Ball joint doll meet 3

A very mini doll meet :) on my last day helping at my friend’s shop ^^;


From left to right: Mouse (Lati yellow cookie), Button (Lati yellow Lami) and Sybil (Lati yellow Miel)

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Interview section

Decided to make a new section for brief interviews with people I personally look up to in the doll field. :) I was inspired to request an interview with Matin sensei after I had the luck to acquire this lovely sofa kit during the last trip to Tokyo.

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Otome Asakura Doll in a new dress

When I opened the envelope and saw the lovely dress made by Plastic Fashion (intended for blythe), for some reason the doll which I bought late last year but never really showed pictures of came to mind.

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The Minnie

When I saw the fabric at Fabricana I had to buy it, today finally I had a little time to make a simple dress, which I call “The Minnie” *grin*

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Hagu gets a new body

I came across a friend’s flickr photo and realised that the obitsu body has a new type of body, and I liked what I saw, so I bought a couple off ebay to sample. ^^

http://puppy52.com/temp/x/2007/0210/hagu/IMG_5245hagu_manga.jpg

After some thinking, I decided Hagu (my Honey and Clover “fan art” doll) would be the new recipient of the new 25 cm body ^^! Just realised that her blush had faded a bit over time (oops) hope to find time to reapply soon ^^

So here are some comparison pix of the new and old body:
The new body has soft bust and torso, the latter I didn’t know about so it was a surprise. My only concern with soft rubber parts is sometime they tend get stained by dark clothing easier. But that hasn’t happen yet — I rarely put dark clothing on my dolls.

My older obitsu body came with a bald head, some neck parts which I never use, and some spare hands, the new body comes with a couple neck parts and a few hands as well. I think the older type of body these days do not come with the head anymore — from my most recent search on ebay.

Different elbow joints – the new joint is easier to bend for elbows, but for knee it’s a bit harder to bend to desired positions.

Front of knee joints

Side of knee joints – I noticed that the older body has more visible seamlines compared to the new one.

Similar pose ^^

Hopefully this entry is for some help for people who are considering to get obitsu body for their dolls. Thanks for reading!

Dolly take out

And now there are two :) worked on a 2nd one for a bit after lunch :P some details in previous post ^^/

The box was from a recent wedding we attended hehe :) just the right size for these little ones ^^ It is not easy to paint their faces on a fabric ^^;

Hand made doll

By a friend’s recommendation that I get dolly*dolly volume 16 for the tutorial, I finally bit by bit completed one which I am somewhat okay with today :P My first doll looks like a piece of doodoo ^^;;; This 2nd one is not entirely completed even, have to add the shoes when I have time ^^; she stands at about 2 and half inch tall ^^/ will make a cute doll for my dolls no?

Elliot (MSD)


Elliot is my hybrid doll, she’s MSD size around 43+cm tall (Never really measured).
Her head is Bee-A from Dream of doll her body is Narae, pinky white from Dollfair.com I keep her all wrapped up in a cabinet because too much sun can cause accelerated yellowing to the french resin ^^;  Don’t get me wrong, I love the translucent feel of french resin but I am not sure if I really want to deal with yellowing and having to change Elliot’s body so many times it gets a bit tiring.  I hope in future when I actually have some spare cash I can invest in a Utherane Narae body — not anytime soon tho ^^;

This top’s pattern is heavily modified (almost recreated) off the Doll Coordinate Recipe #4’s Unoa pattern.   I recalled the first couple test pieces were ill fitting disasters :P  This book currently discontinued and I won’t link to somewhere which the book may get sold out, so please search online if you really want to get a copy.

Anyhows, had an idea for an outfit for a while, so took out some modified patterns from what a year + back and tested sewing :) recreated a pattern to get a base pattern I need (still need some tweaking) This version the area under the chest has a bit too much wrinkles, so I gotta fix that ^^;/

Eyes comparison part 2

A few more for comparison purposes.
Another hand painted head with light pink hair, I unfortunately cannot for the life of me remember what head is she She is a parabox neko head  — bought her too long ago and her packaging did not say where she is from (oops), I painted 2 heads for a friend, she picked the other ^^
I think for this attempt the eyes is a bit lopsided :P (and maybe a bit too far apart?) so this poor head is in storage :P I may give her a different type of mouth in future maybe the :D mouth lol


So how I went about painting the face is — using a fine brush, I “sketched” the eyes with diluted white acrylic paint, painted in the eye whites in first, then paint the darker colours over. I guess this step results in uneven surface seen on the close ups.

The rubber heads tends to stain if you use darker colour on it directly I find. But the “staining” method is good if you wish to apply blush to the doll ^^ (but it is a difficult technique to get right ^^; )

Right at the end when, I feel okay with the result I apply a clear/matt waterbased varnish over the eyes/eyebrows and mouth.

Below is a limited edition licca I found at Nakano Broadway last year, I named her Nakano lol
She has light pink pearl-ish lipstick ^^ she came with a cute school uniform which was unfortunately not very well made ^^;;;;;

An older picture of Nakano chan, and to see her other outfits here is her flickr set:

This poor Licca has her body “stolen” for one of my blythes :P purchased her from a friend in Singapore :D
she’s actually quite pretty don’t you think?

Please note: I do not own all of the vintage licca dolls in this post, Tibiloo had kindly offered to take pictures of her collection of different generations of Liccas for me to post here for comparison (Thank you!)

1st Generation Vintage Licca:

Lady Licca, looks similar to first generation face mould:

Blond Lady Licca:

1st Generation Repro (reproduction)

New Licca (between 1st and 2nd generation)

2nd generation vintage licca

3rd generation licca

Thanks for checking this out! :) I hope it might be of some help to identify some of the dolls out there ^^/