Doll plans for 2025

Time for a Q2/mid-year check-in! At the end of March, my free time was slashed dramatically. I am still trying to adjust to this, unfortunately. It's definitely had an effect on getting my goals accomplished.

Spoiler

Move along:
No progress. If anything, I've been adding to the pile lol.

Continue being mindful of doll purchases:
I did okay this quarter, I think. In April and early June, I received dolls that had been previously ordered in November and February, respectively. Also in June, I ordered my birthday doll, which also lined up with the company's Summer Sale. I also just edited my 'To Buy' list and shelved a couple of projects I had planned. I had one doll for one of those projects already, and now I need to decide if I want to revamp it into something else or if it needs to move along.

Continue crafting for my dolls:
I definitely didn't complete as much this quarter as I did last quarter. But I did manage to finish a pattern for my SartoriaJ girl, and I started drafting the following patterns: basic shorts for HaruCasting 36cm, body suit for Iple nYID, and a basic bodice for Luts BDF. I also started tinkering with a crochet top for the incoming birthday doll in hopes that she might have an outfit that's specifically hers by the time she arrives home.

Reorganize doll cabinet:
No progress. But I'm reaching capacity in the current setup and something will need to be done.

Reorganize fabric closet:
No progress. But having limited free time has helped keep the closet tidy?

Catalog collection:
No progress.

Maintenance:
No progress.

Upgrades:
A doll I sent out for a faceup earlier in the year arrived back home in May and two more are on their way. I also got faceups booked for my newest arrivals. I'm pleased that I've kept up with the faceup queue. Additionally, I ordered some new eyes for some of my dolls.

 

A quick review :

• Yes I got a Miss in Woodland Echo ! But also a yosd Tsubaki because she's tooooooo cute
• Not before April, but no selling plan right now (except my hard-to-part-with glass eyes
• Yes she has been rehomed !
• 0 wig made, it's ok (but love to buy hannasu wigs, they are easy to deal with
• Not only finished, but also sell it to one of my friends
• Yeah ! Though the lighting to the new room sucks too, but some new lights help a lot

Some wishes in the second half of the year :

• Pls ! Please buy fewer eyes and fewer Volks clothes ! They are good buy definitely I don't need that much and my wallet says no
• Just an exception, if there'll be a chance to buy Luna's outfit
• Get makeup for Lullaby Aurelia and new makeup for Magaret
• Continue to take photos !

 

Time for a mid-year check in!

• ...Oops. New DearSD, I just can't resist the lil cuties!
• Not done yet, still need to figure out a plan there.
• I did at least move on a couple spare clothes at one of the local doll meets!
• There are more socks now! Pants, not so much.
• She has undies now!
• Been doing a bit more, but work's been busy and I've been too tired for much doll stuff. I want to find some photography prompts to do with them.
• Yep, got some of those replaced.
• Getting there, I've finished up some pieces, used the majority of the pink silk scraps I've been sitting on for years, but there's always more to go.

 

2025 Doll Goals:

• Wait on pre-orders to arrive sometime this year.
• Save up enough money to afford new pre-orders/dollies/accessories.
• Save up money to be able to pay bills so my dollies and I can live comfortably. Hahahaha

 

Mid-year update: well, the doll changed, it's Dollstown Kana now
I've had some setbacks - one of which is getting face damage on a new doll, and in the panic of the moment sending it to an overconfident person who made things worse so I'll have to send the head off again to someone actually competent to have it fixed. I'm confident things will turn out all right in the end.
A whole new doll happened in the meanwhile, too, so I'm behind on schedule. But I should manage to get my crew serviced, though I'll have to compromise. No super fancy outfits. And I should be able to avoid layaway for the doll at the end of the year. I have to remind myself I'm still getting started in this hobby and I shouldn't bite more than I can chew.

 

Checking in after half a year!

Not buying new dolls is going great - I bought an unplanned doll in may and it's a big one so storage space is also problematic but I also sold a mini, which doesn't quite make up for it but at least makes some mental space. Wig making is also not going as planned but I know I have the materials and there is no rush - nobody is bald anyway!

I looked at some AL art books and did some planning but the cosplay is not getting on so well. I'm not pressuring myself into it if some other ideas feel more interesting for the moment but I'd still like to do it at some point - just maybe not that soon!

Keeping up with a website felt like work so I ended up taking it down - this is a hobby I'm in for fun after all! I enjoy spending off-screen time with the dolls the most right now, and appreciate having something that allows a screen break for me, so I'm leaning into that more these days.

Let's see how well the no-buy goes for the next half a year!

 

Time for a half year checkin!

1- I did end up getting 2 (oops) DoDollsDream this year and Peakswoods body. I actually had a change of plans and will be getting another body later this year... I had plans to dye a doll body to match a head, and, well, it didn't turn out like I hoped.

2- I got one rehomed already, still working on the others.

3- One girl came back from her faceup recently, and as of now everyone has wigs, eyes, and clothes. As I said my dye project didn't go to well

4- Still working on this, but I have been working on some off topic dolls.

5- Sadly I started a new job in January and wasn't able to take time off to go to Dallas this year, but fingers crossed for next year! Still a chance to arrange meetups this year, though!

 

- My Flickr and Instagram are filling up nicely. Though I've been taking photos of everything, not just dolls!
- ...Okay except for the stuff I need to sell
- Just finished that today. I cheated a bit and customized a TTYA shirt instead of finishing the one I made from my own pattern. Maybe I'll get to it eventually.
- Bought a second dress for my Angie, this one actually made to fit her.
- Probably will not be getting another doll, seeing how I bought season tickets for women's hockey!

 

It's time for a mid year check-in here too!

I'd like to:

• I know it will be a fail if I say "buy no doll in 2025", but at least I plan no dolly purchase. ==> That one will be a fail (it already is, because I both bought and trade heads/dolls since january, ahah). I plan to buy Otherside dolls' new doll before the end of 2025. Their elderly faun lady.
• sell some dolls, at least 5, maybe more. In my wildest dreams, I become reasonable and go back to 50 BJD. (I'm at 62 now, with two more ordered) ==> I'm at 65 full dolls, and I'm so lazy when it comes to sell dolls.. fail here also, currently.
• find the time to paint one doll tattoo (the one I didn't in 2024) ==> Another fail? I paint none yet and I will have little spare time until the end of the year ^^'
• continue sewing outfits, and maybe buy no already made outfit. ==> This one is a victory so far!
• continue crafting wigs, and buy no wigs at all. ==> this one too.
• finish my dragon skull helmet prototype. It's in progress since 2019 ^^' ==> still in progress, shame on me.

It's not exactly a mid year check-in to be proud of

 

Hmmm, at the beginning of 2025 I was still very much inactive in the hobby.

As I have gotten back in, my plan wasn’t to get anymore dolls (wasn’t opposed, but wasn’t planned), but that’s been a massive fail, with now four new additions. Instead I just wanted to do stuff like:

- clean up and restring my existing dolls (done)
- give some new face-ups (not done due to humidity issues)
- sewing new clothes for them (not done, in the process of getting a sewing space set up, delayed due to illness)

With some of the newer dolls, some additional plans:
- getting some eyes. The one brand new dolly will need them. The fourth (second hand) might need them too, have to see if anything I already have works first.
- my first restoration project! This fourth doll was quite a deal, though he has some damage. I’ve been really frustrated with being unable to do face-ups because of the weather, so this will be a nice doll project to have for the summer months while the humidity is at its worst.

 

I've taken a multi-year hiatus from the ball-jointed doll hobby, so I'm hoping to get back into the swing of things. My little resin family is still waiting for me, a little dustier than they were but still ready to be redressed and loved. I'm looking forward to playing with them again.

 

I just want to finish a poor older doll I bought last year. I have taken an hiatus from the hobby because I've been too busy working.

 

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Well, we did well on faceups!
-Tassian still needs the redo
-Anastasia still needs the redo
-Oriel, once we dye him
-Lady mercy needs a redo
-Helia needs a redo
-Sariel needs to be painted
-Mammon needs a painting
-Discord (?) needs a redo
-Abdiel once he comes

-Fierna still needs dye
-Oriel needs a body and some dye
-Red needs to be dyed
-blue needs to be dyed

-Acyra is no where near done
-Pardalis is nowhere near done
-Dia’s elbows need to be done
-Fierna’s boobs
-Syn’s boobs
-Val’s boobs
-Finishing Neferet’s boobs too
-eye opening mod
-red’s second head
-making Helia spookier

none of this is even started, but add to it that Mephistopheles and Fierna don’t currently have ANY clothing that fits them, and Tatyana and Valeska need their wedding outfits

-we sure did get wings. We have 8 sets of feathered wings. It’s still not enough, but it’s decent?
-we still need 2? Pairs of demon wings
-Acanthus still needs a body via RS
-Oriel still needs a body, either from RS, DFH, or FL if they do ebony f65’s
-Death’s body, either from RS, or an old doll chateau body
-Wrath is actually getting a new body, so Tass gets theirs back
-Luka needs to be bought

Other Goals
-finish moving all the dolls few by few into my house
-get a sewing machine so I can even sew at my house
-Sell a few of the dolls we want a little less

 

well figured i might as well do an update post since i've been having a burst of creative energy this summer and probably done more doll stuff in the last couple months than i did all of last year!

my big goals for this year were:

+ to buy two bodies to finish off my floating heads. which i have managed to do! i got one secondhand back in February and then ordered one in April that arrived in June.

+ i had a half-finished doll that i was hoping to complete-- been making progress on her finally, she should have her wig and eyes finished by the end of this week and then i need to complete her half-painted faceup and make her a couple clothing items.

+ i also had a hybrid girl that was in pieces and needed some modding and colormatching in order to be fully assembled. i've finished the neck mod i needed to do for her head to fit the body and the color matching and faceup painting are in progress...

+ i also ended up needing to dye one of the bodies i bought in order to make it match the head it was intended for-- completed that project and have that doll all assembled!

+ i've completed several of the doll sewing projects i wanted to do this year-- though i have many, many more still on my "things i'd like to make" wishlist. i also completed my fourth crocheted doll sweater-- a sewing-adjacent skill i wanted to keep working on learning.

- i wanted to get out an old super beat up project body that i started trying to restore ages ago and work on that again, and so far i haven't touched that one this year.

- my original plan was to sculpt my own head for both that project body and a Resinsoul body i bought in 2023, and i actually have worked on the head sculpting for the RS doll this year-- but the biggest reason i was planning on making my own heads is because both dolls are intended to be specific characters and i had never been able to find heads that looked right for either. i've been dabbling and practicing with sculpting doll faces for several years now, and i am kind of coming to the conclusion that i find it a frustrating endeavor. and i've actually found heads since that i think would work-- at least one of which didn't exist yet when i first came up with the idea of the doll. so i am leaning towards scrapping the sculpting part of the plan and purchasing the heads instead...

- and i was going to buy a replacement set of hands for my doll who has broken fingers, but i haven't gotten to that yet either!

overall i've made more progress on my dolls this year than i honestly expected to so far! for the rest of the year, i'm mostly hoping to finish up the in-progress hybrids, do a couple more sewing projects, and i would love to get my doll profiles updated and add profiles for the dolls who don't have them. guess i'll find out if that's overly ambitious, but i've been on a roll, so....

 

Well might as well do a bit of a check-in. I didn't get my girl and her friend done in time for the con. Their bodies didn't arrive with enough time for that, but that worked out in my favor in some ways! Her friend should be coming home from getting his faceup soon :3 It's also let me take more time working on everything for them than I would've then, so I'm happier than what I've making than I likely would've been had I tried to rush it. I still want to make a carrying bag just for them, too, but I need to pattern it out and figure out materials. I have a lot of fabric already, but gremlin brain says I should get special fabric for it xD And I bought shoes...but have also been trying to sort out making some other ones for them anyway The pair for my girl was really poor quality, so I'm trying to recreate them from other materials, and I had the realization that her friend should probably have somewhat closed toed shoes, since he is a physician in their hometown.

The other two boys I haven't really touched. I'm waffling on selling them actually. I think i jumped a little too hard into the idea and getting all the supplies for them at the outset instead of working on them, and now I'm not as interested. But I've already put a lot of time and money into them, so I'd feel guilty doing that, and one has already had some significant modifications done that would affect him selling. Idk, I'll have to see.

I did get the body for the off topic head, so that's in my customization queue as well, and I also ordered an off topic 1/4 girl that I didn't plan on. She's cute though, and I think it'll be fun to have a doll that I can just customize and dress however. She's still an elf/ fairy kind of character, but I can't really go wrong with that lol.

(House buying also didn't work out for this year, so that's on the books for next year maybe)

 

Mid-year check-in!

Sell: ahahahahahahaha NOPE
Buy: Got one on layaway, thinking about a second, and saving towards the third for capping. We'll see what happens.
Get some bodies: Not yet. That involves unpacking the box of heads and that ain't happening right now.
Get some faceups/clothes: Faceups are also Not Happening. I did buy some clothes and eyes and wigs though!
Crafting station: ...It's a WIP.

 

Mid-Year Check-In

• Organization went from being 75% done to 25% done due to an overwhelming amount of new things coming and going. I did fine some stools and a bunk bed for my 60cm dolls! And one Volks couch I got for a steal.
• I was able to get a brand new Dollfie Boy Body for my custom head. However, since then, I have collected maybe 4 more floating heads. I plan to sell 2 of them, keep 1 and 1 just got its body today!
• Custom outfit for my Dollfie was commissioned by a talented artist I met on IG.
• I might sell my Luts Senior Delf. My collection grew too big and he is just very neglected compared to the others. I think it’s time he gets a new home.
• I sold one of my RingDolls and I am currently keeping another in its box because I’m up in the air about him.
• I was a coward and never did the tattoo for my doll.
• Nope on earring. Also too cowardly lol.
• OMG I HAVE 5 SMART DOLL BOYS NOW HOLY SMOKES. I might end up selling one because he looks too similar to another. And I’m on the fence about another. But I’m so happy I got my smartie boys.
• Got an NT Miku via FB and Sakura Miku on pre order. I might sell my Sakura Miku because I feel like my NT Miku is just enough Miku
  
• I have attended two doll meet ups and one BJD convention! Huzzah

I definitely had some set backs, but overall I think did alright goal wise. Currently my #1 goal is to sell off some dolls that are just hanging out in my closet and drawers. Get rid of and organize some clothes + wigs and finally build that long awaited doll shelf. No floating heads 2026!

 

I like this kind of threads.
This year's really doll intensive for me. I ordered Impldoll boy, Littleberry boy, Huajing body and Doll Family-A jointed hands.
Xaga Doll boy came recently and he needs a faceup and tattoos. Myou Doll twins need faceups too.
No more dolls this year.
I definitely want to learn new skills. I already tried to make a wig but I still need a lot of practice.
And my dolls always need new clothes, shoes, props - it's a never ending saga.

 

Another quarterly update!

• So my doll case won't accommodate 1 doll per tier (my Midori is just slightly too tall being my only SD13 doll) but I can do 2 dolls per tier and that is still perfect to me! They are currently residing in there. I would like to decorate the space a little more and experiment with some lighting options to illuminate them a little better when put away.
  
• Another update, I decided to rename Moriko to Momiji after my good doll friend recommended it. Her new name suits her better with my seasons theme for my four dolls. Her new name describes the color of the Japanese maple leaf and is associated with Autumn.
• Also found a faceup artist to try out and sent her Momiji at the beginning of August. I'm excited to see the results! My goal is to find one faceup artist to eventually paint all my girls and the spare heads with differing expressions. Sending Momiji off is a step in that direction to feel out how much I like this artist. Here's to hoping it goes well! It's my first send off since 2012.
• So that hybrid was a bust. I found out that Volks let's you do an exchange of old parts to have them refreshed! So I'm getting my old skin BW(?) F-05 exchanged as well as an old NS Nana head from 2006 I found in my storage. Pretty stoked about getting them both refreshed especially after finding out the sleeping four sister's mold has been discontinued and can't be ordered through FCS anymore. So this might be one of my few avenues at getting a matching sleeping head for Miyuki! And the NS Nana head can be for Momiji. Those have already been sent to a proxy back in July and should ship in September.
  
• For my birthday this year my mom purchased an Una (Miyuki) head for me! The head is from 2025 and a touch too light for the body but I plan on upgrading bodies later on anyway. Pretty excited to have an open eye head for Miyuki especially while her sleeping head is off getting redone. She currently has her default faceup (it is surprisingly cute!) but I hope to get it redone once I decide fully on a faceup artist for my set. And it would depend on much I enjoy Momiji's faceup when she arrives.
  
• While not photoshoots exactly, I have been dressing and photographing my dolls more often. I'm also enjoying just changing their outfits and wigs and styling them for a bit before putting them back up for display. I recently acquired saddle stands and they are so much easier to display now!
• And for the finale! To celebrate our engagement, my partner offered to purchase my grail doll, a tan F-01, as my engagement gift! My first ever FCS order! The order was placed at the end of July and should ship at the end of September with the refreshed heads. The timing coincides with our engagement trip too.
  
  I couldn't be happier. This addition will complete my set of 4 dolls! It's really special to me that my mom gifted me Midori when I graduated in 2011 and Miyuki for my 36th birthday this year. And now my partner is celebrating our engagement by gifting Momoki!
  
  
  Still got a ways to go on some of the other plans but I think this is a lot of headway for my quarterly update!

Definite Plans

• Photograph and craft/sew more for all my dolls now that the crew has expanded! (Still got work to do)
• Possibly blush her current hands. (All the girls got a spa day and manicures!)
• Still need to look for more optional hands though. (It aint easy)
• Attend more doll meets! I got to visit a dolly friend this year already. (Still hoping to do this!)
• Make a dedicated doll space!
• Get a new doll bag because the one I have is from 2008 lol (I haven't forgotten lol)

Maybe Plans

• I have a future plan of having four different F-01 SD girls 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! (And I did! Got all 4 girls in the series now)
• 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. (Done!)
• Faceups for the girls! It'll take a good bit of saving to get there. (One down, many more to go!)