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

I felt some energy come back after a weeklong cold today so I put on a nice mix of japanese city pop and took all my dolls for a dance around the room. Surprisingly no accidents regarding shoes/wigs falling off! (They are all horrible dancers though)

 

With some non doll friends went to a local cafe to have a chat and breakfast this morning. Took Eve with me. They loved her. When Eve came out of her transport case I made her do a “hug me” gesture and the friend (after asking if it’s ok to touch) hugged her back and air kissed her.

Actually my dad also air kissed Adam a while ago.

 

That's supper cute . I need a little elf doll

 

I have my one girl sitting in my store . All the women love her but the men just give me a look. lol

 

I've been working on doll furniture for my SD dolls.

I finished making the bistro table yesterday, and I am making cushions for the wooden chairs and the benches. I am painting the benches so they look more finished. I am also finally starting to work on the bleachers that I have been putting off.

I needed a break from sewing doll clothes for awhile, and I feel very motivated about working on the furniture.

 

Just seeing them on their stands makes me happy! Currently I'm looking at a RealPuki Soso, since DDE still has a few in stock. Once I get my first paycheck it will be mine.

 

Today I grabbed some milliput and modded some of my resinsouls. It was fun to try some modifications that I'd wanted to make for a long time.
Now I'm waiting for everything to harden to see if it'll work the way I hoped. Even if it's not a perfect fix, I already like the look of those changes

 

I gave my Dandelion a another face up, hoping this one will work on her!

 

Finally removed Rupert's old face-up from when he was Gamzee. I'm thinking about how to do a new one, which is getting me amped up!

 

Gave my girl earrings. A small change, but I really like how she looks now

 

I've been making lots of jewelry for my dolls! I am having so much fun making all these tiny charm necklaces and bracelets for them! They look so cute!

 

I moved both of my dolls to be near my computer where I can see them more, and set up one to be perched on one of my speakers.

 

I spent a few hours today doing some serious restringing and maintenance on my newest doll, to get him up to my posing and handling spec. I usually string all my dolls pretty tight, but he arrived so tightly strung that it caused damage to his resin and I could barely pose him anyway. So this was the first time I wanted to loosen a doll's elastic. I already repaired the damage; this time, I gave him completely fresh elastic and hot glue sueding, removed all the wire in his legs (also a first, usually I'm wiring my dolls). Then spent a couple of hours stringing and unstringing him to get the elastic tension right. Finally got it right: he poses just as well as before but is much more pleasing to handle!

Ruach is far from finished -- he needs his own clothes and forever wig -- but I dressed him up in suitable clothes and a stopgap wig, and he's looking more like himself now.

 

i painted one of my dolls' nails-- i wanted her manicure to look like the famous Chanel "Vamp" polish, because i remember when that first came out in 94 or 95, and a lot of her character design is inspired by 90s fashion. super happy that i got the color and the finish just right!

 

@aihre just wanted to say that his for-now-outfit is beautiful Ruach seems like he is going to be a cool character!

Man I should do some doll manicures again in 2026... That sounds awesome @thedarkeststar13

Anyhoooo I guess backstory is that I have been hoping to take some portraits and group shots of everyone sometime around the holidays and new year but so far progress is definitely poor

Yesterday I had a big rummage through the doll boxes, finally handling a few I had not unearthed since moving in summer 2024. It felt great to see Hawa again. I needed to restring him, which I did, then looked through his clothes and got him all dressed in a cool outfit. It's like seeing an old friend again I love some of them so much.

I also took a deep breath and reminded myself that Marina's head is so gigantic I need to suck it up and just force myself to love the Iplehouse body. (I don't have money to buy her something new with broad enough shoulders otherwise) I took the horrible ratchet piece out of her hips and hot glue sueded like never before. I also played with random extra hands I have laying around in similar colors to her and decided on a pair I think I will enjoy using on her. For whatever reason the delicate sculpt of newer iplehouse hands just feels weird on that body to me.

As an added bonus, Hawa got to steal her old hands, which look beautiful on the resinsoul bigger boy body! Huzzah!

 

Restrung my second MSD today! This body is old enough that it doesn't have S-hooks for the hands or feet, so the elastic hooks directly onto them, which made it extra challenging I managed to get the feet back on, but there was absolutely not enough space between the hook and the inside wall of the hand to get those back on. (I don't know how they got the old elastic on the hands to begin with, I literally could not get it off and ended up cutting the elastic to remove it.) I used some little jewelry clasps to hold both the hook and the end of the elastic together and that somehow worked...??? I'm just glad I'm not wrestling with it anymore

 

I finally finished a hat for an outfit I have been working on for quite some time. What a nice feeling to finally dress my girl up in itIt is an all yellow crochet ensemble! It really made me happy to see her in it and then put her on display.

That sounds awesome!

It is such a lovely thread to read through. So cozy and fun to read!

 

I completed an outfit I had started to sew one year and one month ago. It is satisfying to finally put it on the doll! (Doll that isn't completed but that's an other subject)

 

This was technically Saturday on Valentine's Day when I was motivated to let my girls celebrate with a couple's photoshoot. Determined to also get a handle on a DLSR camera, I did a lot of trial and error.

Lo and behold, after two hours of fiddling with the camera, trying to capture them in various loving poses, and intermittently spacing out to admire how pretty they look, I managed to get just one(1) semi-decent photo worth sharing:

 

i finally finished a wig that i started making ages ago and have been procrastinating on forever it's awesome to have one less bald resin egghead on my shelf, and giving them hair is such a major part of turning a blank doll into the character they're meant to be. the wig turned out so nice that i have kind of a renewed sense of momentum in actually getting this doll put together!