1/29/15

A chilly update NY day today!  Dealt with fish deliveries and cricket deliveries at work, and I am glad to have a tiny bit of down time before I go get baby coffeedove from school and head to my mother's place for pulled pork and wine😍

I stopped by Hobby Lobby on my lunch to rummage through their clearance goodies, and found the most perfect little bench to display the dolls on☺️. But now my dolly diet truly begins until I get my tax returns back😝. I am thinking about adding another doll to my personal collection as well as getting a few TBLs/inexpensive FBLs and RBLs for customizing.  I saw a few pictures of Ashley's Secret, and for some reason she totally surprised me with her charm!  I find her buttery yellow hair and elegant stock pretty wonderful for how cheap she is, so she might be coming home in the next few weeks...

Also I have been drooling over Toysfield Kuma and Usagi dolls, and one might have to squeeze into the dolly shelf as well....

Anyway, that's enough daydreaming about toys, here's the awesome bench from today, modeled by Meadow😍

Working on Poe, custom #10

So my first (practice!) commission doll arrived a few days ago, Poe the SBL pow wow poncho from @blytheknits of IG.  Very exciting and a little intimidating, as I have never worked on another persons doll before, and I was terrified of breaking something!  But she came safe in the mail, and I got her apart with ease (due to being preopened by @blytheknits, thanks!), and I got to dive right in!

@blytheknits and I had agreed upon a nice general idea for her final look, but she gave me a lot of "artistic freedom" which was nice, I was able to try and come up with a nice design myself and focus on refining skills in customization areas I want more experience with.  

It was neat to work on something other than the FBLs and recent releases I have been used to, the SBL def had a softer feeling plastic to carve, and a much different "look" all around, I feel she is a much more mature looking doll than cherub faced FBLs.

I'm still tweaking the chalk pastels here and there but I feel she's coming along nicely!

Free Customization service info!~

Today on my IG account I announced an offer to provide free customization services (carving, chalk pastels, spraying, etc.) to a few followers who had a baity doll waiting for a make over!  Two generous followers offered to bring their dolls to the chopping block, @blytheknits and @waniejayadi, and I agreed to do some pro-bono work for them to help build my dolly portfolio!  I am very excited to have some fresh plastic to dive into, and I will be sure to update with progress pictures as the dollies roll in!  Excited for this new project! :D

Introduction...

Hello wonderful guests!~

I am @coffeedove from IG and flickr, and I wanted to try and throw together a nice place to organize my dolly, art, and general life adventures.  Mostly this will center around my Blythe doll obsession, and my work related to said amazing dollies…

I have been collecting since 2012, and currently have 5 Neos and 1 middie, I love customizing them, crocheting them wee hats, and participating in "A Doll A Day" 365 day photo challenge.

I'll be sure to add more when I suck less at blogging!~

Thanks for viewing!