Youtube Channel Changes... Sorry!

Now, don't worry too much, as I'm keeping all my past videos, but I AM adding whole new content to my youtube channel: a ton of gaming videos!

If you've read my bio, then you probably know that I love to game as much as I love makeup, or lolita, or BJDs. (And in one case of gaming, I merged BJDs and The Sims!) I could no longer be a silent watcher of others' awesome gaming videos, and I needed to jump head first into the waters. So! I downloaded the free version of Bandicam, which works well for my simple needs, and started uploading, like, a million videos of me playing games.

At first, I didn't have a microphone, but I quickly fixed that, as I love to talk. And now, it's hard to get me to shut up! XD

Also, I'd like to thank GamerPoets for inspiring me to try and do a voiced roleplay or two of Skyrim!

And, if you ever wondered what I actually sound like (as in, when I'm talking normally, not cutely), then these are for you, 'cause so far, I use my real voice in everything but the voiced roleplay of my elf.

 (And my real voice is deep and gravelly, I sound like a smoker even though I've never smoked :P

...I blame asthma!)

This is the series with my fake, cute, voice.

Traveler's Notebook Setup For Now...

After Silence... Comes FAUXDORI!! (My Traveler's Notebook)

Top view, to let you see inside~

Haha, I know, I know, crappy title. But I haven't blogged on here in a while, pretty much all of my attention was on my art blog (which you should check out, even though it's not very good), and I wanted to include that fact in the title!

But down to business... In case you can't tell by the title, I went a little notebook/journal/whatever crazy, and I made myself a fauxdori. And in case you don't know what a fauxdori is: Ahem, a fauxdori is basically a knockoff of a Midori Traveler's Notebook, which is a piece of leather with elastics strung through it so you can string through different books and such. HOWEVER, while that sounds super simple and sort of ridiculous (especially at the price it's at (cough'bout$50cough)) it's seriously awesome, purely (for me) thanks to the customization ability. You can make it anything involving booklets/books/paper. Such as sketchbooks, watercolor pads, journals, diaries, planners, calendars, folders, etc. Or, you can make it pretty much all of the above! All while wrapped up in leather, 'cause, I mean, who doesn't love leather? (Even if you don't love leather, order or make a fabric fauxdori!)

Now, my fauxdori traveler's notebook is fieldnotes size, mostly because then it would fit easily in my purse/pocket, but it'd be bigger than an actual Midori passport size. Not to mention how much easier it is to get/make inserts for fieldnote sized things... 

This isn't a post telling you how I made it, mostly because I just followed a video on youtube, and you can search 'how to make a fauxdori' on youtube and you'll probably find it. This isn't even a post showing you how I have it set up! (It is a little...) This is just a post telling you all that I made it, and love it.

My traveler's notebook

Liz Lisa More More 3-way Bag (My Overdue Birthday Post)

For my birthday... which was back in February, I bid on a Liz Lisa fukubukuro on Lacemarket~ And won! For, like, $50, I got a More More 3-way Bag, still wrapped in its original plastic! And, for some reason, I never wrote about it??? But I did film an opening! 

(And the dress by itself was about double what I paid for the bag~~ ^3^)

Here's the bag, in backpack mode!

Close up on the emblem!

More or less how it was packaged, minus the plastic

WHAT I GOT!

The dress by itself~

BJD Updates from April 8th, 2014 to April 11, 2015

Yeah... that's quite the gap...
And not much happened, I was too busy blowing my money on other things to buy anything for my dolls... or buy new dolls.

But then! My birthday came, and I swiftly used the money to purchase an, albeit cheap, doll! 

THE LUCAS CLAN IS COMPLETE!

1. Uh, according to my last BJD blog post, y'all haven't even seen Xiao's new wigs, so... Let's start with that? I got her two, one of which fit perfectly! The other was too tight, and it was rather thin anyways, so... yeah. The one that fit well became her new official wig! (Did I mention how soft that wig was as well? No? Well, it's really soft~ (Ebay!))

2. Like I said, I bought another doll, and now the Lucas family has a young'n! Her name, as I believe I've already told you in a much older post, is Alexis 'Lexi' Mei-Ling Lucas~ :3 Her character is roughly 6-8 years old and she is Alex and Sasha's little sister. (She also looks almost exactly like her mother, Xiao-Hong...)

3. I got Lexi a wig! "Why is this separate?" you may ask... Well, it's 'cause I got her, like, a week after my birthday, which is in mid-February, and didn't get her a wig until, like, another week, and then after that, it was, like, a few days of waiting for that. SO... yeah.

4. OH! I also did her faceup, like, the day I got her... It was snowing, so I couldn't do it outside, like I normally do, so instead, I probably gave myself cancer by doing her faceup in the garage, with the door partially opened, and with a crappy little dust-mask. If I die, y'all know why... XD But anyways, it was my first time doing eyelashes... and I think I did an alright job!

5. I went to a meetup... DUNDUNDUN~~ :o

Everyone (all two of them!) were nice, and didn't look at me weird when I told them what company and sculpt Xiao was, they just looked a little confused since they hadn't heard of her company... but then I told them that I got her from MoC, and their faces relaxed, so I guess that they were just worried that I'd been ripped off??

6. AND... I gave Xiao a few tattoos, and pierced her tiny ears, and blushed her hands :3

Okay... PIC TIME~

First time body-blushing! Gave her pinkish-red nail polish and blushing!

New wig!

And here's the wig that barely fit and was seriously too tight

My Hujoo lily head, before her faceup~

Lexi (Hujoo Lily), with her faceup.

And here's Lexi fully clothed, faceup'd, a wigged.

Infinity symbol on Xiao's ankle

Another infinity symbol on her foot

Three birds on a branch, which symbolize herself and her twins~

Xiao, at our first meetup!

Pierced ears, and a snippet of her back tattoo!

New Years Resolutions!

Yes, 'tis the new year...'tis 2015!

And I just realized that I never put up my New Years Resolutions! :9

So let's get down to business, yes??

1. GO TO JAPAN WITH SOMEONE
2. EARN ENOUGH MONEY TO MAKE #1 POSSIBLE
3. Decide who to go to Japan with
4. Save at least $1,000 for a shopping spree (Hopefully in Japan!)
5. LEARN THE FREAKIN' JAPANESE LANGUAGE
6. Stop making all my resolutions Japan-oriented
7. DO SOMETHING that is truly productive
8. Get a freakin' passport, just 'cause I really should have one whether #1 is happening or not
9. Make friends (AKA stop being so stupidly shy!)
10. Make progress with my mental problems... like more than I've already done
11. Stop sounding so angry when I type (which seems to be my habit for 2015)

Soooo, basically, I wanna go to Japan and spend a ton of money that isn't my parents', and learn how to function in society properly. 

Well, so much for storenvy... :P

Yeah, uh, as the title says, I no longer use storenvy... Due to my distrusting nature and whatnot. ^^;

To put it simply, they asked for information that I was not willing to give.

So, now I'm on Etsy!

At the moment, as in, right as I'm typing this, there are only 5 things in the shop. But they are some of my favorite things that I have made, and thus, I feel that they should sell... eventually. ^^;

So... Yeah... CHECK MY NEW STORE OUT!

https://www.etsy.com/shop/HidingMyLove

I keep trying to sew... XD (big sewing/shop update)

I have taken a major step in my fashion designer life... I have begun to sell shirts I made, on storenvy... Only thing is... I've yet to sell ANYTHING that I've made, my polymer clay accessories included! So, to put it simply, no one seems to want them.

Naturally, because I'm paranoid, I automatically assume that this means that my stuff is not up to par. SO, now I'm wondering if I should even keep going, but that's not what this is about... This is about my eternal struggle with my mom's old sewing machine/ my lack of technique.

My mom's sewing machine is old, not as old as the only other sewing machine I can use is, but it is old. It's, like, from the 80s or something. (The other one is my grandma's and thus at least around 10 years older, I think...) But the problem isn't that it's old... The problem is that it's simply designed and not made for as much sewing as I do... It's about as simple as you can get, and it had never been used for more than fixing a little rip in some jeans, or something, before I got my hands on it. So, I think I've just about killed the poor thing.

But that's enough of me complaining about my mom's sewing machine.

I have another problem... I'm not capable of going to school for fashion design since all my options, as far a schools go, are too far away and/or expensive. And as a result, I am completely self-taught. Leaving much to be desired in my technique, I'll be the first to admit it, everything I make, is made rather sloppily. But I just keep on trying... 

Why?

Because this is one of the few things I'm good at, one of the few things that inspire me, that make me happy, and that can keep my small attention span's attention. 

I think that's enough about me... XD

Lemme show you the latest items for sale in my store! ('Cause I'm shameless like that!)

< This one was my first attempt at 'normal-ish' clothes... The result was a tank-top that was made of thick fuzzy/furry material... So basically, the result was a shirt that made no sense, but was cute.
 To the bottom left is the second one, this one made more sense... It has light, stretchy materials, and is short-sleeved, making it good for warmer weather (Meanwhile, I don't know what kind of weather you could wear the above one in).
And then came another nonsensical tank-top. Again, it was made using heavy fabrics(though not as heavy this time), denim. And this was my first attempt at some kind of tailoring, with some dart-like thingymabobbers. And then, because it felt empty, I added a giant heart  made of sparkly netting and some random purple ribbon... Yeah... I probably would've been better off with only one of those, instead of both.

Now it's time to show my lovely models wearing them~!

  -cough-you mean your best friend and you-cough-

As always, these are available at my storenvy store: http://kidforocks.storenvy.com/ 

New York is kinda stupid sometimes... :/

I know, it's an abnormally mean title coming from me... or anyone, in my opinion.
BUT the New York City Subway System is rather stupid. (Thank God for friendly homeless people!)

Two of my friends, my mom, and I went to New York this past weekend, yeah? Well, it'd been a while since we had been on the subway in New York (which, by the way, is, like, the least user-friendly subway system out of the three cities I've been to that have subways/metros/whatevers... aka, LA and DC and NYC), and we were sooo lost. I knew which train we wanted to take, and what station we were going to get off on, but we didn't know what kind of ticket to buy... There were three kinds: Single-Ride; Metro-Card; and Quick Metro-Card. We were stupid and bought single rides, completely unaware that each credit card was limited to only two per day... We had four people and two cards, so we managed to get to the Btssb store... but we didn't know that, because of this stupid rule, we were going to end up trapped in the 2 Ave. Station, trying to get back, but unable to. BUT THEN CAME OUR SAVIOR! A nice homeless man, who noticed that we were, obviously, tourists, and were, obviously, stuck, walked up to the ticket machine and started pushing buttons for us after asking us where we were trying to get to. And his help got us back to Times Square, which let us get back to the hotel!!!

 I wanted to hug that nice man! (But didn't due to stranger-danger instincts and the fact that both of us were drenched in sweat...) Sadly, we didn't have any money smaller than a $20 (which we were saving for food and stuff), and we felt bad that we couldn't give him some money for his help, but we had plenty of water bottles! :D  So, of course, we gave him the last cold one, and he smiled, thanking us and exclaiming, "You saw I was sweatin'!"

Sooo, yeah, New York, as a city? The subway system is totally stupid... and NOT USER-FRIENDLY!! D:
But the people, or well, at least those that care about New York's thriving tourism trade, or maybe just care about people, they're nice. And helpful!

Half Educational/Half Kawaii NYC Haul~

Yep, just as the title says, when I went shopping, I successfully split it in half between educational stuff and kawaii stuff! YES! While I spent more money on the kawaii stuff, of course, I did manage to buy two cute/lolita things and two educational things! And that was all of my money... I'm poor... :(

Hehehe... Anyways~ ^^;
My haul video is below!

Baby, the Stars Shine Bright in New York City!!! :3

Alright, trip's over!

I will now share my experience at the one and only: Baby the Stars Shine Bright store in NYC!

The first day we got to New York, we went to the store immediately after we got to the hotel in NJ, rode a bus to NYC, then took the subway to the Baby store! Needless to say, for those of you that saw how I planned on dressing to go to the store, y'all can probably figure out that I was SWEATING TO DEATH! D:

"Why is this important?" you may ask... Trust me, it's important.

SO! We got to the Btssb/TokyoRebel store about 30 mins before closing or so (I wasn't paying attention to the time) I was drenched in sweat, so, of course, I didn't dare try anything on, but if I wanted to, I could've tried up to 5 items! (Which, duh, isn't that much in America, 'cause, I don't know about you, but I try on, like, 10 things minimum at most stores(Then again, most stores have a lot bigger selection than Baby-san))

Anyways! One of my best friends, who accompanied me on the trip, and is a complete gothic/punk/raver/sometimes lolita/whatever chick, she fell in love with the TokyoRebel side of the store... that's right, the store is one store with half the store in pink, and the other half in black, this confused the crap out of my mother, who thought for sure that it'd be two stories. XD

But, like I was saying, my friend tried on a SEX POT ReVeNGe shirt. White with black straps/buckles around the chest and arms, and with detachable black sleeves! And all along the bottom were these cool lace-y, tulle-y, netting stuff, that looked all torn up. IT WAS SWEET :D

Sadly, though, I've no pictures... 'cause no pictures are allowed in the store, my other friend learned that the hard way when she tried to get a picture of my gothic friend in the shirt and the Baby-san shop-girl put her hand in front of the camera, much to the horror of my other friend XD
EDIT: Actually, here's a picture of her shirt, 'cause I've finally looked it up on TokyoRebel's site... ^^;

It's called the 2-way bondage gauze cutsew

Back to me, yes?

While my friend was trying on the shirt, I was trying out the Usakumya-chan pochette. I'm pretty sure that the shop staff thought I was nutty, since I immediately went up to the counter, asked to see a usakumya pochette, then asked to rip it's hood off and stick my hand down there. 

You might be yelling at me that I'm a tactless idiot, but I was spending almost all my money at this store, on this thing, and I wanted to make sure that my hand could even fit inside!

But the shop staff, if they did think I was nutty, it didn't show. The TokyoRebel shop-girl was at the counter, so she dealt with most of my craziness, and she was soooo nice, and cool-looking! She just asked me what color I wanted, to which I replied, "Pink!" She knew which on I wanted since they only had the one type that had any pink on it, and she grabbed it and handed it to me. That was when I asked if I could open it and see if my hand would get down there. Her smile faltered, most likely because she wasn't sure if she was going to make the sale anymore, but she nodded, pulled the hood off for me, unzipped it, and handed it back to me. The only thing? My hands were VERY SWEATY...

But I tried! I stuck my hand as far down as it would go! And it didn't go past the neck 'cause my hands were sticky! D:

That's when my mom stepped in, took it from me and stuck her hand all the way to the bottom, and I knew that her hands were either bigger or the same size as mine, so I went ahead and asked to buy it. The shop-girl asked me if I wanted the one I had been messing with, or a new, shrink-wrapped one, I felt bad that I had stuffed my sweaty hands down into the display one, so I took the display one!

While my mom was paying, I chatted to the Baby-san shop-girl, she was nice, though she gave off a slightly elitist air, but that easily could've just been my paranoia since I was wearing a 'lesser brand': Bodyline. Which upped my self-consciousness at the 'big brand' store. But she talked with me,and we chatted about the only remaining headdress in stock. And the moment I said, "I'm cheating," while talking about my head accessory ('cause I kinda DID cheat since I didn't use something meant for the head on my head...) she jumped right in and said, "No you aren't, it's just different from our stuff!" Which really made my paranoia go down some...

And she was really cute... 

Back to the pochette!

My mother had bought it, and passed it back to me. I began trying to stick things in it immediately. 

NOTE: Things the size of or bigger than a large-ish wallet will NOT FIT!

My phone, thankfully, did. (And I think I gave the shop staff a heart attack when the tone of my voice became gruff and I muttered, "If not even my phone fits in here, we're gonna have a problem...")

While my friend was buying her shirt, the Baby-san shop-girl helped me put the pochette on and loosened the strap for me, so I could wear it across my body. Then my mom kept asking me if I needed a drink (which I'm pretty sure aren't allowed in the store, so I said 'no'), and then she asked the TokyoRebel shop-girl for a tissue. The shop-girl replied that she didn't have any tissues, but she had paper towels! So I took one and blotted my sweaty face, and when I was done I asked where the trashcan was, and to that, the shop-girl said, "I'll just take it for you." AND SHE TOOK MY GROSS AND SWEATY PAPER TOWEL AND THREW IT AWAY! HOW NICE IS THAT?! I mean, I'm pretty sure that the trashcan was behind the counter, so she couldn't let me back there of course, but still! It was nice that, without a single flinch or groan, she took something so gross and threw it away for me!

SO TL;DR: 

I LOVE THE STORE!

The shop staff (for that day, at least) were soooo nice! And didn't seem to be completely disgusted with my super sweaty self, and didn't seem to really care that I wasn't wearing Baby! And while I was there, I saw lots of people that weren't even wearing lolita coming in and looking around! And the shop staff were nothing but nice to them!

This be the kind of adorable usakumya-chan pochette that I got! 

Biggest Trip of My Short Life... :D

Okay, as many of you in the lolita circuit know, the one and only: Baby, the Stars Shine Bright, has opened a store on the east coast, which happens to be where I live. 

Of course, however, being broke, and young, and living in the south, and all, I was unable to attend the grand opening... :(

BUT! My wonderful mother offered to take me and two friends up there~ We leave this week! "Why the heck do I care?" you may be asking... The truthful answer? You probably don't care! But I'm excited... Thus, I am sharing!

Another question you may be asking is: "Why the heck is this so exciting?"

Answer? Because I've never been inside (Or directly outside) a lolita store!

This isn't even my first time going to NYC, in fact, it's, like, my sixth... But I feel like this is going to be the most exciting trip yet! I've got it all planned! Maps and all! Coords even!

My makeup for the trip was carefully crafted over many test-runs, and many outfit changes... ^^;

My most recent, and probably official, test-run is below~

Wish me luck and fun~! <3

How Much Do You Know About Lolita? Dear Sister?

Yo! ^3^

I recently made a video with my awesome and hilarious sister, Rebecca! It was the ever fun 'how much do you know about lolita?' Lolita Quiz! I forgot a few questions, but, eh, no harm no foul~ ^^;
I also added some questions of my own! (More like I tweaked the 'name the print' section of the quiz...)

And, like I said, she is HILARIOUS! And, no, it wasn't scripted, thus my shaky and nervous voice... I just had the sheets of paper with pictures and questions on them, other than those, I was on my own! (And my sister doesn't count as support, since she just kept flustering me with her hilarity...)

Right. so... HERE YA GO~!

Here's the first part, which lags horribly and actually chopped up the audio for a few seconds at one point... but, hey, like my sister said, my laptop is a toaster... ^^;

Second part below~

Again, I apologize for the quality... but at least this one doesn't lag nearly as bad as the first part!

The beginning of a polymer clay adventure...!

Hello~ I bet you've all missed me? No? (What do you mean, I have no followers?) OH well~! The reason I've been gone is because of polymer clay... is what I wish I could say... BUT the truth is that I was just being really lazy! :P

Onto the polymer clay now!

I recently have been craving some cute jewelry, but haven't been able to find some that was cheap enough! I mean, I found plenty of cute things, but they were all just simply out of the range of my ridiculously low budget! Now, I had recently found some cute little dessert-themed jewelry at a local mini-con~ I got a macaron necklace, a cookie hair clip, and a giant ice-cream ring! I loved the macaron the most, but, again, I couldn't find any rings or hair clips that were also macarons! THUS, I decided to make some, and make some I did...

Strawberry ice-cream

Blue, slightly melty, ice-cream~!

MACARONS~!!

Now, sadly, I only have pictures of the ones I'm selling, so... yeah... These are the ones that I made, but just didn't connect with... In other words, they weren't macarons (Except for that last one, but I made two sets of those, so~)

Basically, the whole point of this post is to not only promote my store, but to also ask for opinions! So, are they cute? Or not?

Here are the links to each of these accessories~

Pink ring & Blue ring: https://www.etsy.com/listing/215207180/blueberry-or-strawberry-kawaii-ice-cream?ref=related-2

Hair clips: https://www.etsy.com/listing/215208026/pink-macaronmacaroon-hair-clips-pair?ref=related-2





BJD Updates from March 2, 2014 to April 8, 2014

Obviously, this one is going to be shorter than the last one... BUT~ I just couldn't wait to share with the world my dolls' current situations!

1. IT CAME~! What is IT, you may ask? Why it's Xander and Ethan's body!C: 

BOX OPENING BELOW~ (Along with pictures~!)

2. There was a little mix up involving my order from Jeeryama, but they were nothing but nice to me and explained what to do about the problem. What was the problem? They sent me another person's order! (Though.... because of the mess up... I got to play with a really cool chest, until we realized what it was and quickly stopped touching it... XD ) But, I was truly crushed when I got my package from China, saw that it was tiny for something that was supposed to be a 1/3 scale doll body, opened it, and found some kind of old-style travel trunk (miniature, of course). I must say, it was very detailed... rather impressive really.. I took some pictures once I found out what it was, purely because I knew that I would probably never see another one for the rest of my life... And I wanted to remember it after we sent it back to China. PICS BELOW~

3. I pierced Ethan's ears, on the earlobe... Link to the blog post about it is right here -> http://kidforocks.blogspot.com/2014/03/bjd-ear-piercing.html

4. I have decided to give Bai a wig... As well as give Xiao a wig that actually fits... Though, I've yet to buy the wigs... I've also decided what sculpt Alexis/Lexi (Alex and Sasha's little sister) will be! And boy, will she look like a mini Xiao-Hong! XD

5. Took Xiao and Xander's wedding pictures... keep in mind that these are probably not the official ones, but merely the 'test-run pics' of sorts (mostly because Xiao's dress was torn to pieces by me while I was tailoring it and trying to get it to fit her body... ^^;)

6. The extra hands, that always come with the body, were the wrong resin color... But I''m waaay too lazy to make a fuss about it.... Besides, I'm learning to love the 'creeper hands'! :P

Xander and Ethan's Body's box opening~

 Here is Ethan, who has no clothes of his own yet, so is simply wearing the temporary clothes that I made, which I ended up deciding belonged to Xander, since they just weren't goth-y enough for Ethan... XD

 Xander, in his sweet shirt and weird jeans~!

Xander in his suit/ dress clothes

 And here is the infamous chest/trunk/whatever! This is what I got instead of my body... It's very expensive and brand-name, so once we noticed the brand name on it, I stopped playing around with it and just took a few pictures before we shipped it back to Beijing.

I know that I should've been uber excited that I got to hold/ play with/ take pictures of this trunk... but I couldn't really care less, I was too busy being upset that it wasn't my doll! XD

Now, since your curiosity has been sated from getting to see what they sent me by accident, let's get back to the BJDs, yes? :D

Looking aloof and in love~

Leaning against each other~

Holding hands~! <3

BJD updates~ (updates from November 22, 2013 to March 2, 2014)

1. I got Xander's head. 

2. I got Xander's identical twin brother's head as well (box opening below) (yay for birthdays!)

3. I ordered a Doll Family- A 2nd gen 1/3 body for them from jeeryama on ebay (I am currently waiting for it to be made) (again, yay for birthdays! (or birthday money, in this case))

4. Decided to make Inhyung someone else. Her name is Bai Jing-Jing Ning now (<- those first two names are beyond cute when written in Chinese). She's the other, new, Inhyung's little sister. (tho I still don't have the new Inhyung doll... lol, 인형 doll... i sorta made a pun-thingy...) XD

5. Decided on all my dolls', even the ones I don't have yet, names.

6. OH! Almost forgot! Also got Alex and Sasha's mother as a graduation present! <3 (box opening, again, is below)

7. Went to IKEA, got those duktig beds for Sasha and Alex... and sometimes their mother.

Little update as to how my dolls look now (and their full names):

I apologize for my (probably) horrible Chinese, as I don't speak or read Chinese and am using a mixture of babynames.com, google, wikipedia, and google translate ^^; So, if you happen to know Chinese names well, and I messed up, feel free to correct me!

 Here's my little man, Sasha Xiao-Chen (曉晨) Lucas~ >.<
I changed his wig to a white wool one, other than that, nothing has really changed... And he's sitting in his bed, holding the pillow I made him and being surrounded by fluffy white pillows I also made him~ ^3^

 This would be Alexandra 'Alex' Li-Xue (麗雪) Lucas, with her new long flowing, pink, curly locks~ Also in her bed, for which I made everything~

 This is Alex and Sasha's (as well as their little sister who I don't have yet, Lexi's) dad! Alexander 'Xander' Haydn Lucas! His character is not Chinese... obviously... so no Chinese here... or for his twin brother... And he's just a head right now, but he'll get to at least try on a body within the next month~

 This is Alex, Alexis, and Sasha's mother, Xiao-Hong (曉虹) 'Xiao (曉)' Qi (琦) Lucas. She be a fabulous Only-Doll Chiyao... ALSO! Her head is 7/8... I bought 8/9 since she's 1/3 scale... T^T But I was wrong.... beware the head size!!

And lastly, is another floating head I did, which will hopefully soon have a body... Ethan Sasha Lucas!

And here's Bai (formerly know as Inhyung)'s name written in Chinese ('cause her first and middle names are seriously adorable in my opinion (not to mention very easy to write!))And I'm aware that commonly, Bai would be the family name/surname/last name, but it's so cute~ >3< And there's no picture because she looks the exact same as she did when I 'took inventory' at the end of last year:

Bai (白) Jing-Jing (晶晶) Ning (寧)

PS: If you're wondering why my Chinese-named dolls have middle names, it's 'cause none of my characters, including Xiao and Bai, are Chinese, as in, from China... (tho, the dolls themselves are all made by Chinese companies (except Bai... she's Hujoo.. which is Korean), which helped me decide to at least give most of them Chinese middle names.) However, Bai's grandparents and Xiao's grandparents are both from China.)

BOX OPENINGS~!

Ethan's head/wig box opening, along with another birthday present~

My Only-Doll ChiYao, Xiao-Hong's, box opening <3

Xander's Head... Again

Hello~ Today, Xander's hair and eyes came in the mail! C:

I also did his faceup~

And, of course, a link to the box opening, 'cause I've decided to document everything suddenly!

Xander's Head & Alex's Hair

HI! Okay, so... uhm... yesterday, in the mail, two wonderful things came! This is just me sharing it with y'all~ So, enjoy?

Insert video below :P

I cut my wig!! (gothic lolita wigs - classic wavy in strawberry blonde)

Originally, with long side swept bangs, as seen here ->
I decided to cut them after discovering that I don't look very cute with side swept bangs :P And it only took me three days to cut it! XD lolz, not really, but seriously, it did take a really long time, and I had started the project four days ago and finished yesterday. The first day, I had tried to cut it straight across for about five minutes. I failed miserably. I successfully cut about three strands of hair, and barely even an inch off those. So I tried again the next day: this time, sectioning off parts and trapping them between my fingers THEN, trying to cut it with normal scissors again, and again, straight across. Yet again to no avail. So then, I started getting creative and did some research. And found a solution that only took about an hour:

HOLD THE SCISSORS VERTICALLY!

Now, some of you may already know this, but I didn't, and none of videos on YouTube were any help since they all used shears instead of normal scissors. SO...they all just cut straight on through with their fancy scissors made for hair-cutting. (which I couldn't do..soooo)

Anyways, I finally found the answer in the COMMENTS of a video on cutting blunt bangs. I don't remember who it was that said it so, sorry, I can't credit and/or thank you. But they claimed to be a hairdresser and said to hold the scissors vertically instead of horizontally. So, figuring I had nothing to lose, I went ahead and tried it, and it cut! Now, this is not as fast as any of those videos on YouTube that I watched, but it works, and it works faster than the whole cutting-straight-on-through thing, plus the result was a nice, not too severe, blunt bang that looked really rather natural. C:

Sure, it's uneven, it's not perfect, but it worked. And it's still long enough to be swept to the side some.

So, I think I can sew?

These last few days, it seems that I've been bitten by the sewing-bug... :/ I've been sewing almost three-days straight; about an hour at most each time. I've made three things, a jsk, a bolero cardigan, and a blouse/cutsew/okay, it's a frilly shirt! All without the slightest idea of what the crap I was doing other than that I had a design in my head and, twice, I created what I imagined. I AM CONFUSED. I mean, I know that I'll sound like I'm bragging, which of course, I kinda am, but...I seriously am confused. How am I doing this?! D:

Lemme just show you what I mean:

One: IT ACTUALLY FITS! How did this happen?

Two: Behold my attempt at a peter-pan collar!

Three: The creepy thing, the lace I used/found is the same lace that my Bodyline l140 skirt has.

Looky-loo~ ^ The lace!
And NOW looky-loo below.

Now, I also made an ill-fitting jsk out of some lovely fabric:

And a bolero cardigan as well after a couple days:

Note, I did NOT make the jsk in this picture

Sooo~ I THINK I can sorta sew...I mean, I know I need practice, but... Yay? ^^;