~ An Autumn Sewing Project ~ After a summer full of faceups, I was itching to do more sewing and starting sketching out ideas for my next outfit project. Following a bit of brainstorming, I settled on a circle skirt with a ruffley petticoat and full chiffon blouse. The most essential element was the…
Cute Redux – Emilia’s Return I’ll confess this isn’t the first time Emilia was welcomed to the Doll Lab- I originally got V1 Emilia through the Volks lottery without any issue as she wasn’t too popular at the time. I thought she had potential for a custom project but didn’t do that or much of…
I discovered that Niko’s slim human legs are too small for most of the MDD-sized socks that I’ve made, but the SDC socks fit her perfectly. I hadn’t posted this pattern before since the Volks SDC isn’t very popular or common, but now that this pattern is more versatile it makes sense to share. Like…
I squeezed in one last faceup before the start of the rainy season here! I was looking to clear out some floating heads that hadn’t seen much sunlight lately, and found this DDH-01 modded head that I did way back in 2012. I felt like the faceup didn’t live up to my current standards, and…
Finishing up a last few sunny weather faceups, I just completed this custom DDH-14 girl. She wasn’t originally part of my planned slate of faceups, but I impulse purchased her floating head and felt immediately compelled to repaint it. As you can see from the Before photo, she had a modified factory faceup that was…
Dollfie Icon Terra is here! From the 2021 Icon event I was able to bring home Terra, the Dollfie Icon in tawny skin tone, styled this time with a retro-future/vaporwave sort of theme. She arrived with a nice set of clothes including lots of mix-and-match parts in a monochrome theme. Her ears came pierced already…
ShoushouDoll Niko arrived! And immediately got a faceup :D ShoushouDoll is a China-based BJD artist who sells their work through Taobao and a couple other representatives such as BJDivas. I picked Niko up second-hand since I missed the original order window. As soon as Niko arrived I hurried to give her a faceup since…
It’s a bit delayed but here’s the final faceup in the set of commissions I finished this summer! She started off as a Volks DD Candy memorial version, and was transformed into Ranma girl type! It’s fun to work on a more graphic and retro anime style faceup – I don’t typically use pure black…