Summertime, and the living is easy.......

These are old photos but I thought I'd share them on here as I haven't done so before.  The Monnaemi sisters, by Elfdoll,  are enjoying the swimming pool in the sunshine.  These resin BJD girls are 14cm tall and very skinny, I made their swimwear from narrow ribbon and trimmings!

A little bit of surgery....

What I do like about BJDs is that when you get fed up with their look you can change them.  I'd been thinking that I was rather bored with one of my little dolls and maybe she should look for a new home.  The thing is though, she's been here a long time, since 2008,  and I felt a little bit mean sending her away.  So this morning I decided to give her a bit of 'surgery'!  She is an Elf Elly Eomji by Dollmore and is one of the tiniest dolls that I have, at 14cm, but she has a beautifully sculpted body and the nicest hands and feet I've ever see on a doll.  They really are very elegant and well done.  So I took her to pieces and removed her old elastic.....it was really loose and floppy which made posing her a bit of a nightmare.  Now I was going to document this process with photos and make a tutorial of it, but to be honest, once I'd started, I really needed both hands AND those of my hubby, to get her back together again.  The replacement elastic was so thin but it was very hard to get through the holes in her feet for example.  Then once she was almost put back together again, I needed the help of an octupus to get her head and headplate back on!!  I also hot glue sueded her, which for those that aren't familiar with this, it is basically that you use a thin layer of hot glue on one side of each joint, usually NOT on the ball joint bit, but that which it goes into....sorry, I have no idea what that would be called...and this helps with posing as it makes a bit of friction between the two pieces of resin.  I then put thin wires through all her limbs and her neck to help even more.  After that, I added extra blush to her face as she was looking a bit pale, and finally a new wig, which I glued on because wigs always ping off her tiny head...she wears a size 2-3" wig and some of those are even too big on her!!!

And here she is, looking very cute I think!!  Oh and I forgot to say, her name is Scout!

Here she is sitting on the steps on my dollshouse, she's the perfect size for posing with 1/12th scale things!

By the fountain in the front garden of the dollshouse:

Helping with the planters in the front garden:

 Posing on the front steps of the house:

It's a good job there's no water running in the fountain at the moment Scout!

 Playing on her skateboard!

Being carried around by a Giant!  Oh no, that's just me!  (Showing you just how small she actually is!)

Saddle him up!!

Twig, (Elfdoll Min del Re, 14cm resin ball jointed doll) has wanted a horse for ages and back in January I was lucky enough to find her one.  However, because the weather had been cold, the horse had to be kept in his 'stable'...until today!!  The sun was shining and it was hot, so Twig decided it was the perfect day for a ride!  Twig has decided to call her horse Amazon....and what a magnificent beast he is, don't you agree? ;)

Of course the whole family wanted to come outside and see Twig on Amazon, even the two dogs, who didn't seem to be in the least bit afraid of such a big creature!  Sunny has brought along her camera to record the occasion.

L to R in front: Boris the Bulldog, Sunny Song (Elfdoll BongSunHwa),  Minx (Elfdoll Min del Re 2nd Edition with custom faceup by Ravendoll), and Stanley the Chihuahua.

One for the photo album Twig!!

THE OUT-TAKES

As per usual when I'm trying to take photos of my dolls in the garden, I have my little 'helpers' in attendance.  Today, apart from running up my back and deciding to sit there whilst I was laid out flat on the ground to take these photos, Yoda decided that she needed to be in on the 'action'.....hence we have dolls falling over in all directions!!!

"Oh" said Yoda "I think this one would benefit from a little wash!"

 "Oh dear! Looks like she's tired, poor thing!  Oh well, let her sleep...what can I do to help now mum?"

No dolls or animals were harmed in the taking of these photos....but the photographer had trouble getting back up off the floor afterwards....DOH!!!