~ Rise reborn as a Warrior of Light ~ I have one more faceup from my early summer batch to finally reveal – Rise has been repainted! Rise has been part of my doll collection for ages, but I never customized her or really settled on a style. She’s a lovely sculpt but just didn’t…
~ Faceup season 2024 begins! ~ I’ve got a bunch of faceup projects lined up for this year, so as I warmup I started off with my tan DDH-11 girl. I picked her up as a D’Coord from the Yokohama Volks shop during my 2018 Japan trip, and although I’ve enjoyed her faceup for a…
It’s been a busy month and the doll lab is a bit of a mess thanks to some electrical issues that required moving all the dolls and furniture around. Fortunately that’s now resolved, but in the meanwhile I kept working on my latest sewing project- Ohtori Academy uniforms to fit Nanami and Anthy. Besides Utena…
You may already know that Dollfie Dreams are usually released as Volks exclusive and limited quantity collectibles, sometimes with buyers randomly chosen by lottery or determined by whoever can checkout their order from the webstore the fastest. As a result, Dollfie fans may find that they’ve missed out on a past release and now must…
In the same batch as my custom Kumako Ruru and DD Iori faceups, I also repainted my Volks DD Saber Extra. She’s a pretty long-standing member of my collection and even though she kept her original faceup for years, after seeing some cute and glamorous repainted Sabers I wanted to give it a shot. Saber…
Since Ruru arrived and got me in faceup mode again, I decided to tackle a few more backlog faceups as well. Iori has been on my list for a while, and though I originally planned to make her a snarky kitsune girl, another idea popped into my head- Yup, now that I have Utena and…
It’s been quiet here at the doll lab since I’ve been in the process of packing up the dolls (and everything else that I own) to relocate. Now things are starting to settle and I can finally introduce this handsome fella who arrived the day before my move – DD Kaito. Kaito is the…
For my second faceup of 2023, I completed a modded SWS DDH-07 head. I’d original started modding this head last fall, to test out UV-cure resin additive mods, but didn’t get a chance to finish until the weather improved this month. The DDH-07 sculpt was never one of my favorites, but somehow I’ve ended up…