So all of my Soom orders arrived at least a month ago. Was funny though, Amber was last to arrive and I was less than impressed. Poor gal sat, actually still sits in a corner because I like her head, horns bottom of her hooves but nothing between. Her fawn legs are horrible! Yes they look great when you can get her to stand but she can't sit at all. And they will not do a straight exchange with my Culprit's hooves, they are much too massive. I actually bought a pair of Heliot hooves to see if I can swap them out. If they do work, I will either need to make her a boy or get a pair of Cuprit hooves and swap the top out. Ick, expensive though. Why couldn't Soom make her with the more mobile hooves to begin with?

Culprit actually was the second to arrive and it was love at first sight. She's beautiful, with or without a faceup. And her hooves are really nice. They are sprayed white to match her skintone at the top of the blue section and some has scratched off, but it's alot easier to deal with than blushing at the bottom like my Gloti. Only little complaint I have with her is mostly her outfit. Seeing her thong in the front is a bit much. Wings where ok, except for the fake fur along the top but I'm not going to use them; up for sale they go.




I gave her a face-up and was going to blush her body but the weather turned before I got the chance. The weekend I planned to completed started great; was fairly warm with just a bit of a nip in the wind. I spent all Saturday afternoon sanding off her seams in preparation. But come Sunday it was raining hard and chilly out! It was like someone had thrown a gaint switch that flipped the weather from summer to fall. Poor gal will need to wait until next spring to get finished but at least she has a face.

Camache, my Gloti has a face-up and has his hooves blushed. But the hooves started scratching and chipping off the moment I had him strung together. Annoying but at least I did it myself and can redo it. I'm gonna have to redo it anyways, he needs to be blue instead of yellow/brown.
Amber is growing on me now that I gave her a face-up. I lucked out in that I got one warm weekend day after I'd put Cuprit back together. Tried to keep it nuetral in case I make her a boy over the winter but it just didn't quite work out that way.




On the non-dollie side of my life I'm picking up embroidery to embellish some of my costumes. Doing a practice project that I found a pattern for in my Mom's stitch bin. It was actually an iron on pattern, which made it really easy to set everything up. But after hours of stitching I've only filled in one leaf! I know I'll get faster the more I sew but it's still frustrating. I also need to figure out what other stitches I need to practice and where in the design they will look good. The project I'm doing this for is my next Lolita dress. I'm converting a dress I got at Superstore for 5 bucks. Need to add a ruffle around the bottom since it's a bit short; lace around the sleeves and embroidery at the waist. I would use my sewing machine but it's not great at doing assymetric designs that are the proper size. Most of it's stitches are either too small for my use or too big for the dolls. It is a lot quicker and easier than hand sewing though.

These pics are from a while back, but meaning to post them for a while now.  Was fooling around with two 500 watt worklights that my Dad had lying around.  Tried a couple of different ways to point them, but found my best pics were when I was reflecting both of my white ceiling.  There are more in my photobucket, but here are some of the ones that I felt really turned out looking good.



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Was dusting off the dolls today when I noticed my oldest gal, Verthandi, has a chip in her lip colour. I look closer, touch it and another flake comes off! It looks like when I added gloss to her lips, it went on too thick and is now cracking off, taking the colour with it. So she needs a new face-up very soon, if the weather decides to get warm again. Hopefully I can make her as gothic as she is now; her first face-up was much lighter and gave her a very innocent look. I'm just glad I did her face-up, if Rokku's or Levi's goes, I'm gonna have to decide if I want to send them back to who did their face-ups or try to do it on my own. >.

Well, I've been double Soomed. Just put in an order for a Glati, because I love hooves that much. ^.^ And to tempt me as well, Feeple just announced that they will be doing chocolate skin for pukis--just what one of my characters needs.

So, new doll plans are:

Amber--waiting for, going to be my draenei girls' goddess
Glati--waiting for, kid for draenei
SD Chii minimee--joined in the group, probably will get a DIM body for her
SD Rabbit gal minimee(always forget her name)--joined in the group, going to try a Feeple body for her
Mini Ed from FMA minimee--joined group, going to try a minifee active body. Not sure if he should have muscles or not yet.
2 Mini Draenei gals--because I'd love to try making my WoW chars
2 puki, 1 chocolate, 1 NS--because you can never just have one. Already waiting for eyes for these guys. The chocolate guy shall have red eyes, would just need to find him red hair.

Was also thinking of getting a couple of minifee, but I think it will be a long while until I do that. There are a couple of Anime cons I'd like to go and cosplay at this year.

I'm noticing I really like girl dolls. Hope my big girls don't mind not having any males their size around for a while. If a deal comes up I might get a random big boy, but with all the big guys in the city, I hope people won't mind taking pics with my girls when I finally get them.

Well, I finally gave in and got a new big doll. Soom's latest monthly, Amber. Not too sure about her head and lack of swivel joint in her legs but I figure she will be easy to find buyers for if I don't like her. Don't think it will happen though. Already have a Dollheart dress on the way for her plus planning on getting her a purple wig. Sigh, why did she have to have hooves and a non-scary face?

Just ordered one of the Dolpa 20 outfits--just one because in the time it took me to pick three items, enter my info and click check-out, two had already sold out! WTF? Seriously, this is not making me like Volks right now. They have an opportunity to make money and they only have a few of each? I mean, I was watching the site, jump on the minute it was available and ordered in less than 5 minutes.  Crazy~  Think I'll go get Dollheart outfits when possible now.  Their website tells you when they don't have any more and they have really nice outfits for $100 or less. 

We brought in the Christmas decorations the other night and of course, the gang wanted to set up their Christmas tree.  I tried to take some pics as we went along, but the light was fading, and so few turned out.
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I think all that hard work was worth it, no.

So the dollies have taken a swipe at my pocket book this weekend. Bambicrony is having an anniversary event with a give-a-way doll--which I fortunately don't like--that I am splitting with someone from the city! It was amusing actually, since I posted a 'want to split' thread really late last night on DOA and she happened to be on. So I have a Shy girl that I hope to turn into Plum from Chobits; hyper and really into pink. Hmmm, better make her a bit different than Piper though, or I might anger someone. ^_^;

 

Gah!  Just in the middle of talking with L-lamb on DOA, trying to buy her SDC Miko. ^_^  I hoping it all works out since she offered to get his face-up redone by sdink anyway I want.  I hope sdlink is ok with that since I love her face-ups. But on a down note, my mini boy will have to go to fund this. Still, eeeee! I might get my mischievious/mature boy. Won't know for sure 'til I see him in person.

<Edit>Ok, bought him. Now to wait and sell my other boy.

So after hanging around my garage in pieces for a week or so to get her seams removed, body blushed and face-up redone; my girl is finally back together!  I learned from my mistake to not do her face-up under fluorecent lights, so I kept having to wait for it to be sunny enough to do it outside--which of didn't happen right away since I wanted it. -_-  But here she is, in a new outfit which probably cost half of what I paid for her lovely new shoes!