Finished a Unoa/MSD denim jumper set. :)

So I finally finished that denim jumper set I was talking about earlier in the month and I’m super happy with it. 😀 Also if it is now available for sale in my etsy shop! The full set includes: denim jumper, t-shirt, over knee socks, legwarmers and a flower brooch. Anyhoot on with the preview pics.

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After finishing this set I kinda started becoming obsessed with making little fabric flower brooches, lol. They are so tiny and hard to make, but in the end you have something really pretty so all the time is worthwhile. 😀

https://www.etsy.com/shop/tsukiyono

Incoming dolls and other nonsense.

So, I decided to go for it, Taren’s sweet face and the sale compelled me to splurge on him. My order went in on August 18th and according to the forums the wait time for Withdoll is 2-3 months. Hopefully he will be in my hands before Xmas, and I really hope he arrives before I go out of town in January on a family vacation. I ordered him in the realskin UV as I decided it was time for me to branch out beyond all of the “normal skin” dolls. 😉 The idea of the sunscreen in a resin with translucence is what sold me though. I just hope it is as beautiful in person as I have seen in photographs. Taren will also be my first MSD boy, and he is filling a space in the collection that sorely needed filled. This means of course that I will need to shop for MSD boys clothes in the meantime so he doesn’t have to sit around naked. If anyone has any suggestions on which brands fit withdoll boys really well I’d love to hear them.

Aside from Taren, I’ve decided I am going to give it another try to order a Mio head. I will be participating in a new Dollmore GO that the same organizer is handling. I figure if I will ever be able to get a Mio head from a group order, it is going to be with this person! Haha, thankfully they have a good humor about it.

So with all that, I have to say this must end my doll purchases for 2013. I forbid myself from purchasing any more dolls until after the new year. *sigh* there are just so many pretty dolls and so little time and money to have them all.

Mature MSD – Withdoll Boys

I’m always on the quest to find more MSD dolls that are more mature in looks and less child like, even moreso now that I have my Unoa Lusis. Of course my small MSD collection is lacking in males, because whereas it’s fairly easy to find female sculpts that are more mature looking in both body and headsculpt, for some reason the majority of boy sculpts remain too young looking in the face but often will have a mature and buff body (which is just odd if you ask me). It seems like only within the past couple years that more male sculpts with a more mature looking face have started to be created.

I only recently discovered Withdoll within the past week or so after having followed a thread on DoA about mature MSD that had a link to the withdoll website. I was really pleasantly surprised that they have quite a selection of Mature minis annnnnd mature looking male face sculpts! Of course they have some lovely girls as well as guys, but this posting is going to focus on the boys.

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The first doll on the site that I was taken with was Aiden, who is in the pic above. Of course I am a complete sucker for dolls with dark hair and dark eyes, so naturally his picture would attract me first. 😉 His default face-up is quite lovely as well, which always helps for first impressions.

You can order their dolls in normal skin, white, skin, rosy white (which is pinky like Zaoll resin), and last but not least realskin UV. The realskin UV has special sunscreens inside the resin that helps belay the “yellowing” or discoloration that happens over time and with exposure to the sun. Other colors are also available, such as tan, gray and etc…but those specialty colors are only available during special event periods. Another thing that is really nice about Withdolls is they come with an additonal set of hands. All of the hands have really beautiful poses and the sculpt has really lovely details.

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The second doll I found myself taken with was Taren. You can get him in your choice of two different default face-ups. The face-up above really impressed me as it makes the doll look really soulfull. I’m not sure I’m fond of so many lashes on the lower lid, but it’s still a very beautiful face-up. I also really like Taren’s narrow eyes which depending on face up can be relaxed, sad or even angry.

Currently there is a sale even going on at Withdoll. You can purchase dolls until August 31st at 20% off! It’s quite a good discount really for dolls, and it’s made it really tempting to order. I would be lying if I said I wasn’t seriously considering Taren or Aiden right now, lol. I think I probably would have already ordered one if it weren’t for the fact that I just can’t seem to decide between them. ^^;; It doesn’t help that there aren’t a lot of owner pictures of these dolls yet since they are relatively new.

Well, until I can make a decision I will probably be haunting the Withdoll discussion thread on DoA for a while. And now I will leave you with the link to Withdoll so you can check out all of the beauties for yourself. 🙂

http://www.withdoll.com/index.php

New YOSD items in my Etsy shop!

I just updated my etsy shop with two new YoSD sized items. You can now get the off-shoulder pink elephant raglan in YoSD size and I introduce to you “Rabby Pillows”! Rabby pillows are cute rabbit shaped pillows for your YoSD kids to cuddle up to at night. Sadly though I think I may have lost my pattern for the Rabby pillows, so these two will be the last ever (TAT). With that said, if you like them be sure to snap them up! They are available in pink with red trim or purple with pink trim. Please enjoy the preview photos belos or check them out in my etsy shop! On a side note you can access my store through the sidebar banner as well. 😉

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An update on the Mio situation

I heard back today about what can be done in regards to me receiving the wrong head in the group order. It’s not an optimal solution, but it is not a bad solution. The group order organizer said she would buy the head from me and then I could try to order the Mio head again the next time she hosts a group order. In the end I’m glad that I won’t be out $100, but I am also disappointed in not getting the correct head. I really appreciate what the group organizer did for me though. I would tell you who they are on DoA so you can join in any of her group orders without worry, but I’m worried it might be an invasion of privacy so I’ll just leave it at this.

At this point I am not sure what to do about my SD sized girl plans. I already have the Zaoll body (and head) which has been in it’s box since the box opening. The thought has crossed my mind to just sell her while she is still new and forget about SD sized dolls. Though that would mean I would have a very lonely Mudoll Ash…and my Danbi rarely comes out of his box. ^^;;; On the other hand I feel I haven’t given the SD sized dolls a fair shake. I don’t have the necessary stands to display them, nor the space, which is why they hang out in boxes. To compound issues I just found some more lovely and mature looking MSD sized dolls at Withdoll. So now I’m feeling even more than I should just stick with MSD and round out my ranks there…As you can see, I’m just waffling all over the place, so I probably shouldn’t make any dolly decisions for a while.