Wednesday, August 30, 2017

Ivy

...Christmas in July and Halloween in August - who cares!

Todays's doll 'Ivy', for her green eyes and ivy friendly cementary plain-airs, has a past-tense early Autumn walk (October last year, 2016 that is;-)...
She is one of my (numerous at this point) potential body donors...with the most fierce and piercing eyes in the doll's world, fab fair skin and nude lipstick...

This  Katie doll comes from the first wave - her eyes are on the edge of spooky shade of emerald (and her make-up is annoyingly colorful in comparison to all other dolls). Shoot at Earlham Cementery, Norwich, Norfolk, England.

There we go, swish swash swish swash...



...there will be less matchy-matchy ivy from now on I promise...









some lovely XIX/XX cent mason floral work at my cemetery indeed...






 rusty and spiky stuff...

 I like ths one so much, so that I've made two edits;-)

and now for brighter and lighter part of the session..


sunnyside




amen!

I looooveeee Liv dolls, they photograph so well...and as much as I am not a fan of their huge heads I am absolutely in love with faces as such (and they have most amazing yet petite bodies)!!!

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Sunday, August 27, 2017

My dolls: No 114

This one is a bit unusual but so very me.
What's special is that I bought her on local Gumtree. Very different feeling than the carboot bargain or eBay treasure hunt. I spent quite a while arranging the meeting... finally I met the seller at most central place in our town, Friday afternoon just before my shift as volunteer at supermarket's surplus food recycling and redistributing team (basically yummy vegan food served to whoever turns out:-)
The thrill of dealing on a main square and passing stuff and money in public places was best. the girl was quite young so I imagine she has been selling her toys from early 2000s. Ad you can see on picture bellow I fell for Teresa once again with a bundle of random stuff. She had everything just thrown into her handbag so few bits were missing but I couldn't care less...


Anyway - I don't have everything documented but brown ankle boots are one of my favs and you have seen them quite a few times as blast from the future;-)
Pastel see-through/sequined jacket is vintage and fabulously horrible; denims have Barbie tag, red and black top is actually Fashion avenue's as the lavender bag is from accessories set.
Jelly magenta wedged sandals are very similar, in not the same, to HollywoodNails shoes...

The doll itself is a lovely surprise actually. She kept her original jewelry - tiny crystal bead on nylon (perfectly tangled with her hair) and golden faceted studs.... it allowed me to identify her as Movie Star Teresa 2000... Very interesting specimen from the end of an era - twist and turn body with small head and classic mold, intense lipstick and quite simple and realistic eyes yet still an attempt to produce a glamorous fancy fashion doll...





I can live without stretchy dress, silver jacket, bag and body glitter for you, but at least would love to see the shoes


Here is my real life doll before spa - dry hair, dusty face edition...

Deep dark chocolate hair and very successful colour palette altogether indeed!

Spa was rather successful. She looks rather majestic on her tall TNT body...
I got sentimental, and however I sold my Very velvet, Hollywood Nails and Beyond Pink Teresa joined my latest love in mini session (which turned out to be rather big with lots of fashions changing which will make into a separate post in future)...




 fab fashionista top and Liv's denim. Delicate eye-shadow matching with outfit and lips...




TBC

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Wednesday, August 23, 2017

Californication of Adriatic

Today second part of my (last years) Summer holiday adventure. Today the horse-riding Cali Girl Lea takes the stage birth in seaside edition and while mountaineering. You could see some of these photos while I presented the doll itself. Here are full sessions...

sporting (beyond vintage) beach dress
sandals making so much sense outdoors

enjoying sunshine...

struggling a bot with this semi-articulation...


(no hips whatsoever)

cut cut cut
going for alpen walk...







:-)

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