Package from Angelesque/Dollzone!

My girls have arrived!!! So I present thee- pictures! (I know I've not updated for ages, but goddammit I've been working too much. And drinking/socialising as well, to be honest...)

Weeeee! So I bought the hoodies from Ldoll and I ordered the shoes from ebay a little while ago, but... I have no bottoms for the girls yet. Uuups. I do have an order that has been dispatched and I should be getting them an outfit and a pair of eyes soon enough.

Gotta say, I was surprised with the eyes- I wasn't expecting them, and frankly, they are a goooorgeous grey- which I thought I would have for their eye colour earlier, but then decided to go for light blue. Now...I don't know what I'm gonna do!!! I have a pair of light blue eyes coming, but I'm not sure if I will actually use them now!!! (I'll need to buy them wigs before deciding I think. Just to be sure what I want.. xD)

Seeee? Second head! I'm in the process of widening the eyes on the more open eyed Ami head so that I will have a sleeping and an open eyed version of her. :3 Gotta say, still not impressed with Dollzone on the symmetry department- Ami's eyes were opened different amounts, so even if I hadn't already decided that I needed to open her eyes, I still would have needed to fix the discrepancy. I was kinda expecting it as I know they aren't the best company for symmetry and I know from having ordered a head from them before as well. :P

 And look! Iiiiit's Freddy! Whom I will need to sell off as I will have no need for him. :/ Shame, but true.

 Ohmigaawd these things were so cute! I got a little pearl-matte envelope for each doll/head that I ordered! So cuuute! 

:3

 I had to test out what the bodies could do. Take it away girl!

 Not sure if this is jumping, bug squashing, or both. Or some sorta weird intro to a dance number.

And this just looks freaky from the front with no pants/dress.

On the side, it's quite funny though. 

(This did take some balancing on my part though, and I had my heart in my throat while I was taking the picture...)

So there is my two new girls, Freddy, and the bits that have already arrived for them. I am still not quite sure who I'm gonna get to paint them- I do wanna do it in the relatively near future... but I'm not sure if I will have time!!! x'O Hopefully I will have time to get Ami's eyes opened soon enough so that I can even think about sending them to get taken care of! xS

Also, names. So not sure about them. At the moment, I MAY be going for 'Halla Eleonoora' and 'Jasmiina Talvikki'... But not really sure about that. :/ Other name options are Meri, Minttu, Taru... Maybe even Orvokki, Kieli, and Sinikka. Friggin choices man. I might even have to wait until the little twins have been painted to decide if things don't seem to click before that. And I have no clue what their last name will be!!! Aaaaaaargggghhhhh~~~~~

Lyon~

So we did a little holiday to Lyon so that I could go to Ldoll at the same time! The drive there was a nightmare as we had barely any sleep the night before and we left at stupid o'clock in the morning for a drive that ended up being about 12 hours long... That was not that pleasant at all. But we made it to Lyon in one piece!

I ended up doing only Saturday at Ldoll as I figured that I should spend some time with my boyfriend as we were holidaying together... It was lovely- I saw some really pretty dolls, bought some things for my new girls, and unfortunately had no camera to take pictures with! I'm thinking that next year I will try to arrange a holiday round the next Ldoll as well. I did fall in love with a doll that I really do not need- it was Sseiren's Ideal lover girl- I don't think she is actually on their website yet- there does seems to be a photo that looks like her on the blog here. The problem I have with her is that she is the wrong size! She's MSD which is putting me a bit off as it is not a size Ireally want. :/ She was gorgeous though! And god was she limber! The body was absolutely amazing movement wise and it also looked beautiful! :3

As I said, I had no camera with me at Ldoll as my boyfriend was doing his stuff while I was at Ldoll, so he had the camera to do touristy things with... But I did get to play with the camera later on! xD

This was the cafe right next to the Cathedral- this just cracked us up!

We quickly popped into the movie museum 'lobby' and they had these miniature sets in the walls- this set was amazing! The whole set was filled with books!

And this was a teeny weeny hospital set- and you can see something a bit different in the reflection...

I gotta say, these guys were a bit random- poking out from the side of the river on a bit rusty pedestal. Bit odd. But they are lovely- I love the hands on these guys! 

I really loved Lyon and the area we stayed in- we weren't in the centre, so the area wasn't that touristy and the restaurant there were great! We did walk around a lot, but we had time and walking is the best way to see a city! Can't wait to go again!

I am getting impatient to get my little girls- now I have some stuff for them and I am feeling like ordering more things that they 'need'... :3 The waiting is horrible! I think I need to turn to shopping to pass the time.

EDIT: Oh jesus, all the cheese we bought just STINKS HORRIBLY!

I have a cough.

(I seriously apologise for writing blaaaah posts recently, but annoying things have been happening way too much lately and I feel the need to vent. There is couple pics of Xian though somewhere in this post!)

As title says, I have a cough, which makes trying to stay invisible very hard. I've been up since 6.30am in our living room, in order to see if the rodent will run out of the house if I leave the backdoor open. It hasn't happened yet, though I have only waited for 1½ hours. But I think I may be making too much noise with my cough (or it's sleeping after it's adventures last night), but I can't just leave the door open and go, because then I wouldn't have a clue whether or not it has gone out. But I do have to say, the rodent is getting extremely desperate. It's getting bolder and bolder, because I think it's starting to get really hungry. Last night it had tried to drag the cloth we keep outside the kitchen door, on the living room side, into the kitchen. And it had somehow managed to make stuff from on top of the fridge fall onto the floor- and this isn't one of those tiny little fridges, it is a proper fridge-freezer so it stands taller than me! Though that doesn't take too much. But it is almost the same height as my boyfriend.

I've mentioned that there is mold in our house right? It seems to be a horribly normal thing to have mold in the houses in England for some reason. This is the second place where I have rented and where mold just appears any time there is even a tiny bit of moisture in the air. I'm starting to get quite worried about my health as mold is massively bad for you- it can cause so many problems, and as I'm already someone who has allergies, I don't want any more problems like asthma for example... I'm really hoping that I am just a bit sick or imagining things, because recently I have started feeling dizzy when I sit down upstairs to do stuff on my desk. One of the worst places (in terms of mold) is our bedroom, as there is constantly some on the ceiling (there used to be a leak in our bedroom, so I wouldn't be surprised if there was massive amounts of mold between our ceiling and the roof). And you know that if you can SEE the mold, you've already got a biiiiig problem with it.

For some reason, I'm unable to do some changes to my blog layout- I spent some time yesterday choosing what I wanna do with it, but then I was unable to edit things in the layout section. Quite annoyed about that. So the blog will look like this until the damn thing starts working.

Picture time! I failed to upload the pics to my blog in a timely fashion, but better late than never! I had a go at taking pictures of Xian on my desk during the evening to see if I could use my desk lamp as a light source. It turned out a bit... so-so. I've only got three pictures because I wasn't very happy with most of the pictures. And as you'll notice, these ones have been edited quite a bit as I wasn't a big fan of them.

Xian has two wigs at the moment- her present day hair (red) and the hair from olden days (white). I really want to make the white one more presentable as it is a pain atm, because the weave is LIGHT BROWN instead of white, so you can see it way too much. Isn't she pretty in white though?

Damn. I dunno what I'll be having for breakfast. Cold pizza? I can't heat the pizza as we don't have a microwave and the oven is rodent-central. Pfffff... We've resorted to eating takeaways only for dinner (and lunch, and now possibly for bfast) since we realised where the rodent likes to hide. Please pest control people, come frigging save us!!! I want a home cooked meal!!! Done in a different oven though. Ugh. That shizz needs to go away. I'm off to feed myself now.

Depressing post ahead.

So unfortunately this post is gonna be all rubbish and depressing. But I'll try to get nice things out in the beginning and then move on to the rubbish...

Yesterday we had a staff Christmas party! It was soooo nice! There was a free bar, and lovely free food involved! And a guest speaker, which was slightly odd, but it was great anyway! The thing was, we were supposed to have an after-party in Soho, but the bar we had booked it for, was PACKED. You could barely move in any direction, which was ridiculous. So we decided to go somewhere else. And after some confusion and shenanigans, we decided to make our way to Heaven. And only one of us knew where it was. Hmmmm. And we got separated, which meant that the ones that got left behind, we went into the pub that was right next to us, obviously to drown our sorrows. Worked out great!

I'm pretty happy with my flapper headdress- sooo many people actually liked it! I really wasn't sure how it was, because I can't be objective with things I've made for some reason. But everyone thought it looked okay and I got so many compliments on what I was wearing! Flapperiness achieved! I might take a photo of the headdress at some point to show how it looks. :3

I took pictures of Xian today! I'll post some pics probably tomorrow as I don't quite feel like doing stuff to the pictures today. But hopefully tomorrow!


Rubbish things ahead now~

Too many things have been going wrong lately. Our toilet seat is a tad bit broken, we almost got flooded, there is mold all over the house at all times, and our latest thing to go wrong- we believe there is a rodent in our kitchen. Possibly because of the flooding. Or second possibility is that we only discovered it now, because our housemate moved out and he isn't leaving food scraps on the floor anymore and the rodent got desperate. Dunno. But it is there. Because yesterday I made something in the grill bit of our oven, and I forgot to throw away the baking paper I used on the baking tray- today I noticed that the baking paper has gone INSIDE the insidy bits of the oven, and I gotta say, that can't happen by accident, it requires work for it to get there. And when I took the paper out, it was full of holes and bite marks. Which means the the rodent is in our OVEN. :O DO NOT WANT. I don't know what to do now. There was the pest control people here earlier in the week and they set up two rodent traps, so today I just opened the grill door and put one of the traps on the door in the hopes that the rodent will come out and take the bait. I'm so tired of bad things happening- like when we called about a flat that we wanted to take, I gave all our info, and the agent said that he needed to call the landlord to confirm if we can take the place. When he called back, he said that the landlady didn't think we made enough money to pay the rent! WTF??? Either of us can pay the rent on our own! So we haven't got a place yet. And we should already be signing contracts right about now. Ugh. Sometimes I hate life.

Here's a flower to make up for me being all blaaah and whiny:

I took it during summer, and gotta say that might be one of the most heavily edited images I've done. Maybe. :F

Finding a home is a nightmare. Plus necklaces.

Ugh. Seriously a nightmare. It really feels like that the agencies have NO desire to have their properties let. =___= Da fuq? I've called so many places and they have promised to get back to me on when we could have a viewing, and then I never receive a callback! WTF? It does not make sense. And I seriously doubt that the places have gone, and if they have, it is a case of GOOD MANNERS to let the interested party to know that the property they wanted to have a look, is gone. Oh well. We'll see what we'll get. I really hope that the place I'm going to have a look on Friday is da Bomb! Cos it is in a good location and it's only £700 PCM, and it's a one bedroom with proper kitchen- no studio blah-blah about it! :3 And there is a fireplace! That I hope is actually functional!

I finally got pictures of the necklaces I made!

Weeeee! :3 Btw, that background- thaaaank you Xhanthi! She has an awesome tip for 'Quick and Easy Vibrant Backgrounds' at her blog. (That link is to the tutorial.)

Anyway, these two are available at my Etsy! Here for the green byzantine, and here for the pearl steel. The pearl one I like quite a bit as you can wear it in different styles as you can close it on any ring you want. I'm most likely going to do just a plain one with the 'Mobius balls' (I've only used three rings, so they're not very... bally) as it does look very nice on its own. But I need more rings. Again. (I used a lot of rings for my flapper headdress. Which will hopefully look okay.)

Need to do something about the layout.

Bloody wire.

Almost literally. I hate wire. I just stuck a piece of wire I was working on deep into my thumb. Hurt like a bitch for a few minutes after I did it. Nasty stuff. Wire just gets so damn sharp when you cut it, and I keep poking myself full of holes every time I use it.

I tried taking some photos of Pan in the underwear I made for her ages ago. The plan was to take a few pics of the green byzantine necklace as well, but things didn't go quite according to plan. I just had a short photo shoot around 1pm, and the light was already a bit rubbish so I only took a few photos. So I'll need to do this again at some point as I need pictures of the necklace as I will be selling it. But I almost finished another necklace today! Not the same design, a completely different one, that's why it's taken me a stupidly long time to make it. Mainly because I start just doing a necklace without any plan, and if I come up with an idea, I will follow that idea- except when I happen to come up with a better one and halfway through making it, I make the necklace into something completely different from what I originally thought it would look like. Sooo. Yup. I'm pretty much just making it up as I go along, really. But I will need to take photos of that as well and hopefully I'll have enough time and light at some point during the weekend to get decent photos.

Anyhoo! Here are the photos I took today, and tried making pretty enough to be shown...

Pan is sooo pretty... :3 I even managed to change her eyes to her human eyes today! She's been wearing her second set of eyes which she's supposed to wear when she is in her hoofed form.

Badabing, badabum!

EDIT:
FUCK. The water has risen. A lot. Getting worried now.

So I went to the dolly meet in London on Sunday! :3 Such pretty dollies! But first I'm babbling about other stuff.

So if someone in the UK has missed it, it has been raining quite a lot lately. And as I live in a town that is littered with rivers, there is some flooding action going around. Especially in our garden. There's about 10-15cm of water there. Wanna see?

Pretty eh? Our garden is the one on the left, and the right is our neighbour's garden. If it keeps rising, we will need to move all our electronics from downstairs to upstairs. And notify the agency and tell 'em we need sandbags! xS It's still alright, no need to worry, but who knows what might happen that could make it rise suddenly...

I finally got pictures of my planty things! I decided to try and grow citrus' and now I don't know which ones are lemon, and which are orange. But who cares? They are for the greenery effect. And I also decided to try and grow wild strawberries indoors! They're looking sooo pretty, but there is no strawberries yet. Might never have, but again, I don't care! Strawberry looks so pretty anyway, so not getting strawberries doesn't make me sad. :D

I have a dozen random citrus plants. xS I need to donate away some of them, luckily one of my colleagues has promised to take a few. But I still will need to donate away a few more, as I can't just throw away my babies! I raised them from a tiny little seeds! Sniff.

So one of our housemates moved away on Saturday. And he left loads of stuff here. O.o I'm a bit weirded out as he left loads of CD's, and his CD player. And lots of other random bits and bobs. That are in plain view. Very strange. And I forgot to ask if he is coming back for them when I saw him on Sunday at his leaving due. Whatever, he has well over a month to come back from Cardiff to get them. :P

Meet time, I believe! So I went to the London Pygmalion Society meet this Sunday. It was so nice, and my colleague could see why we are so into these little pretties. :3

 This is Akudem's lovely Bowie! And obviously he had to try out Pan's wig. Just because everyone should.

 JUDGE BOWIE!

 :3 This is Krowbar's beeeeautiful little girl! She is so amazing! And she has a bum to die for...

 And this is Jatzu's gorgeous Mito! I WANT HIM. NOWZ.

 And I think that's Jatzu guarding her pretty. She must've known I wanted to run away with him. My plan of dollybduction was foiled!

 Krowbar's Mr. Abs

 Star's little Mika

One of Krowbar's amazing collabs with... eh. Izzy? 

 And Krowbar strikes again with the hunk-action!

 And with this picture I actually made a Firefly reference in DoA. Dunno if anyone will get it! xD 

(Two by two, feet of blue.)

 This girl is so beautiful! But I can't remember who she belongs to, or what her name is! xC

 Jatzu's pretty Drayton boy with Pan and Aku's Bowie. Getting played with by mean owners. :P

 He so ISN'T sleeping at the moment. xD

 Bowie having a conversation with... Uh. Who's was she? And what was her name?

 Pan is getting some action! Which is in reality happening several centimeters away from her chest. I bet she ain't happy about that...

 Crab-lady! Aku accidentally called him a crab-lady at one point, while he had a lady dolly in his lap. xD

Bowie coming in for some love as well. And I'm sure Pan is up to something. (Or she's gone to lala-land.)

I think I need to have a photoshoot with Pan in her undersexywear that she was wearing to the meet. Cos I still haven't actually shown what it looks like. I made the top black and white, but then the panties are white as I don't have black lace that would be good for panties. :7 And I should take some photos of the green byzantine necklace, as I will be selling it.

Need to take some time and decide on a nice layout. This one is just until I decide what I want.

Good hearing WTF?

It's a bit annoying when you are the only one hearing sounds that ARE there, isn't it? When you ask 'Can you hear that?' and they say they can't, and look at you like you've gone mad. Frustrating. Thing happens to me all the time, and it was happening in our bedroom some time ago for a few days- my boyfriend couldn't hear ANYTHING, whereas I heard this high pitched really annoying and headache inducing 'iiiiiiiiiiiing....!' It was driving me crazy especially at night when trying to sleep. In the end, I figured out what was making the noise- and it wasn't my imagination, but our battery charger. It was making the noise if it was plugged into the socket. The only way to stop the noise was to make sure to unplug it from the socket, or take the power cord out of the charger. Eurgh. You have no idea how frustrated I was for a few days...

I am going to the London Pygmalion Society Meet on the 25th! Yay! I have this girl at work who I accidentally mentioned to that I'm into dolls, and she got intrigued. So intrigued in fact, that she is the reason I am going to the meet! She wants to see different sized dollies, as she is interested in crocheting/knitting for them, but obviously she's never seen one live yet, so I'm taking her to a meet to see a wider range of dollies than what I can offer. :D Scheewt! Can't wait! Also I'll most likely get to meet all the Oxford dolly ppl! Double-scheewt!

I tried taking some quick pics of my little things I made recently. For some reason, I feel like I shouldn't continue the matching bracelet that I already started, as I feel a bit funny today. To be honest, I've been feeling a bit weird all week. Not a nice feeling, especially because I would want to finish the bracelet. But tomorrow maybe I can finish it. Anyway, pictures of my exploits!

This choker- I have no idea what to do with it. It looks pretty okay when it is not on the doll, but then on the doll it's just... blaaah. Should I take the middle chain off? Should I lower it? Is it all wrong? I don't know what to do! xC

 

This is the necklace I made and I reeeeally like how it looks! I made the hook and the bit it attaches to all by myself, and I'm pretty proud about that! First time I did that! This is made with byzantine weave, with Czech glass beads and rings between each strand of weave. The whole thing is stainless steel and I quite like the colour of it- I might do quite a bit with stainless steel from now on and skip silver altogether.

 

I took these pictures in bit of a haste, and I don't really think they do the necklace justice, it looks so much better in person. :3

I need to get some better quality pliers if I keep making jewellery, as the ones I have are cheap and small, which were okay to try out if I liked this, but now that I want to do this more and I'm sure I will keep doing it relatively regularly, I need to get better tools. I had a damn blister on my ring finger from making the gold and silver necklace...

Anyhoo. I'm off to do something... unproductive now. I think. Adios!

EDIT.
I seriously want to do something nice for my boys birthday. Bake a cake maybe? Make some sort of starter with mushrooms? (I hate mushrooms.) Make awesome main course? Luckily I'm off tomorrow after all, so I can go shopping for ingredients. If I am to do something with mushrooms, I need to scour the Cornmarket to see if they have ACTUAL mushrooms and not just the shit white mushrooms you get in all the normal shops. I would want actual proper awesome forest mushrooms. (How the hell can I be picky if I don't even like the damn things?!!?!?)