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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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Vivi and Ginny Adventure overload!

Looks like my Mamachapp sisters are taking over the dolly blog (well for now ^^;)
Below is a photo of Vivi enjoying the beautiful day out!
 

Before I continue with the photos I want to thank taitan-no.net for kindly linking up to their blog featuring Vivi and Ginny :D They have many great links to a lot of lovely photos and resources in Japanese ^^/

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Daisy and Clover photoshoot :)

Below is a photo of Clover, the little lambie hand puppet for 11-12 inch tall dolls —  he could also be a finger puppet for humans! Clover belongs to Daisy, a custom blythe doll more back story here.

I know Blythe dolls are not everyone’s cuppa tea, but since they got me started on my dolly obsession hobby, I really have no reason to not feature them every now and then, even tho I have started owning some other types of dolls, like Licca, Mamachapp, Dollfie Dream etc.  Today I am going to feature some current photos of my visiting blythe and her little companion, Daisy and Clover. Daisy currently belongs to a dear friend of mine living a few hours drive away, I originally conceptualised, customised and sew most of her outfit to enter a Blythe Beauty Contest held by CWC in Japan.

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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?

Vivi love

I have been taking Vivi out a bit more these days, my other dolls are jealous especially the big head ones ^^; :P

But anyhows, here are some pictures of adorable Vivi out and about ^^
She accompanied me for lunch ^^

One of my other poison… fast food :P

Took her for a quick walk around the current displays at the mall after the food :P

the red thing in the background is a giant tomato display :P It looks big enough for me to sit on ^^;

How to resist this cute face!!!

close up ^^

Vivi behind paper doll ^^ get coloured version here :P

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 ^^/

Eyes comparison

Inspired by this post on dannychoo.com, I decided to take some close up pictures of some of the dolls I have to compare the eye painting(s)

I painted 2 faces of my dolls before, and was often rather bothered by how the brush strokes shows up if I look closely ^^;

This is Koko, the doll I made before I acquired my Mamachapp doll :P

I made a Hagu doll, based off Hagu from Honey and Clover anime series :) Ugh need to find a better way to paint it neatly :P

Mamachapp doll also obviously factory painted (machine maybe?)

Just for good measure I include my 2 Licca chans ^^
This is the Vintage 2nd Generation licca

This is a repro 2nd generation :) I may try to repaint her lips as I find her lips a little bit too bright ^^;

Haruhi Nendoroid, different material base doll, but I thought to include her for comparison as well.
Her eyes obviously are factory applied, there’s even dithering in the iris part.

I am missing some of the more current liccas which I have (oops) maybe next time :)