Sugar, spice, and everything nice

Sarg's Kikipop girl Popo finally got a wig that perfectly fits her from Crobidoll ^3^ This inspired me to sew her a new dress, using this super cute fabric that I got a while back. Sarg added some little decorations to it (a bow and cute heart-shaped buttons) and also made a matching headbow~ Popo loves sugary things and soft animals, so the print of this fabric is perfect for her XD

It would be nice to get another Kikipop as a friend for Popo-chan at some point, but for now we're content with just this one girl x3 The new releases with the cute bunny hoodies are adorable, but since it's easy for me to make the clothes myself, I'd rather choose a Kikipop based on the eye color. The earlier versions with pastel purple and pink eyes are quite tempting >3<

Hope you enjoy Popo's sweet and a little bit silly photos~ ♥

This is Halloween!

I'm a bit late to the party, but happy Halloween everyone~ ♥ Even though it's not celebrated that much here in Finland, me and Sarg absolutely love it :D Luckily this holiday has gotten more popular during the last few years and there is a lot of Halloween related stuff (decorations, candy, costumes, etc.) for sale everywhere, we even managed to find some things that we can use for dolls!

Anyway, we prepared for this Halloween photoshoot for a few weeks by gathering the needed supplies and crafting decorations little by little. Some of the things weren't ready until yesterday, though X'D The idea was for a few of our Azone girls to have a fun Halloween party with costumes, snacks and decorations that fit the theme~ First I'll show you these photos and then talk more about the preparations we did :)

Group shot of the party girls!

Watch out, Basil the turtle is trying to run away :DD

Apparently the cake is (or was..) good!

Poor Red Ridinghood got scared of the Wolf  >3<

After this, the party got pretty wild... Seems like the girls got too much sugar, we probably should've made them some salty snacks as well ^^; As always, the trouble seemed to get started by the Picconeemos hahah...

....And this is when we decided that the party is over :'D

Some of the girls are wearing Azone's own clothing, but some of the stuff is self-made. I wanted to take photos of the ones that I sewed and show them in a bit more detail, even though they're nothing special.

These are probably the simplest Halloween costumes ever... I just cut random pieces of white cotton fabric and then cut eye holes on it :D It doesn't look so neat, but we thought it'd be fun if the outfits looked like the dolls made these themselves lol. We chose Kirari and Mayuna to be the ghosts since they're both Maya and have the same eye color, if you couldn't see their hair it'd be difficult to tell them apart!

Yui's mummy costume is probably the strangest doll related thing that I've ever done... I mean, you don't often cut many strips of white fabric and cover a doll with it almost completely :''D But for such a simple costume, it actually looks quite fun! It would've been even more fun to mix in some fake blood, but I didn't want to risk her body getting stains. Maybe next year I could try to do that with one of my resin dolls?

This is actually the only "proper" costume that I made, even though I had planned to make several ^^; I just run out of time... We imagined that Aurora is the one who organized the party, so of course she wanted to put on a pretty costume :3 Last year I made a pointy hat like this for my Soom Sweet Witch (Derinda), so it was easy to use the same pattern, just in smaller scale~

The biggest work was with all treats! What would a Halloween party be without Halloween themed snacks to eat >3<

Most of the candy and other treats are self-made, there are just a few Re-ment additions :) I didn't take close-ups from everything, just a couple of my favorite things!

We made a bunch of different candies - simple round balls and marshmallows in different color variations

Sarg made the best Halloween cake ever! ♥ I can't believe how she just made this from scratch without using any reference *o*

She also made another cool cake, this one even has a piece that you can put on a plate for the doll to eat!

Pumpkin lollipops with faces~

And Jack Skellington lollipops XD All of them have a face with different emotion!

Recently we have also gotten interested in felting and these three little cats are the first things we've made :) We even gave them cute names lol... The biggest one is Tohvi, the dark one in the middle is Toope and the other small one is Juju.

We were also planning to take some pictures of our three Iplehouse girls (Terra, Brenda and Jade), but decided to leave that for later, as the photoshoot with Neemos took quite a lot of time and energy ^^; So, hopefully sometime next week we'll have the time to take those photos and share them! They won't be Halloween related anyway, although I made a new tank top for Sarg's Terra from the cutest "monster" themed fabric that I found XD

Hope you guys had a great Halloween weekend, even if you don't celebrate it! ♥

A daily dose of cuteness

Here are some BJD photos I took on Tuesday~ I uploaded them on my Flickr and DeviantArt accounts already, but thought that I could put them here on my blog as well :) I wish I would've taken more photos, but the weather wasn't the best possible (so windy and a bit rainy..) and I was afraid to pose these two SD sized dolls all by myself, I don't want them to fall and break their noses or fingers ; . ; Maybe I'll get to take some more shots once Sarg comes for a visit again and can act as a bodyguard in case either of them decides to fall XD

On left we have Ceci (Iplehouse nYID Emilia) and on left is Jade (Iplehouse nYID Mari) ^^ These two are best friends in my and Sarg's RP story and they're also in the same class at school. By appearance they may look quite different, but they both have rather insecure and shy personalities and also share lots of same interests (like cats and Hello Kitty, lol).

Jade is probably explaining how to bid on Yahoo Japan's Hello Kitty auctions or something... X''D

I've previously shared pictures of Jade with a black wig and black/pink color themed outfit, which is what my original plans for her style were. I'm usually very precise about what kind of style and colors I want my dolls/characters to wear, but with Jade I guess she'll get to be a bit of a chameleon and change between these couple of different styles. Her natural hair color is black, but she likes wearing colorful/pastel wigs sometimes and dressing up in pastel goth or gothic lolita ^^

Jade's pastel goth outfit took quite a while to get 100% completed, I think I slowly worked on it for a couple of months... It did took time to gather all the materials and plan the designs, but mainly I'm just such a lazy bun and have zero skills at concentration that everything takes a long, long time ^^; It doesn't matter though, for I love all the planning, designing, sewing and crafting, even if it seems to take a forever ♥

I'm not sure if any of my dolls has ever worn this much self-made stuff at once X'D Basically everything except the bag and shoes is self-made... The wig was originally long and curly, but I was bored one day and gave it a radical haircut :D I really like the result! (Yup, I have a thing for bob-cut hair, it's sooo cute...)

The skirt is actually made of a children's skirt that I had to buy after seeing it on sale X'D I would've wanted it in my own size, but they only had sizes up to 122cm and there was no way I would've fitted in that... So I unleashed my disappointment by tearing it apart and using the fabric for a doll sized skirt hahaha XD

For the shirt, I wanted to create something simple, but with some nice little details (like the studs on the neckline). I browsed through a bunch of pastel goth shirt designs while trying to figure out what kind of print I'd want on the shirt... In the end I didn't want to go for an already existing design, but to create something fun of my own! The leggings have simple crosses that I painted as well.

Then there're all the million accessories; hairband, Hello Kitty bow hairpin, rose/leather choker, star-shaped earrings, cross necklace, pastel bracelets and black stud bracelet... Shortly, a lot of stuff ^^;

For last, here's a full-body shot of the outfit ^^

Sewing update: Azone skirts~

I made some lolita-ish skirts for Sarg's Azone girls and she took these adorable photos of her girls modeling the skirts :3 These were so simple and fast to make, yet look dressy and cute~ Must make some for my own girls as well ♥

Sewing update!

I've been sewing a lot during this week!
First, I made a bunch of simple shirts for Sarg's EID girls :3 At first I thought that Carmen wouldn't be too happy about modelling these since none of these are really her style, but looks like I could put anything on her and she still looks good :'D She's definitely one of my most photogenic dolls, I don't think I've ever managed to get a bad photo of her...

I kinda fell in love with that first fabric though... I think I need to make something for Carmen from it, maybe a tight sport bra thing or something like that! The second fabric is really nice too ;___;

Little Chici got a new casual outfit as well, hahah look at that attitude~ "We small ones can pose like models too!" XDD The visible stitches on the shirt are all over the place, but at least the sewing machine didn't eat the whole damn thing, it's sooo tiny XD I'd love to make some long-sleeves for Chici as well, but her winged arms make it quite challenging... I guess I just need to make huge sleeves or something XD But next I definitely want to make a her a cute dress!