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 was going to take Mirai at first but since I was going to walk to the venue, I thought I should carry something a bit smaller ^^;

Turn the bow part of the Obi to the front for some photos :P

Size comparison

Nuuu?

Mokotan Kawaii! ^O^

On the way, we get distracted ^^;

Before the dance starts ^^

Mokotan wants to dance too XD

On our way back ^^

Thanks for looking :)

Everytime I take photos of my mamachapps with dessert, I am reminded of Taitan san ^^;

Itadakimasu~!

This post is slightly related to the other evil food post I made lol

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

(Take note: Taiga’s dress is produced by Doll heart)

Taiga: I’m better than you cos I got Chun to buy me new clothes!

Himitsu Suzumiya: Oh yeah? I got Chun to MAKE me new clothes!

Taiga: Mine’s newer!
Himitsu Suzumiya: …

So who wins? ^^;;;; I haven’t the heart to tell Taiga the clothes are 2nd hand ^o^;;;

This outfit is a Doll heart outfit which is no longer in production ^^; A friend happened to be re-homing it, and I got it in time for Taiga ^^;

Mokotan scored a hat from tibiloo too :3

Thanks for looking! :D

She managed to snag the cute burger (a key chain thingie) from me – a present from a friend who went to Hong Kong for the holidays last December :)

So now if we have burgers, Mokotan can remind us she gets to have Mos burger, and not us :P

Who ate my cookie?!!?!?!

Is it you Zulu chan? LOL

Moko tan says she can has Mos burger ^^;

Zulu chan is a present for the husband by our friend ^^

As demonstrated by Mokotan, Zulu chan is good size for her^^

Zulu chan says he’ll investigate who ate the cookie incident ^^;

Picture taken nite before with the gang which came along with Zulu chan :P

After running some errands, we stopped by Garry Point Park after spotting the magnificent sunset view ^o^!

Mokotan braved the cold to come out for some photos ^^;

We saw a cool sculpture in a distance and started walking towards it!

The setting sun’s warm orange and the reds of the sculpture warmed us up a bit?

I put her in the center of the sculpture for a shot

Happy 2010!!!

Taiga: *picks up* ??

Taiga: Hmmm it’s not for me! Who left it lying around the house?!?! Guwaaaaaa!!!!!

Thanks Gordonator for the …! (lol) ^^; Mail feeling rather sluggish this month ^^; Haven’t gotten some things which I am kinda expecting in the mail just yet o_o;  Probably slow to arrive due to xmas rush ^^; Also it seems that postmen don’t deliver on weekends here ;_;

You buy/expecting anything in the mail in December? Is mail slow in your area?

Bonus: Taiga(s) accompanying me in the sewing sweat shop ^^;

Mokotan working hard ^^;