I improvised with a crochet hook yesterday and came up with a very cute new hat for Lleu - to say I'm proud of myself is an understatement.


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In other news I have a new head at home now - a MNF Shiwoo Scarface - who won't be finished until mid-February when I'll get his body (yes, I've already ordered it, and together with it I will also get one of the cutest BJD:s in existence: A DZ Christmas baby!)

Inside this fortress of bubble wrapper and plastic fluff - armed with origami butterflies - lies the great General Kitten Pants awaiting a new home and new adventures! She is getting a new doll-mum and is being shipped off today - I'll miss her wide-eyed innocence and that tiny, wistful Mona Lisa smile, but alas! I am not made to be an owner of girl dolls so she must go.



Lost Echo sits amid the voiceless mountains,
And feeds her grief with his remembered lay,
And will no more reply to winds or fountains,
Or amorous birds perched on the young green spray,
Or herdsman's horn, or bell at closing day;
Since she can mimic not his lips, more dear
Than those for whose disdain she pined away
Into a shadow of all sounds: - a drear
Murmur, between their songs, is all the woodmen hear.
from Adonais by Percy Bysshe Shelley

My former Ying is all wrapped and packed up in a huge box and ready to be shipped off to his new doll-mum - after I've had a huge cup of tea. The rest of my tiny resin boys are a bid confused as to why I'm making "Tanis" into a mummy and locking him up in a dark coffin...

Bye, bye my darling'!


He's seen the glory, he's told the story
Of battles glorious and deeds victorious

Ronin \Ro"nin"\, n. [Jap. r[=o]-nin, fr. Chin. lang profligate, lawless + j[^e]n (...)]

I finally took some photos and put up my DZ Ying for sale [link] - it's annoying to once again notice how very handsome he is... But I guess there was a reason I bought him in the first place *sigh*

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I want to make a photo shoot with my NaNuRi:s right now, but I have art commissions that I really need to work on :/

Fixed the body blushing on both my "big" boys when I got home today and I'm amazed at the wonders a bit of chalk pastel powder can do!



( more photo spam of my boys without shirts on )

He's finally whole! Drystan is finally a "real boy"! The body arrived this morning without a ransom from customs <^v^>

I'm going to have to blush him to make the head and body match, but I think the pink normal skin resin was the right choice - it's not that much off the mark and it's light enough to fit with Drystan's look :)

When I finished working over the body with my magic brush (well, my charcoal pastels) I'll take photos of this beautiful body, but right now this will have to do:



Size comparison between Drystan and Lleu

And then "all"* my darlings together - group photo time!


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*Still trying to sell my DZ dolls so they're packed up in their boxes...

14 jul kl 22:17 STOCKHOLM EMS, Customs clearance underway

That would be Drystan's body - I really hope I won't get extra customs charges on it because that would suck.

OMG his wig isn't finished yet! I still have about a hundred and fifty dreads to attach o_O And what about his tatts?! The local toy shop doesn't carry temporary tattoos for some unknown reason and I don't feel like painting elaborate tattoos... OMG his body is in Stockholm - it's almost here!

ETA: After several hours of swearing customs has finally determined my package does not contain mind-altering substances or weapons or whatever they first seemed to think and sent it one step closer to me - about bloody time!

16 jul kl 14:56 STOCKHOLM EMS, The item will be dispatched onwards for delivery to the recipient.
16 jul kl 18:26 Arlanda Inrikes, The item has been redirected within Posten from an international terminal.

I got some suggestions and useful tips on DoA for how to improve Mr Cutie Pie's face-up (that I re-did just a few days ago and re-re-did just an hour ago again)! He is still not forthcoming with what he's new name might be, but he's so cute I don't mind <^v^>

Thicker eyebrows and more scattered freckles of varying sizes - it's not amazing, but I'm somewhat proud of myself anyway :D





Oh, and another eye change too - Pupa paradise "grass" 18mm - they fit the face-up better than the red ones he had in with the previously new face...

It would be laugh worthy if it wasn't so annoying - I haven't been able to enter the English/International Luts site for forever, but I just noticed I have no trouble surfing both the Korean and Japanese sites. It's something with the router's firewall - has to be, but I can't for the life of me figure out what is up with those settings... I fail so much.

ETA: Mr Cutie Pie has delf hands now (w00t!) - a #2 and one #4 - and I have a pair for Drystan (when his body arrives - keeping fingers crossed they'll fit his body ‘cause I don’t fancy DG’s hands). I met up with Zingy today and bought both pairs from her – she’s sold her boys and had no need for spare hands. My boy is really happy about it – he now has handsome, expressive hands (and not those un-detailed things FD calls hands).

Guess who got a new face up today?

Drystan's body isn't here yet, but I didn't feel like waiting (it makes me restless, waiting does) so I cleaned Teige's body and both my NaNuRi'06 heads last evening (because I was going to have to do it sooner or later anyhow) and I redid the face-up and blushing on Teige... who no longer is Teige.



He's grown out of the girl name and advanced into something that no longer is girly Teige... don't know who he is anymore, but until I do I'll call him "Mr Cutie Pie" <^v^>



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The prettiest, most handsome of my boys is now sold and in the loving care of his new owner! :)

This leaves me with four dolls and two floating heads, of which one head is getting a body, the other is being sold as are two of the remaining dolls... if only I can find a buyer for them :/

Well, after meeting dreamfox today and dropping off the OD Dae IL I found this generic looking metal bar-net-thing protecting some basement windows in the Old City and decided to try and take a few photos of Teige there... He was less than cooperative, which I think had to do with me having dressed him in Drystan's clothes and boots as well as Tanis' wig, but I was proving a point! CP NaNuRi'06 can be, if not manly, then at least boyish with the right wig and clothes.



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(Damn, I really need to re-do that face-up and body blushing... When Drystan's new body arrived we'll have a full day of doll face-body-care!)

Drystan is getting a Demon Garden body - wooha~jippi~do! Aparently there was some kind of weird thing or other going on with eBay HK so that was the reason they didn't have any auctions online, but I was still able to purchase a p-NS body for the lower price - I was insanely happy yesterday evening when I got the message from DG <^v^>

And since I just can't post something without a pretty picture (not true, have done that plenty of times) I present mock-ups made to help me when I re-do Teige and Drystan's face-ups sometime next week (when I finally have the time to):
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My fingers totally hate me now - I hot glue sueded Napoleon, my former OD Dae Il, for his new owner - but it was worth it since he poses a lot better now! It always surprises me how much of a difference a little bit of glue does.

I've also decided to buy Drystan a body new - depending on the answer I get from Demon Garden it will either be a DG P-NS body or another 1/3 boy body from Fantasy Doll (same as Teige). I'm rooting the DG body - the knees make me weak in the knees and it'd be a lot more fun with different bodies for my Nanuri's - but they seem to be out of stock right now (maybe they're waiting for July 1st when they'll increase the price (not very nice)?).

Anyhow, Drystan is getting his Luts neck doughnut piece part thing soon - I can't get in on Luts' site, but there's a group order on the open Swedish forum I've joined so ha! Take that messed up rooter firewall options! He'll also get a few things from Dollmore in another group order - and I've almost finished his dreadlock wig!



All that's left is to sew the individual dreads to the cap... I'm not really looking forward to sewing 100+ tiny dreads in neat rows, but the things we do for art ;D

My first photo story (ever) - it's short, silly and incredibly stupid, but as is so am I <^v^>

It's a few days old, but I've been a bit too busy to edit the photos and write up the story... if it's too silly I blame allergies (I haven't stopped sneezing and my nose hasn't stopped running since I helped my mum clean her workspace. Curse you, bloody dust allergies!)

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On his regular morning walk Teige suddenly notices a strange gate, opening is slightly he exlaims:

"Look, I've found a secret garden! I must be explored!"

( I must be explored! )

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There will (hopefully) be a lot of more changes in the doll population of this house in the near future. I put General Kittenpants (a.k.a. Dena) up sale as well as Ailin's head - with any luck someone will fall in love with and adopt them!



I'm still working my way towards selling Tanis as well, but he's managed to ensnare me and make me fall hard in love with him again! Part of me really wants to sell him so that I only have Fychan, Teige and Drystan left (three dolls damn it - I only want three dolls and none taller than 65cm! Why can't that damned tall, sexy, boy understand that he's too damn tall?!), but another part doesn't want to let him go; he was my first "big boy" and to this day he remains my largest doll (and, not counting Naopleon's sexy man-hips, the most handsome).

I'm finally selling my OD Dae Il! The decision has been long in coming, but I've never seemed to be able to take the final step before - I have now: the moment I find a buyer the prettiest of my crew will be leaving along all his wigs and pretty, tiny eyes.



Some small part of me fell in love all over again when I took him out of the box for photos, but another more sane part said that this is for the best. He deserves attention and love, something he's never got from me because I find him too small.

I really hope someone loving and caring takes it upon them to adopt him and shower him with love - he's so very beautiful (I have only one thing to say: man-hips of sex! His hipbones are the sexiest things ever sculpted - they are pure works of art!)

I’m not dead, yet – I just took that time out I promised I would take: no forums, no journals and no doll people (sorry ‘bout that) for a little while.

Me and the boys (and sole girl) are very busy with... the big life stuff and with art, commissions, work and school too, but I’ll try to ease into the BJD community again and start posting photos again!



Fychan and Teige have both got more or less new costumes for summer (even though it feels like October out most days), but I spent most of the forenoon cleaning and restringing my OD Dae IL, Napoleon... in between leveling my secondary family in Granado Espada and yelling at the jeweler that is making a ring I was commissioned to design for a client...

“...baby steps Gibbs, baby steps.”

I just got the confirmation from the seller: I JUST BOUGHT ANOTHER NA-NU-RI-06 HEAD ^________^

Wooho - I'm going to have a second of my favourite mold ever!

Happyhappyhappy :3

I gave Teige a new face-up, body blushing (chest, stomach, back & hands only), gave him an American "mom"-tattoo and hot glue sueded his joints the day/evening/night before the meet-ups and even though I didn't manage to match the head and body I'm quite proud of myself.

I've decided to keep away from the bjd forums for a while - all of them - I will not abandon the group order I'm running, but I won't post anywhere else or keep tabs on anything but my PM:s and my group order thread. (EDIT: Ha - as if I can keep away...)

I noticed I had one of those cool bling!bling wristwatches lying around and I think I have another one too - I need to clean this dump real bad.

Oh and when I've closed the HLJ order I'm thinking about buying a whole bunch of SD-sized handcuffs because you never know when they'll come in handy (I see weirdly disturbing photostory scenarios in the making) and I really need to find a 1/4 scale pink battle axe for Fychan.

The second meet-up yesterday was a bit smaller and less formal - a lot of laughs, giggles and weirdness.

Inari (Sea's), Teige (mine), Cain (Madde-chan's), Anapoly (Eggnog's), Alexis (Bävern's) - Eggnog's Fuku and my Tanis, Ailin & Fychan were also there (but not in this photo...)!

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