#dfa bibi

My Doll Family-A BiBi twins got new faceups too, mainly because Amethyst damaged her faceup and chipped it along her lip. Also I wasn't fond of how I'd done the eyebrows and lashes last time, so I redid them together.

I tried something different with the mouth, and I am not entirely happy with that, but it's staying like this now. I do like the eye detailing better this time at least, because they both have white wigs.

Here's the comparisons to their last faceups, which I did in 2022. Their eyes and wigs are the same, but I am planning on making them resin eyes soon. I finally ventured into resin eye making!

I love their little tails too (I made them). They are little half umbra and half elves, I will post a pic of them with their parents on my personal BJD blog @izasbjdphoto

Commissions are open!

Another thrifted doll dress to mess with (instead of finishing my own oodles of wips lol ...) I honestly didn't change a lot; I just took it in, relocated the big bow, made a different collar, and added buttons. I still wonder if it's too puffy on her... (it fits taller yosds better but blue is her color!) is the bodice lace too big? or maybe just the sleeves are too big? Am I just over-thinking? 🤔 altering satin is suuuch a pain, so I haven't decided if I'll change anything else or just leave it.

These 2 Doll Family-A BiBi twins belong to me, they are the daughters of two of my other dolls. I do enjoy how they turned out, though I still struggle with painting white eyebrows and having them look natural...

Oooop, forgot to post these... >:3;;; I got these back in january. Denverdoll had a pair of in stock littlefee hands in beauty white, and I gleefully jumped on them as soon as I could. I want to get her a few of the other sets too eventually, and I think I’ll take advantage of the magnetic feature and blush them all (and her little toes... sobs;; ) I also used this as a way to compare the white hands to the body, and I would say they are 99.9% accurately matched so there is DEFINITELY no yellowing here!

Also, I made her this little dress to test a template I bought from @requiemart, which turned is probably one of my best so far.. Just gotta fix up the stitches in the front that came loose!

sewing misadventures, featuring me and my terrible dysfunction with pattern making and keeping anything sewn in a straight line!! (hawhaw)

I did a very crude petticoat with some tulle i stole from a badly mangled goodwill barbie (?) wedding dress. it seemed ok in theory, but cutting even strips of it was tricky... gathering and pinning it was an ordeal, and holding in place and being able to tell what’s going on under the needle was impossible AHAHA... I remember someone on a sewing blog describing sewing yards of tulle as “the tulle is attacking you” and i thought there was no way that’d apply to me and such a small scale item-- but I was sooo wrong!

BUT IT’S OK, I want to try a few more methods of petticoat making before I call it quits on tulle forever... I will get that perfect flouncy petticoat for cece someday, somehow! I think I may try just doing a cloth skirt later with multiple layers of tulle tacked onto that, in a ‘bird foot’ kind of way.

Arrival: 12/09/19- Littlefee body for Cecilia!!

(Whew, okay- holiday rush is settling down for a hot minute. Let’s post stuff!!) This is not my first planned hybrid, but the first one I have in my hands!

After listings tempting me three times, I got this (edited because I wrote the wrong sculpt lol) 2016 WS Littlefee Soo Dark Elf off ebay for a really good price. I originally dismissed this option because I didn’t like the thought of having a loose head just laying in the box, but after lurking I realized loose LTF bodies aren’t the most common, and white skin LTF aren’t very popular either- and after some thinking, I realized I really don’t love this sculpt at all, so it was actually really easy to plop it in the box and consider it an extra “gift” head. It might make a fun project to do a faceup on later, but yeah!

Good news- head fit great! I spent the whole time worrying about needing to mod the neck or head a lot... I don’t know why, I did my research and LTF is 6cm and DFA is 5.8cm in neck size. It was nearly perfect. There is minimal bulging and the neck hole peeks out if it’s tilted too far, but it’s nothing compared to what I was worried about. (the horror stories about Minifee neck mechanisms may have got to me, lmao) I’ve read that taking the headcap off LTFs makes other hybrid heads sit really low on the neck... but because  the DF-A head has a pretty shallow area for the neck to sit, and the DF-A yosd necks seemed really long to me, so it worked out PERFECTLY proportionally.

Bad news is that I got a bit overconfident about FL’s white resin being super white, so I was a bit disappointed when I realized it was still a bit creamy!! I know she’s from 2016 so I was prepared for modest yellowing (though the listing mentioned this doll was 99% boxed) but the inside is completely even in tone to the outside, so.. I think it hasn’t yellowed much, if at all. I don’t know if soaking her in baking soda/toothpaste concoctions will do much. (If any fairyland experts want to weigh in on this, please feel free to chat with me about it!)

So for a moment, I was simultaneously excited and let down- had a rush of of “oh god was this a good idea? did i get over-eager? should i have done more research? this was a bad impulse buy after all!! I should never buy a doll without a plan ever again!!! i’m no good at hybrids!!!! i’m a bad person wasting money!!! ahhhh ahhhh;;;”

But after I put her head on and some temp eyes in... She sat there staring at me like an irresistible kitten, and my boos kept wailing about how cute she was. The main selling points for me were that I really love the LTF’s chubby fingers, the cute legs and feet, and... they’re sooo short!!!! Oh my god! I saw a comparison of her next so some other YOSDs and shrieked BUT SEEING IT IN PERSON NEXT TO OLIVE IS LIKE EEEEP!!

SO I FEEL MUCH BETTER NOW. I dressed her with some things I had (she does actually fit into a few barbie things, aww) I just couldn’t put her down. She’s so small and cute and exactly what I hoped the LTF body would be.

I have settled on trying to blush her head to match her body! I’m a bit nervous but I think it’ll be easier than I think... I still need to settle on her faceup/wig/eyes and curate her moodboard a bit more, so I’ll try to take it easy and not rush her. I also think I’ll buy her more hands because hururrgghhh cute +_+