I'm still alive!

 I know... I've been away forever. So much in my life has changed. And I didn't buy or 'play' with my dolls for some years. But... when I decided I should let some go, that influenced me to inspect the ones I couldn't let go and ask myself why. I also looked at their characters and names. I think a re-vamp is in order.

I think I've had at most 28 dolls at some point, but right now as it stands ive sold 6, but have 6 up for sale still. Fingers crossed I think 1 of those will sell soon :) But Kirsty, what made you begin culling your collection?! Why the change of heart?
Because; what good is having a lovely collection if you have no house to keep them or yourself in XD I'm being adult ^.^ You guys should be proud :D 

Me and my boyfriend have been saving for a house, rather then renting :) And hopefully we are in the process! It's not just dolls I've sold either, but the dolls are all that's really relevant in this space :) So lets go on to our dolly update!

I have part ways with: 

• Thisbe & Salmacis (fairyland Cupid & Ante multiheads). 
• Delilice (Luts 2012 winter event kid delf)
• Luts tiny delf Alice
• Luts tiny delf mermaid Dorothy
• Moya (soom Roxan black fog elf)
• Jaxith (fairyland minifee Scar Breakaway)
• Wraithian (Soom Iceland Ice lad)
• Olivander (Fairyland LittleFee Shiwoo elf)
• Satu (soom Deertaur littlegem Tona)

I'm also trying to decide what to do with Loki, my soom Onocentaur smokie. I love his face, so much and his cute little donkey ears, but I'm not get along with the body at all. I feel I'd prefer for him to be on two legs instead of 4. But I think I'm going to find it difficult to sell the body alone and find a body to replace it! So I'm on the fence about it. Might be something I look into after my living situation settles. (Buying a house is hard...)

But yes. There has been changes to my resin family. The changes feel good :) I have no regrets. I still have a few blank dolls that are in need of faceups! But When spring arrives I should be able to sort out the blank faces :)

I shall end this incredibly late post (Which I started writing 2 years ago, and finished and edited today!) with an up to date family photo :) You will spot many dolls I haven't written about yet!  I'll be posting about them soon :) And writing about my dolls stories and characters. And my struggles finding names for the newbies and new names for the character changes of some of the old dolls :)

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, SIX!

So this month marks 6 years that I've been collecting, 7 that I've been interested in resin beauties ^^ I'll probably post a new 'family' portrait of all my dolls once I've had the weather to faceup & blush my poor blank Silky! Might even do seperate portraits for the characters in the seperate stories. The 23 dolls are devided into 7 stories, (possibly 8 as I'm undecided!).

Also been thinking about Aeryn's birthday. As she was doll 1 and I adore her <3 I think I'm going to give her a new faceup when the weather permits, and I think I'm going to get her and Nyrea new wigs. No idea what to go for though. If I can find ones I want from the same place I'm buying 1 for my silky from that would be helpful...

I'm not sure if I want to change her faceup drastically either or just do the same style 'better.' I think I can. I feel like my faceup ability has got much better after faceuping Spyro & Takeo. Oh the horror of decision making! It will be interesting seeing her blank again. Also not sure if I want to hotglue her and Nyrea to hopefully improve thier pose ability.

Both definatly need re-stringing. Going to try buying elastic from amazon, rather than a doll company. Pretty sure I'm going to regret this decision. Hopefully it will work out fine though as I really can't afford any new dolls this year, so instead want to concentrate on clothes/eyes/wigs/faceups and for everyone sealing everything again and re-stringing and maybe hot glueing. Depends on the dwollie ^^ But will the exception of silky will see to them in order of age or story. The newer ones and ones I've seen to within the last year or so will ofcorse get skipped, but I'm looking forward to giving my collect some TLC rather then buying more.

However... I've been having thoughts about Wrathian. Perhaps I'd rather use the sleeping head instead of selling it. The eyes could be opened, not as wide as the OE. I think this will completment his character more. I'm also wondering if the head will fit on a luts or fairyland body, so that his brother doesn't look so tiny next to him. Plus I don't like the MSD sized soom bodies. Can't tell you why.
Not sure if anyone would buy him though :( It doesn't make me sad because I want the money. But I think he looks awesome. I'm perhaps upset that nobody feels the same. But then, I'm not sure if the Iceland/North sculpt was that popular. Again, I don't know why. I think its lovly (Hence me buying it lol).

I think thats all dolly thoughts I've had, but I'm going to be very annoyed if theres a new SOOM FC Teenie Gem event including the birdies before I'm ready! But, fingers crossed for grey resin colour options, as I want more living stone creatures for 1 of my stories. Though technically I shouldn't be buying dolls and I shouldn't be buying character's not on my list!

Let's look at the list...
Luts Honey Delf Pitta - (Aeryn's younger sister) - Lithany
MiniFee Mirwen - tiger Fairy... (EmberGlow? EmberBell?)
PW Monthly Fairy Fiona - Andromeda

Lithany is Aeryn's little sister (as said above!). Lithany was originally not going to be that much younger than Aeryn, but looking at Luts HDs changed my mind as they are so cute plus I dont have a HD yet ^^ I love my other two dolls from luts so much! I love the bodies and the sculpts as beautiful :) Plus I think Pitta looks a little like Aeryn, enough to pass as a sibling.

I love Minifee Mirwen. She is gorgeous. It was seeing a SD sized Mirwen with actually convinced me she would be lovely for this character. I think I found the pictures in the Fairyland blog, but I've kept it as I want to try make my character simular. She will be a tiger Fairy, the adoptive mother of Nero & Bijoux. I've wanted to make this tiger fairy a while, before I even knew her story. She's heavily based on a drawing my bf's mother did.

Andromeda is the 3rd and final Rainbow Kitty. I think I've mentioned she'll be yellow ^^ However the sculpt could be a tricky mode and thus may be changed. Originally I want her to be a WS Multihead Zefi. Only setback is that Zefi comes on a Pukifee body and I want her on a pukipuki body and I dont think Zefi comes with the neck piece needed to put the multihead on a pukipuki body. Very irritating :/ I do love the Zefi head <3 But I might be able to make it work if I can get the neckpiece second hand. I'll give it more thought when the time comes as I'm happy to wait for this character as I did with Salmacis. She was floating and misinterpreted for a while. Reminds me she is still bald! I'm horrid xD Want her to have a different faceup too! May try to do it myself!

So next stop is wigs I think. Thats my next side task! A wig for Silky, Salmacis, Aeryn & Nyrea. Four wigs that must be chosen!! Well three... I know which I want for my Silky ^^ Hurray!

7.Dorky new clothes...

Olivander recieved some new clothes...

Me - "Awww whats a matter?"

 Oli - "I look dorky..."
Me - "corse you don't, who told you that?"
Oli - "Aeryn..."
Me - >.> "what about if..."

 Me - "...we add the hat."
Oli - "still dorky..."

 Me - "what about if we just..."*twists hat round*
Oli - "feel a little bit cooler..."
Me - "well what about..." *grabs last part of outfit*

 Me - "there... What do'ya think...?"

Oli - *fiddles* "hmmm..."

 *smiles*

 Oli - "ooo its much bed'ter! I look really really.... awesome now!"
Me - " ^_^ Yup..."
Oli - "like really really REALLY COOL!!!"
Me - "err...yeah.. >.>"
Oli - "sooo cool..that...that..."
Me - "alright Oli...don't over do it...>.>"

 Oli - *poses in his new clothes*

 Oli - *Sighs* "nope the clothes still make me dorky..."
Me - "Are you sure its the clothes...?" 

6. Hooves are cool!

Me - black 

Ellabell - blue

Hey Sweetpea, I got a pressie for you...
Oooo, For me?
Yup ^_^

Awww its a horsie...
Yup ^_^

Hello wittle horshie...  

I love horshies... they have funny feet... no toes...
Thats right they are called hooves. Are you gona name your new horsie?
I don't need to name him.

 o?
He told me his name is Rodger.
I see. So you like hooves...
Yeah...

You know... I know 2 little people such as yourself with hooves...
Really..?
Yeah, they are coming to live with us soon.

 oh wow! really!? quick lets go!

 go..? O.o...wher... but...

you know we have got 2 flights of stairs now... you sure you can manage?
*huffs & puffs* ...y...e...a...

After 24 steps....

 Ellabell, what are you doing?

 I'm waiting for my new friends with funny feet to arrive...

 Well you know they wont be here for atleast 3 or 4 months right? perhaps even longer...
*sighs* ohh.....

 aw cheer up poppet... I'm sure we will get a shipping notice soon...
you mean like when Maz got a shipping notice and was really happy...
Yeah like that ...
Kirsty I gots a question..
go ahead...
What is a shipping notice..?

Last for a while...

Having looked at my money status and what the future holds, this little one will be my last doll for a while I suspect... unless I get lucky and can sell some unwanted stuff! 

It may have been noticed that I like SOOM. I think thier dolls are beautiful, and I love all the fantasy stuff! It's sad that I don't collect SD sized dolls, but lucky for me, they seem to always make a tiny version. Thier first tiny fantasy limiteds were Glot and Glati in 2009. This was the year when they began making tinys then SD versions and vice versa. I watched and waited. From the year before there was any tinys, there was many stunning, fantasy SDs. And during the next 2 years tiny versions of theses beauties from 2008 were released. 

For Sard & Beryl there was Glot & Glati. They released a SD simular too, but everyone can see that Glot and Glati as tiny Sard and Beryl. Afi & Ai were obviously baby Ambers. Bygg & Beyla were tiny Heliots. And I loved that Soom did this. Even though I dont have any of the SDs that doesn't mean I wouldn't love 1! I was waiting on a tiny version of a certain doll. 

In November 2008 Vesuvia was released. I LOVED her tail <3 My birthday is November 2nd, I'm a scorpio. When I noticed that little ones of the 2008 releases were slowly being made, I knew that I'd one day have my little baby Scorpion. My Scorpling <3 I waited. And... waited. By the time I got to 2011 I'd given up on SOOM releasing little Vesuvias. It wasn't just her they haden't made tinys of... Bix & Topaz for exmple. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't disapointed at this point. So I forgot about it. Moved on.

July 2014. Four years and eight months after Vesuvia. I supose what felt like forever is better than never! I know four years doesn't sound like a long time. Was nearly 5 years! Well... when my Scorpling arrived it had been 5 years I supose xD Soom released Yarn & Silk - Sand elves. Yarn is a lovely tan and Silky is violet. Both colours are really lovely, but after much decision making, I ordered a Silky. I wanted to pay in full in hopes that she would arrive around my birthday, but I had to pay to fix a stupid car and stupid insurence!!! So layaway it was. Oh well. Maybe for christmas then ^^ I could get her stuff while I waited :)
So I don't want to sound ungreatful, but SOOM picked such a bad time for me to change thier timing system! I was expecting a 2-3 month wait after I finished paying for my Silky. I was not prepared for 2 weeks!! My silky had to sit in customs for a while as I couldn't afford the fees straight away. And because of stupid car I haden't got my Scorpling anything :( 

But! Enough whinning! BOX!

Rubbish phone photos are rubbish, I'm sorryyy. I had her delivered to my Granddad's house as I don't trust the postal service where I live! Quick fact! I keep all the EMS papers. I consider them 'birth' certificates for my dolls. I know theres the CoA aswell, but I keep these too!

Lots of bubblewrap pieces ^^ Usually there is one head on the body but this time there wasn't. Which was fine, they always put the head I'm not going to use on the body anyway! Silky came with 2 heads; human and dreamy elf. I wanted the elf head but I wanted to open the eyes, if I was brave enough!

 

Silky also came with fantasy hands and feet, which I didn't actually like. I just wanted the horns and tail ^^

 

  She is such a lovely colour which my phone cannot pick up at all! Doubt my camera can either, will have to try at some point.

At this point in my box opening I got invaded by a small and annoying monster child! She's lovely really, and she loves my dolls!

Know this; most four year old slightly spoilt english children have no patience! I had another wig to try (Did a day later, it was horrid! and tried others when I got home, but all didn't look right.) but she wanted to dress her 'now'!

I didn't let her touch the dolly ofcorse, I'm a horrible Aunt! She wanted her to wear this butterfly clip though. Which is too big and looks silly! I told her I was thinking of calling her Rosetta and she approved! Thus she was Princess Rosetta for the day!

Isabella Monster even made a picture of her with her house! I'm glad her heart pictures look like hearts now. To the dirty adult mind they didn't look like hearts before... were close to other things, such as boy bits and pieces! I do wonder though, why do some children when they start out right backwards? I know I use to write individual numbers and letters the wrong way, but never whole words! It's cute though ^^ She's actually very good with my dolls. She knows they aren't toys and is oh so careful ^^ Maybe when shes bigger she'll want some too ^^

Once I returned home, I picked a set of spare eyes. I haden't got the ones I wanted :( And she will have to make do with this blue and pink wig, which I actually want to sell lol And I didn't plan it, but this soom outfit actually fits even with her tail ^^ 

Ah yes. The tail. The stringing experience from hell! I got so stressed that I I had to put her in her box in pieces for a while and calm down. I've never had such issues with stringing before. I strung my centaur! But this was so difficult for me. It certainly didn't help that just when I thought I had it my hands spazzed and I let the elastic go so it all fell appart again. I was even thinking of selling her.

 I actually opened her eyes before I strung her. I took it slow and steady doing both jobs. It's just annoying that I can seal or faceup her yet as the weather sucks! But I have to buy her eyes and wig anyway. And she is cute blank anyway!

She aslso needs a name. I actually thought of Rosetta on the way home as they were talking about the robot being put on a commet (How cool is that?!) and I thought Rosetta would be quite fitting. And I do like the name but I also like the name Chiana. Think I will be undecided until she's complete. I do adore her though <3
I also can't decide who she is... is she Nero & Bijoux's sister? or is she a lonely time traveler. I don't know. Again, I probably won't know until she's complete. So that's doll number twentythree. 

And now my doll blog is up to date. May begin talking about thier back stories and future plans maybe?

New doll company - Old self

Since my MS had settled a bit, mother kept telling me I should try faceups again, and that I can do it if I took it slow! Mums are great :) So when it came to buying a doll who's default faceup wouldn't suit my character in mind I decided I would. Actually 2...

Peakswoods released blue/grey vampire YoSDs. I'd had vampire Hucky on my wish lists for years so that was an obvious choice. It took a little while to decide on the other sculpt, but eventually I picked Leo. Why two? Well I decided they were to be brothers and not vampires either. They would be dragons. Originally I thought I'd buy some horns and wings. However after a little thought process time and because I couldn't find the perfect ones, I decided to try and make my own. I decided against wings though, maybe tails would be better. It's because they are dragons that the default faceup wouldn't do. They needed scales ^.^

I'd never ordered from peakswoods before. After a little research it seemed they were a lovely company to deal with. Wrong... They are a frigging amazingly fantastically lovely company to deal with. You can design your own layaway plan. They are always fast to reply to any questions and try to ensure the buying experience is as wonderfully easy for you as it can be. I can not praise this company enough.

I wanted a comfortable layaway as honestly... I couldn't really afford 2! And right near the end of my layaway they let me extend it to include some clothes! So lovely blank dollies and clothes ^^ But my little dragons needed eyes... but Captured In Glass doesn't offer what I was after. Infact I don't think it would work in glass. I needed snake/dragon eyes. Blue and purple. Ersa Flora, another new place to buy things. And I found some wigs for them from For My Doll (lately my favourite place to buy wigs). I also got some magnets and Fimo clay ready to make horns and maybe tails. I even got them some trainers too! I was all set ^^

 I know we've all seem a cardbord box before, but it's still exciting! And the blue PeaksWoods boxes. I really like the colour. And the cute little passage on writing which reads: Elf's woods located on the top of the mountain. When you step in a castle gate crossing the rainbow bridge. You will find the place where elves are dancing. Welcome to Peak's Woods.

CoAs, postcards, acrylics eyes and freebies ^.^ A nice blonde wig and lots of extra hands :D Very excited about those as I had no idea I'd be getting more hands. I also did not know PW tinies come with zippy cushions. And I know it's very minor and insignificant but I love the red and blue tags that were on thier cushions. Hucky's is the red and Leos is the blue.

Thats Hucky. Can't mistake those cute lips!

Where's my brother?

Hucky (Left) And Leo (right). No clothes though. Peakswoods must have forgotten. So I rush off to find some spare clothes for them to borrow!

 Hucky is going to by my purple Dragon called Spyro (yes after the game! I love those games...).

 Leo is going to be my blue dragon. I've named him Takeo after a character from 1 of my favourite series of books. He is the older 1 of the 2 brothers.

Even though Mummy had confidence in me to do the faceups, I really truly didn't, but I did try my hardest! My ability shocked me. It's not professional level by all means, but I think it's pretty good for a disabled person! The lower eye lashes are a tell. They start fantastically, but they slowly go down hill as I was getting tired and loosing control of my hands. I should have stopped and gone back to it. Unfortunately, I is of the stubborn.

 

I started with Spyro's faceup and then moved on to Takeo's. I'm still rubbish at eyebrows but I think I'm a little better at everything else :) And I'm happy with thier little scales :) Onto the bodies!

They arn't everywhere but both little boys have them arround thier belly, anckles, feet, hands, arms and neck. Making sure the scales on all the left hands matched and same for the right was a pain!

It took three attempts to get the horns right. Theses ones were the first prototype but the horns didn't fit the head right. Can't see it in this photo. The second one didn't even sit on the head.

Third time lucky and completed with a bit of paint. I tried making tails but didn't like how it sit on them. Think perhaps I made it too big and a much smaller one would work better. I did get the shape how I wanted though :)

I love how these little boys turned out so much and I feel a bit like my old self when I first started collecting. When the sky was a limit I was willing to race past! I think I'd want them to have a little sister one day, I just need to find a cute sculpt with vampire teeth!