taking time to breathe...

I'm glad to say that everyone really seemed to like the shorts that I decided, basically on a whim, to make; and I managed to save up enough money to buy my first dslr, a Nikon D3100 ;3;

I mean I'd already saved up quite a bit before my fujifilm point and shoot started to crap out on me, but I never thought that I'd manage to save up the rest of what I needed as quickly as I did; so I'm very grateful to anyone who purchased anything at all from my shop the past several weeks 'cause I wouldn't have been able to do it without them.

I've had several requests from people for SD size dyed shorts, and I most definitely want to work out a pattern so I can include them in the next batch. But for right now I'm going to be taking a bit of a break to work on some personal projects 'cause I feel like I've just been so busy the past several weeks trying to make things to sell so I could afford a new camera that I just keep shoving stuff that I want/need to do for my own dolls off into the "I'll get to it later" pile.

So for the next couple weeks or so I'm going to put new things for the shop on the back burner and give myself a little time to just take a break and get to work on some things that I've been putting off for far too long, like clothes for poor Egg 'cause she's seriously lacking in that department even though I already bought a whole bunch of fabric awhile back to make her stuff.

I mean I may still make some things to list here and there, and commissions will still be open as always; there just won't be any big updates like there had been with the legwarmers and the shorts.

but yeah...

list of the things I'm planning to try and get done.

various clothes for egg (she kind of needs a little bit of everything)

bathing suit for lena

printed and solid color jersey shorts for lena (and probably some to sell)

various clothes for livi (she needs some more summery tops)

extended list that only applies if I can get some msc ordered, and the humidity goes down.

new faceups for pan

new faceups for avery

repaint ava (stupid testors is getting sticky :/)

paint ava's twin (base doll is skull shores frankie) that I'm going to sell/auction

maybe open up egg and start working on her, but idk 'cause I didn't want to open her until I can start her reroot too.

I'm also going to have to spend some time learning how to use my new camera when it gets here probably sometime next week.

I'm very new to the whole dslr thing, and frankly have no idea what I'm doing.

the only times I've used a dslr in the past I basically just had it handed to me and I did nothing but push the shutter button, so it was kind of just like a really expensive point and shoot xD

so it may take me awhile to get the hang of it and figure everything out, but I'm really excited to learn; and it'll be nice to have more control over the photos that I take 'cause that was why I'd always been planning to upgrade to a dslr when I had the money to spare anyway, the upgrade just happened a little sooner than I thought it would.

not so super secret project.

so I figured I'd go ahead and explain this  "project" that I've mentioned a couple times already since I'm hopefully going to start working on some parts of it tomorrow.

my birthday is March 22nd, and two years ago my dollzone aimi arrived on my birthday.

at the time she was Lena, who has since been re-shelled as a mnf ryeon, and though Lena was a character that had been around for several years I'd never given her a set birthday; so since Lena is my oldest character and is so special to me I thought it'd be fitting that we share a birthday.

now that the aimi is Livi rather than Lena I still treat the 22nd as Lena's birthday (and Livi's character birthday is in December on mnf!lena's arrival date) but it's also still the Aimi's arrival date, and since she was my first I consider that to be something special.

so because it's a special day for both of them I wanted to do something, a photo shoot, involving the both of them.

here is where the not so super secret project comes in xD

I don't want to do just a boring, stick them out on the porch and snap portraits, shoot; not only because that wouldn't be as fun or interesting, but also because the way that they know each other in the story is through the music shop where Lena works 'cause Livi is a dancer and would shop there for stuff like background tracks for performances and what not.

so I'm going to build a photo set-up of the music shop just like the one that I have of Lena's room.

it will be a floor with two walls to form a corner. the front counter where the register and stuff would be. a chalkboard with group class/workshop schedules on it. a corkboard with flyers and stuff like that hanging on it. and other various knick-knacks and decorations to make it look more real/lived in/worked in.

so far I have a small wooden dresser that I bought the other day at hobby lobby that I'm going to paint black and decorate the back-side of to use at the counter. when I turn it on it's side it's pretty much just the right size for a shop counter, and it was cheaper than if I'd bought wood to try and build a counter that probably wouldn't have looked nearly as nice (plus I can use it to store the bits and pieces of the set-up in when I have to stash everything away after I'm finished using it for the day).

and also from hobby lobby I purchased a little wooden framed chalkboard that I'm also going to paint and decorate 'cause right now it's boring unfinished wood.

tomorrow if the weather is nice I'm hoping to try and get the dresser painted at least part of the way.

I'm not sure if I have enough spray paint to actually get it finished, but I'd like to at least get started on it since I only have something like just shy of two weeks to get everything done at this point. 

if anyone might be interested in  doing something to help me out, if you'd consider making a flyer (or a few, it's up to you) that is either made small to begin with (no bigger than probably 2"x1.5"-ish)  or that are big but not too busy looking so that I could shrink them down to print and have them not look like a jumbled mess.

the subject of the flyers is kind of up to you, but I'd prefer them to be for music related.

things like band auditions (preferably for made up bands), shows (again, preferably made up bands/performers. can be your characters. locations can be real or made up), "performers needed" type flyers, and stuff like that.

oh, and they can be in color or just black and white 'cause I'll probably print any that are black text/images on different colored paper since I have lots of different color options.

I don't foresee that many people sending me stuff, so it's likely that your flyer will end up on the corkboard in the picture that I'm going to be posting on the 22nd if all goes according to plan and I get everything done in time, but if somehow I get enough that I don't feel like they're all going to fit I do plan to rotate the flyers out each time I do a shoot with the set-up so they'd end up there at a later date.

if you do decide to make one (or more) you can email me by clicking the link in the right sidebar.

I'm also still trying to get rid of a couple Monster High dolls.

I have a Mad Science Lagoona and a Skull Shores Abbey.

for more info about them you can check the post that I made about it yesterday.

feel free to email me with any questions about them if you're interested.

take them awaaaaaaaay. please take them away xD

I picked up a mad science lagoona and a skull shores abby for a friend awhile back and they've decided to pass on them now because it'll be too long before they can afford to pay me for them.
I'm not trying to make money on them, just get back what I paid.
they're both brand new and have never been removed from their boxes. I don't mind removing them from the boxes for cheaper shipping if that's what the buyer would like, but that will only change the shipping price and not the price of the actual doll.
please note that I do live with smokers and do have a dog and a cat, but the dolls have been stored away untouched in a trunk since I brought them home.


lagoona is $20
abby is $15


in their boxes they'll ship for $10 separately or $15 if you take both
out of box I should be able to ship them for about $5 separately or $10 if you take both.
and this is for shipping in the US.
I will sell internationally, but I'm not sure at the moment what shipping would cost.




I don't have any pictures of either of these dolls at the moment, but if you'd like proof pictures I'd be more than happy to take some for you.


 all gone.
abbey went back to the store, and I decided to just keep lagoona for myself.
thanks to everyone who at least looked ^_^