Together At Last

So back in June my Bimong Narin finally arrived! His name is Ruby and...he's amazing, truly. Bimong did an amazing job with his body I can't believe how different it feels from the one I used to own.

Anyway, Ruby is Rose's boyfriend. His faceup is temporary (as in my excitement I forgot to remind my fiancee that he's ginger) and he definitely needs new eyes but so far he's amazing.

Chalcedony and Citrine

Yesterday was a disaster with dolls and my cat, so I had a major meltdown. Thankfully everything is okay, and I had the energy to try again today. This...didn't go the way I planned.

I took some inappropriate images of Chalcedony and Citrine. It...just kinda happened. 

Post Convention

Hey all!

I didn't really take any photos at Doll North other than the ones for Project Runway (since we don't have a photographer on staff at the moment). Most of my photos were on my phone and there aren't even that many of them, whoops. 😅

This year more than previous years I feel like I was working more than I was enjoying the convention. I feel like I missed out on a lot of things so it had me kind of down for the last week or so. As much as I like working on Doll North I wish there would be a year where Sabrina and I don't have to work the whole time. I saw so many posts during and after where I realized I was only able to talk to a couple people and not for as much time as I would have liked. Add to me being awkward and well.... 😅

So unfortunately, not con photos in this post. I took a few photos with my camera after the convention instead.

Timeline

I spent way too long compiling a timeline of my photography over the last 12 years. Trying to pick only 4 for each year was difficult. For a few of the years I tried to get some from the beginning and some from the end, but some years had more photos than others. 😂

It's quite large, so I'm going to post it under a cut.

Tests and Inappropriateness

It was pretty sunny today which made it difficult to work with the lighting in my apartment where I normally take photos. Normally with overcast lighting I bounce it to the unlit side with my reflector but today the sun was shining and it was like having an additional light source when I tried to reflect the sun onto the darker side. 😂😂I didn't end up taking as many photos as I planned. I need to charge my camera again.

I'm so enamoured with Rose Quartz and he's not even my doll. I can't help but pose him with Chalcedony. I tell myself it's practice for when I find a doll to be Ruby. They're both on the motion line body which makes posing much easier.

Also, Chalcedony is a really inappropriate character.... It makes sharing his true self difficult. As a result I made myself a NSFW image to use on my Instagram for the couple of photos I took that I will post there...and also here. Pls don't kill me lol.

In this case, it's more like "behind 'Read More'" haha

New Arrivals

This is a late post but some things needed to be completed first! So back in mid-March the order I placed with my good friends and my fiancée made a surprise arrival from Fairyland! I placed the order on my birthday (Jan 29) and the order contained all of the event pieces and 5 minifees so I was really shocked that we received it before April! I completely expected to wait until at least May. Even more surprising was that I was blessed with 0 custom fees. 🙏

Anyway! Only 2 of those minifees were ours and they were Minifee Niella and Minifee Ria, both boys on the new motion-line body. Now our core gem group is finally complete! (We were only missing Rose Quartz.)

So on top of waiting for them to arrive, my fiancée had to paint them and then with the help of our dear friend Chibi we washed, dried and dyed some alpaca fibre so Ainsley could make my boy a wig! Next will be Rose but for now he has 10 billion options for his hair. 😂

To continue my long tale, my Ria also didn't have a name or a character at all. I literally bought him on impulse because that's apparently how I make all my doll purchases. I eventually decided to name him Chalcedony (kal-se-dony) and give him the nickname Cal. For those who don't know, Chalcedony comes in beautiful pastel colours (blues, pinks, purples) and it's also the stone on my engagement ring. 😊

And yes, I ship all of the AU pairings with these characters apparently. I can't help myself. 😂😂😂😂

Back centre: Chalcedony, Left to Right: Opal, Rose, Emmy, Diamond

Heart Eyes

I got heart hands thanks to a friend who was selling some so now I get to play around with them! My incoming minifee also got these hands and I'm excited to have them capable of two-person hand-hearting. XD

I don't know what this is. Monkey ears? 😂

Alternate Coupling

So for some reason my actual doll couples don't like to photograph together, specifically Emmy and his boyfriend Zircon. However, Emmy and Diamond looked great together and didn't cause me any fuss. Go figure! I decided to take some AU photos of them, haha.

Minifeels

With the new posts going up about Niella arriving and the new motion line body I've been really hyped about my incoming order from Fairyland. I probably have at least 1 month left on it, but I'm excited to see how the new body moves. I've been eager to photograph my moe-line boys as a result, plus I got some new things in for them to wear. Emmy in particular got some cute pieces. <3

Emmy got a new shirt from GelatoBabyHandmade. It's so soft and wonderful. <3

Profiles

I had a look at my doll page recently and noticed that there was some very outdated information along with some terrible photos taken from my phone/instagram. I decided to try and do a bunch of proper photos for the majority of my dolls and my fiancee's dolls, at least the ones who don't already have nicer photos available. Probably not the best idea since I'm currently nauseated from my antibiotics but that's why I sit down to take photos lmao.

Sister Mischief

I actually took these at the same time as the pla pico photos but got distracted. Oops! Jack and Rook are sisters and Rook is always getting into trouble.

Pla Pico Adventures

Ainsley and I are in love with the little pla pico kits from Aileen Doll and I decided to have a bit of fun with them today while I was planning to take photos of my other dolls. It developed into a little story but I'm too lazy to write any text. I hope it's self-explanatory. 😂

Couples

So originally I was going to try and take photos of some of our couples but naturally none of them were cooperating, save for one couple. 😂😂 So there are photos of one couple and the rest are just singles.

Spinel and Nimbus <3 I literally could not pose them any other way than all over each other. 

Gem Photoshoot

Decided to actually take some things out for photos today. I used my reflector AND my tripod--shocking! I decided to take photos of some of our gem-themed characters. There are more than this but I thought perhaps more than 4 dolls would be too overwhelming. 😂

Featured in pretty much all of these photos are the bean bags and pillows from rRabit.

Pearl