Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Just a few days

Til Doll A Kon

D:

I'm not ready!!!!!

Panic stage has set in. I'm flailing around like some kind of fool.

Physically, I am ready. The heads are done, the stuff for the artists table is done, things are (almost) packed...but mentally, I'm freaking out. Travel and public speaking do that too me.

It'll be fine.

The amount of Alexes traveling with me is scary. There will be four in my purse alone. Crap, 5 if Puki-Alex hitches a ride too, and he probably will so I have a teeny-tiny example of a faceup. Plus he's kind of my purse-dweller so he'll probably just be transferred over when I move my wallet and crap from purse to travel-purse. Alexes weigh a ton and a half (for real, my Kara Klums weigh as much as or sometimes more than most of my larger dolls - WTF, they're tiny!!!) so dragging that bag around will be death. I think can handle it, I'm tough!!!

And I have new luggage I'm excited to use.

I don't know how people actually put cons on. Just being a panel person is stressful enough for me! Lol

But...vacation!!! Or not, as I was telling my boss. But then he said I wouldn't be at work, so it still counted. I can't argue with that.

After Doll A Kon is over I can buckle down and really get to work on stuff. Yay for no more stress!!

I have all these new doll plans that include:
Selling. I've already managed to sell a few things, but I've some more I'll list after the con (if they're still around). If you happen to be curious, check Deviantart, DOA or Dairyland for sales.

Buying: Even though I swore there'd be no more dolls this year...if all or most of my stuffs sells, I'll be buying
Doll Chateau body for Alex V/Azrael 2
Migidoll Mir head (cause Migi is evil for releasing a mini-david after I already have one)
Peakswoods Mia de Butterfly (or whatever her name is) head
Luts Kid Delf romantic body (for the PW head - hopefully it works out)
Body for a DIM Laia head (I'm thinking Dollmore but we'll see)
Bluefairy May or Xaio WS

This is what I have planned. I'm not sure of the order....Migi is first, as soon as that order period opens up I'm jumping on him. I can't believe that head, not only does it look like David (Ryu), they have this line listed on his description "dreaming of a world of justice" which could not possibly be more David. I swear I think Migi has a direct line to my brain...XD

The DIM girl was kind of a perfect impulse. One day on a whim I decided a DIM would be a good choice for replacing Cassiel (Volks Midori), and like, the next day I got offered the head in a trade. I wasn't set on a mold and Laia was one of my choices so it was perfect. I'll try her on some of my bodies when she gets here and decide which way to go after that. I'm excited to get her! I ended up with more Volks resin than I ever thought I'd have, and in my never-ending quest to diversify my collection I think DIM will be a good addition.

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Time for a Wishlist

Since I had previously almost made it through my last wishlist, then decided I didn't need more dolls (cuase that always works out), and now I have a lot of parts that need more parts, have a wishlist!

This is a list of stuff I want, but may not end up getting, and stuff I am definitely getting.

WISHING
 wishlist stuff

This isn't everything, and I'm sure as hell never getting the bunny in the corner...her stuff goes for hundreds. But I still pine.

Definitely getting:
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FOB Mia De Butterfly Head - Mini Anna. I have an idea of how to handle my minis, and Anna is one of the Chosen. Since she's a PW Goldie, and I've always wanted more PW resin...it just seems perfect. She's getting a different body though. In mini form she'll get the larger chest she always "wanted" lol
I don't know if I'm going to wait on this and start a layaway with DC, or get this head first...it depends on how fast all my sales stuff goes XD

Dikadoll Mian Mian Body - time to finish my kitties. Rocky needs his body and they need to be blushed. Hopefully while he's still alive.

Wishing...:
Monthly Fairy - Cloonie Coon
Bunneh

Volks SDC Girl body - I'm thinking of aging Cassiel up by a year or two...and maybe someday in the future getting Sariel...
Since I'm selling Cassiel's Volks form, this is no longer needed...


Tan MSD boy - honestly I'd kill for a Tan Dollmore Ujee. But they were never made in tan and Dollmore discontinued the mold. So no Ujee for me. So I have to find another one I like...problem is I don't have the character 100% set, so no doll until I know what I really want...

Mini Isis - I'm open to all mature mini girl...I haven't found her yet.

Puki Faceplates - mostly a WS Cupid.

Various clothes for tinies.
Souldoll outfits for minis (omg I never really paid attention to this size!!)
More clothes in general
Time to work on my dolls :P

Waiting:

waiting

YAY!
After a couple years of regretting selling off all the MNF breakaway parts, I'm getting one back. The only one I need. It's going to be WS, but thanks to a sale and trade, I'll be getting him a body pretty soon I hope. He will of course be Mini Aishe :)

Puki Nanuri 13 FP in WS! Puki Alex I will learn to smile!! Evily. But still, it's a start....

Luts Fabric Delf....I...couldn't help it. It's so cute!! He may join Cirque de l'etrange or hang out with the other bunnies. It depends on how I feel about his size...

I'm going to start a wishlist on my pinterest acct, I didn't really do bjd stuff there but I figured I may as well start. Then I can keep track of the stuff I want, or want but won't ever get :P

Monday, May 20, 2013

YEARRRRGH! And YAY!

Last night I could not get my Photoshop to work on my laptop. It just wouldn't save anything without giving me "application not responding". SO FRUSTRATING. I couldn't restart because I was emptying what was apparently all the trash I'd ever had and it literally took all night.  I shut it down this morning, I hope that clears it up. I don't want to reinstall...I hate Adobe. They are one of the worst companies out there. Too bad they're an absolute monopoly. And everything else is a million times worse.

I didn't get any sleep because of the fabulous thunder and wind storms so now I'm barely functional. I think I accidentally hit my cat trying to pet him...

On the way to work some DB was parked in the middle of the street, just messing around in the back seat.

I had to park a million miles away because a truck and forklift were in the way.

And the worst WORST WORST THING EVER!!!!    EVER!!!

A spider fell on me in the car on the way in. I had to pull over and park so I could flail and not kill myself or someone else! I flicked it...somewhere...and

NEVER FOUND IT!!!

Now I have no idea where it is, so I feel it everywhere!! I'm freaking out.

In doll news.

I have a new one. I've kept it a secret for a week. I'm dying. He just got here Friday. It was funny, I was at a friends house Thursday and we were discussing incomming and just arrived resin, and I told them I had a head coming...when they what it was asked I said:

"You guys know me. Guess."

First fucking try. I am a book, open for all.

LOOKIT!!!!

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NUMBER 6. He looks better than my other two did new XDD
What he's got on will be his wig, I'm waffling on eyes. I need to buy a couple blue ones (generic Alex-eyes) anyway, but I'd like something different for this one. More Azrael-ish as he will be Azrael V2 (but I'm totally calling him Alex V).

I wasn't looking for another Kara Klum head, but I found this poor guy on sale since 2011 and a mere $80 for an LE15 head in pristine condition. I gave it some thought, more than usual because, lets face it, I need another Kara Klum like I need a lobotomy, but in the end I got a GREAT IDEA (this is how everything happens) and I contacted the seller...

This is the body he's getting

I KNOW, RIGHT? F'ed up. I'm not sure I'll even like it, but I have to give it a go, I've been in love with that body since the Kid version was released. My Roommate got a Queena and ajeo;hakAKDFNorgho'i it's better in person. Had I not thought to put him on this body I may not have ordered him....finding a WS DM Adam body would be nearly impossible as they only make them in very limited quatntities, and the current one has only been made the one time with the Cold Heartbroken batch of LE15X2....and I don't want him on the older, larger version, which would be more yellow anyway (this one is still really white, poor thing. He's not been loved at all -been through at least two owners before me :(( ). And my track record with "Extra" Alex-heads had been bad. They all end up on bodies. Might as well start off right with this one...

So with this, I make my 6th Kara Klum. Or I will when I order his body. Then wipe that pretty, Limited faceup for the third time heh heh heh.

My other two:
Alex III the "boss" of my group. He's the Cold Heartbroken Kara Klum (normal)
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And Azrael (who I still call Alex IV because in my head all Kara Klums are Alex...even the ones who aren't) - Cold Heartbroken Thinking Kara Klum. Not that you can tell anymore. On either of them.

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Ugh. Azrael needs work. I hate his body blushing. I really need to redo it.

Both of them started out looking (more or less - Az had a slightly different faceup, and the "thinking eyes") like the head. This is my third Floating Kara Klum head. I refered to all of them as "The Head" until they got bodies. Both the other ones floated for more than or about a year before they were full dolls....I hope this one takes a little less time...though DC is SO slow I bet it's going to be about the same :\

One more of Az since I haven't really taken any of him since...I got him...*fail*

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That wig. It's death.

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

ResinFail

Seriously that should have been the name of this blog.

This week I finally got around to putting up my Latidoll Blue Rei for sale. I didn't want too, I really like him, but he's not David, and he's not anyone else.

I listed a bunch of trades, and got an offer the next day that I declined for various reasons...the same person then came back and offered me an AOD 1/4 girl body in WS, which I took because I know that body, and I figured I can do a couple of different things with it.

Then I had the Greatest Idea EVER.

Take my Dollzone Star/Renata hybrid, devine and behead her, put her human arms on and get a different head - pereferably a MNF head - and call her Mini Isis. Somehow get a WS MNF SP Scar Breakaway head, sand the boobs off the AOD body and make a Mini Aishe. Two dolls and all I really need to buy are two heads. Great idea right?

I don't really want to lose my Star/Renata though....but part two of Greatest Idea Ever was to buy a Doll Chateau girl body with those extra joints and put her on that, making her the most awesome doll I'll ever own. There's something else I really want from DC so I figured I'll just put both things on a nice long layaway and be endlessly excited.

So I go home and try the Star head on my roommates DC Queena...I was right, awesomest doll ever. Step one, taken care of. Renata arms came off and both head and arms go in box.

I locate and start stringing the human arms on the body. Something is wrong.

The first thing I noticed was how BIG they were. HUGE. They looked bigger than her legs. And weirdly long. With one whole arm and most of the other on, I thought they looked backwards. I checked an rechecked but the left was on the left...but they literally turned in, and couldn't bend right.

I looked the DZ body up online and discovered the problem...I had been sent boy arms, not girl arms.
Normally, this would not be the end of the world. Contact the dealer and get it taken care of, right?

But I've had her for more than a year. And I didn't make the order, someone else did, who also got the wrong arms. Neither of us knew because this was the first time I even looked at them, other than spraying them with MSC then putting them right back in a bag...they'd never been on before.

Not to mention since I didn't place the order I can't guarantee that the right arms were even ordered. If she ordered the boy arms by mistake it's her fault not the dealers... and we're really sol. Only it's just me, because I don't think she cares at all.

So not only do I seriously doubt the dealer will do anything, but lets pretend for one second that they will. I will have stark white arms on my yellowed doll. Yippee.

But even that's better than the alternative, which sucks.

My options:
Sell the boy arms. If they sell, buy girl arms. Wait a million years, get arms that are whiter than doll.
That's the best option, and will only be somewhat good if I can sell the boy arms. Other than that

I buy girl arms, am out another $70 and wait a million years for white arms.

Sell the DZ body for a fraction of what it costs new because it has no arms, buy a new DZ body and a new DC body. Which will cost a fortune because selling the old one won't make up for the cost of a new one. So I'll essentially be buying two new dolls, instead of a body and a couple heads.

Keep the Star/Renata as is. Give up on either Mini Aishe or Mini Isis. Boo.

None of them are great.
All of this could have been avoided if I'd realized I had the wrong arms a year ago. But no, I never even looked at them. Why bother? I wasn't putting them on my Renata...I bought her for the vines, the arms were just in case...

This after Fairyland pulls the Moe line (I was totally going to try and get one for mini Kimi), and I buy a faceplate (still mia) and head (both limited) from sellers that have dropped off the face of the earth before shipping my stuff. (head both seem to have shipped!! GOOD NEWS AMONG THE NOT SO GOOD!!! This alone has revived my mood.) I'm not in a great doll mood.

ETA: also, I did find and pm a seller about a sleeping MNF Breakaway head. She has yet to pm me back, she's been on DOA and bumped the thread since... I guess that's good for me. I'll save the money I was going to spend on her head.
Got a pm from her...since I am weak, I will be buying the head.

I leave you with the angriest face on earth.

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Chichi no like. Anything. At all.
Though he's "happy" with his new faceup. I think. Hard to tell really...

Thursday, May 9, 2013

Can't decide what to do with a Doll?

Whelp I somehow ended up with a new doll. I can't seem to do the "no more new dolls" no matter what. Actually I have a couple...but only one that I had to shove money at.

A few of you may remember my Dollshe Saintfail...and how I randomly bought a Leekeworld Kyou head to possibly replace the Saint head as Israfel about a year ago when Leeke suddenly decided they weren't selling basics anymore.

Kyou proved to be way too big for the Saint body and I stashed him away in a box, put him up for sale and he's remained that way for months and months. Only a few people have been interested, and I ruined the sales by being honest (the head is huge. When they ask if it will fit a certain body I have to say what I really think, which is usually no XD).

Last week - I honestly don't remember what put the idea in my head at all - I decided to keep him and make him a character. I figured he could be Sammael, and I could mod the hell out of him, then possibly hate him because Sammael is awful, or Michael, not mod him at all, and have Gabriel's twin brother. I don't know why it took me a day or two to decide on Michael, but there you go.

So I tried to get him a cheap body and it didn't work out (which is for the better. She said it had no yellowing, but was a creamy color. =_= RS WS is WHITE, not creamy. Obviously it was yellowed), so I turned around and bought one from DDE that was in stock. They didn't send me a shipping notice (or my blackhole of an email ate it. I need to fix that....) and my brand-new Resinsould Dong (eh?) showed up last night. I beheaded him and then accidentally unstrung the body (I'm getting good at that...). Then I left it in pieces and went out for dinner and shopping with friends.

Then I came home, put on Smallville and restrung the stupid thing with 5mm string (homg). He can almost stand. RS is, if nothing, consistent. The same issues I have with the 70cm girl body I have with the 70cm boy body. Most can be solved by stringing, sueding and wiring, which I will work on tonight, hopefully finish his faceup, and try Metatron's black jacket on him (OH I HOPE IT FITS!! It's totally going to be too big) along with some other clothes....so he's not nekkid.

I had a random brown wig laying around that I SWEAR I have no idea where it came from, and while it barely fits his giant head, it's the perfect color, so he's wearing it for now. Eyes are a bit of a problem....I had some nice goldish ones I stole from Pilot for him, but the ones I put in Pilot turned out to be too big...so he's got his old ones back. Michael should have green eyes to match Gabriel...but I have a lot of green-eyed dolls. My choices are grey (also have a lot of grey-eyed dolls), orange, dark green...and something I can't remember. Probably a few more too. Or I buy him eyes :P

The head is a little larger than I'd like on the skinny RS body, but I was expecting it, and I don't care. This is when you realize that A. I'm waaaaaaaaay more picky about my more favorite characters looking perfect than I am the others and B. I keep telling myself the RS bodies (Gabriel's too) are only "temporary" until I decide that yes, I want to keep them around, and I can find and afford better ones. We'll see how that works. Amazingly enough, these two are my first Resinsoul/BBB hybrids.

SO anyway, Michael. He's one of the few characters I've actually had appear in my comic so far, so I have pictures.

Here he be, with Gabriel.

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The wig I have isn't curly, and I'm seriously thinking of trying to braid and then boil it...but I don't know how that would work.

Chibis!!
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I seem to have labeled them all, so I don't need to tell you which one he is XDD

Now we get to the whole point of this post....
You may notice the Chibi Michael has an eye-patch, while the comic-version does not. This is because *spoilers sweetie* later in the story, he loses his eye. Hence, eye-patch.

I don't know what to do with the doll. Do I give him a cool scar and blind eye with a patch?? Or just let him go "normal"?? On one hand it'll be easier not to deal with the mods and eye-patch. on the other, I have.... A lot of dolls. And none of them wear an eye-patch, so for the sake of my dolls and diversity, I kinda want to do it! On the other hand the mod will be a PITA and I don't really have time for it atm, I'd have to get blind eyes since I only have one pair and Azrael has them (he's not blind but as death, I feel like he should have "dead" eyes)....and I have no eye-patch anywhere nor do I know where to buy one.

And while my dolls are generally the characters at a fixed point in time, some of them represent a giant span of time...Angels are eternal (until they get themselves killed), so I feel weird making one of them stuck forever in one small span of time if that makes sense....

If I could only get another head....LOL NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

Luckily that's not even an option. But still!

I dunno. I'm still debating. Scar mods I can add in later, so for now he'll get a faceup and be "finished".

Anyone know where I can get some decent military-esque clothing for a 70cm doll??

Also, I seriously want another Kara Klum. OMG SOMEONE STOP ME!!!!!

Monday, May 6, 2013

Another Year Gone By

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ALEXXXXX!!!!

He five today X3333
So here are five pictures of him.

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 lol my friend called him "manly" in that last shot. Something that would no doubt make him happy XD Since he's not. At all.
I think I need to find eyelashes that are more in scale. these look huge!! I think they're just stuck together though. Or they grow in photos.
The jacket was his bday gift (he's the only doll I do that for). It's got a 13 on the back so I thought it wildly appropriate, and lame at the same time.

I recetnly posted a photo from waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back in the day of I and III on III's arrival day. They were both naked and bald and SO CLEAN AND PRETTIES!!! It makes me want to wipe them all and start over. *dies* sooo much work.... D: D: D: D: D: D: D: D:
III really needs it though. He's hit the "new faceup is now the oldest of my Kara Klums faceups and therefore is old" stage. And his MSC has yellowed pretty badly. He has the most and best of all their tatts though...wiping him will be sad. No more sad than any of them I guess...

So I've been in the hobby for five years now. Exactly, today.
What have I learned?

These dolls are not as fragile as people make them out to be.
The more I learn and the more I do with them, the more I enjoy the hobby.
I am addicted to white blond wigs, even though only Alex wears them.

My faceups are not the best, I don't have the greatest skills, but I like them more than anyone elses.
Same goes for my dolls.

Dollmore's Kara Klum is still my favorite mold, five years and a lot of dolls later. No contest (I think I need more...)
Volks dolls are not as ugly as I thought they were when I first started.
Neither are CP dolls.

As with Nike, when it comes to BJDs the best attitude to have it "just do it" (if only I could abide by that 100% of the time....)

It isn't the number of dolls you have but the enjoyment you get out of them.
Same goes for the price tag. And popularity. (I have "cheap" and unpopular dolls - I love them all!!)

My photographs suck. I'm posting them anyway.
I can name as many dolls the same name as I want too!!

Friends are awesome, you can't have too many. Both IRL and internets friends. Seriously, they're awesome.

I know there's more, but off the top of my head, that's alls I gots XDD

In other news
I'm having a character delema that I would like opinions on, but not for this post, this is for Alex <3
I also think I'll post my Volks DWC head. I wasn't going too. No making fun.
My pukis are in a state of disarray....but I have pictures of the store.

Thursday, May 2, 2013

Oh my effing god

My identity was stolen!! STUPID SCHNUCKS!!! WHY THE HELL DIDN'T YOU STOP THIS WHEN YOU HAD THE CHANCE!

Luckily my bank is smarts and realized I wouldn't be running my card for over $4000, and cancelled it on the spot...unluckily now I have no debit card! For 7 to 10 days! DAMNIT! I CAN'T SHOP!!!

And I pmed someone on DOA this morning about buying a body. How the hell can I pay them without my card? FUCK. Now I'm going to look like a flake.

And I'm going to have to change everything. Everywhere. No more amazon. No more itunes. Not that I buy from there regularly. No Paypals. NO MORE STARBUCKS!!! D: D: D:

No nothing. I'm doomed. BOOOOOO PEOPLE SUCK SPEND YOUR OWN DAMN MONEY!

I'm not particularly happy atm.

Project Chibi: Day....some number.

I missed a few days. I have not been able to get decent photos to save my life, and they kinda keep expanding, so I wanted to wait until I had all of them together to post photos.

Quick update
My best friend and roommate is buying my Lati Rei off me (which is great because I didn't really want to get rid of him, but I have a new Mini-David now, so he's just not needed). I was whining because I can't find a Puki Nanuri FP in WS to buy and mentioned I would probably end up buying a whole new puki just to get a NS body for that FP. Cause I really really really wanted it. So, as most of the payment for the Rei, she gave me her Darjeeling.

If you know me at all, I don't have to tell what I named it.

I bought the Nanuri FP off the MP (just in time. There were like, 10 for sale. Now there's one), a wig off ebay and both showed up yesterday, finally giving me a more or less "finished" crew (unless I decide to add Ryuji or Marcus to the group. It's tempting).

So here's whats I gots


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XD
They's not nekkid no mores!
Harvey the rabbit is missing because he's not changed at all so there's no need for an updated photo of him 
Wyn got his tail back. I had to resort to super-glue :P
Kimi got a wig. I need to make it prettier, but it's actually better than I figured lol
I dyed Gabriel's wig using 2 packets of orange koolaid and one cherry. I should have skipped the cherry, it's almost too red, but looks amazing in person and smells pretty :D
And of course, the Nanuri, Puki Alex II, down there in all his tiny ebils.

I mean seriously, Chichi might be the angriest doll on the planet, but Nanuri is the evilest. He just looks like he did something heinous and enjoyed every minute of it. and now he's coming for you. 

Now I need a Pong again to balance that out. I swear, Fairyland wins hands down at packing so much emotion into the tiniest of faces.

I have one really bad (I mean bad. I didn't even bother to watermark this thing) photo of Aishes shop progress. So far it has walls and a floor, a counter, some tables and chairs, odds and ends, and a fabulous cabinet that came fully stocked (from Etsy. Yay etsy!!) that I didn't get a picture of.


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despite being Blurry McBlurrerson, Aishe looks pretty pleased. He'd better be!! D:
Maybe someday I'll make him a shirt!!
I've already decided it's too small, and I need to add at least 2 more rooms...which will make it very pieced together. I'm not sure how to progress from here.... I plan on just collecting more crap for him, and when I finally run out of room, I'll just get more! Hopefully it'll all work out.

And, because she debuted here as a chibi before the SD sized her appeared, here is a picture of Big Gabriel, Dollstown Rian on a Resinsoul 70cm body, both WS


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Holy crap I think she's gorgeous. I actually feel bad saying it, but she's my prettiest girl, hands down. And exactly how I pictured this character to look. Maybe a little shorter, but I'll deal with that if I have too later down the road.

I need to blush her body, try Alex's DM Model high-heeled feet on her (and if they fit, order some of her own) and figure out where the hell to buy clothes for a giantess, but she's so perfect as is, I'm happy just looking at her for now.

I'm done with big girls now. I didn't want any more SDs at all, and now I'm probably getting one more (I swear, having heads that don't sell is so dangerous for me), but no girls for sure. 5 is the max. They all have different styles so I should be good with that. And really, after getting PW Goldie, Supia Rosy and a DT girl, I don't even want any others! Those were the three girls I wanted most, I'm happy now <3