June Photo Theme

June's photo theme was chosen by the lovely Suruni over at LJ. The theme for June is CIRCUS I think this one is going to be loads of fun!

May Photo Theme ~ Adventure

I took this on the weekend just hadn't posted it here.

April Photo Theme ~ Words

Yes April not May lol. I can't believe I forgot to post April!!
The theme was Words chosen by Aussiedolls over at LJ. I found this one tricky to say the least. Here's what I came up with.

Hopefully this post will work. I'm trying the Blogger app on iPad *crosses fingers*

Hello my fellow photo a monthers :D We have our theme for May, chosen by the fabulous tonto65 (thank you!) ADVENTURE So many possibilities, so many ideas! It really is a great theme, and don't forget you aren't limited to just using bjd's, you can use any doll or toy you like to best represent the theme! Have fun XD

Sorry, I haven't posted here in a while. I'm still over at LJ although nearly everyone has left for some reason or another. I wish I could find a blog place that is friendly and chatty and full of life. I love Blogger but it's so quiet, I have people who supposedly 'follow' me but rarely does anyone leave a comment. Speaking of comments on here, it's hard to reply to comments and get notifications etc. LJ is good for that I'll give it that. But LJ is dying a slow, painful death. Ah what to do!? Flickr in a way has become a kind of blog for me. It has a wonderful community feel. It covers all my favorite things in one place, dolls as in bjd, dolls as in fashion dolls, re-ment and miniatures, ATC's and crafty things. I do like to ramble though and get my thoughts and feelings out and you can't always do that by sharing one pic. So I will keep plodding along here and LJ....for now :o) So enough drivel, what's been happening in my dolly universe you ask? Well I have recently sold a few dolls, well three lol but it has given me some much needed funds to play around with. I've bought a Limhwa To You Mari, a Wake Up Momoko and a Lati Haru. Yay for new dollies!! I still need to buy them all clothes, shoes and wigs the only down side of buying different doll sizes. I love the Limhwa I've always wanted one, she is so delicate and well proportioned. I think I'd like to send her off for a new face up, it's a bit clunky looking and could be a lot finer and her eyelashes are like black furry caterpillars lol. I can't wait until her wig and dress arrive then I can take some photos of her, she is so tiny! Momoko is in the mail. I bought her after I started looking for clothes for my Limhwa (they can share clothes - win win!). I didn't want to spend a fortune on a Momoko so that's why I bought a wake up version, this means she will be simply dressed in pj type clothes and she is a bit more plain looking than the special release ones. She is still cute as though, and I really want her to dress up and play with with. I love Momoko shoes! They are so detailed and well made. I might have to go and hunt for some Barbie fashionista clothes for her too, these fit ok, a tad big but if I choose carefully it good be quite good. Lati Haru *sigh* I seriously can't wait until this little sweetie arrives! I was torn between Bayer and Haru, then I saw a tan Haru and I was slayed! But as with any tan Latis they cost the earth on the secondary market (note to self buy a tan Haru and Bayer next time Lati release them). So I started looking for a normal skinned Haru on DoA and Flickr and everywhere else I could think of. Found one on DoA, messaged the seller and heard nothing. Then got up yesterday morning look on Flickr and one of the newest pics on there was a little lati, obviously for sale the way it was posed with its certificate etc, but could it possibly be one I wanted, let alone a Haru? OMG it was!!!! To top it off it was brand new, normal skin, no face up (perfect as I plan to send it off to get faced up) and it was being sold by a lovely lady I have bought from before. It couldn't be any more meant to be, could it! XD So I quickly emailed and paid and she is mine! I'm really, really happy! Can you tell? ;o)I can't wait to buy clothes and little wigs and pretty eyes! I messaged the lovely Nomyens about getting a face up and she replied straight away, so as soon as Haru arrives she will be sent off again. I need to think of a name for Haru and Limhwa. Momoko will probably be Erica after my sister in law, because she looks exactly like her (the hair especially). I was thinking off calling Haru Easter because I found and bought her on Easter Sunday, not sure, but I'm going to have fun deciding :o)

April Photo Theme

Hello everyone :D Thank you to everybody that participated in this months photo challenge, there were some fantastic photos <3

If you have time please pop over to see Carolyn's photo entries over at Littlegretel Dolls on Blogger she has also being do the monthly photo challenges :o)

Ok so on to April's theme, the darling aussiedolls has chosen this time around and the theme is WORDS

My old brain is ticking away at ideas already, I think this one could be quite challenging!

Can't wait to see what you all come up with and if any of you haven't joined in before you are welcome to hop on board now :D

Great advice from Kat the other day. I'm now drafting up my posts in my email and then posting them so I don't lose a whole post like the other day. Actually it's happened about three times now but the other day was the longest post I lost so far. Now I can't even think what it was I was prattling on about anyway lol.

So on to doll news :o)

My doll has love has been reignited! I was browsing around Flickr as I do quite regularly when I should be doing housework lol and I came across these amazing cat dolls made by artist Lee JaeYeon. She/he calls them Phoebe cats. I love their expressions and their outfits. They are made from a combination of bisque and cloth stuffed bodies.

Then I stumbled upon a series called Sprout. I'm in love and I think I'm going to order one but which one I have no idea, they are all so appealing :D Again they are bisque and cloth and they would be cabinet babies but I do love them and I think my heart needs one (is that a good reason?) I could right it off as a Mothers Day present right? The preorder is on right now and they would be ready end of April just in time for Mothers Day XD

Please help me decide! Which one do you like?

Still have plans for more customized Monster High dolls and I'd really love to get my hands on the two werecat twins, but I think I'd keep these just as they are. A question for my flist, those who have already customized their MH dolls what do you use to take off their factory makeup?

I feel rambley and disjointed today, sorry. I feel like I have so much to say but then I have to try and cram it all into one page, one rushed ten minutes to myself.

Still having fun with Instagram, I just wish I could make some pics private some pics public (just of the kids ya know, you never know who's viewing etc). Another cool iPhone camera app is Leme Cam, has some really cool effects, I'm still trying to work it all out. Getting back to the privacy thing, every now and again I get all worried about who is viewing my pics so I've decided to make any family ones on Flickr friends only, so this means going through all my contacts and editing who are contacts and who are friends ( it think I just have everyone as a contact, so it's a big job). I noticed today on Flickr that one person had spent four hours going through all my photos and adding them as favorites, is that weird or am I being paranoid? I mean I favorite a lot of pics but I don't spend four hours in someone's stream ya know what I mean?

I've been quite taken with Lulu, my oldest bjd lately. She has been sitting on the shelf way too long and deserved a bit of attention. I've had her six years next month! I still remember ordering her from Luts, trying to decide if she was the right one for me. I love her more now than I did when she first arrived, so glad I got her face up redone and she is really floppy, I should restring her and possibly wire her (something I've never done so it should be fun lol).