So when I had an excuse to pay Mai a visit, I brought Nyanko along… Can you tell who’s who? lol

Again, who’s who?

They are like 2 peas in a pod no? The twin tail wig looks good on Yoko DD XD

My shot of the docking ^^; (I wonder if Nyanko is trying to run away in a mailittlealien jeans in the confusion?!?!?!)

Omake: when girls meet, we gotta have something to nom on…

Thankfully it was not raining or super windy, I managed to bring some cakes over XD the cakes shook around a bit in the box as I transit ^^; but luckily they were still okay lol!

Churuya san had some cake action too…

Thanks Mai for letting me try the machine (and other extras ahem ahem) ! XD It was so awesome even tho I was scared LOL! We look forward to your future works! :D:D

:D :D

I feel a little sad but also glad that at least we can keep in touch with the internet! Most importantly we had a nice time when we are together! :)

I took Nyanko with me, and she’s dressed in sexy summer fashion :P

Glad I was convinced by my friend to take Nyanko out quickly to take photos by these brightly coloured flowers :)

These pix were taken after we had some food/cake/tea etc, but after we got out, it was so hot that we couldn’t stand the heat anymore and seek refuge at Yuki’s place ^^;

We try to find the best light spots for photos XD

Yuki’s little bear :3 Think it came with one of the special edition dolly books?

I find it quite amusing as all of our doll types and fashion are quite different XD I normally do not make/dress my dolls in frilly outfits lol!

Yuki’s Unoa

One point in time I borrowed a frilly dress for Nyanko to try on XD I must say it makes Nyanko look very cute and sweet despite the sexbomb body under the dress ^^;

Kawaii!

Change location…

Sexy in frills ^^;

Dangerous location lol, the light was perfect tho! Below is Nurie’s pretty girl, how funny that both she and Nyanko borrow the dress to try on LOL I had some photos of her in another dress, but my photos are unfortunately not very good ^^;

Awww

Time passed quickly when we’re having fun ;_; Thanks again for coming out Nurie, have a safe journey and wonderful life in your new home!! Thank you Jean (for lending the dress!) also thanks Yuki for sheltering us from the heat XP!

I took Taiga (Mini Dollfie Dream custom) and Mokotan (Mamachapp) with me this time, and only use LX3 as it’s just too many things to worry about to bring a DSLR camera along ^^;

Mokotan below… having lunch with us before we went :P

My main objective to attend this time is to check out UBC venue, and to hang out with some of my Dolly friends when I found out they were attending.

I heard that UBC is a nice place to take photos too ^^ the only thing is the weather was really hot this year ;_; everytime we step into the sun we felt like we were being roasted by the UV rays even tho I had with me an obnoxious green umbrella :P

We try to find shade at every opportunity to hide from the sun >_<

Most Epic pose EVAR

Smaller than Taiga XD

A flash of lightning dropped a strawberry, Taiga picked it up ^^;

Kawaii!

Mokotan… still in her yukata ^^;

The biggest boy around end up attracting all the small ones ^^;

Tired dolls lol

Non doll related entry here :) Thanks for looking!

I brought Himitsu and Mirin with me and the theme of the doll meet was Masquerade + Summer

I almost completely forgot that I should make the mask until the last couple hours before I went to bed the night before ^^; so quickly made a couple with white card stock ^^;

When I got home, completely knackered, I tried to edit some photos, and photoshop crashed my laptop due to having to open too many photos :P I ended up not editing everything — it got a bit too late ^^;

My friend’s cute Blue fairy MSD girl

The nice thing about big doll meets is there’s often sales or trades happening, either it be someone’s closet clean out or wanting to find something or even promoting some hand made items, it’s nice to save on shipping or be able to see something in person before buying ^^

Some really neat props, want! :P I should ask the doll owner where did she get it!

A much nicer mask than the ones I made for my girls :P

Bluestarbaby’s Hitomi had a very cool one going as well :3

The room was rather crowded, but it does not deter some owners from dressing up for the theme! There was a contest going on too :)

Some interesting dolls around at the meet :3

Lost little BJD girl? Don’t blame her, it was rather crowded!

It got really sunny and bright some point in time, and funny enough sone of the better photos I feel are taken under the shade!

Chissen’s Haruki babysitting Candyman’s Suzu ^^;

Reaperofleave’s Ellanie (I think)

Into the sun ^^;

Dangerously perched :P

Should have tried another pose lol but then the girls are in skirt/dress ^^;

Got photobombed by a curious Canadian goose XD Too bad it’s a bit over exposed ^^;

Mirin feeding her feetsies to the fishes :P (Not!) Just before this photo, Himitsu pulled Mirin’s wig off (argh!)

Mirin patiently(?) waiting for me to be done taking photos ^^;

Turned up the exposure :P Like the dreamy look :D

I have to step back quite far to get more of the background… a bit stressful sometimes ^^;

Hitomi at the Bamboo garden XD

One other over exposed picture which turned out pretty nice :3

After walking around for a bit, we were all tired… dolls included :P (LOL that my girl’s heads are kinda funky angle — I was too tired/lazy to fix)

The attendees (most of them) Some may have left by then ^^; I was rather amused by the No Smoking sign at the top :P

Some sweets for the girls :3 for their hard work XD

For non doll related images you can check them out here :D Thanks for looking! ^^

I took Himitsu with me this time :)

After lunch in Steveson, I took Himitsu out and started to take photos of her while wandering around the area :D

Luckily it was not super windy… that was why I dare to put Himitsu so close to the edge near the water ^^;

On a sunny Saturday afternoon, there are lots of people around Steveston, enjoying the weekend :)

As usual taking out a 60cm-ish doll attracts quite a bit of attention :P

Himitsu and my favourite summer flower — Daisy ^O^

Himitsu took a stroll next to a bunch of Lupins which was actually the main reason why bluestarbaby invited us out for! XD It was awesome!

Unfortunately we did not anticipate donating blood to the mosquitos =_=

Interesting activities going on in the field nearby :3

Hitomi arrives! Looks like she had became friends with Himitsu in the last few doll meets XD

Baking in the sun ^^;

Himitsu looks very cute and relaxed in the sun ^^;

Looks like a fake tourist…

At this point we were approached by a few people who were asking about our dolls lol! It was pretty neat :P

Hitomi is so cool!

Paying a visit to a hidden nook…

Resting on a bench after all that walking :P

Taking a seat… (What?!)

Eeek! Dollnapper!!!

:P

At this point I think the dollies are tired, and threatened to face plant at least a couple times ^^;

Himitsu is standing rather tall in the shot below XD It was hard to tell if the shot was overly backlit or not, but luckily it turned out okay ^^;

Hope you enjoy these series of photos :) I think it is worth the sun burn (I’m as red as a lobster on parts of my arm and face ^^;) and mosquito bites ^^;

Took Mirin and Nyanko to a doll meet on Saturday, and managed to take some outdoor shots of them :D It was cloudy at first and turned into a gorgeous  sunny afternoon ^o^/

At the meet, Nyanko scored a lovely necklace from bluestarbaby ^o^Matches her outfit so well!  Thank you so much!

The hair band is by bluestarbaby too ;P I bought it at the last Doll meet ^^/

Skirt she’s wearing is a test version, I will probably tweak it a bit :3 it uses quite a lot of fabric when I cut it this way ^^;

Lovely Mirin came with me today, there’s another Dollfie dream, a fair skin DDH03 this time :D

Mirin actually borrowed somethings from Himitsu ;P LOL Can you guess what they are? :P

Ah some of the photos appear a bit washed out when I look at them now :P (oops!)

This last photo is a gem of the lot :3

Thanks for looking! ;)

I managed to sneak Mokotan into my bag as it was a really beautiful day, how can I not even try to bring a little doll with me for photoshoot? Flowers above are Forget Me Nots ^^

Mokotan take the opportunity to introduce the colours of spring XD

Also I guess Mokotan felt a bit neglected as I had been catching up with sewing (as with my other dolls :P)

So cute <3

So glad that we had a little time to take a quick stroll around, the area is just bursting with colours!

Does she look lost here? But it’s actually a sweet discovery of what looks to me like Lily of the Valley flowers, so adorable!

Mai chan took Owen out, I picked him out because he’s looking dashing in a suit :P

Flower matches bag… strap lol

Spot the frog… lol he’s suntanning XD

Brown-ish clover leaves

Bluebells flourishing!

Omake time~~~ photos of the photos I printed for Mai to bring as give outs :3 I forgot to print Nyanko’s photo ;_; I’m so terrible!!!

I felt very lucky that Mai asked me to contribute some sewing when she realised she was able to book a couple spots with JET SET for the Doll show 28 ^o^!  By the way I did not forget about some of the wonderful and patient online folks who I have kept waiting for a while, I’m definitely gonna keep a few sets to put online too when I am done! :)

Planning of the iron on, these teeshirts are display/promotional materials only until we fix the iron on cracking problem, I think Mai is intend to do some searching in Japan to find a better iron on transfer which won’t crack so easily (Otsukaresama Mai!)

It was a lot of fun deciding the designs :D

Each teeshirt’s fastening at the back is slightly different, kinda experimental as well on my end ^^;

This top below is made for Unoa small bust, it actually fits MDD quite okay, so I will probably be making Taiga something later :P

Most of the teeshirts have to be pulled over the head/neck of the dolls wearing it.

Except for this one below, where the velcro goes almost all the way to the bottom at the back, making it easiest to put on.

I had to take in the bottom teeshirt a bit, as the material stretched a bit as I sew, also I made the teeshirt a bit too loose in the first place as I never met the doll (a SDGr: Okita Soji) in person before.  I figure, you can always make a bigger shirt smaller, but not the other way round…

Do you sense a subliminal message in the design below?

It’s very exciting to see the shirts completed.  It’s quite simple to make a basic teeshirt, but there’s a need to do fitting every time something is adjusted to make sure it fits just right :)

Mai in action :D

Yamato san and his kids? ^^; He’s so tall!!!

Eloping lovers? LOL Yuzuki (girl) and Daiya (boy) ^^

Please excuse the slight distortion from my camera ^^; All photos are taken with Lumix LX3

Mai’s kids are great models :D

Unoa poses very well and with ease ^o^

Yamato ^o^ I want this teeshirt for me! lol

The DD girls came out to hang with Yamato ^^; legs up to heavens!

Mai and I were seriously LOLing as we took these photos XD

Yamato couldn’t make up his mind? Nyanko looks like she’s about to escape, Himitsu is all for the camera and Mirai looks worried neh? LOL

I worked with Mai and Yuki before on a Blythe Beauty Contest entry last year, our entry Glacier Lily got into the semi finals :)  It was a great experience being able to make something together with like minded people!  Thanks Mai for allowing me to work with you! ^O^

Mai kindly brought some doll size pastries from Capers for Mokotan, Mokotan LOVES sweet stuff ;P  It was delicious I am sure, and so are the human sized ones ^^; Mokotan and cakes reminds me of taitan-san of taitan-no.net ^o^/

I have to share the few pastries photos because they’re so awesome :) I was going “Mmmmmmmm” every bite XD

I ate this, it was very good, very refreshing! XD

Beautiful, like spring!

PS: Mai, I hope you and Jon like the cakes from Diplomat Bakery too XD

Below, we see Mokotan very excited about the parfaits we ordered ^^;;;  So delicious…

Before we got really busy with an out of town relative from Hong Kong, I made a date with Mai ^o^!

I did not bring my bigger dolls as I was taking the public transport, also I intended to shop for some fabric = heavy ^^; I brought Mokotan (suggested by husband), and a Petite Blythe (puppy on a date). Mai kindly brought Captain, her custom blythe along :)

We went to shop for fabric at Dressew, had dessert, then I hung out at Mai’s place to play dolls lol!
(random sights)

Lovely Matsurika chan, wearing a gorgeous dress by Hiroko-san of Kogumaza – some more photos on this entry of Mai’s blog ^^/

Daiya scored the cardigan I presented Mai ^^; I am very glad it fits and Daiya wears it very well! Mai took many great photos of Daiya in the cardigan too :)

Yuzuki is just gorgeous :3 (We got her to try out some random stuff I made ^^;) Some photos are not very flattering or safe for work so I won’t post them here lol

I think Mai took way better photos than I did, so please check out her blog entry if you like! :D

Thanks again Mai, for hanging out with me! ^o^ Next time lets check out the ramen place! :P

A grab bag swap was organised, and someone received these nifty eraser foods which is a good size for 1/3 scale dolls :D

Himitsu found some foreign object in her tea (we borrowed the tea cup set for this shot) ^^;

I think I gonna try to find this eraser set next time ^^;

Nyanko ^O^

Nyanko took off her top cos it’s hot in the room (JK) :P someone decided to place the chick between her cleavage ^^; Ultimaknight remarked that maybe the chick’s name is Boota ^^;

Himitsu :3

This is the other boy doll who arrived a bit later :D lol he poses very well :D His outfit is really neat too!

DazeAsh‘s sleeping beauty! Unfortunately my photos of her with her open eye faceplate turned out blurry (argh!)

TheCandyMan’s Suzu dressed as a furry?

Another Suzu

Also TheCandyMan’s Camille :)

Nurie’s most adorable Chie :D

bluestarbaby’s Hitomi :)

Chiseen’s gorgeous Haruki ^o^ bluestarbaby kindly made name tags for all of us – dolls included! It is a really nice touch, I remember better some if not most of everyone’s dolls now I think ^^;

Haruki looks great in glasses ^o^

Me and Chiseen managed to get each other’s grab bag in the swap ^^; so below is a shirt which I no longer have a boy body for XP Haruki looks fabulous in it! :3

He looks great in everything! ^^;

Even when cross dressed ^^;

Nyo~ron ^^;

There was a little garden set up where the meet was held, so at some point in time everyone moved out for photos :3 I really like this shot I took of Chiseen’s Haruki sitting on a tree, posed by TheCandyMan :3

I realised I took a lot of photos of Haruki ^^; Maybe he had enough… ^^;

Funky group shots :

My favourite group shot :D Harem shot? ^^; Haruki looks overwhelmed lol!

This guy pose so well! o_o Too bad a lot of the photos I took of him were kinda overexposed =_=

Nyanko <3

I was lucky enough to win the photo contest held by bluestarbaby with a photo I took of Mirin with some cherryblossoms :3 Thanks everyone who voted for my photo at the meet! XD

I’ll be posting some shots from that series of Mirin soonish :3 I just didn’t want to post overly repetitive photos of Mirin wearing the same thing lol ^^;

To see more photos by people who attended the meet, you can check out the links below :D

Bluestarbaby’s flickr set
Nurie’s flickr set
flamebyrd’s flickr set
Chiseen’s photobucket album
Kurohitori’s deviantART Gallery