I'm back! And I got tagged :D

Finally back from a loooooong stay at my parents.
The first thing I did was pay off my IH Crow!! OMG I can't believe I'll be getting him so soon. Yaaaaay!!

I also noticed I got tagged by my friend Lise to answer some questions :D

1. Do you collect anything other than dolls?
Not now no. I once collected manga, figures etc, but I'm so poor now being a student and all that all my funds go to BJDs actually XD'

2. Why did you start a doll blog?
Well, I used to be quite active on the Danish board for BJDs, but the activity in there has plummeted and I was looking for a new place to keep track of my collection (obsession?). Some of my friends had started blogging about their dolls, and it seemed like the perfect way to keep track of your own collection as well as stalk others' :3
So I thought I'd give it a try and see how it would go. :D I've now made a lot of new friends thanks to this blog, so I'm not regretting it one bit *^^*

3. Do you have one particular doll that is the favourite in your collection?
Not really at the moment. I'm still working on their story, and every time I focus on one character, I fall in love all over again XD'
Also, I sort of feel bad when having a favorite...some of my dollies can look so displeased with me T_T"

4. Your favourite doll accessory?
Weapons!! They are so cool!! And not dangerous :D

5. Do you know exactly how many dolls you have in your collection (you don't have to tell the number of course :-) )?
*counts* 7 whole dolls, a few floating heads and two full dolls on their way :D

6. Do you play any instruments and if so, what?
I wish I did! I really want to learn to play the piano at some point. When I was younger I tried to learn guitar by myself - I never got very far XD'
I think being able to play an instrument would be a great outlet for emotions, and I've really considered starting someday soon. But it's a little expensive to learn piano >_<"

7. Where is your most favourite place you've ever been?
Akita, Japan. I stayed there for one year back in my high school days. I loved it sooo much. The people, the food, the nature, the language, everything. I hope to go back soon :D

8. What is your most favourite thing about yourself?
I'm not a very self-confident person...but I guess I sort of like that I don't let it control me too much. Even if I think I can't do stuff, or I'm too bad at something etc. I still try - 'cuz you never know. I don't want to quit without at least trying. (OK, tough question, moving on)

9. Favourite book or movie?
Ehm ehm...I have a lot of favorites! 
Books: Harry Potter, a Song of Ice and Fire, Pride and Prejudice and Howl's Moving Castle to name a few
Movies: Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, anything and everything my Studio Ghibly, most Disney Classics, Pirates of the Caribbean, Shawshank Redemption, Shutter Island and many old Danish movies from the 60's XD'
(My favorites are all over the place ^^")

10. If you could design your own doll, how would it look like?

I miss a girl with cute dimples I think :D

OK, so I'm tagging:

Johanne

Helene

For easier copy paste of the questions:

1. Do you collect anything other than dolls?
2. Why did you start a doll blog?
3. Do you have one particular doll that is the favourite in your collection?
4. Your favourite doll accessory?
5. Do you know exactly how many dolls you have in your collection (you don't have to tell the number of course :-) )?
6. Do you play any instruments and if so, what?
7. Where is your most favourite place you've ever been?
8. What is your most favourite thing about yourself?
9. Favourite book or movie?
10. If you could design your own doll, how would it look like?

Lots of news :D

So I finished paying off Ludwig (my IH Lawrence) yesterday, and he already shipped out this morning...so next week I'll get TWO gorgeous men home to me! YAY! *__*
I feel soooo lucky! :D

Fitzwilliam is currently stuck in Customs. >_<" Hope they'll accept the documentation I send them ;)

I have a naïve hope that Ludwig will sail past Customs...I deserve that XD'

Oh! And today was the day when I got to order my awesome hunky, chunky man IH Crow *slips in drool*
I got him with his amazing outfit, including matchlock and sword (unpainted), I bought some boots (I hope I'll be one of those 10 who get the boots for the full set, so I just bought a different pair to be sure - then Ludwig can get those if I get the 'Crow' ones ;D ), and then I also added a wig so he won't be bald when I get him.
Now I just have to wait and wait and wait (and pay lots) - it actually wasn't so bad *smiles convincingly* ;P

I have to say a huge THANK YOU <3 to my dear little sister Johanne for lending me the money for the first downpayment. I confess I hadn't the money since I spent all my money for this month on the last payment for Ludwig XD I'm so addicted...so sorry ;P
But having a sister in this hobby who has lots of money is awesome! Haha big kiss and hugs for you Johanne <3<3<3

News!! :D

I finally made the last payment for my White Rabbit today!! Yaaay!! I'll have my Fitzwilliam with me for the summer holidays :D
I still haven't found out what I'll buy for him, but he will have most already when he comes. Just needs some boots and maybe some eyes. ^^
But really, I can't wait to see how the blu-grey skin tone looks like on a bigger doll. :)

Oh! And as soon as I finished my White Rabbit layaway, I asked for a new one for a suntan Hunky Dory XD
I'm so in love with her cute face. She is just soooo cute with her pouty big lips and droopy eyes *___*

I mean, look at her. She is gorgeous!! ^^
She will have a more 'mature' style I think. I really like her having warm colors...but I don't yet know how she will end up looking.

Random rambles

I got a nice load of money from all the work I've been doing for the last month. Yay!
First thing I wanted to spend some money on was paying off a huge chunk on my White Rabbit layaway. So now I only need to pay $220 to be done with it. He is expensive XD
I hope I never want a doll this expensive again >__<"

Oh, and another news is; I've just spent a ridiculous amount of money on new faceup supplies :D
Yaaay!! I've been wanting to buy Rembrandt soft pastels for half a year now, and finally I had the money. I had planned to buy a set of 60 half sticks for around 600DKK (~$97) from a Danish supply store...but Danish prices are always way more expensive than anywhere else. So I tried googling if I might find the set of pastels on a british site (less expensive - no import taxes). And I did! I found www.jacksonsart.com where I could even get free shipping to my country if I bought for more than £100 (~$150), This site offered a set with 90 half sticks for £51 (~$77) so I could get more pastels for less money.

Just shows how overpriced stuff is here in DK. -__-" I'd love to support local stores, but the extra money is just too much.
Anyway, I ordered the set with 90 half sticks (its probably way more than I'll be needing, but it nice to have such a large range of colors to play around with ^^), 7 different Princeton brushes and 4 different Golden fluid acrylic colors. So I'm really excited and hope I'll have it all by the end of next week so I can do my sisters cute MSD head :3

But yeah...Its not even the 1st of February and I've already spent a lot of money XD

I've SOOOOOO looked forward to this day *_____________*

Today was the day when I finally got to click the 'pay'-button on my last layaway installment for my two Dlights!!
Can you believe it?

Hehe :3

Just look at this!! :D
Am I the only one getting SO satisfied watching a payed layaway?? ...OK, so I'm a little 'high' that I could pay off this layaway half a year before I'd estimated. XD
But I'm just really happy! Seeing all these incoming Dlights just made me realize I wanted to make sure I'll have mine before my birthday in March...so I dug in my wallet and made the last payment today. I guess I have to eat pasta from now until I go home to mum and dad for Christmas ;P

Haha...well, that will be it for this time. I'm sorry I haven't posted any faceup stuff yet, but I need to wipe the ones I did (the learning curve for airbrushing is slightly hill'y XD). Not sure if I'll have the time to redo some of the faceups before going home for Christmas, but otherwise It'll be up right after. I really REALLY enjoy this technique so I DO promise faceup spam as soon as possible <3

So relieved

I'm SO relieved! PW responded me today, and they DID get my money through PayPal, they just didn't get any mail from PayPal about it. So I'm just really happy I won't have to speculate about it anymore. I got quite stressed about it actually. Mostly because I still haven't received any reply from PayPal yet, even though it's now two days since I wrote them. But now I can relax and enjoy my weekend ^^
I'm so delighted to see, that I only need one last payment before my girls will be made *__* I'm super excited to finally have them payed off. Its so awesome that I got the possibility to pay off these girls much much faster than planned. Originally I'd thought I'd need to wait almost a year to pay them off, so I'm really happy I won't have to.wait that long :D

I just spent all my money

So, quick update on my plans to pay off a huge chunk of my Dlights...I did - or well - I tried to. XD
I'm not very good at using PayPal, but I hope I did what I should.
This month I intended to spent all of my salary from my internship/job to pay off some of my Layaway for the Dlights. I managed to find enough money to transfer, so that I'll only need to pay off $100 by the end of December before my Dlights are payed off. I'm so excited! But at the same time I'm really anxious because PayPal transactions are slow? oO"
I'd hoped the money would be with PW later Friday after transferring it Friday morning, but I still haven't had any confirmation from PW that they've received it...so I'll just be biting my nails until I hear from them XD'
I never spent so much money at once...ö__ö"

So now I am super broke (I do have money for Christmas stuff - just not ANY doll stuff) XD
But I'm just happy I get to pay off my girls much much faster than anticipated :D

Slowly paying off

So long since I've posted last...or is it just me? ;D
I just wanted to note that I payed off TWO payments on my layaway plan for my Dlights this time. :D Yaaay!!! It's really great to see the payments getting fewer and fewer, knowing I'll have my two Dlights home in the beginning of 2015. *^^*
If all goes well, I'll be paying the last installment by end of January. Wee!! So happy <3
It's so great I get payed a bit for working at my internship company :)

I'm starting to look for what to buy my new girls when they arrive, and I've been fretting a bit about wigs. I'm pretty sure about color and style, I'm just not sure if I should go with fur or synthetic. I read about this brand Pengin Workshop on DoA last week, and these wigs look so pretty...I'm just not really sure if they have what I want XD
So hard to find the right thing. It's like my concept is at the edge of my sight, but I can't really see it clearly, just get hints and guess what I think I see. It's quite annoying sometimes >___<"
I want my girls to look a bit mature and not super girlie/lolita/frilly...you know? So I'm having a hard time because I really like to look at the girlie/lolita/frilly stuff XD
It has even crossed my mind to maybe make Ophelia's wig myself ö___ö" Don't know if I dare though. I've never tried it, and there seems to be a million different ways to do it. I would feel a lot more comfortable just buying a pretty red/wine colored wig that can be braided loosely over one shoulder. ^^

If anyone has a wig-dealer you think might be selling such a wig, please let me know <3 I shall be forever greatful :D

One White Rabbit coming up!

I did it!!! I'm both ecstatic and horrified at the same time! XDD'
Of cause, in the end, I decided I needed the White Rabbit (not Rabbit Goon as I earlier thought ;P). He is actually Dandy Tristan, but with other skin colour options than just the normal normal or white skin.
This time PW offered full sets, so off I went and got him in the blue-grey skin tone I love so and the full set which is über cute!! ^^ Only thing that did not come with the full set was the boots, which are unfortunately sold out from DollHeart...maybe I'll find some similar on Taobao ;D
The eyes where not sold via PW's page as well, so I'll have too look for some on Taobao as well. I really love the resin eyes PW sells, but I don't know if I would pay that much for a couple of eyes that might yellow - I tend to magically make all non-glass eyes yellow...TT__TT
And I also didn't get him with a faceup seeing as I've already spend SO much money on awesome faceup materials, so I should really do those myself. I also like to change the dolls faceups from time to time anyway, so I guess I just felt the $80 would be too much when I can do one myself for free - though not as awesome as Nornan's (one of PW's new faceup artists), but at least I'm getting to a point where I think it's decent. XD
I sort of jumped in right away and ordered him on a looong layaway, because I got afraid when I read that the full sets would be limited and might sell out quickly, and I wanted the full set so badly I just put him in the basket before I even had the money...I'm beginning to question my own sanity. Hehe
BUT! I do feel very satisfied, and I feel like these three (White Rabbit and my two Dlights) are the dolls I need for now. Since the Dandy boys came out in May, I've been deeply in love with the Tristan sculpt, and I was really sad that I had decided on not having SD-sized dolls anymore. But that promise didn't last long, for as soon as I saw the Dlight sculpt I was IN LOVE!! And as soon as I had ordered those lovely ladies, I was already thinking about giving them a male companion. Somehow I decided I only need one male...? So suntan Dlight - I'm sorry, but for now you will be without a man ;__; I'm so cruel (no, I'm being dictated by my wallet XD)
I looked through some of the Dollism NY pictures to make out the skin tones, and I think my diamond grey Dlight will look perfect in the arms of my blue-grey White Rabbit *___*
I like the idea that they are not totally the same colour, for that would make it a little too unified I think XD
But aw! I can't wait to get them all home and just go insane over their beauty >_<~<3

I'll also try to do a faceup this coming weekend. My weekend blues this past weekend - where I had ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO - resulted in me lying in my bed all the time drooling over PW promo pictures, chatting with the awesome people in the PW FOC discussion thread on DoA, and watching Twin Peaks on Netflix. XDD'
I was a real couch potato >____<"

Here are a mini version of PW's White Rabbit promo pics:

He is know as His Royal Hotness aka Count R. H. von Rabbit atm <3

Shipping notice from Taobaotrends

Got the shipping notice from Taobaotrends today. YAY! I'm so looking forward to recieve Alice's new dress and the Zoukei-Mura brushes.
Hopefully I'll then be able to do more of the faceup I need to finish XD
I want to be able to paint super fine and feathery eyelashes. <3

The first payment for my Dlights has also been payed, and I am officially on a long layaway ;)
I still have no actual ideas for characters/story/clothes/style/etc. for them, but I'll have fun finding it out in the next months ;D
If you have any ideas, please let me know ^___~

I've been so naughty!

So I didn't win anything in the PW photo contest - that's just life.
The winning photo was awesome by the way! *^^*

BUT!! I've just placed an order of TWO Dlights - one Wake Up Dlight in Diamond Grey skin with the special glitter eyes, and one Open Eyed Dlight in Suntan skin - both with extra hands (those awesome long nailed ones) and high heel feet.

I've asked for a 12 payment layaway - so that's going to be interesting. I'm pretty sure I'll end up paying it off sooner, but this was just to be safe in case of unforeseen expenses later - like insurance and so on. ;D

I'm SO excited! These two girls will probably be my only SD-sized companions for a very long time, but I think they will look awesome together, and I'll enjoy finding stuff for them the next year XD

So that's me being crazy...now you know >_<"

Quick update

Oh nooo..... it's been a while since I last wrote. School started, and I got quite busy, but hopefully I'll be more active now.
Just some quick news as I am going to bed in a minute: I've paid my last payment on my Peak's Woods layaway. I'm so excited! Hope I won't have to wait too long before they are shipped.
I sort of got a bit stressed at the fact the dollies (most of them) are 'on their way', so I kind of made this huge order at Taobaotrends for almost all the stuff I need for the new ones. I'm bad I know. Hope I have enough money for the rest of the month. XD
But now I can sleep at night :P Knowing they will not have to be butt naked when they come home :3
I'm still looking for the right wig for Loki, and still need to buy the shoes and uniforms for both Loki and Lucy, but other than that should be in the order I just made. Hope the eyes look just as awesome as on the pictures (I'll show what I ordered in the next post, when I have heard from Taobaotrends that they are able to order it all). ^^
I've actually ordered different eyes for Nellie and Annabelle. And their dresses will be different colors, but the same design. I was very in doubt about what to get for those two, as I imagined that it had to be pink and blue, but I've ordered dresses in purple and pink. Though it's another color for Annabelle, I'm sure she'll look awesome in purple. I've also ordered shoes that (hopefully) match the colors of the dresses pretty well. But I promise I'll post exactly what I've ordered and for whom in my next post. ;)