Gothic Lolita: 2006 Archives

Lord Foppington Presides as The Lord of Misrule over the Saturnalia Festivities at the Blastmilk Home for Wayward Girls (and one boy).

Yes, wee Dropsy is hidden in that cage Ondine is dangling menacingly. Notables missing from the festivities are: Demelza & Ermengaarde, who are both in the head cabinet sulking.

New Annz: Cotton Sugar and Love Music kimonos!

but on to important things, anyone want to split Kurumi with me? I want the outfit. Just post or email or pm me on doa!

According to Blythe News, I'm about to sell my soul... Sheesh, what a day!

Baby, The Stars Shine Bright collaboration "Snow Queen" Blythe. White skin, new radiance face mold (which I'm really liking, btw), and she comes with a cracked mirror compact. *falls over*

And the petite:

CWC LE, of course.

Neo Blythe Yukinonamidahime

Her dress is adorned with an abundance of lace and ruffle. The romantic tulle layers of the dress have prints of castles and snowflakes. Her coat is also embellished with ruffles and wide sleeves princess sleeves. This detailed set includes: a beautiful tiara made of means, a small compact mirror with little crack and a set of skis for travelling in the snow wonderland. The grips of the ski poles are shaped like crowns, a symbol of the snow princess.

This is a Radience Blythe, she has long wavy blond hair, parted in the center. Her eye shadow is pale blue. Her soft pink cheeks and lips, bringing out her fair white skin.

Enjoy the mysterious world of Yukinonamidahime.

CWC Limited Edition Neo Blythe Yukinonamidahime
Price: 18.900 yen (tax included ) + shipping
Limited edition of 3000 dolls
One doll per person for purchase.

Um... uh oh! I think this must be the special girl President Shigeta mentioned. Dolpa 16, yo. Dec. 24th.

“h.NAOTO× super dollar fee” collaboration model & dress collection sale decision!“

Super dollar fee” of [bokusu] and the [korabo] limited collection “of h.NAOTO” with “[doruzu] party 16” of December 24th opening preceding sale decision!
[kodeineitokorekushiyon] “of h.ANARCHY” “h.jelly” “h.jelly&Honey” “Rocker's H Baby” is sold especially as the first limited edition! h.NAOTO in the body the [ma] in the flat tire & the Gothic super dollar fee which are taken 乞 [u] expectation!!

Did you get all that? Dollies AND clothes. She's like Momoko II. Watch this space.

And then... while shopping Mr. Kallisti's winter PS2 collection, I saw this on the shelf.

Ok, I don't play many video games. Really... I've gotten like three in the past couple years. Katamari Damacy, Fatal Frame, Katamari Damacy II, and Fatal Frame II. So that's four, but you get the point.

This looks a lot like Fatal Frame, except in 1930's England. With creepy mean girls AND zombies. Awesome. Reviews are full of accolades for atmosphere, music and design, and not so much for killing things and gameplay. Sounds perfect to me. I want to wander around and get creeped out. Oh, and I think you get to touch big creepy spiders.

So, I'm going to try it. At the exhorbitant, just released price too. Because I'm crazy that way, this'll be my game for the year. If anyone has played, let me know what you thought!

Here's the Official Site, but the Japanese version has more movie clips.

Because I'm no good at keeping secrets :p

Getting ready for the Halloween Fete this weekend. Phew! I hate it when you get to the end, or nearly so, and you just don't want to work any more. Sigh... so much fun though. I wish I could quit my day job. Heh!

Azone updated their what's new page with official pix of the winter collection. Small but tastey!

And the Sweet Heart Drops are very cute:

Spooky + Christmas = ♥♥♥

See, this is what I'm talking about:

Lurve it. And she's got three new outfit-only kimono as well:

Thanks to Rachel ( ♥♥♥ ) the VdR Vol. 3 book is coming home. And thanks to YJP, a Little Princess original:

Squee, verily.

Who has a problem? I do. I'm addicted to dolly pattern books. And I will go through crazy lengths to get them. And if I had more time, I'd actually make stuff from them.

And I just found out they've released Voleur de Rose vol. 3 "Phantasm"... die. swoon.

That makes three editions so far in a year? Awesome. Does anyone know of a better way to get a hold of these other than trolling YJP?

Also, Little Princess has a new site (I think it is new) and says one of her favorite bands is "Daisy Chainsaw." Yay.

P.S. I'm still looking for the DDK MSD Alice Pattern book from 2004 "Couturerie Recipe" if anyone knows where to find one...!

Aieeeeeeeee! Helina just confirmed that she should be able to get me a Momolita Jenny, due to be released in limited numbers in December by Club67. I was so sad to miss Punk Girl Licca a few years ago!

yay.

I've stopped myself from ordering fullsets of re-ment the past year. Too many crates of awesome little things. They really add up.

But I preordered these two sets sight unseen. Hey, anything called Dish in Fairyland or Retro Appliances I'm pretty sure I'm gonna need. HLJ.com just posted peektures! The mushroom kitchen set! The green pushbutton phone! The thermos! The alice tea set! Agh!

And check out from the Re-Ment site, they had a contest for storage!

Also, just heard from Helina that this set is shipping:

*bounce!* I'll have to do a diorama with these two using the fairyland sets.

At the LA Tea, Mara's Toppi was wearing the cutest li'l ducky dress. I enthused, she said Char had made it and might have more and within a few minutes she came back and said Char's minions would fetch her goodies from the car if'n I did have the cash. Well! I plunked it down, and had my little ducky dress on the spot.

Also, I copied Mara, which is awesome of me.

Char also presented me with a tiny gift box over hamburger steak curry at Curry House next day and in it were the awesomest set of SD kitty ears. All in pearly pink, fuzzy insides and little bows and flowers attached. And the teensiest pair of red devil horns for the just acquired Dropsy!

When I got home the duckies immediately went to Imogen. There is something special about mean little girls in cute ducky prints o_0 it makes me unbelieably happy.

And Fifi, as usual, is jockeying for a modeling job. At least it is better than trying to become a Suicide Girl. Eeep!

Thanks Char!

happy link to Cosworx!

MuseDoll.com has finally re-opened their website! They'll have two new gorgeous fullset dolls, Erato & Thalia (preorder only), and outfits etc. I finally ordered the bits I coveted.

Angie, I finally got The Boots ™! Wish I could get both black and white. Meh.

Volks is slowly posting all the goodies from the August twin dolpas.

They're re-releasing the early White Rose favorites pumpkin pants for msd & the SD13 lingerie but NEW! with ribbons in pink and blue. I stalked YJP like a crazy stalking stalker trying to get those sets!

So, have at them, kiddies! Like the LA Tea one-offs, I already have my favorites... but what I really want is that blue swimset (?) that Nono is wearing.

You know, I secretly pine for a Nono. FCS Nono in white please, thanks!

Only three months to Halloween! Azone is ready... With, get this, the best doll name evar: Chocoholic Nightmare PureNeemo!

See what else is new! But what is up with SARS girl?

Cute 60cm froofy rompers!

Yesterday we celebrated July 14th with Ze "Bal de la Victime" Bastille Day Dolly Picnic! 'Twas awesome. Myself, Mr. Kallisti and Butter, picked up The Robots (Nadja & Will) and met up with St. James, Idrisfynn & JennyNemesi near Pioneer Meadow in GG Park. Unbenownst to us the meadow had been taken over by large tents and giant african foam heads o_o. So once KellyHime and Mr. KellyHime showed up on their vespa, we nipped around the bend to the Rose Garden (two rose garden dolly picnics this summer!) and claimed the least swampy bit of rising ground. Maggie joined us shortly, I'm glad she got the communique that the little group had moved!

(Ondine as the costumer who forgot her contacts :p)

The weather was wacky, alternately sunny and bright then cold, blustery with billowing fog. You'll notice in the pictures how they suddenly turn leaden grey or are over exposed. Ugh! Still, we had parasols, lots of parasols. Cake and booze unburdens the soul. Olives and brie feed the mind. And my new favorite cocktail: Trader Joe's Blueberry Soda with B & B (cognac & benedictine)... YUM!

I've been sewing for two weeks preparing two outfits. The empire Merveilleuse dress Aurelie is wearing and the split bodice Patriot dress for Hermione. I think pattern making has finally clicked, I drafted two dresses and a corset in the past two weeks. Wooo! You can see inspiration from my collection of images of costuming circa the French Revolution.

(the custom cake from The Cake Gallery. reeeeeeeeeeally goooooooood! btw, re: marie antoinette... she never said that.)

Click for full gallery!

Mr. Kallisti: Why'd the picture all come out so funny and washed out?
Me: Because it is July in San Francisco and it is cold and grey outside.

We spent the 2nd in the other China Town: Clement Street. But first stop was Bill's Place on Clement & 24th. Yarm! Perfect example of the greasy spoon with yummy food. Their french fries are to die for.

I meant this photoshoot to be all bright and blastmilky... but it is strangely shadowed and sinister. Enjoy.

Riiiiight. Volks announces an LA mini dolpa I need to save for and within 24 hours I have two LE outfits on the way :p

First was the Ajumapama Twinkle White I got for el cheapo (relatively speaking *cough-cough*) on ebay:

... and then Dollheart just went and channeled my brain and did all my sewing for me. Don't this look just like something that would pop fresh baked out of blastmilk? Also, it looks straight out of an old Russ Meyer's film. Ha!

Available in their Ebay shop, along w/ cutie cute maid outfit.

I've been pretty quiet on the dolly shopping lately. So this is all rather alarming. Stop with the cute! Argh!

Oh, and Mr. Kallisti found a delivery notice from Volks in our mailbox and actually went scouting around the neighborhood to catch up with Eric the Postman and found him! I'll have the Gigantic HUGE Volks book to moon over all evening. *winks at Nikittin*

And did I mention there's to be another event at the Volks Mansion in August!?!?! Aieeeeeeeeeee!

Medora & Yooskie. So. Much. Love!!!

I guess I wasn't done.

marti = ♥

holy wow. dollheart bjd costume competition. school category: revolution 1. if that doesn't win so I can buy it sometime in the distant dolly future, I will kill all the voters. there's also revolution 2, if you must.

The tiny doth kill me.

I've been holding off in diving into tiny-land until my so-som arrives. For her size she was an investment (they all are) and I want to be sure they are right for meeeee. But the mini-narsha-esque Banji just kills me (Medora the Ghost Girl would have a little spirit guide!). Also after spending a weekend with Lotte I am thoroughly converted with the pure joy that is Latidoll.

"it is raining momokos... " from an email received this morning from Rudi letting me know that Snow White is finally in (yaayayayay!) and to pay up or die XD

So, I had to check it out. And it is! It is raining Momokos!

First off, my beloved Snow White is in. Sekiguchi added an English section and she's listed under "collaboration" and the artist is... Kunie Kanbara! No wonder she's so fantastic! Which led me to the other collaborative Momoko... Kana!

Momoko totally owns my soul.

Just arriving:

For preorder:

And then... little chibi Mame Blue Labyrinth:

Rudi will hook you up.

From the producers of Haute Doll! The first english language book dedicated to Asian Ball-joint Dolls. OMG, I hope it is as good as it looks! I'm reeeeeally excited about the Hypermaniac interviews. They're fairly enigmatic, and my absolute favorite. And Mercy's guide to all bjds ever. And so many patterns! My bonnet teacher is the lovely lady who did the pattern for the book, so all ya'll will be able to get it now! And exclusive Liebchen... she's gorgeous, btw, you have no idea the vast and exquisite skills of Miss Fancyboots.

Amazing cover art by Aimee. Mew.

Reserve a copy, for June shipment I think...

Karen, editor in chief, made a nice announcement on DoA for more info. If this one does well, there will be another! Please to buy.

Edit: Just found out from Mia that some pictures I took of Merry Wink (liebchen) are in the book ^_^ um... yayay!!!

or, Frauleins & Vegas Hookers!

Neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeew Azone! The above are 1/6th... and they have them for 60cm too! Break out those Obitsus!

The folksy sets are just like some 1/6th sets Erin Fae brought me back from the Volks store last year. So cute!

Ondine is the spoiliest girl this month! I've been having fun buying the groovy boy clothes I've never had the chance to buy, weeeeeeeeeeeeee! This is the Luts outfit I finally got squared away, the detailing is awesome: working pockets both front and back and fits Ksy/Ondine like a glove! The whole outfit does really. The boots are also Luts SD13 pink boy boots and are the best fitting I've found yet due mostly to the nice roomy toe. And that's not all, we have the Luts pink cupcake outfit on its way this very moment. Ha!

Miette is quite the little street performer. I love this her outfit, she's been wearing it aaaall month. Thanks Aimee! It is a nice simple black underdress w/ pintucks and then the little check dress goes over top, so it is very versatile and you could rearrange the outfit. I like outfits you can do that with.

And Hermione takes my breath away every day. I still can't believe I get to keep this extraordinary creature.

OMG, do you see how retarded these dolls make me? :p They've taken the place that popstars used to when I was younger. Sigh. I'm such a big dumb girl.

On another note, I just spent the whole day breaking my blog. Ugh! I was setting up notifications this morning (sign up!) and apparently put in a nefarious variable into the config file and the back end of MT got real brokey. So I just reinstalled it twice and finally moved it to a clean new install (which is really nice anyway) and find out all I had to do was remove the stoopid line in the config file. So. We'll see if the notifications still work! :/

Poor thing.... Saint Trinian has been chasing him all over the house since I began working on him. It's not that my girls don't like boys, they've just never seen one before! Thanks be to commissions from Mercy I get to play with the awesomest of dollies w/ the natty naughty optional parts.

Click below for NON-WORKSAFE grabby hands piccies.

Having a great weekend. Crafts and dollies and Doctor Who and more crafts and dollies... with tacos and snacks all the live long day.

So busy most of the time just don't have enough time to give to picture taking, what with the short days and all.

But I spent yesterday doing a commission and making a dolly top hat! Thanks to teacher Judy who gave me a pattern to work with... I wanted a mad hatter style exaggerated tophat and it came out great, kinda. The form came out great, but I played hookie on the part of class where she would have showed us how to actually COVER the fantastic buckram hat form. D'oh! So I winged it and you can sorta tell. But I dunna care, I love it so much! And fun to do in front of telly watching Doctor Who. Mew, mew.

Also, the weekend we went over to AJ's & Judy's for dolly bonnet and hat making class I made this outfit for Hermione. I've been dreaming about it since I placed the fcs order. Since I didn't want to attempt a sasha clone I thought it would be amusing, and quite fetching, to make her the Anti-Sasha. So I got her the same wig in dark brown and made one of the Little Princess outfits in black batiste from the Volks Pattern books with some mods, and added a little cap. Pintucks, omg! It is fun.

I'll shut up now, I'm just a bit giddy with happiness. Hermione & Ondine are losing their patience with me.

A loverly piece of late Georgian mourning jewelry ^_^

Tiny spooky nun.

I just won Captain Cecil's coat & hat off of YJP for Ondine, and now Dollheart.com releases this.

I am DOOOOOOOOOOOOOMED! Blue velvet poof pants!!! Am I lucky or WOT!?!?! I'm very excited to have someone to buy the natty boy outfits for... and it isn't a boy! hahhaha!

Still having a hard time with the Ksy shoes. I think I don't like boy boots or something. I got some pretty rockin' punky ones from Dollheart and I'm all "eh..."

Gar. Well, her piratey outfits will warrant the giant boots of doom so maybe I'll get over it.