Summery picnic meet-up

We (me, Sarg, Tiinyan, Xaya, Elina and Dusky) finally managed to have our picnic meet-up yesterday (on Sunday)! This time we chose the perfect date, since the weather was really lovely ^^ We had decided to go to the Kaisaniemi Botanical Garden, which is full of beautiful flowers and trees that are great for photography purposes. There were also surprisingly few people, thanks to some kind of a fair near the garden that people found more interesting than looking at flowers :D

It's great how we always have such a nice variety of different kinds of dolls, both resin and vinyl!

Besides Sarg's panther, Tiinyan's Elian (Crobidoll Yeon-Ho) and my Gwyn were the biggest dolls at the meet-up. Both seemed so shy XD

Tiinyan's cute Mamachapp girl! ♥ 

And little Olavi, he also belongs to Tiinyan. I was not so fond of these Luts cats at first, but after seeing Olavi I'm pretty sure that I need one of these cuties at some point >.<

Tiinyan's Miisu (SQ Lab Chibi Moe)

Elina's grumpy little Hilde (Soom Yrie)

Malva, Elina's mint Pipos Ringo :3

Jaya's Dollzone Big Dipper

Jaya's Jeeli, Pipos Derek

A bunch of Pureneemos~

We had two Seras at the meet-up, Tiinyan's girl and mine ^^

Sarg's and my Neemos in their cute kimonos ^w^

Miu thought that it's really soft and comfy on Mimmi's lap... (Mimmi belongs to Xaya) Miu wore her cosplay of Sword Art Online's Yui :3

Xaya's Emmi

The newest addition in Xaya's Neemo family, Penni ♥

Sarg's Popo was really happy to meet another Kikipop friend, Tiinyan's Varpu :3

Xaya had made such a delicious cake *o*

These cookies ♥♥♥

Snake looking for some cookies as well...

"Who ate all of them?!!"

Sarg and Tiinyan took some photos of their cats, Pandora was probably teaching some basic hunting stuff to lil Olavi XD

Laying around after the hunt training session... Dusky's Darkie wants to be a cat too? D:

I took sooo many photos of Olavi, since he's so cute ;w;

Oh yes, he's cute~

Tail comparison bawww ♥

Small paw vs. big paw

Moving on from cats to birds :'D Chici met Tiinyan's Kaspian, the most handsome little bird boy again, and they went on a little dat--I mean walk! There were many fun places for these two :3

Adventure time! 

Chici: "Let's go there!"

Kaspian: "?? What's that noise?"

Kaspian: "Bad bad kitty, you won't eat us!"

Chici: "Oh, Kaspian you're so brave!! ♥"

Jeeli: "Um, this is a misunderstanding... ^^;;"

In the end, Jeeli was just curious and wanted to see what the little birds were up to. He had no intention of eating or hurting them in any way XD They made up and maybe even became friends?

Little chirps being all fluffy and cute~ ♥ Though I'm not sure if that's the safest place, so close to the panther ^^;; Chici hopes that she was not too heavy...

After the others left, me and Sarg stayed for a while and took a few more photos!

Thank you for the lovely meet-up guys <3 The summer has just begun, so hopefully we'll still have time for many more picnics~ 

#ProBJDArtists 2015

Last year Sunday, November 16th was the first ever "I support BJD Artist" day and this event is hold this year too, today on November 22nd!! The idea is to take a picture of your doll with a little message of support to show appreciation for the original BJD artists! You could post this photo anywhere on social media (Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram, DeviantArt, Flickr) with the tag #proBjdArtists :) I took a picture for last year's event too, my blog post about it can be found here !

I thought for a while which doll I'd take the picture of and the decision was quite easy in the end - I chose my dream girl Gwynithia, Soom Cuprit in bronze skin, who I managed to get thanks to Soom releasing her in this beautiful skin color ♥ Getting her had been my dream for quite a while and I was absolutely thrilled when Soom responded to the demands and made her~ The idea of just buying a recast never even crossed my mind, I would never be able to enjoy my doll, if it was a recast >.< It wouldn't be the doll that I dreamed of. Even if Soom had never made her in tan skin, I would've rather been without the doll than bought it as a recast. No matter how much a person wants to own something, it doesn't justify turning to illegal copies as a solution. There are only excuses to buy recasts, not any good reasons.

With Sarg's permission, I'm also sharing the picture that she took. The doll in the photo is her grey Soom Hyperon, named Diaval, who is a similar doll to Sarg as Gwyn is to me - a holy grail doll ♥

Me and Sarg have often send thank you messages to the companies with photos of the dolls that we got from them. We always feel so grateful to them, since without their hard work none of these beautiful sculpts would exist. This recently got us wondering - what about recast owners? Would they have the heart to send a photo of their recast to the original sculptor and tell them why they felt like they have the right to buy an illegal recast and be happy about something that has been stolen? o_o

More photos submitted to this project can be found from ProBJDArtists Tumblr and of course under the #proBjdArtist tag on different websites and social media~

Wolf & Raven

I have some BJD photos from last Sunday :3

Sarg had her grey Soom Hyperon, Diaval with her on her visit, so we wanted to take photos of him with my Gwynithia (Soom Cuprit)~ These two are not actually a couple in our story, Gwyn is partnered with Sarg's Morgan, a white Hyperon hahah XD They're both wolves, Morgan being the alfa male of the pack ♥ Diaval is a raven and had a brief affair with Gwyn when they were younger, before Gwyn even met Morgan... Diaval was also the one that was there for Gwyn when she needed a shoulder, but in the end let her down by disappearing without saying a word ;__; Then after many years Diaval came back to find out that Gwyn had moved on and was happy with another man... I wonder if they can be "just friends" or do they still have feelings for each other ;3

At first we were hoping to do an outdoor shoot, but it turned out not to work so well.. It was really bright for once and Gwyn's new pretty winter coat was barely visible with all the white snow on the background :( We decided to just go inside to try again with a backdrop... Much better!

Some single shots of Gwyn :3

I made a simple braid for her~ This is definitely one of my favorite doll wigs ever, I adore this color and the length makes this just perfect for all kinds of hair-dos ♥ Though it also requires a lot of care and combing, so it doesn't get tangled XD

And last, some shots of Diaval ♥ (taken by Sarg)

I'm obsessed with this guy, isn't he just gorgeous ♥♥♥ Hyperon is one of my favorite male BJD sculpts ever, but I'm not good with creating male characters myself so I'm really happy that Sarg is so obsessed with Hyperons! That way I can keep admiring them at close distance without having to own them myself x3

I have the whole weekend off from work, so hopefully I'll at least get some sewing work done :)

Have a great weekend everyone! ♥