Oriental Princess

When Alice came home months ago, she was squeaky, shiny, and not strung well. She even had a few almost-accidents because she cannot stand too long on her own. So when a fellow bjd owner Ricci opened her BJD aesthetics shop, I immediately signed up for a much needed MSC coating, restringing, and kips insertion (kips are used to help protect her joints and to improve her posing skills).

I knew she won't be home for at least three agonizing weeks (please excuse the newbie bjd owner here), so I decided to work on some fabrics I purchased last December:

Some unknown number hours (and hours and hours) of work later, I posted this dress mock-up:

And finally, here's the finished product!

Oriental Princess: Preview

Soon!

Clothes Evolution!

When Alice came home, she had no belongings. No clothes, no shoes, just her default underwear, a free wig, and glass eyes. >.> See, I was too nervous about her getting home that I didn't even think about getting her a few sets of clothes. Plus, I ran out of money and I was a noob in BJD clothes shopping.

So when she came home, I scrambled and made her an A-line dress out of an existing shirt and some scrap lace pieces:

Long wig is loooooong

From China to Philippines

I was supposed to write a post about the clothes I made for Alice since she got here, but my hands instinctively wrote about Alice's journey from Doll-Love's headquarters in China, to my grubby hands here in the Philippines. The clothing post can wait.

The first time I saw BJDs was back in high school/early college. It was Mistula, the Philippine's first virtual band (and the first doll band). I was fascinated. After watching them on TV, I researched a bit about BJDs - and found out how expensive they are. My heart was crushed. As the eldest child of a low-middle class family, I thought I can never have that amount of money to blow on a single doll. I forgot about BJDs and moved on.

Starting Over

Hello non-existent followers! XD You may have noticed that most of my posts are gone, and I only left the small FAQ post. I deleted them because I'm not happy with how I wrote them. See, I've been in a blogging rut for a long time. I've been trying hard to re-start since I killed/abandoned my thrifting blog ages ago (that blog did pretty well, IMO). I stopped blogging for a year, then created a crafting blog a few months ago, left it, started a BJD Tumblr blog (its still alive here and has a decent number of followers, teehee), and now I made this BJD-themed blog. Well, well, well.

I've been itching to write, to share things I made, my musings and what-not. There are a lot of things I wanted to share, but I lacked the initiative to actually take photos, sit down, and type down a post. Way to go, self.

Anyway, here I am again, trying to get back into this blogging thing I once loved. Maybe, just maybe, I can actually make it work this time. I hope I can commit this time.

To get things started on my end, here's my game plan:

• WRITE! I've made a number of BJD clothing that I want to share. I'm also whipping up some photostories. 
• CREATE! As mentioned earlier, I make some BJD clothing. I'm actually working on a new set right now, which I should write about once I finish the piece.
• TAKE PHOTOS! Or rather, organize photos. I have a bunch of photos in my drive, waiting for me to edit/post them. Most of them go to my BJD Tumblr, but I guess it wouldn't hurt to post them here too.
• LINK UP! I know several people who have BJD-themed blogs. I should contact them to exchange links. I should also try to promote this blog, once I put up a nice number of posts.

So there. Sorry for the wall of text. I'll be getting back to regular (???) posting soon! To reward you for reading until this part, here's a photo of Alice with her friend, Maya.

Lets do this!!!