Friday, August 31, 2012

Pimpin' ain't easy. And Doll photos.

A journal where I say, LOOK AT MY STUFF!

I am still selling:
Alice in labyrinth Elijah WS
Leekeworld Kyou head WS
Elfdoll R. June head NS of some kind
Unoa Sist sleeping fp (light mods) on a Buff head back
Angell Studio Kimi head GS
5star Kane head in WS
I'm looking to Buy: 
Volks Chris or similar head in WS - F16 or old F28 or something else along those lines. I will probably need layaway unless you want some trades + money, or my stuff sells. I can give you a good down payment though!

Wanna trade?
Supida Rosy head NS
AOD 1/3 girl body, NSY Small bust - other similar body
Lati Blue boy body
AOD 1/4 NSP boy body

AND this is where I say, go look at my other stuff.
This is my sketch blog. It's newish and a little shakey, but getting there. I'm taking on a new thing in Nov and want to talk about it, but it's not doll related, so it's over there. Go visits me! :D

Speaking of dolls....
Alex II got a new faceup. He looks...better I guess. the new one is a little better technically, and his eyelashes aren't all bent and I let it sit forever to dry so hopefully no chipping...I now need to do the obligatory blush/scar/tatt job on him. Which I'll never get around too XD
One cool thing...I put Dollmore hands on him and they look SO much better. I am a large hand person, I like em big. These just look less....pitiful to me. Iz happy.

Here's some Mini. He's modeling two outfits...the black shirt is another action figure outfit...I wish the sleeves were long, but I still love it on him.


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 This is him doing what all my dolls are supposed to do...inspire me in my art. In my new project Alex will be wearing a similar outfit...so I thought I'd get in the mood by looking at him in it! I don't really care for the plaid shirt...one of the things I've always wanted for Alex of all sizes is a good blue, plaid, flannel shirt...and they just don't exist. Meh.

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 I love that hat. He'll probably wear it all the time now (Big Alex has one too, I is wearing it). I keep buying him hats...I still want more. It's crazy. He has a hat for like, every outfit now!

Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Stuff and stuff

Just because my last few rants were ranty, I figured I'd just throw up an update on what I'm working on...or doing.

First...Alex II. This is the stupid chip in his stupid face.
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Right there on his lip. I figure I could try and fix it, but I put a lot of pastel and a lot of gloss on his lips and there's a lot of pastel around his mouth too, so it might be less stressful to do the whole thing over. I'm so pissed at him I haven't looked at him since. Eventually I need to wipe him and start over, but for now he's been banished to the Alex Shelf. I have like, 30 pairs of eyelashes on order, I might wait til they get her anyway....

I don't know why his nose is so shiny D: Stupid jerk. But hey, it's not dented at all! You can totally tell from this angle XD

I'm not sure what to do with David right now either. His faceup needs redoing I think, I just don't know exactly what I want for him so I haven't started it yet. I'd also like to blush him and give him is few tattoos so he'd be finished. He needs new eyes, and I need to finish modding his wigs and then he'd be more or less finished. Clothes will be his biggest issue, which is nothing new. David's style is...well. I don't know. Which is his issue. I bought him some new stuff recently and I hope it's good when I get it. I was watching The Closer recently and that guy who plays with fire was wearing some outfit that made him look really hot (lol burny guy was hot XD) and I thought I needed it for David...so I got him a militaryesque jacket and a few tshirts, plus some boots. He really needs new boots since he outgrew his old ones. Stupid Dollstown and their fatty calves. I really hope one of the two new pairs fit him, or Alex will have more shoes than even he knows what to do with. Now he just needs a nice hoodie in some color I have yet to determine and added to the few clothes he's already got, he'll have a decent-sized wardrobe! I wish it would all get here fast!! But overseas mails is sloooow.

Finally, Binx, the little Cherishdoll I got at BJDC. I had no idea what to do with him other than "fairy", but over the weekend I got inspired, and now he's on his way toward completion! :D

Blaaaaaaaaaank faaaaaaaace!!! XD

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and his wig, which is pretty fabulous, if I do say so myself! It's made of scraps, picked out for fallish colors...obviously to match his "theme". I really like making wigs...they're such a crap-shoot for me because half the time I mess up and they don't work, but when they do it's awesome. And they're kind of mindless and relaxing...

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I LOVE it. Still waffling on his faceup and blushing, but he should be getting fairy wings made as soon as this week possibly, so that will be awesome. His leaf covering is a bunch of fake leaves glued together, then fastened with snaps so it comes off easily. Amazingly enough, it looks great in person, like a leaf-loin-cloth when he stands, then when he sits it rides up just enough to look like a little dresss X3

I wanted an acorn cap for him, but his head is too big for a real one...I might try and commission a knit one off DOA, or he'll just wear his circlet of berries. which are really fake XD
His eyes are too big and I might go with green anyway since I somehow have a lot of yellow and orange-eyed dolls. I have a lot of green and red too. :\ Who knows. I do like the orange. I'll see what I can find first.

He's so cute!! X33 I should try to finish him up this weekend...I have a huge list of dolls to work on, he'd be quick and I could scratch one off the list...

Saturday, August 18, 2012

AAAAARRRGGGGGH

I KNEW IT
Alex's new faceup chipped already. I have NO idea how it happened!! He was fine yesterday, today, chip. The damn thing didn't even last a month!!! WHYYYYYYY?!?!?!?

WORST

DOLL

EVER

The only good thing is that there were a few things I didn't like about it that now I have NO CHOICE but to fix.

Ugh. I mean seriously, ugh.

I have pictures...but I don't have the energy to post them atm.

I may be oddly unsurprised about this, but I'm still pissed. I think he's doing it himself. That's the only explanation I have.

Ugh.

Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Alex II, FAILdoll part 2. Also long.

Before I jump right back into the life of my failest doll I figured I might try to explain the number system....It has to do with when my five (technically four, but I'll explain that too) Kara Klums exist in the timeline that is Alex, not with when I bought them, though up until 2.5 I was lucky in that they were bought in that order anyway.

Alex I (1 - I use Roman Numerals because I can) Plain, normal Dollmore Kara Klum NS, Blond - the only version available to me when I bought him: Happens to be my first doll but is the youngest of the Adult Alexes. In my head he would be Alex from about his early 20's to 200.

Alex II (2) - Thinking Kara Klum NS, Blond: 200 – maybe around 300ish. He almost dies and ends up...not so healthy. Which is why this one gets the sickly face...

Alex 2.5 - Thinking Kara Klum NS, Blond: 300ish – 497 (which is when he dyes his hair green/purple): Zombie Apocalypse, other stuff, bad things. Yeah. This one gets a lot of crap...but doll-wise I consider him almost interchangeable with II which is why he's 2.5 and not III or V....

Alex III (3) - Cold Heartbroken Kara Klum LE WS, Green/Purple: 497 – 500. Which is the end. What I consider to be the "Current" Alex as this is the time when Forgotten Children takes place. Almost all of my dolls "exist" in this span of time, so in the profiles, he's Alex, the others are listed separately as the Past.

Alex IV (4) - Cold Heartbroken Thinking Kara Klum LE WS, Long Blond: This is the complicated one as it's not really Alex, it's Azrael who I think should be the same mold because I say it's so. But as a Kara Klum he automatically is Alex. I call him both. I never said I made sense.

Alex II and 2.5 are in a state of transition right now, but they all have their numbers on their left hands....The reason I started this numbering thing, wasn't for me at all, it was for everyone else. I know, who cares, right? Believe it or not, people care.  :|
As I started accumulating Kara Klums and calling them all Alex I got a lot of comments from people in the area. Mostly "but which one is this?" There were actual arguments and whining and I got a little tired of trying to explain myself....and so Alex II (the concept, since at the time he was the one that is now III) was born. There was more confusion after I switched II to III when The Head got his own body, so I started numbering their hands.

As I (1) will demonstrate for you in this craptastic photo taken when he turned 3 years old....
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They all had them, til the recent body mix-up. Now 2.5 is labeled as II. GOOD GOD THE CONFUSION!

The sad thing is, I don't need the numbers. I know when they are, and that's what matters....but try ignoring questions asked face-to-face as opposed the internets and you'll see why I differentiate.
And still I have people looking at Alex III and trying to tell me "That's not Alex!" When he's really the Alex because 11 and a half years ago when I thought him up he had green and purple hair!! The blond came later *bangs head against the wall*

This is all Dollmore's fault btw. If they had released the WS version a year earlier, III would have been my first and possibly only. But what can y'do? :\

Now that you've all died from the insanity and/or boredom, I'll pick up where I left off...with stupid Doll Chateau.

So after 3 months (not a bad wait at all) my DC Youth body showed up. Originally I thought I'd put 2.5 on it, but the more I thought about it, I decided Alex II should be on it, as he's the sickly(est) of the Alexes. When it was FINALLY delivered at freaking 8 pm the night before I left for Austin,  I did a quick head switch...I'm not sure what to think about it.

First, the measurements are epically wrong. I mean for real.

Doll Chateau's measurements
Height:60cm(include head)
Shoulder width: 9.7cm
neck size: 7.4cm
Arm length: 20cm
Breast size:21.8cm
Waist size: 18cm
Hip size: 25cm
Leg length: 32.5cm
Thigh width: 12.6cm
Feet length: 6.8cm

Dollmore Adam measurements (as taken by me)
Waist: 19
Low on hips: 21
Leg (all the way from foot to hip ball): 33
Largest part of the thigh (circumference): 14
Chest: a smidge over 24
Shoulders: 12 across
Torso:18 (tall)
Neck (circumference): 9
arm from wrist to shoulder: 19
and height: 58cm (or possibly 57.5, I like to round up)

Going by these, I thought I might have a problem with him being bobbleheaded, since DM has very broad shoulders for his size. I figured he'd be way skinnier too, given what I read...and only about 2cm taller than the usual Alex, which could be dealt with if he never wore boots....

 Yeeeeah. DC will give DM a run for it's money as far as crappily measuring their dolls goes.

This guy is a giant.

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Omg look how skinny his legs are!! He makes the Dollmore legs look chunky XD
As you can see, without a head, he's damned near 58cm tall. WITH a head...I have no idea, because by the time I measured him at 62-63 I'd taken a significant amount off his neck, which is super-long. You cannot tell me that DC heads are 2cm big. That's not remotely possible.

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again, before I did any mods.

Now, with at least a cm off his neck, he's as tall as David. I can't have that. I'm taking another cm at least off his neck again, and hopefully that's enough to make some kind of difference...Otherwise...I'm not sure what there would be in "otherwise" tbh.

Oh, and I need not have worried about shoulder width...

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9cm my ass. Try 12. The same as Dollmore...which is good for proportion, but still really wrong. His waist is bigger too, and chest about the same. SO at least he can wear Alex's wardrobe with no issues...actually most of the clothes fit him better =_= though because the pants don't hang on him like on Dollmore, they're too short. I cannot win.

His hands and feet are tiny (again, compared to DM which is what I'm used too, they aren't too bad otherwise), he's wearing MSD shoes atm, the hand thing may bother me in the future (I draw hands and feet big so to me Alex should have larger hands and feet) but right now I'm trying not to worry about it...I'm more concerned about his legs which will not spread at all. When he sits his knees stay together and that's pretty much it, he can't spread them apart. It bugs me. Sometimes it's cute, but srsly, Alex is a man (even if he doesn't look like it) and does not sit like a girl.  I took the ledge off the hip sockets, making them rounder, but that didn't do anything (positive or negative, so I didn't lose anything at least). I'm not sure what to try next.

Oddly enough, with all my whiney complaints, I like it. I don't like it next to my other dolls, but for a stand-alone Alex, it's perfect. I mean, this is how I draw him! Hip-bones sticking out all over the place, kinda pathetic and girly-looking. It's perfect! It can't pose like DM does, which to me = bad, but that's because I am used to the natural grace the Adams have...and once I restrung his arms which were so tight I couldn't get his hands off and had to cut the string, they pose so much better...so there's that at least. The lock on his chest is useless so he can't slouch (which must be fixed, I don't deal well with non-slouchers) but I haven't tried sueding him yet. I think it just needs some getting used too.

But he's still too tall. Which brings me to my newest Alex II dilema.

Since the color diff between my ancient DM heads and the new DC is so huge, I new I'd have to give II a new faceup...Instead of diving right in I did something Ive never done before and drew a mock-up.


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Yay! I liked it, and so attempted to recreate it on Alex II

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I gotta say, it might be my favorite one so far. It's super-pale and the color just won't show up perfectly in photos (at least not the ones I took today) but I think it works. He looks awful, which was the goal, and kind of real which is creepy and the more I look at him I find things I hate, like how I drew the lip lines crooked, or the line that appeared at his eyelid crease, or the fact that he needs new eyelashes because these are bent up like a mother! AND I am totally stupid and got so into the faceup I forgot the most important thing, which was to freaking blush the head to match the body!!!! So he STILL does not match!
UGH BE RIGHT DAMN YOU! but for now I'm good with it....

Except that he's so freaking tall.

My first thought was, switch heads again, put II back on the old body and 2.5 on this one to be a new Alex that does not "socialize" with my other dolls. Which would be great if I didn't already do this faceup I like and in my head - which lets face it, is not a right place - belongs on the skinny Doll Chateau body.

So now I don't know what to do with him. He's lucky he's so cute, cause otherwise there is a box with his name on it that he could go in until I forget I own him (literally, I recently labeled all my doll boxes with their names X0 here's hoping I never sell any of them!). I'm hoping I'll magically figure it all out when I mod more neck off, but for now he's not going near the others. Which is sad because he really looks...well decent.

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I might sand the chest a little too....why the hell not, I'm already modding it into nonrecognition!

Now I need to clean the other Adam body (the one in the above piccies) and get to opening mouths, and hey, if I kill that KK head trying to open its mouth, I can buy a new one who might possibly match the DC body, so I'll get the stress of messing with them again :D :D :D

D:

Dear god lets hope not. As if I need 6. Because you know I'd never get rid of the one I ruin, I'd just mess with it more until I decided it needed a new body.

It's an addiction. At least I know this.

Kind of a bleh end to my craziness, but this is the doll-drama I like to deal with, as opposed to the kind that makes people "leave the hobby".  I guess my brand is a little less stressful. Though more frustrating because knowing Alex II, I have a good month or so out of this faceup before it starts to flake or crack or just fall off of him.

Actually, who wants to take bets that I'll change his eyelashes and ruin him myself? Because that's totally the pattern.

Well, to those of you who actually followed this nuttiness, thanks! :D I hope you at least managed to get a good eyeroll out of it!

Monday, August 13, 2012

Alex II. FAILdoll. Epic-long post.

A few of you, if you followed my now dead Live Journal, may know that of my dolls, Alex II is the bane of my existence. He and I have had serious issues, pretty much from start to finish.

It started way back after I'd gotten Alex I (Dollmore Kara Klum and my first BJD)...He had just gone off for his first custom faceup and was gone for a few months. I had no idea how totally attached I'd gotten to him in so short amount of time, and was ready to chew off my own arms in separation anxiety (he remains the only doll I get this way over). Right after I'd bought him, Dollmore had released the Thinking version, which is the same as the normal, but with even sleepier eyes (I think the normal one looks half asleep! Lol). Dollmore didn't sell heads separately at the time, but I really wanted the Thinking head as an "extra" head for Alex...and if I'm honest, I just wanted Alex whole again, and I figured if the head got here fast, I'd at least have one to tide me over til the Real Alex got home.

I begged Dollmore in a note to sell me the head, and after grilling me on what I planned to do with it, they did! Then of course two months later they started selling them on the website legitimately XD
But hey, I was first!! I got him a custom faceup (free!! And people wonder why DM is my favorite company) and a million years later, he showed up. After Alex I had been home and happily on his body for a month lol. I tried.

I didn't care much for the faceup he came with, and partially removed it intending to redo it myself....but I'd never done a faceup at that point and didn't want to mutilate my "baby" (the fictional concept of Alex, not necessarily the doll) so it never got done and he stayed a partially blank head and then a totally blank head in a drawer for months. When I got requests for a Kara Klum head on a different body, I used him instead of Alex I, and took many humiliating photos. And a few head comparisons, and at least one photo of him in a chair with Alex I.
I attempted to sell him twice, changed my mind both times, and he continued to be called "The Head" and live in a drawer.

Then I finally sat down and did his faceup. By then I'd done a few more and I wasn't as afraid (but I wouldn't attempt to do Alex I for another two years)...it turned out...ok. Great for what I could do then, but now I look back and cringe XD

Since at the time it was my best work, I was all excited to slap him on Alex I's body (Alex II was, at the time, the LE WS one that I'd recently gotten from Dollmore after they finally made me a WS Kara Klum. TOOK YOU LONG ENOUGH!! I wasn't planning on any more Kara Klums so I figured it would just be Alex I, Alex II and the head forever...lol). When I brought Alex I out for the head switch, I....couldn't do it.  He is stupidly sacred to me, I couldn't change his head even to his own (other) head! So I whined until my roommate suggested I just buy another body.

Yep, this is how it starts. Or continues, since I already had two at home at that time anyway.

While I was waiting on this new body (which would be an entire year newer than it's head, and in Dollmore's new resin formula) his faceup chipped off. =_=
I redid it, but imo it wasn't the same...Whatever, I got it done, and it was ready for the body.

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Alex II back in the day. Gawd that's bad.

So I had Alex I and II, but in my head, the two NS Alexes were "first" in the timeline of Alexlife, and I technically had that head first anyway, so in a confusing-to-my-irl-friends move I changed Alex II to III and made The Head Alex II. This is when I started numbering their hands....people were complaining. I don't know why...I can tell them apart just fine! XD

In doing Alex II's faceup I'd stayed true to what I considered Alex to look like, so he was similar in look to Alex I. After a decent amount of time, I realized I didn't like him. I wasn't bonding, to use a familiar bjd term. There was something off about him. I figured that I'd done it all wrong, the whole point in having three of the same doll was to make them all different, even if they're the same....so I tried something totally different and gave him a new face, very unlike my usual faceup style and much closer to what I do now.

And he looked like this
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 I was...very happy with him at that point. I loved this look, it was SO Alex, sickly and exhausted (which he is much of the time), and the best faceup I'd ever done. I'd given him the first natural mani-pedi I'd ever done and adored his hands and feet. I was also finding out that this current Adam body was different than the other two I had. It felt skinnier, and moved better and he usually looked better in photos than the other two. He looked better in their clothes than they did! without me ever saying so out loud, I kinda considered him my favorite. About this same time I was not liking Alex I anymore (turned out to be his faceup, once I finally got over myself and did it for the first time, he became my favorite again) so Alex II got all the play for a while.

Then disaster. I started doing his numerous tattoos and scarring. Most of the tatts were not an issue but that damn rose....it almost killed me. I had to redo it constantly, the MSC would run or flake or crystallize....it was awful.
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Yeah, he knows he's a bitch. *kicks him*

Then I did the most horrible thing I've ever done to any of my dolls...I was working on him, finished for the night and put him back together, and stood him up behind me, leaning on my desk. I was in a swivel chair, and for some reason I had a huge, heavy pair of metal scissors in my hand...I whirled in the chair and smacked him right in the face with the scissors *death*

If you could have heard the noise that made....I thought for sure I broke him. I looked him over and found a little chip in his faceup on his nose...and since I hadn't been happy with his lips anyway, removed the lower part and redid it...which took another couple days, sweat, tears, probably some blood since I tend to injure myself on dolls and finally he was perfect.

For several months, until his faceup started flaking off AGAIN. I swear this doll....some days I want to strangle him. Or toss him out. Or something.

While trying to repair the damage I realized the problem was...more damage. Smacking him the face with scissors had hurt him, his nose was dented! How I'd never noticed, I have no idea...so I removed the whole faceup (practically in tears, it was still my favorite one I'd done) and gave his nose a boiling. I'm fairly sure the dent is totally gone, but sometimes wonder.

I redid his faceup again, but never liked it as much...something was off about the color or the eyebrows or something...

I did get around to his back scars, something I was hugely proud of...and then I ruined him again!

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Yep. EPIC FAIL. This time it was clothes. Alex II is/was the only Alex I'd gotten this far with. III being so white is a little bit of a challenge for me color-wise, and I didn't want to do raised scars with him, plus his wing tattoo is so scary D: I've just never finished him, but II was done. DONE. And I dressed him as Snape for a Harry Potter meet. And left him dressed as Snape for a month.

He turned completely black.

In tears once again over this stupid doll I tried my best to clean him without ruining him, but he'd never be the same. He's so gross now >.<

*giant sigh*

I was ready to experiment once again, so I bought a second Thinking Kara Klum head off the MP. I was calling this head 2.5 and intended it to be II's extra head (because that worked so well the first time) because I wanted to do a different faceup on them (the Alexes as a whole) and give one various piercings that I was too afraid to do on the others because I liked their faceups....

2.5 got a look, and took over II's body. I took a total of one photo of him. lips

I liked him well enough (love those lips!!), but he wasn't Alex II, so he went back in his box.

Then I got my "ingenious" idea...Alex 2.5 would get his own body, which I would then mod the hell out of just because I could. If I liked, Alex II would get it, and 2.5 would get II's old body, and mods to open his mouth. Because I want a open-mouthed Kara Klum so bad!!! And since Dollmore seems to be done with them (I've asked for fangs, but so far, nothing) I figure I'll give it a try myself.

 AND then Doll Chateau came out. DUN DUN DUN. EPIC RE-PLAN!!!

Ugh. This post is long. I think I'll continue this tomorrow.....Prepare for more angst!! And mods. And a new faceup D:

Thursday, August 9, 2012

I sells stuffs

I'm cleaning out my head box. And selling a few that had bodies (which means I now have two fully dressed headless bodies sitting in my room O.o ).
Check out the sales page for details, but here's a list of what's up

Angell Studio Kimi head GS
Leekeworld Kyou head WS
5star Kane head in WS

Currently not accepting trades.

Wednesday, August 8, 2012

YYYARG!!!!!

Where are all of my pages??? D: D: D:

EDIT: I think I fixed them. holycrapheartattack

Back from BJDC

So how sad is it that a band I LOVE is releasing a new album soon, and my first though was "I wonder if Starbucks will be carrying it?"? ... For real. Then I had a tiny panic when I couldn't remember where to go to buy actual CDs. MP3s are taking over my life. If only my ipod worked!!! WORK DAMN YOU! You have no idea how dependant you are on a thing til it's dead. ALL MY MUSIC! I'm using my first ipod, a pink Mini that only holds a tiny fraction of my stuff, and it's like death. I can only listen to whats there, not my whole collection! D: I need to break down and buy a new one...

Anyway, I'm back from Texas, attempting to catch up on work, internets and life. It was a lot of fun, I hung out with friends, some I went with, some I met there, sat through some panels (which were actually really nice!), saw people for the first time in person that I've chatted with online like Mystic Unicorn (The Mushroom Peddler) and ForeverVirginia...and shopped. The shopping...>.< I bought too much, and oddly I don't think I bought as much as I did last time, but I also think there was a reason for that...

I got a Monique wig I'd really really wanted (and another one that was an impulse along with an outfit for an unexpected arrival), a shirt for Mini Alex, a Souldoll outfit for Alex III (he's wearing it now, it fits like a glove!! Now I must buy more), a 70cm Dollheart outfit to be divided among all my guys, some little bunnies for Baby Alex...and two dolls! :D

The first one was a total impulse buy. It was sitting on a table with some other dolls for sale and I thought it was the cutest thing ever. I picked it up and mooned over it for a while, then put it back and moved on...but kept thinking about it. By the end of the day (seriously right before they closed the sales floor) I went back and grabbed it. It was too cute to pass up and allow someone else to buy. Technically it's a she but I was calling it a he so it's a boy now. I'd never heard of it before, and didn't even know the company still existed - Cherishdoll - I have a Beau. Looking at him, I could see resemblances to Baby Alex, which is most likely why I thought he was so cute to begin with. I've named him Binx. He's a weird size, smaller than YO, taller than PKF and skinny yet chubby all at the same time. He'll be a fairy of some kind and hang out with the rest of my misfits, Ash, Ebils, Circus, the two cats and my other newbie, Mikey.

Mikey is a The Mushroom Peddler Shelly, and he shall be a TMNT. NannaElle also bought one (technically she bought mine too, but I will be paying her back XD), probably Donatello. They're both blank atm, as I have a couple other faceups to do first and they will need serious all-over blushing (she also WON a doll!! How crazy is that??).

EDIT for a couple pics of Mikey on my desk...still blank! I can't wait to paint him...but Alex II is first.
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The best part of the whole thing were the dolls! The outfits!! OMG these people must have been making clothes for their dolls since 2010 lol, they were amazing! I had to buy Alex III his souldoll outfit just so he'd be cool too. At least he had his wig...people seemed to like that (and his tattoos, I'm glad I killed myself to finish them). Other than that I felt totally inadequate doll-wise. I need to invest in some spectacular outfits for my guys....they're not floofy enough.

Both Alex I and III were called girls several times during the weekend, which never bothers me, but was odd since it was all doll people XD I figured they'd know, but no. Still thought they were girls, even though they were in pants the whole time. I think it's the size, they're so teeny they look like girls. Since Alex as a fiction character and in my drawings gets mistaken for a girl all the time, I feel as though I've done something right with the dolls XD I chose the correct mold! :D

One person actually called Alex I manly, which was a total shock. She LOVED him, I don't think she had a doll yet and I had to write down all of Dollmore's info so she could go look because she wants one too. It is my goal to spread Kara Klums across the globe, so mission accomplished. Go me!!

I think my only complaint about the whole thing was the dealer room. A lot of them (seriously it seemed like 75%) were only selling outfits for Kaye Wiggs dolls, or full set dolls (a lot of which were Kaye Wiggs) which were a fortune. It was disappointing because while I have nothing against Kaye Wiggs girls, I don't have one and don't really want one...and they're kind of an odd size so the clothes wouldn't really fit anyone else. There wasn't much else to choose from after you got past all the Kaye Wiggs :\ There was next to no boy clothing, and very little YO sized stuff, which is of course what I really wanted. So the babies got nothing *sadface*

Other than that it was great! Sadly I have no pictures, I brought my camera, but never even unpacked it. I used my phone at the banquet, but they're really really bad. I might put them on flickr someday, but not now. I want to grab a few of the new ones, but haven't yet. I also need to take some shots of Alex II who is on the the new Doll Chateau Youth body...I'll make a new post for that...it's more involved.

Long post is long! I guess I'll end it here...

Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Vacay!

Off to BJDC in Austin tomorrow morning! At the crack of dawn :P
It'll be so fun though, I cannot wait! If you're going to be there, or know anyone who is going to be there, look me up!! I'll have an Alex with me. The only SDs I'm bringing are Kara Klums XD
So fun! *waves*