Self Spam

So now I have Flickr apparently.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pik3h/

I'm going to separate it into categories as I upload, but for now there is nothing. I just wanted to stalk follow some of the Townsville BJD enthusiasts photostreams ^^

More doll Plans

So, after the meetup, I have yet again come to the decision, I want another doll.
This time, it's a PlanetDoll 27cm!
Chari brought her little Aanya to the meet-up, she's the little one in the little tan one in the handmade brown and green polka dot dress, and I kept thinking about her.

For a little while now I'v really wanted a Pokemon trainer OC of mine as a doll, but finding Pokemon figures and balls for SDs and MSDs just don't have the right scale, at all, and YoSDs are too childish. I have never looked at Planetdoll before but I keep thinking of this girl and...I think this size would be perfect! There are several pokemon Gachpa machines over town and one of my housemates has a GINORMOUS collection that he might let me borrow that would be perfectly in scale for a mature 27cm doll.

So now PlanetDoll MiniTara is on my list. There are no pictures of her minni form on the website, but here is an owner pic of the 43cm size from DoA

I intent to send her away as well for an eye open and lip opening mod. I think the eye shape would be nice in a Delf Soony Style, but I wonder if that would make her look too childish, hrmmmm

But of course this is AFTER I get my Minifee, and I'm still making hungry eyes at Doll Leaves Even, ooooh he's sexy. I'm just lucky none of my dolls are limited, phew!

On another note, I also ordered some eyes through Captured in Glass over on DoA. I picked up about nine pairs of eyes in 14mm  so I can't wait to see them in person. I'll have a decent variety now, and I'm very glad to have finally done so. I should get a box or something for holding them maybe? 

Townsville Mini-Meetp

OMG! so now I get to write about the meet-up! ^^

Picture Heavy post gets a cut

The Incomplete List

I know there are allot of thing I could have done before I moved into this rainy area, but it's pretty obvious that there are a few items on The List that  simply are not going to happen because of it. So I'm putting an updated list here, containing just the items I have not already done, and removing the things I can not do because of the rain.

6. Sculpt some mini food props
7. Create a photostory and post it to DoA
8. A gallery post for Cadence
9. Sew an outfit for Soroa
11. Sew and outfit for Lamalass
12. Sculpt Sorao's ears
15. Take a BJD Family photo

19. Create a full outfit set for at least one doll.
22. Make one 'winter' theme outfit and photoshoot
24. Make a photoshoot based around Sorao
25. Design a matching set for all my dolls suited to their personalities
26. Make a penpal advertisment
28. Hot glue velcro to doll heads and wigs
29. Tease Cadence's wig


So That an is an updated list everything I hope to do in the next 11 days, yes I'm insane. Guess this mean less video games xD

30 BJD Things in 150 Days # 2

Ah, I feel so bad posting this today ><
Today was the doll meet, and I really really wanna blog about that, but I'll feel bad if I don't update this first and give some attention to Sorao, so Here is an update to The List.


Even as I'm typing the rain's still coming down outside, but I still managed to get this face-up done!
I decided it was going to be Sorao who I brought to the meet. I think it was because I had just finished cleaning her head, and had bonded with her most recently. So about nine finish days before the meet, I started her face-up on the one sunny day we had. Cue rain for the next six days. So I pretty much had to stick it out at one point and just paint her face-up, regardless of the rain outside, because  I really wanted her to come, and she needed a finished face-up for that.

I'm actually happy with how her face-up came out. You can't see it in the photos, but I really like the pastel work on her eyebrow, not the water colour pencil, but the symmetry is okay. This is the first SD face-up I'v actually liked the results of, so I feel I have improved here! And here is Sorao with her pretty new face-up, and ready for the meet.

So there are 11 days left to finish my list.... This is soooooooooo not going to happen xD

Doll Space

So I mentioned posting pictures about my Dolly work area. took me a little while to set it up as I was waiting for the moving van to get here *grumbles something about bad delivery* but once I had it, it was up in a matter of days. As you can see, my dolls space is also my sewing space and is very, very, 'me'. I love my workstation, it makes the work that much more enjoyable, yay! 

Big news from the New Home

See, I am updating, haha!

Well like I said, I have something to show off today!

This is my new Shale Head from Soom. I bought her second hand on the MP, after falling in love with her pictures on the company site, I decided I wanted her. Of course now that I have her I have run into two issues. 

First. Getting the MSD size Soom body, is impossible unless you buy a whole doll anyway from the site

Second. SHE IS AN EXACT COPY OF MINNETTE! Only in big size.

I'm really not sure how I feel about having two dolls of the same sculpt in my house to be honest. I don't really care for the double up sculpt, but I'm not throwing in the towel just yet. Far from what I intended for her, I'm going to get her some Kivi parts and a body and turn her into a Black or White Cat style girl, but again, I'm just not sure. Maybe with some eyes and the right wig she'll start talking to me, but I'm still thinking about putting her back on the MP.

So that's ONE new doll, now to talk about the other. 

Oh yeah.

I'm getting another.

Remember how I said Twin-B was going to be the next doll I get? well, I GOT HER!!! and OMG I am so happy about it! Initially I found HIM on the MP as a Set with Tender Twin-Key for a fantastic price. 

The pair had been sitting there since Christmas not moving.

 However I had never wanted a Twin-B boy, but a girl. So I pmed the seller and she very kindly not only let me put her on a layaway, but swapped his body for the Twin-key's! So now I have a beautiful Twin-B girl on her way to me! So far I have been waiting 24 days ( along time for a second hand doll, damn island Continent ) and I can't wait until she gets here! I will post pictures as soon as I can

In my other activities I have become active on two different DoA boards, the DoC topic and Crobi. both move at a decent space and I have made a couple friend in the rooms, I'm happy to finally have found some kind of Niche on the forum, and even another soon-to-be dolly Mummy in Perth who has agreed a Penpal friendship between our girls ( when they get here ) would be a great idea. Yay new friends for me and my dolls! 

Being the New Girl ( Again )

As I mentioned, I moved house recently. Actually I moved back I should say,to my old city where I graduated high school. I'm now living with six other housemates ( including my BF ) and have take up one entire corner of the house for my dolls and sewing ^^ I'll post pictures of me New-New BJD work station tomorrow. ANYWAY! The point of this post is that while doing my rounds on DoA, I found another BD enthusiast who lives in my area! I sent her a small message saying hi and that it was nice to see other BJDs in such a small place. She responded back delighted to have me on board and gave me a quick run down on the other people in town. Apparently there are about four of us, which I don't think is too bad, and invited me to meet everyone sometime.

In just about about a week later, I got another lovely message organizing a group meet-up! There will be about three of us going apparently, and I am really looking forward to it! My last BJD meet gave me a wonderful insight into what the social side of the hobby could be like and I sincerely hope this will not be the last time I meet up with them all. Maybe we can even do group photo shoots or mini swap meets or something xD I don't know heh heh.

This meet I really want to bring Sorao! But right now, she has no face-up what-so-ever, and the meet is in seven days! Oh my gosh, I'm fretting over it. I know normally this wouldn't be an issue but the weather is still so muggy I can't dry any sealant in it, and I don't have a filter mask.
Hopefully I will get both in time to do this by the meet, and take my girl wearing that lovely DollHeart Fer I got some time ago.

Well that's my picture-less update for the while. My next post will have twice as many to make up for it, promise. I have BIG new to tell anyway so it kinda NEED picture heh heh. But as a hint, the "Runaways" title has a new name on it's page, just saying, haha

30 BJD Things in 150 Days # 1, #14 & #10

Double time!
I have had some time off lately and decided to finish up these outfits! I moved house, again and got a new job so busy busy kinda yeah. I hate the weather here, it's so unpredictable with rain and humid so often, I can't do face-ups. They are so few days to finish my list, and so much to dear me, AND I lost my air filter mask and my camera  these would have been uploaded earlier.

Before I moved tho I did give Oreo a face-up, which you can see him sporting in the shots as well. Yay three things off the list! ^^

So now, PICTURES!

30 BJD things in 150 Days #5

MAKE A COUCH!

Yes, I had been meaning to get to this for some time now, but I finally did it!
The bulk of it is made from a converse shoe box and Styrofoam. I was originally planning just to use it for my Minnette, but the box really is more MSD scale. So with my first MSD being sent out just the other day (OMG YES!!!) I decided to get in gear and start/finish this project. I'm fairly happy with how it came out, and I hope my new girl will like it too ^^

Mummified couch @_@

Tada!

I used Webpixie's tutorial over on DoA 

Inspiration Spotlight: Andreja

Oh god, the rain has still not let up, but at least it's my weekend again!!!!

I'm not updating much, but I wanted to post some inspiring things.
One of my favourite BJD face-up artists, Andreja, who runs Nicolle's Dreams, has started putting up Face-up videos on Youtube.
Andreja's Face-ups are perhaps one of my most favorite out there, and she seems to specialize in Fairyland dolls, but she's good with anything. Perhaps one of the most surprising things for me was, that she is in fact a Melbourne, Australia based artist! It makes me feel hopeful I guess, that amazing artists really can come from anywhere in the world.

The videos are filming of her commissions as she goes. There are only three videos up at the moment, and they are just amazing! they really inspire me and make me CURSE THIS INFERNAL RAIN even more so, as I can't have a go at all the new things her videos teach me. But I highly recommend the videos to anyone interested in bettering their face-up skills because there is allot to learn from them.

and some pictures of her work

Weekend over

So my weekend for the week is over, and as such I'm not going to be doing many projects.
I'm going to be very busy this week. I'm moving city again, trying to catch up with people before I go, my Mum is having a birthday, I need to see the new Muppets Movie, and I have to Work and sleep in between it all.

In the mean time, Cadence will keep you company with a teaser shot of my projects ^^

Doll Gets

Some shoes I brought for Minette came in the mail! THEY ARE SO ADORABLE!

I believe they will be perfect for an outfit I am making for her. I'll post about it later.

30 BJD things in 150 Days! # 27

JOIN A GROUP SWAP!

I actually did this before I went away to Japan, but I wanted to wait until after I had made all my swap items to blog about it.

I joined Rook's international, colour themed Black Swap, over on DoA and so far it has been pretty fun.
My swap partner is Zetoast, who ahem, doesn't actually have her doll yet. This made the whole project soooo much more interesting. Zeo has ordered a Dollshe Bernard 70cm pure body, who will be, ahg, hipster. So I spent the better half of my time trying to find out wtf a hipster was......yeaaaaaah
Anyway, here are the items I'm sending out to Zeo tomorrow!

Modeled by Caddy, clothes are waaay too big for him haha

30 BJD things in 150 Days! #4

Luckily, before I went to Japan, I DID get some stuff off my list, I just forgot about it heh heh...

Gave Minnette, a Face-up!

I'm MUCH happier with how this one turned out, I'm hatting on those bottom lashes, ahrg, but it was fun to experiment with the white and black. Also, her eyebrows are.....decent in shape, but not colour. And yes, Minnette will always have cute blush spots on her cheeks, they just look TOOOOOOOOOOOO CUTE! not to.

This is why I am not doing face-ups

Because it has been like this the last two days is why, and the camera didn't pick it up, but it's raining as well, and walking to work in it is just awful.

Wishlist

So with a move of address of my cards, I'm really starting to think about downsizing the SDs, like I have been for a while. I'v been searching for a while now, looking for sculpts that would fit my current characters, while also looking at some news dolls that I would like in the MSD size family. So for the new year, here is my dolly wishlist for 2012 IF I decide to shrink them

Fairyland MineeFee Kyle replacing my Crobi

DOC Too-A / Angell. studio hybrid - Replacing my Sha

DoC Tender Too-A Head Replacing my Tender sha Head

DOC Bee-A / Angell. studio hybrid Replacing my Shall

DOC Twin B (  / Angell. studio hybrid? )

Fairyland mineeFee Miyu

Fairland LittleFee Shiwoo

Luts HoneyDelf Choco

That list looks huge @_@

As you can see, there are more than just some erm... replacements haha. After seeing Lief's girl at the meet up, my mind was made about getting my own. She was so eye catching and I loved her sculpt! so beautiful up close better that what I imagined.
Twin B Has been on my list for Years, downgrade or not I'm getting her next.
As for the tinies, they're for a long story project my sister and I have about a woodland fox and rabbit who accidentally fall in love, it's a very cute story, a bit of light fluff I guess.

I guess if I could I would add some variation into my choice of companys, it's pretty much all FL and DOD, Lala could make a great Dollzone Mo, but finding an Oreo doesn't seem to sit on any DZ heads unfortunately. anyway That's my BJD wishlist atm. Lets see what happen hey.

Hiatus Explained!

Gosh! I know, I'v been bad, but how can I help it, so much has happened!

To start at the begging of my inactivity, it was December 4th....I went to Japan.

MOST AMAZING EXPERIENCE OF MY LIFE SO FAR!

I went to so many places, ate so much food, took SO MANY PICTURES!!!

But most of it was non-doll related. Except that I visited not one, but TWO Volks stores!!! I went to the Big one in Harajuku,  and a smallish one in Ikeburkuo ( It was right near my hotel! )

I got too see all the basic Volks dolls in person, plus the Harajuku limiteds decked out in Baby the stars Shine Bright, H.Naoto and I think it was Putumayo, don't quote me tho. Normally the Store and the Show Room are two different buildings, but I think the Show room was in the midst of renovations so it was a smidge cramped. I didn't end up picking anything up for my guys tho as I was running out of funds at that point, but damn there were a couple tools, wigs, eyes, outfits I would have loved to bring home. 

Once I got back from Japan, I went up North to visit some friends and give one of them a belated Happy Birthday. It was good to see everyone but within a seven day space, I had been in a plane for over 14 hours and even more in airports @_@ When I got back

It was practically Christmas, So I had a dozen extra shifts, made a mad dash to organize present, bought tree decorations and spent a day making the house look Merry. That pretty much lead straight to Christmas Day which was filled with usual Christmas activities. Then I worked and worked, had a good new years and now here I am on my first weekend off not spent running around like a mad chook. I'm using it to work on a BJD sewing project, but more on that later.  

Anyway that is my hiatus explained! I'm still going to endeavor to finish this 150 day challenge, but it's gonna be tight, especially since i'm looking for new work AND planning on moving house again, oh lord ><

30 BJD things in 150 Days #2

#2: Do a Face-up for Sorao

Finally I get to cross the first item off my list! ^^
Today I did a Face-up for Sorao, it's not my first face-up, but I feel like I'v really taken a step back in my Face-up progress with this one, I'm not happy with it at all, and as soon as I took these photos I took it off again.

However, I am pretty happy with my posing in these shots...so yay for something good coming of this xD
Eyelashes suck, eyebrows suck, the gloss I put on drained out her lip colour, I have a long way to go ><
The biggest issue for me I found, is more putting emotion into my doll's features. Trying to find the right 'shade' to represent them in an eye shadow, the right angle to the brow how the lip line should be tilted. I also Can't put eyes in any other way than 'dead straight' it seems xD

Tomorrow I'm either going to sew for Caddy or Sorao OR start giving Minette that Tan @_@

30 BJD things in 150 Days!

Lately I have been doing nothing with my dolls.  Okay, I have done nothing since the doll meet ><

So I really want to start putting more effort into this hobby, I want to get better and make my dolls into the beautiful visions I dream them to be. 

So, inspired by Cute_Shallot over at Sweet Indeed, I have decided to use her 30 Lolita things in 150 days challenge, and put a BJD twist on it! 

The challenge is pretty self-explanatory. Create a list of 30 goals you wish to cplete, and finish them with 150 days, simple.  

So without further ado, wish me luck, and may I now present...THE LIST!

1. Face up for Orophen
2. Face up for Sorao
3. Face up for Lamalass
4. Face up for Minnette
5. Make a couch
6. Sculpt some mini food props
7. Create a photostory and post it to DoA
8. A gallery post for Cadence
9. Sew an outfit for Soroa
10. Sew and outfit for Orophen
11. Sew and outfit for Lamalass
12. Sculpt Sorao's ears
13. Do another face up on any doll
14. Sew an outfit for Minnette
15. Take a BJD Family photo
16. Take each doll out for a public photoshoot somewhere
17. Collaborate with another Brisbane doll owner for a photoshoot
18. Make an introductory gallery or photostory for Orophen and Lamalass
19. Create a full outfit set for at least one doll.
20. Take off Sorao's ears
21. Blush Minnette's hooves and wings
22. Make one 'winter' theme outfit and photoshoot
23. Do another face-up on any doll
24. Make a photoshoot based around Sorao
25. Design a matching set for all my dolls suited to their personalities
26. Make a penpal advertisment
27. Join a group Swap
28. Hot glue velcro to doll heads and wigs
29. Tease Cadence's wig

30. Give Minnette a tan