Doll news!

1. I did not win the Soom Auber I put in for. Fine, all the more money for FAT DOLLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2. I'm trading Sarah [Souldoll Shiva-G who has been sitting on the DOA marketplace since mid-August] to Isabeau for two elaborate outfits for -- who else? -- Mr. Pointyhead McDemandypants, who is out of his mind with glee.

3. I just scored a second 5StarDoll tiny girl body for Isabel from the DOA marketplace. It wasn't as ridiculously cheap as the first one, which was like $80.00 shipped, I think. This one was ~$120.00 shipped, which would have been the price + s/h from Denver Doll, but without the indeterminate wait time. It's actually not just a body that I'm buying this time, but a whole doll, meaning that a head is included. I have no use for the head, so I'll sell it off, which will essentially reduce the second body to the price I paid for the first.

I have now acquired two 5StarDoll bodies for the price that I paid for the Fairyland LittleFee body. I sure wish that LittleFee body would sell, as I have half a mind to acquire MORE 5StarDoll bodies and make more than two fat dolls!

4. I decided that Isabel, like all my major characters, rocks my signature style, marked by her own preferences. She especially likes leggings and dresses/tops in this style. [In fact, the colors and patterns in that dress are perfect for Zombieville!] Leggings for 1:3 scale toddler dolls are incredibly cheap on Etsy, so I plan to buy a bunch with which I can easily create new combos. As for tops, I'd love to work with Motylalka [maker of the pink/lime dress], sending her Isabel's body [or at least measurements] so she could make a few wonderful pieces that would be guaranteed to fit Isabel.

Today's words: "jeggings" and "quellazaire"

"Jeggings" are leggings that look like jeans. Some neologisms are cutesy and pointless -- I'm looking at you, "meggings" [men's leggings]! -- but I think jeggings serves a purpose. It signifies that the leggings in question are styled differently than your standard simple, stretchy, undetailed elastic-waist tights.

A "quellazaire" is a cigarette holder, not a storage case, but a tube on which the cigarette is mounted. It's an actual word, but I can't find an authoritative reference online for it. I have no idea of the etymology either, but I'd love to find out.

Isabel and Carter: where to put the fats

I've been thinking a lot about this because I want them both to be obviously fat [and approximately the same shape], but I also want them to fit into clothes made for standard 1:3 scale toddler bodies. Ideally, they'd both have flabby upper arms, breasts bigger than their heads, round protruding bellies and thick thighs, but I don't think that's feasible.

I'm currently contemplating a combination of sculpted fats and fabric fats. I'd like to thicken their thighs and make their asses fatter, so I would do that with Aves Apoxie Sculpt or what the heck ever.

I would really love to make them both have big, pendulous breasts [yay, gravity!], but I'm still pondering how I would achieve a combination of fatness, mobility and compressibility. Maybe really tight T-shirts with little birdseed packages sewn into appropriate areas? As a secondary with no need to be naked, Carter will never take his shirt off anyway. But what about Isabel?

I need little sports bras that I can stuff. :p

Fat doll as of tonight

Tonight I restrung the torso and legs with thinner elastic and less tension. This made the doll a little floppy while greatly increasing poseability. I must admit that one of my favorite traits of BJDs is their stringing. It can be tight for standing and/or holding long-term positions, or it can be looser for more naturalistic seated and lying postures.

Then I gouged out the front of the ankle sockets so that the feet could point perpendicularly from the calves, rather than slightly down.

I spent most of the time mangling working on the neck. A quick test revealed that, despite my earlier hopes, the 1:6 scale adult head on the 1:3 scale unadapted toddler neck did not work. ( Read more... )

Dolls I want

On October 23, 2012, I listed the 1:6 scale BJDs I wanted: Elfdoll Doona Ryung, Xagadoll Lara, Tinybear Bonbon, Alchemic Lab Unoa Light Fluorite and Souldoll Soul Little Metel. In less that three months, I've acquired all of them [counting my Alchemic Lab Azurite for the Fluorite] except for Xagadoll Lara. I'm less interested in Lara these days, so I'm fine with not having her.

With all of my previous 1:6 scale resin wants satisfied, I now covet, In no particular order, the following:

• Soom Faery Legend Auber. White or grey, it doesn't matter.
• Soom Faery Legend Cylin. She's the female equivalent of Kremer [Flower], with separate fluttery transparent ears. I just saw an owner picture of her on the DOA marketplace, and she's really cute. She's one of the less popular Faery Legends.
• Lumedoll Lumelight Koit in tan.

Easiest to get would be Koit, since he's still in print. Second easiest would be Cylin, as she appears on the secondhand market with some frequency. Hardest to get would be Auber, who very rarely appears on the secondary market.

Blah blah BLAH!!!

P.S. I have a disturbing lack of dolls of color in this iteration of my population. Pretty much everyone is "white skin" or "normal skin," with the exception of my Limhwa Sara [currently known as Kristin]. I am now considering dyeing a few people...like my incoming Souldoll Soul Little Metel. Maybe Dillon too...apparently he's already been dyed [and then undyed -- poor little dude]. And maybe some Me and My Muses secondaries like Avery [Lumedoll Lumelight Elin] or Mazzy [Lumedoll Lumelight Arine] when they're done.

Heck...I just realized that I have an unused Soom Mini Gem body [temporarily occupied by Isabel] and an extra Elfdoll Kathlen sleeping faceplate [previously Absinthe]. I need to make a headback, and then I can experiment with dyeing that. Woooooo hoooo!

Dolls of color

I forgot that Chaz is a woman of color! [She is a tan Batchix Nan Sook.]

I wonder if Lumedoll or Tinybear would sell just some 1:6 scale tan heads to me?

Ooooh, a fellow Figurvore member made a hybrid from a Tinybear Coco and a Hujoo Wings. I like that idea!