Playing with dolls: what did you do with your doll today that made you happy? <3

Restrung my two floppiest girls today, SoSo and Bella. They are posing like champs again!

 

Today was not bjd day but mjd day. Bought 6 clearance dolls from Walmart. Enjoying opening those boxes for few hours. Googling what seria they came from. Doing clothes swiping. Very relaxing & enjoyable. Some tiny clothes they got quite inspiring to try to scale up to 1/3 & 1/4 size. Just need to find motivation to craft things instead of buying things & store them for my crafts plans that never get crafted…

 

The other day I noticed that the 4-5" wig I got for my tiny 1.7 iMda was looking a little matted, so I decided to comb it. Which of course ended up combing out all of the lovely curls, so I decided to follow the instructions online to just wet the wig and let the curls reconstitute... Yeah uh that didn't happen. I guess the curls were heat-set into the straight fibre.

So I decided to just commit to what I did, cleaned and combed the straightened wig some more, then gave it a haircut (since it was now too long without the curls). And I have to say, I think it looks better on the doll than the original curled wig did! Just frames her face better now that it's less poofy. And it'll be easier to take care of from now on, since natural wigs have to be brushed occasionally or they start to mat.

 

After having my Resinsoul Song for nearly 3 years I finally gave him a face up I'm happy with and his name finally came to me too!

I named him Caprice, meaning "an impulse, or whim" mostly because in the 3 years of owning him I kept him in a box thinking that buying a doll was just a huge impulse buy. Thankfully that's not the case and I'm so looking forward to buying a wig and completing a full outfit

 

Right now I'm in bad shape health wise, bad flare, so doing anything at all with the dolls is an effort. I made a deal to get my Moonlight Wonder head a nice female body next week. At this point I just have to settle on a wig and some eyes and make her a skirt and she's looking good.

 

I didn't do anything today, but yesterday I edited their photos.

 

Yesterday I found a vase and arranged some flowers. Bit tiny for the scale but it's OK.

 

Went to the fabric store, bought some ribbons, and made a hair accessory for Dollie. I used to be a huge crafter and seamstress, but ever since my neck injury I just haven’t really felt the desire to craft (it’s pretty painful). It wasn’t a long project, but it felt good to make something for the first time.

 

It's such a little thing, but I made my tiny fairy girl an apron so she can work in her Apothecary and not get her dress dirty. It took three tries to get it right, but I am SO happy with how it looks. Now I want to make more so I can play around with colors and outfits LOL

 

I made an experimental jacket for one of my girls (most of my stuff is in storage because I'm moving into a new house shortly) by frankensteining some shirt patterns together. The result was passable and lessons were learned.

I also showed my dolls to my new housemates for the first time and they think they're cute

 

I changed Blue's (Soony's) outfit. We've gone very pink this time! (her favourite colour, despite her name ) I also did a bit of organising of my doll clothes drawer. I've been gradually trying to put everything into plastic packaging to keep it neat.

I was going to change River's (Dreaming El's) outfit too, but I was tired and my back was aching from sitting on the floor too long, so he'll get an outfit change another day.

 

I started working on my Freya's tiny face up and hand blushing! I don't think I have the time to finish her face today, but then again, I said I wouldn't have time for her until our move was over, (-it's not) so who knows the weather deviated from the forecast and it's been a nice warm-ish and dry day instead of the wet, cold and sad, so I took that as my sign to leave packing for tomorrow and take advantage of being able to spray msc outdoors.

 

It's kind of stupid, but I sat her on a tissue box with a stuffie. She was so cute ;_;;; I got some really nice photos, too. She doesn't usually sit like that ;^^ I also played around and tried new poses, and got to try on her horns for the first time.

 

Been feeling pretty downcast lately, and today's sewing project did not go well (worked with a fabric from hell, struggled every step and all the stitching is awry). But I went and played with a couple of dolls, and one of them was looking so beautiful today that I took a photo. Looking at my dolls cheers me up.

 

Tangentially doll-related: re-arranged my living room furniture so that the glass display case is no longer in the sun. Now I can start working on a permanent doll display!

 

I've been trying to get all the basics done for all my dolls - wigs, shoes, outfits, face-ups, eyes - and I realised this morning that I'm actually almost there.
Not that they all look the way I want them to look, but there's nobody without eyes or a wig, and they're all at least decent (either wearing pants/leggings or dresses) and most of them even have shoes.

Next up of couse I actually want all of them to have the *perfect* eyes, wigs, etc., but that's for later. For now I'm enjoying the lack of dolly nudity and baldness.

 

I finally finished Freya's faceup! She's the only doll I have at our new place, and it's been a really sunny and warm september, so I decided to take advantage of the weather (again) painting such a tiny face definitely was a challenge, but glueing on her lashes was a special kind of torture. Normal lashes were too long and bulky so I did the "reasonable" thing and cut off the hairs from a lash strip and glued her lashes on one hair at a time... I hope to never do that again
But yes! Now my tiniest doll has a face and I can barely look away- she's so precious!

 

Spring arrived to my part of the world - everything's blooming and nice for doll pics, but the weather is quite unpredictable with rain and wind (and hay fever, my bane). But today's weather seemed decent and I've had this outdoor photoshoot idea cooking in my brain for a while, so I threw two dolls into the carrier and walked about 1 km to location. A golden wattle tree had branches drooping down to doll height, and I got a bunch of lovely pics. I'm glad I seized the day

 

The weather's been... thunderstorms for the past two days, so I've been watching shows with Mina and had her sit around while making layouts for a comic. It was so cozy. She came home in May this year, so I cannot wait for her first cold season after one of the worst, most dangerously torrid summers ever (peaks of 42°C ). I'm afraid I didn't enjoy my time with her as much because the heat was so terrible. I can't wait for Halloween and Christmas. I'd love to manage some holiday-themed outfits.

 

While updating my current dolly family list today, my husband informed me that we had a doll that I thought I've never seen or heard of before. She was gotten during the height of the Pandemic (which is a traumatic blur) so probably the reason why I don't remember her. Ran into the other room to look at her, saw how beautiful she was, remembered vaguely that yes indeed we got her some time ago, and did a little happy dance while laughing at the absurdity of it all. It's like getting a new doll all over again even though she's been sitting there all along. Bwahaha.

Now debating which doll will sit next to me while I eat dinner and watch tv to try making memories that they exist in my life.