Merry Doll Round - Part II

Ohhh...perhaps I should look into the Komorebi body....

 

@Teddy
I think I have found a body for her; My Peakswoods Goldie might have to let go of her body...I will check next weekend in daylight with regards to the colour matching!

 

Fingers crossed!!

Teddy

 

Advice for finding a good match for 2015 Olathe head in Strawberry? Tried to compare her to my FL girl in NS but not quite there, though looks perfect in pictures somehow. Thank you

 

Good luck. Hopefully someone here will have some good advice about it

An update from me - My poor faded/greened Merry head, having been given a denture-cleaner treatment that dealt with the greening, and gone through several attempts to dye some colour back into her, is now a close-enough match to her modded Luts Delf body, and has been sent off for a new face up. I just got confimation the other day that he box of heads I sent have arrived, but it's going to be a while before they''re done and sent back to me, and doing a faceup on a dyed head is experimental ground for the artist so I'm prepared for it not to work if there are issues.

But after nearly two years of faffing and dye attempts on my part, she's finally out of my hands and with someone else for the next part of restoration process.

Teddy

 

Ohhh, if I have the funds, I might splurge on a Coppelia line doll!

 

The talented @Jay has worked her magic and done a lovely faceup on my poor abused Merry head. H=These are the pictures she sent me:



I couldn't be happier.

Teddy

 

Adorable!! It's been quite a journey, but it looks like you've reached the final stretch - Congrats!

 

Thanks!

I'm looking forward to gettign her home and reuniting her with her siblings and cousins. She looks a bit different from her old self but as far as backstory goes, she's had a serious illnes (she looked like a zombie - that's pretty severe) and been away for a long rest-cure with plenty of fresh-air and sunlight at a Swiss sanitorium (and come back tanned).

She has a travel compainion for her journey, as I sent another head to Jay at the same time (yet another RML R-01 to feed my obsession with that sculpt), so I'll also have another doll to put together and get to know.

Teddy

 

She is so pretty!!!

 

Thank you. @Jay did a beautiful job on her faceup for me, and, of course, the Merry sculpt is lovely.

Teddy

 

Hi y'all! Been lovely looking at all the dolls! They're so adorable

I saw the Fang preorder and I've been tempted, but the price for the body's a bit much for me, and so I've been exploring hybrid options. Does anyone know what resin colors might match MDR's Milk Chocolate? I've got my fingers crossed for something at least close to it in the high 40/low 50cm range, but I'm not holding out for miracles.

 

I've been admiring them on Instagram.

I'm loving that body so have added it to my list for future hybrids since it's so hard to find non-busty bodies in that size and nearly all of my dolls are children.

Teddy

 

I'm really bummed that only the new smaller head is available - even after 4 elbow surgeries I just can't bring myself to like/want smaller dolls, and I've pined after a Fang for years now. . .

 

Secondary marketplace?

Teddy

 

yes, but it's not pressing. I'm still working on being able to heft my bigger dolls ("bigger" = anything heavier than my 2+lb guinea pig)

 

So no rabbit-hefting until you're properly recovered then?

Good luck building up to the bigger dolls. Perhaps a Fang will be available for you by that point.

Teddy

 

I was in the same position, I have been looking at Fang for a long time and couldn’t resist her this time around, but the whole doll was sadly outside of my current affordability range. I am also hoping to hybrid her - currently looking at Supiadoll or possibly Doll Family-H. The former has a nice range of resin tones and their heads fall within the smaller SD range, so I am hoping the proportions would work, and I think the latter does resin matching. Both are good for body posing, which is a must for me. But I am going to wait until my head arrives to see what the colour is like in person before choosing. I can handle a doll around 60cm, anything more than that is too cumbersome for me to handle.

 

I've just made arrangements for the 58cm Doll Family H body for my Fang (acquired second-hand, I don't recall her resin color; it's on her cert but that's somewhere in my closet. She's a nicely mellowed ns in tone, presently. She also came with a lovely faceup that I'm loath to wipe, even if she's mellowed and could use a freshening-up. I'll see how I feel once the body arrives. If it's very close, she might stay as-is for a little while, but if sending her for faceup/blushing all in one seems good I might do it sooner.

I'll return and write about the fit (her head with the DF-H body). It should be good, only 2 millimeters bigger than the Merry Doll Round body. I missed the original ordering period for her with the Petrichor body (would've ordered her in Cookie resin), but I adore her in any of her available resin tones.

 

Hello, all!

I hope I'm not doing the wrong thing starting this, but I searched for a current MerryDollRound thread and only found two dead ones (no way to add new posts). But I wanted fans of Nuria's beautiful work to be aware of the current preorder for Fang in Cookie skin.

Nuria had to cancel the Chocolate skin option because of not receiving enough orders for the minimum, so I really hope she can receive a few more for Cookie Fang. Her work is so unique and lovely and I hate for her to be discouraged.

Look how pretty!
Fang in Cookie Skin (photo from MDR website) by Flora Lingua Dolls, on Flickr

Here is the link to her shop:
Home

I hope that this can be the new active MDR thread and that others can post photos of their dolls here. I'd love to see more photos of Zuri, Ophelia, and Olathe. I have an Olathe head that I can share as soon as I get her a body and take some nice photos!