Doll Plans 2018!

My actual plans at the moment are:

• Ordering Doll Chateau Dolores
• Completing the outfit for my MSD girl (actually made her one today :3)
• finding a space for my doll wardrobe
• Sell some stuff to get money for BJDs

 

Ah, doll plans - mine were marvelously sensible! After visiting my mother at long last, I was going to list 3 of my 6 dolls, plus of course that headless body, sell them, and use the money to pay rent, buy food etc. Well I am a grown up after all!

Then I got back from my mother's and my dolls seemed like old friends, or pets I'd been ignoring for months who had somehow miraculously survived total neglect - awww I loved them really Thought I'd probably just keep one of the ones on death row, as she was a bit special. But then the other 2 and yes even the headless body gave me THAT look 'but you can't sell me - we've been together for so long!'

They were right of course - 7 months is really a long time!? Then mysteriously, in spite of having no money for rent and food, I clicked 'pay now' and bought more dolls and of course a head for that body. And another head for a doll I thought might need a second head. And a couple of cu poche figures too - just to round the numbers up. I blame my mother

 

Plans by doll:

AiL ALICE / SD10 BODY
- neck shortening modification (dremel)
- sand/clean/seal/blush body & restring with kips
- dress set
- newer Volks hands
- white lace stockings
- buy boots/shoes
- various 16mm eyes
- better fitting wig
- dress set
- new faceup (partway done)

AiL CHLOE / HD57 BODY
- better fitting wig
- mod eyes & redo faceup
- fix thigh socket issue

AiL DARYL
- new brown 12mm eyes

ILLUA DAHLIA
- lace stockings
- shoes
- white blouse

LUSION DAHLIA
- new brown wig
- full length stockings
- find/make lace collar
- spot clean with magic eraser

THINGS TO DO
- re-organize all doll stuff by doll size
- Make sales posts for three (four?) floating heads
- Make sales posts for the clothes I don't want to keep
- Make sales posts for the extra wigs and eyes I don't need
- tea-dye the white cotton doll clothes set aside
- finish Akagi Ban nose mod & do faceup

NEW RESIN
- AiL 52cm body comes with free head promotion woohoo!

I should be completely done with wigs, eyes, stockings, and blouses...but I will likely buy some new silicone or glass eyes once I have faceups done

 

Death of my father has scuttled all official plans... I will 'try' to find the money to pay for the cabinet and lamps as I can't 'get them somewhere else later'.

PLANS
- pay off Daish <-one more and if i have the spare cash add a wig to get sent. DONE she's in the mail.
- nYID Oscar sometime around end of year... Christmas sale maybe? only if I am not needing to sell my home?
- any bodies I can manage without $$problems. not now
- hope for a BID or KID "BOY" Not likely
- keep hunting missing outfits on 2nd hand markets (any not just here) stalled for now
- order about $500 $??? worth of ridiculous LARGE furniture. they added stuff so no idea how bad this will get lol need to split the order so... depends on the estate results entirely.
* library cabinet and 2 lamps <- will work on this one... these i can't 'make do' with other items.
* ottoman stool(s?)
* swivel chair/s (not sure of this one)
* get at least 2 backdrops preferably 4. and see if i can locate 'wallpaper that works for 'period' settings. This could be a cheaper alternative to backdrops?
- list a unique furniture item and see if it can get good money... or i keep it... to hard to part with otherwise.

Get rid of both beds in spare rooms... by this fall I want them gone... either in the basement or sold I don't care. I want a 'working table I can to photography... this i think i can make or use other tables for now?

 

My basic dollie plans I had written down in my diary in the beginning of the year 2018 were as follows:
- get outfits for my Kylo and Hux dolls (I decided to dress up my newer Kylo and Hux in the "canon" outfits as in the movies) - which is NEARLY DONE, I have my Kylo Supreme Leader all dressed up and my general's body is currently away at the seamstress'.
- get better at wig making and faceups - slowly getting there
- get a better DSLR - DONE
- make a diorama for the local BJD-con - nope, I couldn't make it right on time, and currently I am not so sure if I would really want to do that for the next year... Time will tell anyways.

 

Well, I had no doll plans for 2018 and then Granado decided to make their Lucifer is different sizes. I've ordered a 43 cm whose layaway is almost paid in full. Cue the search (or creation of ) for wig, eyes and clothes.

 

Year's half over! But my plans for the rest of the year:

- Shoes for Mattie Just finished them!
- Wig for Ilari (that fits)
- Smaller eyes/smaller iris eyes for Ilari?
- Take more pictures

 

Lol, I feel like I went off the rails a little this year (and we're only halfway!). I've brought home two full dolls, two floating heads, and a bunch of hands.

1. Send Dowen (IH Edan) off for his face-up Done!
2. Order a bunch of ED eyes
3. Buy Migidoll Han & Jina heads during their ordering periods.
4. Get bodies!! Switch 65 & 57girl bodies Sort of done? I picked up a Migidoll body instead of the Switch65. I still want the Hummingdolly 57 girl.
5. Do a big taobao order in the summer
6. Participate more in the community and post more photos
7. Bought a complete fullset DDS Sailor Moon
8. Replaced the hands for my Beyours doll

 

For the rest of the year I’d like to stop buying wigs! I have such an addiction to leekeworld wigs, It’s not even funny. I’ve also changed my Dolly’s style from gothic Lolita to a more casual style, so ideally I’d like to improve her faceup or even have her professionally painted. I’d also like to invest less in black fabric and more in lighter colors and modern prints. I’d also like to experiment more with new patterns!

 

Make more clothes for the dolls I have now, wait for the two dolls I have ordered to come home, send lots of dolls out for faceups, and possibly order a Dollmore Trinity.

 

Coming late to the party, but what a fun thread, I had to join in! My doll plans for the rest of this year are about gathering all of my (currently) planned dolls!

1. Buy Oasisdoll Linglan head (Octavia) change of plans
2. Buy Switch Doha (Wesley) or Sensitive Seojin (New Kendall)
3. Buy Switch Sensitive Seojin (Kendall) Done!
4. Four new pairs of urethane eyes
   1. Soulinabox Matcha Cake & Chocolat Noir (Saint and Arthur)
   2. Makoeyes OZ 004 & 015 (Kendall and Wesley)
   3. TBD (Another thing on my list, figure out what eye color I want Kendall to have!)

But my other big endeavor of this year is making all my characters new wigs. I originally made the wig my current doll has, and I like it although it's definitely got flaws, but I want to try my hand at ventilating--essentially I'm going to make my dolls lace front wigs because the styles I have in mind are too complicated to buy cheaply. It'll be far more cost effective if I just make them myself, and in the meanwhile, I'll be saving up for all of the other things they need. Hopefully, by the end of December, I'll have four finalized characters to photograph!

 

I plan to buy me a 40cm doll, and making more clothes for my 1/3 and 1/6 dolls.

 

It's gonna take me until near the end of 2018 to actually get my last doll so for now I'm:

• Gathering accessories/props (teacups, swords, jewelry, misc. fun things in ancient Chinese aesthetic)
• Gathering furniture (very sparingly, because SD-sized things are so pricey ahhhh)
• Gathering outfits (clothes, shoes, and wigs to match)
• Clearing out old hobby stuff (Nendoroids and fountain pens, mostly)

By the end of the year I resolve to have plenty of spaces to house my trio of dolls and to earn back some of the money I used to buy them via selling my other stuff. Can't wait.

 

PLANS FOR 2018:

I need to do:

• Make a diorama.
• Learn how to make resin eyes.
• Attend a local bjd meet.
• Work on Elias and Shrkhan's face-up.
• Attend the Doll North Convention.
• Decided to sell my Volks SDMidi Williams.
• Sell my Ringdoll K head.
  
• Sell my Ringdoll Kane head.
• Sell my Dollshe Molly.
• Sell my Dollshe Ausley Love.
• Make a hand-held harp for Galadon. (**will commission BJDDouterie on Etsy**)
• Suede all my dolls. (**not necessary anymore**)

I need to buy:

• Buy some fibres for wig-making.
• Buy my grail: a Volks Williams Romantic Glance Ver. (**change of plans**)
• Buy my first Dollfie Dream: Volks DD Mayu. (**change of plans**)
• Commission BJDDouterie to make a harp/lyre for Galadon. (**in progress**)
• Commission someone to make some clothes for Galadon. (**in progress**)
• Commission someone to make a “Iason Mink” cosplay for Galadon. (**change of plans**)
• Buy suede.

Waiting for:

• Dollshe 26F Classic body in fresh skin.
• Angelsdoll Lucia head in white skin.

 

My goal for 2018
Find and purchase:
- Doll Chateau Oort and/or Olivia
- Dollshe Saint - or a Lillycat Doll Of so lovely!!!!! or even a very classy Russian sculpt.

-Get some very nice custom made wigs (I highly desire SophyMolly) and eyes, and start saving for some face-ups
-Learn to sculpt doll food and props and get to a level where I am happy with the little pieces, I'd like to sculpt some anatomical things as well like - brains, hearts, and things like that for some more *deep* photoshoots I'd like to do
-Additionally I will need to purchase a Macro lens for my Sony camera

-I am really hoping to find a retired Doll Chateau and once I do I will be very happy and able to settle down into the hobby again after so many years of not having doll plans.

 

Well that's one goal down. New goals:
Make more clothes for the dolls I have now, wait for the three dolls I have ordered to come home, and send dolls out for faceups.

 

My plans are actually buying:

• a Loongsould Bloom girl body for Petrouchka, my Supia Muse head
• a Loongsoul Grace boy body for Beast, my ANS I'm head
• a Ringdoll Teenager boy body for Lou, my LLDT Blue Magpie head
• a Glorydoll Miyuki head for Scylla (I'm looking for this head since december 2016!)

I don't know if I'll bought all those BJDs this year, it depends of my BJD sales! But I hope so.

I also like to do:

• irezumi tattoos for Tsuyu, my ANS Narcissus on Spiritdoll Elegance girl body
• new faceup for Tsuyu
  
• finishing Doloriel's tattoos (in progress since december 2015!)
• new faceup for Yume, my Volks yosd four sister sweet dream
• new faceup for Haïaltal, my Dollclan Vezeto
• celtic tattoos for Braonan, my Pathos Tale Pan
• blushing and manicure for Braonan
• modification on Souldoll Zenith girl body for Ydriss, my Elfdoll Eun-ha on zenith body
• finishing dragon helmet for Ydriss

I think that's enough for 2018!

 

I'm waiting on my first doll, so I guess my goals for this year are to:

• PATIENTLY wait for him to arrive ;_;
• Find nice fabric and practice sewing
• Possibly do a faceup for him when he does arrive
• Order him some clothes/wig/eyes so he doesn't sit around totally naked for too long.

 

UDATES: I took my old post, deleted stuff, rearranged things so they're in order of importance, and added some stuff.
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Space. I have none. I need to do one of two things:
Rearrange so I have more space for the dolls.
Sell more.

So I have decided to bite the bullet and go through my older dolls. It's going to be hard, and I'll probably cry XD but it's got to be done!

Dolls I'm reshelling in some way
Migidoll Ryu (keep head, use body for something else)
Migidoll Miho (keep head, use body for something else)
Ringdoll Dracula (new body, same head)
CP Delf Chiwoo -- putting away (can't bring myself to sell him. He'll just go away for awhile until I figure him out)
CP Breakaway -- might just get a new body so he's a little taller. His head still works for me.

So far that's it. I want all the characters these dolls represent to fit in with my 65-70cm scaled dolls, and due to their look and size, they don't. I will either make it happen or have less dolls. Win-win.

I haven't decided what to do with my Minis for now...I'm kind of over this size, but I really love several of them, and still might do things with them someday....one of them may go. Or none. Who knows.

Floating heads that I have no intention of buying bodies for -- need to go through this box some day.....

Then I need to go through all the blank dolls I have laying around and see which ones if any are actually going to get finished and which ones need to go. Long list is long.

there might be more later....
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Waiting
Ringdoll White Rabbit full set
Argo Dolls body

Need/Want to purchase at some point in the future
Body for Morfeo head - need this again
Dollmore Glamor model body or full doll in WS
body for IOS Jaguar and Chaos
Body for Doll Chateau Fergus
body for Two-face (heavily modded Dollzone Cosmo)

Superheroes/Villians who STILL need their costumes
Batman (cape and cowl only. I don't know how to do it. I'm kind of at a loss)
Catwoman
Moon Knight (regular costume)
Harley Quinn - classic costume
Poison Ivy
The Riddler - just a mask reshelled his head, now he needs a neck mod
The Penguin
Two-Face (needs a new body first)


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my old list. some stuff I have finished since this update....the rest, not so much.

 

August update:

1. F60: vest, Beanies, medieval top, wig, medieval shirt with decorations.
2. B60-005: t-shirts - done -, jeans - done -, tights/leggings - done -, headbands - done - , pullover - done -, sleeveless t-shirts - done -, pull/coat/cape - done -.
3. Twigling/TL3: legwarmers, pullovers, tights, dresses, hats, wipe off her face up, new face up, dreadlock wig with beads.
4. Timeless Body: shoes, boots, beach bracelets, tight top, tight vest, space tights, space helmet, space top.
   
5. Feeple65: magnets in the head - done -, tighten fire wig, winter hat with long sides and pompom, long pullover, jacket, long-ish knitwear dress, skirt to wear with leggings, cheerful hood, brown shorts for steampunk outfit, weapon holder, steampunk/cyberpunk weapon, goggles/glasses.
6. DC: boots, shoes, sandals, 'back/butt cover', wig, jersey hat.
   
7. MSD: clean/repair 1/4 transat - done -, leggings, jeans/trousers, a basic top, skirt, sandals, dentelle shorts, wig, grey boots, basic 'sport' bra - done -.
8. YOSD: Halloween pyjama set, Halloween sweatshirt pyjama, dreadlocks wig - done -, short white wig, LTF's face up to be removed - done -, LTF's head to be sealed - done -.
9. Super tiny: shoes, boots, coat.
10. Improve on face-ups.
11. Tackle 'how to make boots'
12. Tackle 'how to make wigs'.
13. Tackle 'how to make eyes'.
14. Tackle ''how to make a head with multiple eyes".
15. Tackle 'how to make a BJD".

Aim: SciFi outfit for Timeless body, outfit for TL3, Steampunk outfit for F65, Fluorescent/unusual/bright&cheerful outfit for B60-005, Woodman/Archer/Medieval outfit for F60.