well it took you long enough...

after like three days of watching tracking thinking that she was close, the blythe that I got from mah feebb showed up today.

she's much heavier than I thought she was going to be.

I guess having all dolls with fur wigs, I forget just how heavy fiber hair can be xD

plus I guess the rubber scalp also adds weight 'cause even after hacking off most of her hair she's still pretty heavy compared to my dal.

she's going to be a full custom when I'm done with her, and will wear much more rainbow-y clothes than what she's wearing right now, but I just happened to have this dress that I got from a friend awhile back so I stuck her in it for the time being.

I love her cute little silver heart earrings >3<

I may actually paint them though so they're a bright color or maybe even multicolor 'cause she's going to be my rainbow-y girl <3

 

 I was already well aware that her hair was a giant mess, and I don't mind since I'm going to be doing a mohair reroot on her.

I did try to give her hair a good soak to untangle it, but as you can see it was pretty awful to start off with, so she ended up getting a pretty short haircut since most of the tangles were at the bottom and I want to be able to play with her while waiting to get the things I need to start working on her.

her hair texture is just pretty icky in general.

it's kind of squeaky but dry at the same time; but it's a lot better now that the tangles are all gone and I've put a healthy amount of leave-in conditioner in it.

she won't be keeping any of her stock chips 'cause I don't love the look of them in doll, but I'm really looking forward to making some jewelry or something out of them :D

for those that are unaware, I have stretched ears; and they're stretched large enough that I think that blythe chips will be just about the perfect size to set in some plugs.

you can also see here that she has that whole downward gaze issue 'cause she's an sbl, but I'll be fixing that eventually.

I've actually never been a big fan of stock girls.

even though I got bitten by the blythe bug pretty hard last year, I was always more of a custom girl fan; but I like her as is quite a lot more than I thought I would.

I mean, this doesn't change my want to customize her 'cause there are for sure things I don't like, the painted lip shape for instance, but I'm looking forward to playing with her a little before I actually get to work on her.

like I said before, she got a haircut after I soaked her for a while to try and detangle.

I'll post pictures of her with her new hairdo on flickr tomorrow.

not today...

no blythe today, maybe tomorrow though.

tracking says she sorted through new york on the 31st, so she has to get here soon...

in the meantime I'm in the process of searching for a hat for her.

her hair is in pretty rough shape from what fee told me, and it's going to be a bit before I can even get the mohair for her reroot let alone actually get done with it; so I wanted to find something pretty for her to wear until I can get her hair situation sorted.

trying to find something that I like that's within my slightly pitiful budget right now is proving harder than I thought it might be :/

I wanted something bright and preferably multicolor, and I didn't want to have to preorder something and have to wait a week or two for it to ship since she should be arriving shortly; but everything I like and can afford seems to be preorder or not really quite what I was hoping for.

I may end up just trying to make something 'cause I had been looking for something knit or crochet, but I could probably manage something out of fabric since I'm going to need to make her something to wear when she gets here anyway.

park adventures!

so on sunday I organized a mini-meet at a local park with a few other bjd people.

the weather has been really gross and rainy lately, but sunday was actually really nice and sunny but not too hot; kind of the perfect day to be out and about taking pictures.

I suck and didn't get any shots of anyone else's dolls, just my own; but I was really happy to have a good handful out of the 200-ish shots (lots of repeats of the same pose and angle, to make sure I got at least one that was clear) that I took that I actually liked enough to bother editing xD

the park is only 20 minutes or so away from my house, but since I don't drive I don't get to go out that way particularly often; so I always really enjoy what time I do get to spend there.

aaaaanyway.

on with the pictures.

Avery : PAN! NONONOSTOPIIIIIIIIIIT! -grabs foot-

Pan : but... -tries to wiggle away- I jus wanna see what's down there!

there's also an extra shot of some pretty pansies, but I want to do a whole 'nother post with flower pictures later 'cause I've been having lots of fun with those lately; so I'll just post that one later...

andandandtodaymightbeblytheday!!!

-spazzy fits of glee-

busybusybusy!

pretty much finished up painting the dresser/counter so later I'll be adding the scrapbook paper to decorate it.

I'm also going to cut and put together the pieces for the door frame and paint them after I figure out how big the door frame needs to be.

then I want to try and start putting together some of the little knick-knack bits like little packs of guitar picks, packages of guitar string, and other various little "impulse buy" type stuff that's generally found around the counter area in music shops.

and I need to work on some more flyers for the bulletin board 'cause I've only got one done so far xD

finally got shipping notice from my fur supplier for the fur that I ordered for Fee's last wig and a wig for another friend. it should have shipped nearly two weeks ago, so I'm kind of annoyed; but at least it's finally on it's way now.

and in other news, I'm getting a blythe :D

my feebb has been nice enough to trade me an sbl silver snow that's in need of some serious love.

I'm planning on doing a full custom.

mohair reroot, new chips, gaze correct, repaint, and I'm probably going to stick her on a pure neemo advance flection body because I like the look of them and I'd like to have the added poseability.

this will be my first attempt at a blythe custom, and it's  probably going to be a long process 'cause all the bits and pieces are looking more expensive than I'd thought they might be; but I'm excited about her none the less.