BJD End of the Year 2014 Tag (on YouTube)

Happy new year everyone!!! I wish you all a wonderful dolly year where all your wishes come true 🙂 I came back from the holidays and decided to make this Youtube tag and post it here. Sorry about the poor light and shaky camera! Enjoy 🙂

The first picture of the year: https://www.flickr.com/photos/w_i_s_h_e_s/11843725173/

Questions:
1 Show us your doll family (as it looks at the end of the year)
2 how many doll videos did you make this year?
3 what was your fist video of 2014 about?
4 how many pictures (on any site or medium) did you take/upload this year?
5 show us the first picture of the year
6 Tell us the best thing that happened to you, in the doll hobby this year.
7 Tell us the worst thing that happened to you, in the doll hobby this year.
8 Show us your three favorite things you got this year.
9 What is your new year’s resolution?

Winter sun and BJD Meme

I was tagged by bearpicnic over on Flickr to do this wonderful new year meme but I am sorry (again) I am just doing it now…like I said in the previous uploads I have been really busy in the holidays and since I came back and I am still catching up… I thought it would be fun to post it here, too. So, this is late but here it is!

 

1. How long have you been in the BJD hobby?
I learned about the hobby in 2009, started researching about it, and by November I bought my first doll 🙂

2. How many dolls do you have at home?
Currently 13, but waiting on 4! I never thought I would have so many dolls!!!

3. What are their names and sculpts?
– Serena Alma [IH nYID Bianca Human]
– Alice Bradford [FL MNF Shushu]
– Charlotte Fay [FL MNF Ryeon]
– Isabelle Fay [FL LTF Rachel]
– Beatrice Fay [FL LTF Ante Human]
– Vanilla Moonlily [FL Puki Flora]
– Eliza D’Aurey [FL MNF Rheia]
– George Bradford [FL MNF Carl]
– Iris Cupid [FL PKF Bonnie]
– Evelyn Sprout [FL PKF Ante]
– Émilie Marie Mignon [AnotherSpace 43cm Peanut]
– Arya Lyn [D-storic Narae Dreamer N416]
– Pandora [Unoa Lusis/Minifee Hybrid]

4. Which doll have you had the longest? How long has it been?
I’ve had Beatrice, my Littlefee Ante the longest, she arrived in December 2009.

5. Which doll is your favorite?
Eliza, my Minifee Rheia. I love her to bits, she is the perfect doll and character! But I have to say my new girl Arya is close to her!

6. Are you waiting on any dolls now? If yes, which one(s)?
I am currently waiting on four dolls, I went a little insane in the end of the year and in a buying sprea, hopefully in the next year I will calm down a bit! I am also waiting on my first vinyl doll, an Obitsu (that’s exciting!).
Luts Delf Arwen
Iplehouse JID Owen
Fairyland Feeple60 Chloe
Obitsu 40cm Ai-chan

7. What is your grail doll?
There are many dolls I like a lot but not really “grail”. When I like a doll a lot I usually try and buy her… I guess for a while the Feeple60 was my grail doll and I thought I would never buy one, however I was lucky enough to be waiting on a Chloe now!

8. Did you learn something new because of this hobby?
Yes, I improved a lot in photography since I entered the hobby, but I would love to develop other skills in this hobby, too.

9. Have you made any friends you might otherwise not have because of this hobby?
Yes, most of them online but also some real life ones! They make me so happy and inspire me so much, I am glad this hobby gives us the opportunity to meet new people 🙂

10. What are your doll plans for this coming year?
For now I want to complete my incoming and new dolls and concentrate on them and their stories. I hope I won’t buy many dolls from now on, even though I would like an SD boy… maybe! I would also like to invest some time to learn new skills, like doing face-ups or sewing for my dolls, hopefully I will have the motivation and availability 🙂

Hope you like it and feel free to answer it too if you haven’t!

Happy holidays!

Finally I had the time to do a couple of holidays pictures with my dollies. This year is the first Christmas in the new house and we are going to Portugal for Christmas to spend it with the family, so I decided not to buy a big tree but just a tiny one and some other simple decorations just to give the house a touch of Christmas (I love Christmas, it is my favorite holiday!!!). Turns out it is the perfect size for my dolls so I thought it would be cute to create a scene out of it with the whole family, even those out of the story joined. Everyone helped out decorating the tree and afterwards we took a family pic with everyone together 🙂

The little girls decided to help with the decorations: Iris took care of the bows, Evie and Izzy were in charge of the rest of the decorations and Serena helped them out to reach the highest places. Also Charlotte together with Bee and Emi helped with the ornaments. Little Vanilla helped arrange Santa on the top of the tree and put his light in place.
George decided to play Santa himself and bring the presents to place under the tree and Eliza baked some cookies to welcome the real Santa while the others worked. Pandora was really excited about the cookies, and she wanted to eat them herself since she loves sweets (it is her first Christmas with the humans so she didn’t understand what they were for). Arya was quite confused about the whole thing too (since in her world there is not such thing as Christmas or Christmas trees) she spent the whole time wondering what the whole thing was about. Finally Alice, being a photography enthusiast, took care of the pictures to create some memories 🙂

When the tree was ready Alice set the timer and the whole family took a picture together with it. Pandora was lucky to get a cookie, because Eliza felt sorry for her and Santa eats too many cookies anyway!

I am not sure how much time I will have for other pictures and posts before Christmas, maybe I will post something else but I’m not sure, so me and my dolly family would like to wish you all Happy Holidays: a merry Christmas full of love and presents and a wonderful new year full of wonderful surprises and dolly goodness!!!

Photostory: Family Ties

You must be wondering: What? New Photostory????

Yeah! I know…it is unexpected. Since this week I am still working from home I started feeling nostalgic(with a new doll coming and everything); and during a break I started looking at the old photostories I used to make. I was really happy to read them, it has been a while since I read/make them and they made me laugh and feel warm inside…but especially they made me remeber how much I enjoyed making them! Too bad they are too time consuming…
Then I remembered: I still have a couple of stories I made last year in August/September when I was home in Portugal and I have been meaning to post them but then I never did. So I went looking for them and they were practically ready for posting. I decided to post this one and probably the other one soon, for old times sake! And in the end, I never presented Alice and her character in the stories, so she deserved it. If you don’t remember where the stories ended last time or if you don’t know my doll stories you can find everthing in the Photostory section of my blog 🙂

NOTE

This story was made in September 2012 so this is before the dolls and I moved officially to Italy, it was supposed to be Alice’s staged BO (hence the box). The photos are made with my old camera and are quite crappy but I didn’t loose time editing them, sorry! And most important: THIS DOESN’T MEAN I AM GOING TO BREAK THE PHOTOSTORIES HIATUS AND START DOING STORIES AGAIN. Unfortunately at the moment I have no time for it, but I thought I should post at least these two stories and do like a “season finale”, maybe in the future I will do them again.

In this story:
Eliza [FL MNF Rheia]
George [FL MNF Carl]
Alice [FL MNF Shushu]

My BJD if they were Anime characters <3

This game was running around the Italian BJD community on Facebook and I decided to make my own family 😀

From left to right (click on the picture for a bigger version):

Evelyn Sprout [FL PKF Ante]
Iris or Cupid [FL PKF Bonnie]
Gwendolyn Faelan [FL PKF Luna]
Isabelle Fay [FL LTF Rachel]
Beatrice Fay [FL LTF Ante Human]
Charlotte Fay [FL MNF Ryeon]
Alice Bradford [FL MNF Shushu]
George Bradford [FL MNF Carl]
Eliza D’Aurey [FL MNF Rheia]
Vanilla Moonlily [FL Puki Flora]
Serena Alma [Iple nYID Bianca Human]
Still nameless [Xagadoll Lara]

Bee and Izzy were kind of hard to make, because they are currently going through a make-over, and they do not have a default look yet but I made them as they are right now. My Xagadoll Lara is the one that maybe is less developed because I am still in the process of getting to know her, but this is what I imagine of her now… I still have to decide her name too, I am waiting to see her in person with her new face-up to decide if the names I thought of fit 🙂

This is actually an Adult game that lets you create characters and then interact in some creepy ways…ahem, but if you  ignore some of the features you manage to create really cute characters. Here is the link if you are interested (ATTENTION: there is some ADULT content).