Making Little Granny's Christmas 2020

To those who are new to my LGC story things, a bit of a background: I made this originally at 2017 since I wanted to make something fun with my ball jointed dolls. My thought behind all of this was that the dolls are kids who are in a play about Little Granny and her friends having Christmas time. My plan was to make stuff easily and most likely as shabby as I could. Make do what ever materials are available and don't make a fuss about anything if not necessary. You can see this especially from the 2017's story, the backgrounds and basic looks for each dolls were created back then and has changed very little. I upgraded the starry sky of course, but many of the Granny's home was the same as in the first story.  Of course, as I continued making it, this became kinda bigger and required more props and stuff... aaaand it just went and whisled while going.

 

This 2020's Little Granny's Christmas was originally going to make another appearance on December 2019. I had already made the story, photographed and preset three parts of the story here in the blog waiting to be posted at the 1st, 2nd and 3rd of December 2019. I guess there wasn't much of inspiration that time. I didn't feel like making it and when you don't then you must think of something else instead. So 2019 I posted introductions of some of my dolls instead of Little Granny's Christmas story and postponed the story over for a year. I wasn't completely sure if I should make a full story but alas - suddenly I really got a big inspiration to making it on the middle of September or something like that. I had two weeks of layoff from my work (one/month on September and October) and had thought that on November's layoff week I would work for LGC but... the layoff was cancelled. I'm of course happy there was work, but I could've needed it truly. The rest of the schedule of photographing and making the preset posts would be super tight. So, it all began mostly with the stuff I already had and I started crafting some new landscapes like the trees etc.

 

 

Basicly, I had three spots where to put the sets  and storage stuff while changing the sets and photographing some. In front of the doll's drawers, in front of the window was on the right side of the of the drawers AND left from the snowy settings was a big plastic box which sometimes was covered with some sets. Oh yeah, high end crafts and very neat. NO! I'm super messy, if I'm beginning to clean I will make a huge mess before it's clean.I had build really neat fireplace for this set, but damn I lost it so I had to make new one. It's cut from styrofoam sheet and covered with grey corduroy, painted with black and grey acrylic hobby paint. I have some tealights that have battery inside so they're safe for this sort of projects.

 

Crafting Little Granny's Christmas

Happy Holidays to them who still have some, I got back to work on 27th and will have to work trough the New Years Eve and New Years Day as well. No rest for the wicked! Anyway, the whole month of December went with photographing and making of the Little Granny's Christmas story. I thought I started making it early enough but I soon learned I hadn't reserved it enough time before December. I had finished the script in the beginning of October, I think. I know  it was mostly finished before a little visit towards Tampere meeting some dollyfriends in last weekend of October. I had to do a little changes in the way, but that was all towards good and it needed those, definitely. I began crafting the first things on October 21st and I also had the Inktober challenge going on at the same time so I know that maybe next year I'll have to choose only one big project for October.

I work full time in morning and evening shifts so it was really a bit too much to photograph, resize photos and finally post it online before or after work. Not to mention I hadn't sewed the most of the outfits soon enough to only spend time photographing and I hadn't made all the props either which of course made me thinking what the hell have I gotten into. At one point I had as much as six stories sceduled in the blog but then I had days I didn't work with the story at all becouse I had booked some travelling first with friends and then with workmates, visit to the in-laws etc things I couldn't cancel at that point. With days like that you just can't do anything else becouse it is super tiring to be social for full day or weekend. It was of course, nice to see friends and family but I should've sceduled myself better in making the story and make more in the days I had time for myself. I had to cancel at least one dollmeet and meeting with friends but it was something I had to do, becouse I really wanted to make it before Christmas. I hope people will understand it wasn't so that I didn't want to meet them, it was just something I had to do that time. I hadn't set any REAL deadline for anything for myself (which was really stupid), so I was resizing and posting stories for the last minute until it was time to go to sleep and leave to visit family back at home-home.

Here are some things I crafted for Little Granny's Christmas and some things I bought too. But first, the gang! I apologise in advance for the quality of the photos, as I mostly used my cell phone for photographing WIP things and man it's getting old, light was sucky as well since it winter time.


From left: Bluefairy Pocketfairy Yoko - Lamb, Latidoll Yellow Aabie - Postal Elf, Latidoll Yellow Momo - Little Elf, Elfdoll Min Del Re - Lila (Fairy Godmother), Latidoll Yellow Lumi - Little Granny, Latidoll Yellow Kuroo - Pink Bear, Bluefairy Pocketfairy Didi - Squinty Reindeer and Bluefairy Pocketfairy Minimay - Reindeer.

Little Granny's Christmas - Day 6

Little Granny has filled the table with crafting supplies, paints and colour pencils. She also wants some Christmas music and what else could be the perfect companion than her old radio cassette player. Tune in the Christmas Radio and the Reindeer games will begin!
Pikku Mummo on varannut pöydälle askartelutarvikkeita, maaleja ja värikyniä. Hän haluaa myös joulumusiikkia luomaan tunnelmaa ja mikäpäs olisikaan täydellisempi tähän tarkoitukseen kuin hänen vanha kasettisoittimensa. Viritä Jouluradion taajuudelle ja pian alkaa Petteri Punakuononkin nenu helottaa!


Little Granny: I think we're ready to begin!
Pikku Mummo: Olemme valmiita aloittamaan!


Little Granny: Please take your places so we can begin.
Pikku Mummo: Olkaa hyvät ja istukaa.

Dresses

I finished Tiffany's dress, I'm not excactly sure she'll keep it but I really like it so I guess she can wear it for now. Some photos.

I also made her a little necklace. All of my big girls would need more shoes, so they're now without. I'd have some shoes for them, but none would fit the style of this dress. Which of course means I'd have to buy more shoes for them HAHA. Ahem.

I also sewed a dress for Mikiko, I really liked this fabric a lot, it's very pretty and fabulously enough there was some dark brown lace too!

Today I began sewing a dress for Akiko, but I still need to work with it tomorrow. The bust is somehow too big from the sides so I need to see if I can do some tricks to it. Otherwise I'm really wanting to try to use as much fabrics as I can. I've made a clearance for them, too thick, ugly and such fabrics from quite long time will move to my aunties place. She's and artist and does a lots of crafting so I'm sure she can use at least some of them. The rest can be thrown to the trashbin. :P Anyway, trying to sew as much new stuff for my own dolls now. Hopefully I'll be able to sew for the new girls too. I still need to pay one part of it on Wednesday and then she'll be mine. OHOHOHOHOOO. Gosh. I hope I'll like the Moe body! I do love the Minifee size version a lot. The head, don't know what to do with it yet. Maybe I'll keep her, but the body is what I needed. I'm so eagerly waiting fof the heads to come from the artist. :D