Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Sidetracked

With pimping out my sales....I never got the finished faceups of Alexes up!

Little Alex (Dollmore Kid boy Pado)
smLittle new faceup1


Teen Alex (Tween ((Dollmore Eve Liebe Klum - Zaoll hybrid ftm))
smTween new face1


Alex I (Dollmore Kara Klum)
 smALEX I new face2


 I'm not sure how I feel about Little Alex. It's kind of dark, which I wanted...but I keep thinking "he's not the same!!" which is usually the goal, so that's weird for me. His eyebrows are a little uneven, something I didn't see until I took the photos - now it's all I can see! I don't know....It may not last.

Tween is fine, and I absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE Alex. I can't believe it took me so long to redo him. This is the best he's ever looked. He's actually got a new wig on now, one that took a million boilings and an evening of cutting like crazy to get into some kind of shape, but he looks good now. He stole David's camo pants.

So there they are! I need to trim a few eyelashes I think, but other than that (and Little Alex), they're pretty good! :D

In other news, Boo v2 came over the weekend. I was kind of....unhappy with him at first. He's huge, much bigger than I thought when I ordered him, the Ro head doesn't look anything like the pictures, he is way more mature-looking than I thought he would be....and I made him a wig I ended up not liking. It's been raining like crazy for days so he's not faceuped, and I haven't modded him yet for the same reason - but also because I was debating not keeping him....or at least getting him a different body. He's not good on the girl body, I tried that....and Lucifer isn't good on the new boy body like I'd hoped he would be. It was kind of a mess.

I took him to work with me for the last few days and finally last night made a different wig. HOLY CRAP what a difference!! He's so much better now. I think I'm good with him....

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The new DZ is spectacular, so I'm really hoping to get over the size issue and deal with it. Alex has always been a little on the small side, so maybe he would be littler than Boo....
The clothes I ordered are fabulous, Dollzone has come a long long way from the last clothes I bought from them. His ears are the Leeke ear of bunny I've had for a million years. They have yellowed a lot, but it's not bothering me....I can't wait for my DM order to get here so he can try on those puffy shorts X3

Now if only I had time for a faceup....

Friday, January 25, 2013

Desperate sale of Desperation

 OK, I'm not really desperate for money >.<
BUT there is an time-limited head I want that I can't buy unless I get the money from selling dolls, so seriously, if you or someone you know has ever wanted one of these heads or a CCT ruby, now is the time!!!


Fairyland Feeple 60 (F60) Mirwen head NS $125
Literally bought so I could get the NanB12, used a few times as a character I no longer want as a doll, faceuped by me with very natural look
Head only
 mirwen 1  


SOLD
Elfdoll Wu, Normal skin (matches AOD NP pretty well, close to FL ns as well) $125
Faceup by me, second head for the same character as Mirwen XD so it has a similar look.
Head is typically a boy but I was using it as a girl.
Head only

  

Leekeworld Kyou WS $100 Bought new in 2012, didn't fit the body I had.
Never been used, never faceuped.
 LW kyou3  


Unoa Sleeping Sist Faceplate on Buff headback $125
Faceplate had some damaged from the first owner. It was horribly stained by a bad faceup. The owner before me sanded it out beautifully - honestly you would never know. I gave it a faceup to match an NS body but I think it might actually be WS. It's very pale.
Headback was bought new, I'm the only owner.
**If this head does not sell quickly I'm pulling the sale!**
 unoa head2  


Cocotribe Ruby in strawberry $200
Bought in 2011 new from CCT, I'm the only owner.
Factory faceup by CCT.
Eyes not included.
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I will entertain reasonable offers. 
I can provide more info or photos of all dolls. 
Shipping will take place after full payment is sent and received. 
I'm not offering Layaway because I'm on a time limit. No trades either. 
Some of these heads will not be for sale anymore if I don't make my goal, so if you want them, don't wait! 
Contact me here or on DOA.

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Project Alex Part 1

GET IT?!?! Like Project Alice?? From all the Resident Evils??

Am I the only one who loves those movies? D:

Anyway.

I haven't had time or proper weather to mess with my own dolls in a while, but I just had a long weekend, and in what time I did have I got a few things done.

With the arrival of my Narsha boy (Tiny Alex) I decided that all the "young-ins" of the same name needed new faceups. This includes, Baby (Leeke D Bebe), Little (Dollmore Pado), Tween (Dollmore Eve Liebe Klum/Zaoll body) and I(one) (Dollmore Kara Klum). I am pretty sure all of them were last faceuped about two years ago, around the time I got Tween, or even the year before. I don't like to keep my dolls faceups that long lol I improve, looking at old faceups depresses me.

I like the "Young" Alexes to look alike since they're the closest in age, and different molds so it's harder for some people to "see" them as the same person. The five Kara Klums on the other hand all have drastically different faceups (except for the eyebrows XD) because that's pretty much the point of having more than two. I have to have at least two....I and III. The others are a bonus.

I really wanted to get Little Alex out of the way since Boo should be arriving any day now (if freaking Mint On Card will ever ship him!) and I will want to get Boo his mods and faceup finished so they can be photographed together. I am really hoping I can handle the height difference....Boo is going to be huge D: He might need to get a girl body. I don't know...we'll see if he ever gets here :|

I also wanted to redo Alex I's faceup since it was looking really bad by my standards and it was time for something new. Tween had the newest faceup (which makes me thing the others have actually had theirs longer D: ) but if Little and I get redone he would have too as well....so I stripped all three of them (omg my poor hands!!! It took hours!) and was able to give them all a new faceup over the weekend!

For the first time ever, I took progress pictures. Not a lot, but a few of all three heads, because this is the first time I've ever had all three of them blank at the same time before! Not a big deal to pretty much everyone else on the planet...but his is my favorite "family" of sculpts....so it was kind of cool for me.The photos suck. I didn't use my good lense, the light is yellow (for real, my light is YELLOW) and everything came out dark and grainy....but

Here they are!!
Sorry for the upside-downness of the photos, it was really the best way I could do it >.<
And Alex's head isn't that much darker than the rest...more proof that my lighting is awful. He's the same color as little Alex, and Tween is a shade pinker than they are....
from L to R:
Kara Klum (2008), Liebe Klum (2011) and Pado (2009) - all sculpted by Dollmore.

Klum heads


and a profile (messy messy....I cleaned off the table before I actually started)Klum head profile

As you can tell by this photo, despite people telling me this many many times (as if I wouldn't know :\ ) Kara and Liebe are not the same sculpt. They are close, and most definitely "related" as Dollmore puts it (Kara is Liebe's older brother ((by a year I think)), Pado is a younger cousin), but different.

Obvious differences are eye openness, nose size, chin and jaw shape and Liebe is all over a little rounder/cubbier. Pado is so similar to the both of them that he could easily be a younger brother, or child of one of them, or a younger version of one (or both lol). I LOVE how the sculpter made three heads that are so similar but not carbon copies, one reason why I'm so fascinated by these guys.

In the top photo you can see a bit of shininess on Libe's lip....something was up with that. Nothing would stick to it, I had the hardest time getting the spray to stay!! I must have done something while cleaning because this was not the case the first time I did the face on this head and I had actually redone the lips twice because I hated them the first time (pretty usual for Alex, I always end up redoing his lips >.<).

Stage one!! Actually more like "almost finished". I forgot to take more photos >.<
The green is the box lid I use to spray...it's got all sorts of lint stuck in it now :P
I hate lint.

Klum heads2

It's really easy to get these three looking alike. There were many times when I did a double-take with Kara and Liebe to figure out which was which...

Just for fun SCARY!!! D:
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The magnets are reversed, they can't wear each others headbacks, but they can stick together!! So weird.... I actually always thought Liebe was bigger, but no, they're the same size. Liebe just seems bigger, maybe because of the extra roundness....

And finished!!
Klum heads4

So pretties!! >.<

I put them all together, but it was even later and darker and gross, and again, my lights suck...so I will be taking a "Glamor Shot" of each of them in the next few days to post. Alex (I) looks so much younger and healthier now...and almost sweet. It's so freaky....

The other two didn't change much, just a bolder, more updated (meaning better) version of the faceups they had prior to the redo.

Now I have to redo Baby Alex too...*dies*
The weather wasn't really faceup weather. It was like, 20° all weekend...so hopefully they'll stay at least for another year!! 

Ugh. Stupid pictures. I can see all my flaws now....

Wednesday, January 9, 2013

The Good and the Bad

First, the Bad
Going through my first trouble with a trade and the PO. It's possible a package on the way to me is now gone forever :(( Needless to say, I'm not in a great mood about it.

Also, all of the people who ordered the same time I did from MOC have gotten notices that their orders were shipped from Dollzone. I am literally the only one who has heard nothing. I'm thinking of emailing MOC just to see if maybe they forgot or hit the SONIC WALL of doom in my email or if mine really is the only one not coming. Which is crap, he's not tan and I didn't order a faceup, it shouldn't take longer.

I'm now having issues with Dollheart. For some reason their website is convinced that my address is invalid and I can't order from them. Which SUCKS becuase I'm something of a DH addict. And even worse my last two orders would have been/were gifts. So I'm trying to get a gift for a friend now, and I can't because it won't work. I've emailed them, and they are trying to work on it, but it's been days and I've heard nothing and I've tried to order and still - invalid address. *sigh*


EDIT: So MOC did contact me, my crappy email just blocked it. So my Ro is on his way to the States as I sit here! Unless he's here already! Which would be all kinds of awesome.

DH gave up on me. They asked me to create another account :( Which means I lose all my previous order history. I guess it's only fair, I gave up on them yesterday and ordered my friend a doll instead. It was only about $20 more than the outfit set XD so I figure it works out. Now I'm hounding Luts about payment XD

Still no word on the missing package. I think it's hopeless at this point. My cat doesn't hate me anymore though, so I'm much happier today....



The Good
A while ago I did a trade for a Doll Leaves Jax Rabbit. He showed up and proved to be much cuter in person than in photos <3
I'm pretty happy with him. I gave him a good cleaning, new eyes and made a tail out of a puff-ball because I generally prefer those to resin tails.

Here is an uber-crappy cell pic of him (on my desk at work, with Tiny Alex and an Alex plushie I made about a million years ago behind him - so much Alex)

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Because I am lame, I've named him Jack. Which actually works, because all my bunnies are named after children's stories, rhymes or games. And srsly, there is a Jack in like, half of them XD

Today I was offered another trade, this time a Dollzone Pet Bunny. It's totally adorable, so I'm taking it. His name shall be Bean. Get it?? Jack and Bean?! I TOLD YOU I WAS LAME!!
Yeah, the trade only started today and I'm already excited for this little guy.

Also, I checked twitter today for the first time in about 6 months, and Dollmore tweeted a phrase that looked somehow familiar to me....and I realized it was what I had called a picture post in their gallery. I won their photo contest!! :D :D Now I'll have 100 points to spend on their site, which will get me a couple good outfits for Tiny Alex! *dance* I love it. This is probably the fourth or fifth time I've won XD One good reason why DM remains my favorite company ever. Plus I have more of their dolls than any other company out there lol but y'know, free stuff!!

So I was in a pretty crappy mood this morning, but then, trades and Dollmore. So it's not so bad. I hope my package mysteriously turns up somewhere--then life will be good, but I'm not holding my breath.


Wednesday, January 2, 2013

2013

Hope everyone had a good new years! :D

I guess I'm ready for 2013...I mean, 13 is my number XD so I feel like good things should happen, right? 2012 was fine enough, nothing terrible happened, but nothing OMG FABULOUS either.

I already did a "Plans for" for 2013 so I don't need to rehash that. The only thing that's changed a little is my Wish List, which now includes a fullset Dollzone Raymond in WS, who will be the return of Shae, my former B&G Afra. I'm not in any hurry though, so it'll probably be a while.

I have a little doll $$ from selling my AS Kimi head, and I'm thinking of working on Little Alex's wardrobe. I am trying to get all my young versions of Alex their own wardrobes, including socks and shoes and accessories. Tiny Alex (formerly Kid Alex - tiny is easier to say) has the newest Alex-face and I want to update all the others to match him. Starting I think with Little, who is probably my most neglected doll period, and definitely the most neglected of my Alexes. Which is why I want to buy him more clothes. Up until recently he had one outfit, and then shared with all my other Minis, which he can do since he's kind of in between slim and regular MSD, but I want him to have clothes that are closer to his time-period.

I just have to decide if I'm going to order one or two Rosenlied outfits....I have plenty of money for one, but I'll have to add for two, but it would be worth it as I really want both anyway. If Dollzone would ship my order, he'll get more clothes!

Baby, Tween and Alex I all get to be redone too. Alex I will be 5 this year. :O He so old!!

Speaking of Tiny Alex...I caved and changed molds. Looking at the Zihu (which I still adore) I decided I couldn't get past the tiny eyes, so on a whim I looked for and found on the MP a Narsha head for half what I would pay new. Tiny Alex's new head arrived on December 31, making him my last doll of 2012 and my new years baby XD

He super-cutest
 tiny alex new1 tiny alex new2

It's taking me a few days to get used to him, the Zihu is so adorable (I'm not selling his head, it's in my head-box), but he looks so much better with Baby and Little Alex. Giant eyes, smaller nose and mouth...chubby cheeks like Baby Alex....And he looks a little younger to me, which works better. Still very realistic, but there's not much to be done about that.

I need to make a giant Dollmore order to get him a couple outfits and a pair of shoes....some socks, underwear and that's really about it. He's got a lot of clothes already, more than I thought he'd have.

Little Alex needs an outfit from DM too....Baby Alex has more clothes than any of my dolls and I actually need to stop myself from buying him stuff...and Tween only has two things that really work in his time period. I have so much fun with this style and color palate that I'm beginning to become obsessed with Alex as a child. David, Theresa and Marcus are all dressed in their Back-in-the-Day clothes atm, and I'm hoping to get Theresa a new and fabulous dress in the coming days. Then maybe there will be photos. I need to blush her hands though. Unblushed hands are starting to bug me....

I need to buy some White Blond Jojos in 6/7s too. I now have three versions of Alex that wear them - Baby, Tiny and Mini. The wig Tiny is wearing is Baby Alex's, but Mini has worn it a lot too...they all need more hairs!! XD

I think I might hold a record for the most blond Jojos owned by one person O.o