Merry Christmas~! ♥

Before I leave to spend this day with my parents, I wanted to share a few Christmas-themed photos with you guys~ ♥ These were taken and edited on yesterday already, since I'm leaving right in the morning and wouldn't have had time for that today :3

First of all, I took a photo with all of my Picconeemos~  Here you can also see my newest Picco girl that just arrived on Tuesday, but I didn't have the time for taking box opening photos. She's an Aika named Aimi, the one in the middle of the photo~ Now I have one of each Picconeemo face, except for Himeno which will be getting a new release next year and she'll definitely join the crew then!

Me and Sarg also took some pictures for the annual Christmas calendar project of Finnish BJD forum, our day was the 24th - just like last year ^^ Since the weather outside is far from the "white Christmas", we decided to create a small Christmas set-up with some fake snow. Hopefully these photos bring at least some Christmas atmosphere to those people who don't have any snow~

Sarg posed the dolls, while I was taking the photos :3 It's fun to do things together~ Sarg has said that she enjoys posing the dolls more than photographing herself, while it's often the opposite to me XD I guess we make a good team, hahah...

Lulu and Neffie are ready to open some presents!

I wonder what's in this big one...

Whaaat, it's Olga?! D:

"Where are my cakes? >:I"

Grumpy little Olga still got some hugs since it's Christmas ♥

Even though she doesn't seem to like it that much X'DD

A few random shots:

Our smallest resin dolls~

On behalf of all tooth fairies, Lili wants to remind us that we need to remember to brush our teeth extremely well on Christmas, since we often eat many sweet things, like gingerbreads XD (I feel bad how little attention this girl has gotten from me... I've even thought about selling her a few times, but every time I look at her, I just can't do it ;___;)

I won Tony from Soom in their last year's Christmas photo contest and wanted to take a photo that I could send them to wish them merry Christmas ^^

Of course I had to snap a few photos of Chici as well, since she has her own winter hat and scarf! ♥ This was Chici's first time in the snow, so she got a bit too excited...

Merry Christmas everyone~ ♥

Hope you all have a great time with your families and friends ^^

After Christmas I need to make my doll year 2015 post and also talk about my plans for next year~

Tony's first outing

Remember Tony the Toad? :D He is finally ready with a faceup, body painting and a set of clothes ♥ I can't believe it's already been two months since I got him, time surely flies! D: Sarg is responsible for painting him and didn't she do just great job! ♥ Outfit is made by me, minus the frilly jabot that Sarg made~

So, I took Tony out for his first proper photos a couple of days ago~ I found him quite difficult to photograph from different angles without changing the position of his eyes >.< I had to pay a lot of attention to finding the best angle to shoot, from most angles his eyes looked starey and just.. weird ^^; He's currently wearing 16mm Soom silicone eyes, which are pretty much the only thing that seems to fit properly due to the way his eye sockets are sculpted... I don't have other dolls that wear the same size of eyes, so I can't do much comparing to find out if different eyes would look better and make it easier to take photos. For now, I'll either just have to use the few angles that look good or change the position of his eyes for every different angle hahah XD

Despite this little "problem", I'm loving him so much and really happy with the way he turned out~ I have some fun photoshoot ideas for him, but we'll see how long it'll take before I manage to carry them out X'D

I hope you'll enjoy these photos of my little frog prince! ♥

Tony the Toad arrives

A few days ago I received a letter from the customs about an EMS package from "KOOM, Korea"... It weighed only 0,4 kilos and I hadn't ordered anything neither by EMS nor from Korea, so I realized that it must be my photo contest prize from SOOM, lol XD Sarg received her prize too, she got the most amazing eyes that her grey skin Hyperon is going to use!

When me and Sarg entered the contest, I joked that if either of us by any chance happens to win, let's name the doll as "Tony the Toad"... So, Tony he is XD Tony Spark. He'll get cute little aristocrat clothes and hopefully a nice tophat from Sarg! We already have cute photoshoot ideas for him, though for some of those we need to wait until summer comes >3<

So yeah, here comes a little box opening! He's a Soom Toad in light green resin :)

He came in a very manly box XD

Yaaay I got a blue matryoshka doll pouch!! I'm sure they're mind-readers at Soom, since they seem to know what gender the doll's character is and send the right pouch color, even though the dolls are actually genderless... I've seen a Chici that was sent in a blue pouch and it's a boy, mine is a girl and got the pink pouch XD Creepy hahah

There was a little resin crown in that bubblewrapper, I forgot to take a photo ;___; I didn't know that they'd include the crown with the doll, it was a lovely surprise~ I guess Tony is a frog prince then ;3

Just look how cute he is and so full of personality, even as a blank doll! I was a bit afraid about how I'd feel about the body, since I really don't like it on the other animals Soom has released, they look too chubby for my taste... But I think this body is perfect for a frog, so it doesn't bother me anymore :3 In fact, I'm loving him so much already, even though I never expected to get a doll like him~

I don't have any proper eyes for him yet, these were just an extra pair that I had. According to Soom Toad uses 16mm eyes, but these are 14mm and I think they work well... I'm not even sure if 16mm would fit since even these were a tight fit o_o Anyways, I'll need to figure out what size and color I want for him and then order some :) Meanwhile I can make him some clothes and get him a faceup and some blushing (with help from Sarg ♥).

Hopefully I can share more photos of Tony soon ^^