Some random doll photos taken yesterday.....

I thought I'd share some doll photos that I took yesterday.  It was a lovely sunny afternoon and the light was just right upstairs on the terrace for some dolly photos.

First we have little Angelina, our visiting Toddler from Wales.  Yes, I know I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that she was going home, but she got another modelling assignment so her mummy kindly agreed for her to stay a little longer....and no, it's not true that I'm hoping she'll forget where she lives and want to stay here....although that is a tempting thought LOL ;)

Here she can be seen modelling a bright green fine corderoy hooded coat, fully lined in green and white striped shirting fabric.  The coat is going to live with another little Toddler in the US.

I then took photos of some of my BJDs.  These first two photos are of my Lati Yellow gang, all 16cm tall, fully jointed resin girls from South Korea.  I realised yesterday that one of these, the little blond, second from the left, has been here almost 8 years now!  She was my first Lati Yellow and I bought her back in the days when there was no quibble over that company's quality or customer service....and no waiting 9 months in those days!

Next is my one remaining Volks Yosd girl, she is Megu, one of the 'four sisters' and has a custom faceup by Nomyens.  I call her Faun.  It used to be said that Volks owners were 'elitist' and although I don't agree with that statement, I have to say that I love Volks dolls, they just feel so nice in your hands, and they pose very naturally.  I like that Fairyland dolls have great posing but in a lot of ways it feels quite 'mechanical' whereas Volks dolls feel as if they are posing themselves...if that makes sense!!  Having had many Volks dolls over the last 9 years that I've been in the BJD hobby, I still feel they are one of the best BJDs on the market! 

And finally here is Fiona, she is a Fairyland Little Fee Ante who's been here with me since April 2009 having come to live with me from California. She has a default faceup and she poses really well as you'd expect.

I hope you've enjoyed seeing some of my doll photos! 

Sunshine on their skin....tanned dolls

Yesterday I was watching some little Spanish children playing in the sunshine (yes, you can still do that here without be labelled as 'weird'!) and I marvelled at how beautifully tanned they are.  Now I do tan, quite quickly in fact, but my tan is always...well I suppose 'freckled' is a way of describing it.  Whereas the majority of Spanish children, regardless of their hair colour, tan to the most lovely brown colour....and this is despite their parents totally covering them in SPF50!!

This got me to thinking about my dolls.  I really do love tanned dolls too and when I thought about it, the majority of them fall into that category, whether they be my Sasha/Gregors, BJDs or other vinyl...if their is a choice, I am automatically drawn to the tans!  I have to say also, that tan dolls are so much easier to photograph in the higher clarity of light that exists here in southern Spain.

So I thought I'd share some photos of my tanned BJD dolls.  These aren't new photos, so I apologise in advance if you've already seen them!!

First to show her pretty tanned face is the appropriately named Summer.  She is a 27cm resin 'Caio Bella' BJD (ball jointed doll) from Bambicrony in South Korea.  She spent the first part of her life living in Portugal but came to live here in February 2012. Summer has a very sweet but shy personality as you can see from her photos! ;)

Next to take a bow is Lunita.  Lunita is a Lati Yellow Miel basic doll who, back in September 2011, was given a light hometan and new custom faceup by Vainilladolly here in Spain.  Lunita has actually been here the second longest of all my BJDs, having arrived direct from Latidoll in South Korea in August 2007.  She is fully jointed resin and just 14cm tall....she really is the 'baby' of the family and incredibly spoilt!!

Enjoying her chocolate!

 

Another little tiny tanned girl here is Nora, she is also a Lati Yellow of 14cm, a Pirate Lea, but she is a 'natural' tan, the Lati older more 'orange' tan.  I bought her secondhand and she came to me with her 'pirate' faceup, it was very dark and not to my taste at all so I eventually sent her to Raven to work her magic on her.  I love what Raven did to her, she's just so sweet and pouty now!

And my third little tanned girl of 14cm,  is Oreo, a Lati Yellow tanned Cookie.  She is the newer, lighter, more creamy tan and I really do like her colour.  She was the last BJD that I brought home and made the total of my Lati Yellows to 4....three tans and one normal skin.

Another little girl that has a lot of attitude is my light tanned human Tillie by Kaye Wiggs.  She has a default company faceup and is approx 29cm tall.  She's skinny and 'long', and to me she looks very Asian.   I think she is also a keeper here!  Her name is Torrie:

Reuben is my only tanned boy and he is a Dollzone BB Kay.  I did his faceup and it's not great but it's been 'him' for so long now that I've never sent him for a professional one, although it has crossed my mind a few times....I just worry that he'd not be 'Reuben' any more afterwards!!!  He is approx 28cm tall and I bought him from Dollzone here in Spain back in June 2008.  Another long standing member of the Dambuster dolls!!

 

And finally my two bigger girls who are MSD size, so approx 45cm tall.  Both girls are sculpted by the very talented Australian artist, Kaye Wiggs.  The first of these is Layla who is Light Tan.....her name is Louisa but is usually known as Loulou.  She has a custom faceup by Forever Virginia, a faceup artist in the US.  I really do love these two bigger girls, although I don't tend to do that much with them these days!  I like to look at them though!

And finally, Hope, she is Louisa's older sister and her tan is called 'Sun Kissed'.  She came to me with a default faceup but I removed it earlier this year and gave her a new one.  I was hoping to send her for a new professional faceup but have not had any contact with the faceup artist, so maybe that isn't going to happen right now!