Doll plans for 2025

This year I need to downsize my collection. Next year I want to focus on finishing the ones I'm keeping.

 

Finally learning how to do my own faceups and getting some bodies for all my floating heads.

 

I want to work on finishing the base wig and eyes for my current crew- only one out of the four has her perma eyes, and startings of her final wig. I'm trying to avoid spending on new things, so I'm really hoping to appreciate my crew more.

 

We are about halfway into the year, so it's time for an update!

• I did manage to order some of the dolls on my list. I had gotten all but two of them ordered before the problem with U.S. tariffs kicked in. I will not be ordering those final two dolls, because they were both from Chinese companies, and that make me a little sad. However, I will now be buying more dolls from the second hand market to fill those character roles that I originally had planned.

• I redid a lot of faceups earlier this year. I can see an improvement in my skills and it is nice to see how much better my dolls look after I redo their faces. I am getting better at eyebrows, which for me seems to be the hardest thing in the world to do, no matter how much I practice I struggle with this. But a lot of my dolls have better eyebrows this year.

• I have definitely been sewing more for my dolls. I made my two girls and the future one complete basic wardrobes. Thanks to the monthly doll sewing project here located in 'Project Journals' I am going to keep doing the monthly projects because it helps me to improve my sewing and gives my dolls more clothes.

• I have been doing more modifications on my dolls. I did lengthen a couple centimeters in height on my boy Damian (Resinsoul Gang) His character was supposed to be tall and athletic and being one of the shorter boys didn't suit him. This has also made me less afraid to buy broken damaged dolls and fix them up. I have a project doll I am currently working on, and I am now looking forward to getting more of them.

• I did manage to get all of season one of my BJD webcomic up on Blogger, and I did the the photo shoot for season two. I haven't done the summer photo shoot I was planning yet, because a doll I was expecting as a character for that has not arrived even though I ordered the doll five months ago. I am going to probebly do a rewrite for that part of the story and get a second hand doll off the marketplace to take the place of that character, because I am wanting to take more picture and work on the summer story that I have planned. I still haven't felt up to the YouTube videos. Maybe I'll get back at that later this year, or not. I do still want to do more of the BJD Addicts Prompts

• Sad to say, the JoAnne's near me has now closed. It was marked to stay open, but has since closed down.

 

I'm... probably not buying more dolls beyond the one I ordered at the start of this year-- I'm not committing to that as a hard and fast rule, but my priority is getting more dolls feeling 'finished' (or refreshed!). Everybody is going to need new faceups, and my new boy is going to need EVERYTHING when he arrives-- the only thing I have waiting for him is one prop that's perfectly scaled to him.

The number one thing I want to do, aside from getting everyone blushed, painted, and kitted out with at least one pair of shoes and enough clothes to be decent (and at least one wig and the right eyes), is to take more photos! I never take enough photos of my dolls, and some of them have big wardrobes while others are sitting around shoeless...

But, part of getting everyone kitted out is going to be expanding my own sewing skills, since I'm about to get a boy in an odd scale-- if I want him to have the right clothes, I'm going to have to make most of them!

 

Some updates!

• I did manage to work on some of my doll plans since the last post. The doll space has been made! I re-used a four tier glass cabinet from my old job to house my dollies and they fit perfectly! And I hope to own four dolls so each doll will have her own tier for me to decorate. So I accomplished one of my definite plans for the year!
• I also managed to acquire my Fall girl, Moriko! A kind person was selling a SwD Nana for an excellent price! I couldn't pass her up so I had to add her to my collection. There weren't doll purchasing plans in the near future but here we are. Lol! So a 'maybe plan' came true.
• I decided to try my old skin F-05 head on my new WS body and the match isn't good but it could be worse! I may use it if I could get her color matched during the faceup process as an alternative sleeping head. My goal is to eventually acquire an actual WS F-01 head! But for now my old skin head is occupying the body just so they're not sitting around looking sad. But technically my Winter girl, Miyuki, is temporarily shelled! While not a permanent solution, another 'maybe plan' is accomplished.
• I have done a few photoshoots of my current girls. Don't quite have the setup I want but I'm getting there!

Definite Plans

• Photograph and craft/sew more for Midori, she's my avatar and I love her!
• Possibly look at some optional hands for her and blush her current hands.
• Attend more doll meets! I got to visit a dolly friend this year already.
• Make a dedicated doll space!
• Get a new doll bag because the one I have is from 2008 lol

Maybe Plans

• I have a future plan of having four different four sister dolls in different skin tones. And each doll will be modeled after a different season. Midori is my Spring girl. I would love to start moving towards purchasing the next doll in the series!
• I got an excellent deal on a WS body earlier this year and would like to start working on my Winter doll, Miyuki. I'll need to get a WS four sister's head, a pair of hazel eyes, and starter white blonde wig and outfit.
• Faceups for the girls! It'll take a good bit of saving to get there.

 

One of my goals is to practice sewing again. I’ve never made clothes for dolls yet, but I’m interested in trying. I’m definitely going to need a lot of practice…

 

Update time!

• Sent Aiyu out for a faceup at the very end of last year and bought her new eyes this week, so she's officially in the "complete" bracket -- Phoebe and Khadija will be next once I've got a bit more by way of extra funds, so likely fall/winter. Marcie will probably be pushed back to next year at some point, but I've got lots of projects with her between now and then!
• Added both of the aforementioned tentative vinyl girls to my collection -- I pre-ordered Sakura Miku and managed to get my grubby mitts on a secondhand Sasara head. Need to complete Sasara, but I'm not in a rush!
• Developed characters for 2/3 of my floating heads! Nysus and Mina have started to take shape! They're on the back burner until I get Phoebe/Khadija/Marcie complete, though. Unsure if the third head will stick around due to scaling.

I'm still further behind than I would like to be, but time to work on my dolls just isn't shaking loose at the moment. I'm hoping I'll have more time once I graduate this summer and, with any luck, move in the fall. If not, I'll still consider it an excellent year if I end it with few/no more projects on my resin crew!

 

Some halfway into the year goals, as my hobby love only recently came back with a vengeance after a stressful 2024:

• Paint the two incoming floating heads. One is a I.o.S. Tauros, who will probably start off as a nice natural skull and slowly degrade into a demon as I keep adding layers, and Amadiz Orlando Elf, who will be…an evil naturalist? Who knows yet, all I know is that I still haven’t found a good pan pastel combo to mimic the muted nude-rose lip color I keep seeing on makeup looks I’m using as inspo.
  
• Everyone gets a body.
  
• Everyone gets a manicure. Mixing a tiiiny bit of acrylic into Vallejo satin or gloss varnish has been a great way to mimic the look of gel nail polish!
  
• More clothes! I have tons of MSD clothes, but having been way more into SD, they all need clothes. I can’t sew to save my life so these will likely be purchases.
  
• The great debate on making a wig, or just buying the ones I know will look good.
• Clear out all the YoSDs I can’t stand, haha.
  

Hopefully I can achieve at least half of this by the end of the year! Finding hybrid bodies will probably be the most challenging part of this.

 

For shelling my OCs in my avatar, my doll plan includes...

• Face ups and manicures
• Body parts blushing
• Making wigs
• Sewing clothes
• Making earrings

All of which I need to start learning from scratch and so far I've...

• Blushed two pairs of hands
• Made one wig cap
• Started altering some sleeves

I'm struggling with work stress and finding my energy levels are not where they need to be to get my focus on, but I'm hoping to find time off soon that can be approved.

 

I need to get back into the hobby in general! I sort of fell out of it for a bit and have been really missing my dolls. So my plans are really simple: I want to join a local meetup group and start posting pictures on Instagram again.

 

I want to paint and decorate a summer house for MSD and YoSD, redo some face ups, and get my new minifee head to fit her Myou body

 

My 2025 Goals

Slowly getting through the list, since it involves a lot of money, lol. Eighteen dolls with two more on the way.

• Upgrade eyes and wigs.
• Check who needs a new face-up.
• Bath and Restring those who need it (mostly everyone).
• Acquire more clothes for certain dolls.
• Finish organizing all their clothes.
• Build a Doll set

 

Another goal accomplished! I blushed and manicured (lightly!) all my girl's hands! Just two more goals to finish for the year and I can start making headway for my maybe plans.

Definite Plans

• Photograph and craft/sew more for Midori, she's my avatar and I love her!
• Possibly look at some optional hands for her and blush her current hands.
• Attend more doll meets! I got to visit a dolly friend this year already.
• Make a dedicated doll space!
• Get a new doll bag because the one I have is from 2008 lol

Maybe Plans

• I have a future plan of having four different four sister dolls in different skin tones. And each doll will be modeled after a different season. Midori is my Spring girl. I would love to start moving towards purchasing the next doll in the series!
• I got an excellent deal on a WS body earlier this year and would like to start working on my Winter doll, Miyuki. I'll need to get a WS four sister's head, a pair of hazel eyes, and starter white blonde wig and outfit.
• Faceups for the girls! It'll take a good bit of saving to get there.

 

Right now, I am waiting for my Crobidoll Lance (Cookie Cream Cat Limited ver). From there, I plan to purchase more clothes and wigs for Caius Levi too!

 

Oh I love the Lance sculpt from Crobidoll! What a cutie!

 

My goal for 2025 is to get back in, cause it has been years and almost forgot about it.

 

Alright mid-year check in (I don't think I've done one yet).
1) Still need to do this...
2) This is reliant on one.
3) Which doll? Maybe I bought it? Have not bought more bodies or rotated the heads.
4) Started but need to finish.
5) Still need to do,
6) Well, Leetah and Cutter have gotten all the love honestly because they're getting their outfits custom made.

So all in all - I've done nothing. OTL But it is summer break so here's hoping I will get something done!

 

Right?? I am so sad that I wasn't able to get their Nameless versions but better late then never

 

Time for a mid-year check-in! Let's tackle my original plans in order:

1. I have been able to sell some of the heads I want to sell, but that's about it. I haven't gotten around to putting everything on the marketplace, but I will be doing that soon.
2. I bought the body for my SD girl, but I also bought a head during the Luts event, so it didn't turn out to be the only purchase this year.
3. The discord is too large for me to feel comfortable in. I was able to talk enough to start selling on there, but it moves pretty fast, so I sorta have been avoiding it.
4. The dolls I need to finish have increased! I revamped a few dolls because I'd stopped bonding with them, and now they need new outfits and such. But I was able to buy the eyes and body I needed. I've also been getting around to restringing dolls that needed restringing, which wasn't mentioned in my original post but is part of my 2025 Doll Project Fest. (Which has everything that needs to be done in it.)
5. As for faceups, nails, and piercings, I have all the supplies for it but the weather has been unpredictable and I haven't made the sealing box. I'm probably going to resort to spraying some heads and then finishing them in stages over time. (No idea why I haven't been doing this sooner.) The supplies for the wig are here, too, so it's just a matter of putting it together.

I had a rough start, but all in all I'm on track to get a lot done this year.