My first Coroporo Doll

I ordered a Coroporo doll kit for my self as an Christmas present. (Yes I'm so selfish, present for myself! 8D)

If you aren't familiar with these dolls, you can find them here: https://sites.google.com/site/coroporodolls/
Also there is group for them in flickr, check that out too! :)

Since my doll was a kit, it meant that I had to build it from pieces. And that was a 4 hours project for me! xD I did a simple face up in that time too, but still. There were soooo tiny screws, and you had to cut 1mm pieces from 1mm diameter silicone tube, and put those pieces to the screws. And all kinds of fun like that! :D My bf helped me with one hand and after that he said good luck for the next week. x) Thought he came back to help me to build the head mechanism. Wich was pain because the nuts didn't stay in place with the super glue I had. :D

Firts I thought that I wouldn't need the head mechanism  since I was going to give her different eyes than the glass balls that the dolls come with. But the head mechanism attaches the body to the head too! xD Not only hold eyes. Sooo I had to build it too.

Contents of the package opened, and some tools.

Figuring out what part goes where. :D
And tried on the acrylic animetic eyes! Might need one size smaller. o_O'

After few hours I had the body done. :'D
It was quite simple to build, but the pieces were so small!
I kept dropping the screws and silicone tube pieces. x)

While waiting for the glue in the head mechanism nuts to dry,
I made a quick simple face up for her.

After two persons one hour fight with the head mechanism,
the doll is done. xD

Comparison with Pukifee. Coroporo has bigger head and is thinner. :D
Oh Pukifee you so chubby. u___u
My bf said that in comparison Coroporo looks like an alien.
But I think she is cute! u___u

I don't think I'm going to take her head of in any time soon. xD I'd like to have a better face up for her, maybe to send her for someone more talented to paint, but I'm afraid to take the head of ever again. xD If I would have been smart I'd have taken a pic of the insides of the head, but I forgot. Pics were taken by phone anyway, so not too pretty. :D

But despite the building process, I love her! She is very cute and just what I waited for. :D
Now she needs clothes! At the moment she is wearing one Pukipuki dress I have knit, but it's a bit short. x)

LDoll 2012 aftermath

LDoll festival was held in Lyon last weekend. As you may know If you saw my last post I participated there as a private seller, sharing a booth with Khrestel aka. Hooked. I had my side of the table named Yarnstack, which is also a name of this blog and my Etsy. Yay!

Picture of my side of the table.

Derpster promoting my crochet hats.

As you can see I didn't have too much stuff to sell, but I was still quite pleased with what I had managed to prepare in a short notice - It wasn't too many months before LDoll when Khrestel asked me if I'd like to share a table with her. I was very happy about the option anyway!

I noticed that I should have made more and different hats in different sizes. Now most of my hats were for tinies and many people asked for bigger ones, or different color or shape. :D
But now I know what to do for next year!

Pukipuki size wasn't the best go with the knit wear either. I might be alone with this love for tiny dolls. x) Next time I know to make more for bigger dolls too.

Those funny animal hats were good product, I sold 10 of my 14 hats on the first day. Sunday was more quiet in all the ways, but I was still only left with two hats to bring back home. I have more leftover Pukipuki dresses and pullovers thought. I'll be listing them to my Etsy soon. :)

All in all the LDoll festival was really nice experience again. I bought a bunch of clothes from different sellers to my dollies. Also I'm very happy that I found a pretty pair of Enchanted dolls eyes for Misa. She got two new wigs too from Jpop Dolls, what a spoiled dolly! @__@ Not to mention about the clothes she got.

Misa with her new ED eyes, and a pretty shirt made by Uninu!
Crochet hat is made by me. :3

I bought one doll too. Or it might not be counted as a real BJD, but who cares!
Sir Derpington is the coolest fish ever!

Presenting you; Sir Derpington!

I passed the booth once only looking at these creatures and thought "Nooo I don't need one of those, I have Derpster already...". But I just couldn't get over these creatures and I had to go back to get one. :D This is an artist made doll, the creator is called pandalilou. Or Tendres Chimeres as their blog is called. Pity that their blog is in French! ;__; Luckily she has also dA.
I'm so happy with my little fellow. :3 Illves already agreed that she can do the painting job for Sir Derpington. I can't wait to have him finished! I think I want him to be turquoise or something with some cool pattern. And then black top hat and little monocle.
I have to go shopping for fishbowl for him and decorate it in appropriate way for a Sir fish. u__u

LDoll gave me also a final push towards my small dolly dream, Blue Fairy tiny!

Particularly a Pocket Fairy Taro girl with sugar body. I ordered her yesterday. :3

I bought a set of clothes, two wigs and two pairs of shoes in Pocket Fairy sugar size from LDoll, so of course I need the dolly too. u__u
There  was Taro for display at Blue Fairy's booth at LDoll, but sadly they didn't have any for sell there. Only baked cuties, but I prefer NS so I had to order my little one afterwards. :)

I have been secretly adoring cute sugar sized girlies after I have seen them in pics and IRL too. I'm quite sure that Elina's and Jesmo's little cuties have had some influence on me. u__u Not to mention Xaya's army of Blue Fairies in particular. Maybe someday I'll get a bigger Blue Fairy too. :)

Sarang would be cute.

Soo anyways! Enough mumbling.

I took more pics too, you can see them at my Flickr. 

Thank you everyone for being so awesome! <3
I have already started planning for next years LDoll and what kind of knit and crochet stuff I should make this time. Nothing has been decided 100% yet, but at least I'm totally going there and if everything goes ok I'm participating as a private seller again with some fellow Finns!

Do I really have to wait for a whole year before next LDoll?!? DD:

LDoll is getting closer...

And I'm so behind with my plans! D:
I won't have too much things to sell there. Buut I'll be happy with what I can finish on time and won't be upset about it. (At least not too much.) I knew that this will be a busy period for me anyway, but I decided to attend LDoll as a seller since I was asked. I'm sharing a booth with Khrestel, so it's not so bad if I don't have so much stuff to sell. :)

I'll share with you some preparation things I have done!

Best thing first!

I got my minicards from MOO!

Backside!

I like these so much. These I ordered from a promotion that MOO had with Etsy, thus the Etsy logo. :)
I also ordered another set with different pics, but that one has not arrived yet. It should arrive before 25th of September according to the company, so they will still make it before LDoll.
I thought for a long time what text to put in the card. And if I should insert my real name or not. Well, there it is now. @__@

At least I can hand out cards if I don't have anything to sell? 8D

Displays!

Here is some displays that I got online. They are actually jewellery displays, but I think they will work quite ok for my needs. :) I also bought huge amount of barbie cloth hangers! x) They work well for my tiny clothes.

I think I will use that round display for Pullip/Dal dresses, and the other one for tiny BJD clothing. Pukipuki things to the upper row and Pukifee to down. :) Thought I only have two Pukifee dresses so far. :S I got a bit carried away with the Pukipuki stuf. :D
Gasp! Hurry, hurry! Knit! Knit!

What comes to displaying hats... I have no idea yet! :D Maybe I'll just put them to the table without anything special. I have been making really simple hats for tiny dollies, so I can also have some cheaper small items to sell. But I like these tiny hats, they are so cute with staring bead eyes. :) I hope that people will like them too. @__@
I'm sorry that all work samples in the pic are Pukipuki sized, I took the pic only to show the displays and didn't think that I could have shown more of my works too. :S

I have still so much to do, and so many knit pieces to finish. I run out of snap closures, so now I have maaany dresses waiting for snaps. :D And I hate sewing on snaps! u__u'

My Little Pony stuffs moving to new blog!

I decided to separate my pony things from dolly things, and thus I made new blog for My Little Pony stuff!
You can find my new pony blog from here: Dapple Sprinkles
It is also in blogger so the change should be no big deal. :)

If you were following me because of pony things rather than dolls, please move to follow that blog instead! :)
I'm sorry for those who would like to follow both areas together, but I find this more clear to have the ponys separate since different people like to follow different things. I'll be deleting the pony themed posts from here and move them to the new blog too. Things will be more clear, yay! :)

I'm trying to be a bit more active blogger now again, thank you all who have been following me so far. ^^
I love you all!

Derpster! u___u

My Hujoo Wawa arrived today. :) 

I'm surprised it didn't hit the customs, coming from Hong Kong and everything.
But it's okay with me! u___u

I ordered it from Mimiwoos website. I'm going to make new order there there soon, I want some Obitsu thingies. :3 I'm quite pleased with their shipping time and specially the fact that they offer free international shipping. It might be already covered in the prices of the goods, true, but still it sound cool with the word "free". 8D

Parcel. :3

Wawa came with tagged carrying bag. x) Quite handy.

Peekaboo!

Pillow is cute. :3 There was also kind of an strap for the carrying bag.
Umm, right? I might not use it.

Like a speeling baby!
Baby with weird headshape and too big black eyes.

Herp?? Herp? Herpderp!

Enough of derping. What a stylish doggy came out of the bag!
Weird. Cute. Weird. Cute cutecuuute. Derpish. Dog?

I got some eyes ready for Derpster but they didn't even fit in his eye-sockets. 8D
The black ones are cool thought.
I just would have wanted to see how it looks like with some other eyes.

The doggy is a badass poser!
No it's not actually. This is the most it can do, rest of the poses you can guess.
The back legs are also attached by magnets, no srings in there.

After letting Derpster out we opened my other parcel, my order from Hardrock Pokémon.
New cover for my 3DS, some charms and the best thing, Pokémon time pouch. :)
I have wanted to have one of those for a loooong time, but the price and shipping, oh boy...
Now I got over it and just ordered one.

Derpster liked it. Maybe it should be his carrying case?
I had planned the pouch for my DS, but it's a bit tight for it.
Maybe it could fir in my Game Boy Advanse SP and all older games?

Comparison to my DS. And new covers! 8D

I'm sorry about the amount of pics. I also have some pics from last weekends Valentines day doll meetup, and there is another meetup tomorrow too. ^__^' Maybe I won't post pics from those, at least not so much.

Abbey Bominable

I have liked Abbey Bominable of Monster High doll since the first time I saw pics of her. Now I saw her at BR Toys so I kinda bought her. :) I got the Skull shores version. I liked the make up more on this one, and my options in the toy shop were limited to one of the normal version and one of this Skull shores version. The normal version had more brighter red colored lips. o__O I kind of would have wanted the normal version because of the outfit, but I rather went with the more pleasing make up.

No opening pictures, but I took Abbey outside for some pics. Changed her clothes too, no beach outfits allowed in Finnish winter. 8D I think Finland is perfect place for Abbey to live, since she is a daughter of yeti! u__u

She needs more suitable shoes for winter! @__@

Main reason why I like Abbey - Blueness and glitteryness! 8D

I'm sorry I don't ever have too great pics. Maybe someday I learn..!

Now I'm "lacking" Toralei and Clawdeen and then I have the MH's I really like. :)

I saw Toralei also at the BR Toys, but decided to buy only one of the dolls, Abbey being more important. No too much candy in one time. u___u Toralei might be next, in case I can find her again. Or I'll have to buy one from internets. :p