Too behind - but looking ahead

I am so hopelessly behind on blogging - it's not even funny. And seeing that I go back to work in little more than week, I don't even see myself catching up... Which is ironic as I've been quite good at taking pictures, so now I'm under piles and piles of quality photos that need to be uploaded, posted, blogged... Ugh. Well, I guess it's better than no pictures at all - seeing that my primary joy of BJD play comes from picture-taking ;)

Anyway, since catching up is kind of a useless dream here, I want to share with y'all what I'm looking forward to - maybe - owning one day, some new discoveries that captured my heart, and new artists - or at least new to me.

First of all, Triffony. She is an amazing Russian BJD maker, her primary medium is porcelain, but recently she has sent off this beauty:

Sphinx cat (Flickr)

to be casted and now I can hope to maybe own her doll one day. Although it's not my favorite mold by her. My favorite is this sweet little creature:


Морошка на Ярмарке Мастеров

She has many sisters-"berries" and I love them all. Would love to welcome one of them home... But they are all cast in porcelain only, for now. Maybe one day?..

Then, I discovered Dust of Dolls. I knew about them for a very long time... Much longer than even Trifonova, whom I've been following for about half a year now. I hadn't allowed myself to really pay attention to their dolls - for financial and personal reasons - but now I have. In fact, on my way to LDoll, I'm setting up schemes to get one of their dolls - if I cannot get my main grail...

They have recently released some new dolls and I really love them. The first one especially... But they are all great. Click through to their blog, you can see more pictures of each and posts about them - here, I'm just giving a few teasers ;)







And aforementioned grail would be, of course, an Okaeri by Tarte au Citron. She is hard at work creating some for LDoll, in fact she recently posted a couple of them casted from a new mold:



Under the cut, I'll just post really quick a few pictures from my art-doll wishlist.. Just click on them if you're interested, they all mostly come from the artists' Flickr streams:

Reborns

Quite suddenly, starting from an odd interest I had for a while, I found myself an owner of a small reborn collection!

It all started from a doll I saw advertised on a Facebook group. I went on to find more groups, on Facebook and its Russian clone - vKontakte - that were set up specifically for reborns. And then I got in touch with this artist, that serendipitously advertised in those Russian groups but lived in Germany. I wanted to buy a doll that was already sold, but ended up ordering a custom - and that is how Olivia was born.

While I waited, I went on to find a cheap eBay listing for a reborn that I found totally adorable for the price. I used Snipe on her - for the first time - and successfully. The artist was very lovely too, also ex-military (from the USA). The doll I got is named Holly, after her original sculpt.

Finally, when I thought I was done experimenting with this new collection of mine... Before the other two girls even arrived (on the same day, by the way) I saw a listing on that one reborn-specific Facebook group. On the first day I joined, in fact. It was by a lady in France, and it was absolutely irresistible. She let me do a layaway too. The girl (Lou) arrived yesterday, exactly a week after the other two, and she is so sweet, I just want her to come alive and be my baby (but for an hour, no more LOL) :))

I would love to get another doll by this artist, but I think I'm done. Reborns are lovely to look at and hold, but I'm so timid with them, I cannot even imagine doing much more than looking at them. Maybe occasionally restyle Olivia's hair or change their clothes, if I'm brave enough... For that precious little interaction, they take up waaaay to much space. Right now they are sweetly nestled, all three of them, in a big Moses basket left over from Jake, but I seriously wouldn't know where to place another one :)

Ok, so without further ado - pictures (and tech details such as molds they are made from):