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

Currently giving a new-ish head its faceup. It's good to be painting again!

 

I feel l have finished a big project that took more than just today and happiness is directly proportional - HUGE! Did 2 faceups and 2 body blushings, all the very first time in my life!
They still need their eyelashes. Other than that l’m not going to touch them at least till next heating season (when the central heating makes the air very dry for spraying the varnish even in the bathroom where l have the good ventilation). The eyebrows and lower lashes on the readhead could be finer.
Readhead small by Ilona Lablaika-Williams, on Flickr
IMG_2106 by Ilona Lablaika-Williams, on Flickr

 

Today was doll photography day Autumn is finally here which is very suitable for doll pics. I woke up before sunrise for an outdoor photoshoot - wanted to catch the light during dawn. I should've made an earlier start: didn't have much time before the sun rose and caused some photography trouble. But the pics turned out fine overall.

I ended up doing three photoshoots today, of 5 dolls in total - one is still ongoing and I'll finish up another day. The dolls were pretty cooperative, and pics look good so far. This doll weekend was much needed, I'm glad I took the time.

 

The final doll I've been waiting for arrived yesterday while I was doing faceups and I opened him up today. He's an off-topic MJD, so I can't post him here, but it was fun, like getting a little gift from past me! I wasn't able to dress him because he needs an anti-stain suit that I didn't buy for him, but his eyes are so pretty and he looks really cute!

 

Busy Monday, so just the fact I can peek at my dolls as I pass by between making a coffe and getting back to my desk is a great pleasure and reward of the day. ;A;

 

I recently received a 1/4 body for my one of floating heads so I unboxed her and tried on her head, I waited 5 months for her body so I'm happy she has one now.

 

I just redressed a couple of my dolls for the upcoming South NJ doll meet this Saturday. I still have to pack them (and unpack other dolls that I won't be taking to the meet), but I'm pretty much all prepared to go to the meet.

 

So, it was yesterday, but I finally finished a faceup for the first time in about a year. Long story short I have life upheaval keeping me away from hobbies, and I struggled a lot with mental state and materials making this faceup.... Sometimes I feel like every time I move to a new climate or a product I used is changed I have to relearn painting all over again!! But at any rate, about ten days of very slow occasional work and it's finished. It looks nice. I put her (a new doll in January) back together and styled her in some old clothes and a wig. I felt very happy and accomplished. Proud of myself for persevering too.

 

I just undressed and redressed all my sd's and I like how they look better. It feels like a crime some clothes aren't being worn, but they'll come back when I get in the mood again

 

For almost a week now I've had one of my doll couples posed together embracing. I drop into the room every so often to look at them, maybe change the pose a little bit, take a photo. Looking at them makes me really happy and I really don't want to change anything. I guess they'll be hugging each other for a while yet...

 

I moved some of my dolls onto my chest of drawers this week. Previously they had been on the floor which was starting to really annoy me. They look so much better here, and my room feels much tidier too! I'm really enjoying looking at them every time I walk into my bedroom.


(Volks F01, Delf Soony, Migidoll Jina)

 

Finished glueing Saga's new wig (now I just have to wait foreveerrrrrrr for the glue to fully dry before I can get to cutting and styling ._.) and took Aino out of her box to adore her (she's been here for almost a year now and I still struggle to believe she's real). Also drew yet another mock up for Saga's umpteenth faceup, I was trying to go for an even meaner/gloomier look, but somehow she ended up looking all soft and sweet, aand I actually like it a lot. I made a little side by side comparison of the mock up Saga's current faceup is based on and the one I drew today. Choices choices, but luckily I'm not in any hurry to paint her face yet ^^

Spoiler: Old on the left new on the right

 

I started on my final project for Experimental Animation today. I got a little bit of animation done, though it's a bit rough.

 

Omg! Now I understand why some people find dolls scary! Impressive video, waiting for continuation!

 

@RamenDoodles that looks great! I tried stop-motion a couple times and it's so tough to get fluid movements even with prep.

 

@RamenDoodles - that was fantastic. I was cackling the entire time. I can't wait to see more!
I had to cross-link it to the hilarities in the hobby thread, it's so good. Hope you don't mind?

 

I also have a YouTube channel (or rather my dolls have). I'm always grateful to see members of the community supporting the various doll tubers. Making videos is tremendously hard work and very time consuming for often very little reward. What's worse is that my Dollfies are also getting constantly upstaged by our Nendoroids and Figmas .

 

Don’t mind at all!

 

After a long week of work, I took off early to take pictures of my breakaway 2005. Only one came out well. I'm posting a link here instead because I can't seem to get images to work!

EDIT - a kind user showed me how, so here it is!

 

@Kween lovely! What doll is that?
There is a guide on posting photos from Flickr. You have to select the 800px size from the "share" menu and simply paste the BBCode into the post (without using the image link button in the text area).