattern and for the skirts, well, dinner plates is a time saver for circles.
Each skirt, half a dinner plate.
Sewing them again was fast. Doing the garters was what took a loooong time. All by hand and bows are fiddly things to do.
Stockings, well, you should think that was fast but managed to cut the first lot too small so had to redo but yes, then it was fast.

Think these outfits will have to do for next Saturday’s Camden meet as well as I really wanna tidy up my fabric stash as it has gone a bit ‘Where’s Waldo’

Must say, this has been the best Expo meet I have ever attended.
Normally, sitting on hard concrete Excel flooring is not fun and too many random people hovering around makes me stress a bit about security.
Sitting in a coffe bar in couches with a limited number of people being able to hover around the dolls felt a lot more secure and relaxed.
Could do this again.

Thanks to all of you who made this such a pleasant day for me ^^

Was a great warm up to the Eurovision party I was attending in the evening

Having a bit of trouble sleeping so been doing this for a couple of nights now:

All in all happy with it, could have been a bit tighter but does not show in photos when pinched in the back.

All inspired by Danny Choo and his Dollfie Dreams Dolls.

After looking at this again his sweater got a nicer finished edge, will be looking into correcting that ^^

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

Keeping my hands busy while watching the news ^^

Had a bundle of grey yarn lying around from forever so decided to turn it into something wintery for Cinnamon.

So it turned into a long sweater and a funky cap. Had enough leftover to make another cap that I am putting up for sale.

Nice and warm for winter – maybe she needs some warmer leggings though lol.

Just had to take this ^^

Still not done any shoes for Marilyn so she seems a little tinier than usual compared to the booted Scarlett and Cinnamon.

Ready for Sunday!!!

If I get time I will try to make a pair of wedges to go with it but only if time.

The inspiration was old pin up and wanting her to match her name, Marilyn.

So decided on a mohair sweater – but that was about it for the old pin up.

Rest is a bit more manga inspired, including the hair. Was deciding between the kiki wig and the dollmore that Cinnamon sported in earlier pics, kiki won.

Skirt turned out exactly as I imagined it – sometimes my ideas change a little from first thought to finalized idea but not this one. Even think it turned out a little better. The frill worked really well. Oh, I did cancel a ribbon idea simply down to the fact that I did not buy enough lol.

Butterflies was from a ribbon and cut them out and sewn on individually.

Marilyn had to borrow Cinnamon’s feet as she only has her high heel option and they looked kinda stupid in socks.

Close-up of Lusis’ faceup done by me ^^. Pretty ok for a first try. Had some critical moments as when all the pastels blew off when I first coated it with Testors and the paint coming of the lips when I applied the shiny lacquer. But all saved so she is all photogenic now.

(I have not gotten around to finding a name for her yet so for now she is just Lusis as on the pack ><).

This was actually the first sweater I knitted when I first put the kit together from a very old yarn – once bought to make a knitted doll family when I was a teenager… ages ago. Little more left so made a crocheted hat and a knitted scarf. Scarf not in pics.

Belts are from some luggage tags that my hubby Robert got from one of the companies he made a website for. Perfect Unoa size ^^

Hotpants explained in earlier post.

Wellies made from table oilcloth and hobby foam pads for soles, glued and handstitched to the boot-body – there is a rain jacket in the pipeline…

My first post on my new Blog ^^

Have had my Lusis for way over a year but have not really gotten started until about now to do stuff with her.

Bought her as a kit on Ebay for way too much money before I knew about pre-orders and YJ! >< Oh well, you live and learn.

This was my first outfit idea that actually went from paper to fabric.

Had bought the yarn for a top for myself years back but the project never really took off so instead it is now a funky fluffy sweater and a bag – still loads left so there might be some more fluffy things to come…

The hotpants, ‘legwarmers’ and bag shoulder strap were the cut offs from my jeans as I am the height where everything is too long – bonus here is lots of nice scrap fabrics ^^

Cool plate in the background is made by my friend Phuc
– thought they were a good match but there might be a little bit too much red going on here… Or maybe it is just the hard flash.

Anyway, personally think outfit looks funky but the jeans fabric was a bit thicker than expected so the finish is not so good. Hard to tell from the photos but IRL it does show its weaknesses.