The LDoll 5 report thing - and few things

Well, I had truly amazing weekend at LDoll 5 at the middle(ish) of October, it was so nice to walk around and see everything. I'm a bit shy to talk to people, I think, but I had great conversations with many people! First of all, few photos and a link to my Flickr album and then few words about stuff!


Jesmoth - Cocoondolls booth. I was helping out my friends and that was a good decicion this year. ^^ Oh look at all the lovely little dollies she's created, and those shoesies!!


And Uninu's booth, I'm glad I could help my friends. It was so exiting to mark things sold. LOL.


SweetNeat's and Magistrums booth. Too bad Rorchack - Magistrum wasn't able to come to LDoll, but fabulous that SweetNeat was able to take the sculls and advertising material from him. :) I was also helping out SweetNeat at her booth. :D YAY! A little salesgirl inside was super happy about selling on behalf of my friends, it was so exiting to see something sold. ^^ Hehe. I know, I'm certainly sounding silly but it was great fun!


Raouken's corsetry, FANTASTIC!!! I loved them, bought two, the pink one with black lining and lace stuff for Irma. Irma was quite much spoiled this time around. xD


These little ones are so cute! The Poupiette and little mouses were adorable!


Dust of Dolls - these Kröt-thingies - I could've scooped all of them in my pocket and just giggle with them! They're super adorable and I really liked how they styled them all. Just looking at this little one smile makes me happy!

Just few examples, I was so happy to meet a loads of people and buy huge amount of stuff! xD I must brag a little, I bought over 800€ worth of eyes, clothes, shoes, more eyes, wigs and jewellery and such but NO dolls. Also I had saved money for WHOLE year before LDoll, so it wasn't like I put all my pay for doll stuff. I always keep in mind to pay the bills first and then save some. I actually saved with pulling cash from my account and putting the cash in a jar. xD I had made a little list of thing I would love to get and I did get most of the things I wanted.

Many of my dolls got some new eyes, and the rolling heads especially got some new eyes and few wigs. The jewellery: Adorable and sexy! Irma got the sexiest one, I had to switch the pearl from the back of her necklace to the front and remove the bow, becouse the bow just was disturbing with her huge bust. LOL.

Here's the short report from LDoll, great event five years in a row. I will definitely take a booth next year, I already began sewing for the event. The difficult part was after the event, when we heard that Lufthansa had most of their pilots in strike. MAN that was annoying. I owe a huge huge thanks to my sister who sent me a text message on Monday morning after LDoll and told me about the strike. I called to my travelling insurance company which didn't of course pay any compensations in case of a strike. SO. We needed to go to the airport and sort everything out. That quite ruined the morning and some of the Monday too. I was relieved we got new tickets with Uninu for Tuesday evening, went back to Lyon city to our hotel and find Jesmo and had some time to walk around the city and visit the fabric stores. Next morning we went to eat to a japanese restaurant near Charpennes station, I think it was called Okawali. Fantastic fried chicken with quite a lot of ginger (lol, next time I'll get it with salad instead of just rice, or with both). I don't wonder why it is so popular, food is great!

On our journey trough the city to railwaystation I got a call from Amsterdam's airport customerservice and I didn't hear it early enough to answer the call. I knew it was trouble, so as we were going to St. Exupery Airport we went straight to Lufthansa info desk. They said we should go to KLM and Air France customer service counter, becouse Lufthansa had changed our flights to theirs and, well, we'd be their problem. Lined for a while to hear that our flights via Amsterdam had been cancelled and changed to Wednesday morning. I said to the lady at the counter that it would be fabulous if we could have ANY flights that day and she found us flights to Helsinki via Brussels. And the flight was going within an hour. We didn't even think it would be so fast. We made successfully check-in for the flight from Lyon to Brussels but second flight failed, like the lady had mentioned at the counter. I was mostly a bit pissed, hugely stressed and nervous we wouldn't make it. And we only had less than 60 minutes for the change of flights. The amount of panic was indescribable and we ran like two snails to the gate which was somewhere in deep at Airport St. Exupery's ass. Only to be noticed that they were still refueling the plane. The flight was running late and in the end we had less than 30 minutes to run upstairs (no, they didn't have that alley from plane, or buss from the plane to the airport, we had to climb staircase) at Brussels airport and grab first airport personnel and ask them what we should do.

We didn't know that the check-in can be done at gate, but they said we could do that. Brussels Airport is bigger than huge, it's the hugest biggest freakin airport where I've ever been. I can't describe our relief when we noticed that the the gate to our flight was only two gates away from the one we were at the moment and we spurted at the counter line. Finally the lady at the counter said that yes, we can make the check-in right now, don't stress, it's not good for your heart. We had plus-tickets which was good, since we could go to the plane before others. AND we had 15 minutes for the restrooms and buying some Pepsi! I was so relieved to get back home. Uninu's bigger luggage was stayed behind to Brussels but gladly she didn't have any valuables in it and finally got it back after few days we got back home.

The customer service at Lufthansa desk was OK, but there was clearly not enough personnel at work, they didn't info about the strike early enough (we would've gotten the information about the strike late on Monday evening, as my friends got their info at Sunday when their flights would've been on Monday). All people at the Airports were really nice and I'm sure they had huge task to arrange flights for 1300 or so flights. Thanks to them we got home early but I really could've lived without all stress it caused. Next year I might boycott Lufthansa and buy my flights elsewere just in case. :P

Silence - over?

The so called radio waves have been quite silent from my part, mostly becouse my PC broke and I haven't been able to access all my links and such. Ah the shame the shame! I also don't have all of the passwords and such memorised (SAD) so I'm waiting for my SO to save my PC, he already swithced in power but he thinks there's something else wrong so I need to wait some more... *sigh* I have my photos all there, but I miss all the links and such. xP

Anyway, things going on: participating on LDoll again!!! Exiting! This year, as I've not been sewing anything for sale, I've had time to concentrate to the contests. I've already sent them my entry for the photo contest "Secret Garden" and I'm working on my entry to the customisation contest "White Party" - festive events on color white, to create a fullset, not necessary to sew or otherwise create all the parts by yourself. "The customization contest is not a sculpting contest, painting contest or sewing contest. It is not mandatory for contestants to have created the elements they assemble to make their fullest." I bet they're going to have tons of wedding dresses since that would fit the theme perfectly. I have only taken few photos of my outfit, since I don't want to show it anywhere yet. I'm hoping to get in the finals but I doubt I will, there are so GOOD participants every year. It's very tough contest I'm sure. I still have things to do a lot! So I hope I can finish my entry this weekend and photograph it next week... ^^; I'm kinda late with this since the deadline is on August 31st.

I've made a list about new eyes and things that I need. And I've also peeked in some private exhibitors and proffessionals to see what they will have for sale AND I've reserved some items so it will be easier to make a budget for shopping. Oh so exiting! It would be great if I find most of the things I'm looking for. ^w^

I have some eyes, wigs and such to catch, and these guys at the bottom row are going to have some.

I've already named Minifee Sarang, Nanuri 14 and Yder elf but they will be remaining just for me until they get some bodies and face ups etc. My Tinyfairy Gus (head only for now) will need a name too, but I think I will need to take him out from his bubble wraps and then see what he likes to be. ^^

Bluefairy has announced they will have a renewal to their bodies. MAN I do hope they'll keep the old bodies as option!! I do love them so much, I do like variation but I'm afraid I don't like the new ones as much as the old. I'm exited and interested to see what they're up to. Also, I find their new Tinyfairy Torso something I denfinitely want to have! My dolls, especially girls have some outfits that I LOVE absolutely to bits and it would be so cool to have them on display.


So pretty legs! ^^ I went to photograph Daphne and Tia with a friend, you can find more photos from my Flicr. I just noticed I didn't photgraph the girls together. *sigh* So stupid to notice that afterwards.

LDoll 5

LDoll is coming so fast! Which brings me to the subject of sewing and working...

I got hired by the company I was working as rental so now I have "steady" job, as steady as it can be these days. I've always sewn only at the spare times and holidays but lately I've been too tired to sew, not even to my own dolls. My job is a shift work in factory, so I'll have morning and evening shifts (and I hate the evening ones), so it does affect a lot for my life. I find it more difficult to adapt the normal life into the mornings of evening shift weeks. My previous job was a real "day job" and all evenings were free as well as weekends. It was so much better, even tough I still have free weekends. But at the moment I'm glad that I actually have a job, even if it is a shift one since there's no much of those day jobs around... What I'm sure of is that I don't want to spend all of my free time this year on sewing only, as I don't have that much holidays this year -again- since the company I'm now working at hired me from January and there's only three months left of the business year when the holidays add up. And of course, the holidays I had coming was paid off from the rental company when I swithced employer. Another year with only one week of summer holiday ahead. I'm trying to think positive, that next year I'll have a full holiday of four weeks... That's so long time until then.

I want to take a little break, just do other things for a while and style my own dolls. Get new ideas for their clothing and sew clothes for the ones that doens't have a certain style of their own. I've been neglecting them as well as my own friends who are not in doll hobby.

Anyway, what I'm aiming to with all of this babble, is that I won't be having a booth at LDoll 5. I will go shopping, that's for sure. Lyon is lovely city and LDoll festival has been superb event every time I've participated, since the first event. Exited to see all the participants this year, which proffessionals are coming in and private exhibitors will be there. ^^ That's something to wait for.

Christmas and Stuff

Okay, so Christmas was and went, I spend time with my siblings and parents and had a really great time with them too. I missed them a lot. At Kainuu there at least was some snow, which we don't have here in the capital city and it already made me feel more Christmassy than anything else. I made a big snow lantern which had a candle inside, twice, becouse it had been so wet and sloppy that the first one collapsed down. I hoped it would last the Christmas eve and it did.



There was a candle inside to make it glow beautifully. ^^ Also, we had a Christmas tree, I decorated it with my sister. That's another tradition.
In all, I had a great time with them. Did nothing but ate, slept and surfed (yikes) mostly. I don't know, I could've taken the time off the net, but as the weather there was so wet I couldn't really spend my time outside either. I didn't bring any dolls or books but I managed to take few naps, which was nice and followed what the kitty did (she mostly napped too).

I saw the Hobbit - Desolation of Smaug at New Years eve with my boyfriend and we also went to cinema on Sunday (Gravity) and today to see Frankenstein, which was really great encore from London National Theatre. Fabulous. All in all, this year has began with style. I'm waiting what new things it will bring.

LDoll 5 is going to be again on October, that's going to be exiting. I'm hoping a lot of people will attend, it's been getting better and better event every year. I've already began sewing and slowly I'll sew few pieces for LDoll and few pieces for Etsy. I've decided to devide my sewings a little bit, since there's been quite much of people asking about certain things. I'm happy and surprised about that to be honest. Really amazing that people really wish to buy things I've sewn. Thank you all who have faved my shop or went to see what's it about. ^^

I got back my Pukipuki Ante from Jesmoth and man! Did she do what I asked, YES and a lot more!


Meet Butterfly, or Bug to friends. I asked for a Blue Morpho butterfly on her face, I guess I was quite spesific and Bug came out perfect! Jesmoth also painted a teeny tiny butterfly tattoo at her back. FABULOUS!



I am beyond happy, and can't wait to see how beautiful are the rest of the heads I gave her for face up. I'm wanting Juri 08 to be like she was, SA Hound to have a basic guy face up with thick eyebrows, Juri 13 to have a bit of gothy look on her and for Dark Elf Soo I gave a reference photo, but hoped she'd do similar eyebrows but do it more of her own style. Ah, they're going to be so pretty! All of them! I'm also pondering about the Fairyland order, when to make it. I know I need to wait until the next pay to come and then... BANG. At least Irma is going to have a body, I don't know for sure if I want to order a body for Juri 13 (whom I named Hortensia) yet. I would love to, since there's an event gift (greedy little monkey I am) at Fairyland still for a while and I'd have one rolling head less, until the gift would roll in... I need to count my finances really closely and think think think about it.

In all, the upcoming doll-year is looking promising with the Pupa*Casa white order Robin coming sometime during the spring. I'm not holding my breath, I'm sure they got huge amount of orders and that's going to take time to sort out. I asked Turbow to add some items for my order, few shoes and a wig. Not that I drooled for their other items, like dolls (Cafe Bluefairy Kate and Coyly June) and more shoes and accessories, clothes.. basicly everything she has in her stock. Lunar Fairy Coyly June is my highest interest, I'd be curious to see her body and compare it to the other bodies I have around. Also, Pocket Fairies have been around to interest me for long. I actually bougth Kissing Minimay back recently so Anni came home without the clothes set, but I was lucky to snatch it from elsewhere. Way to go me. I've been lucky in many things, I'm no more a rental force at my work but they hired me finally and even tough I'm not exited about the evening shift it's definitely better to be hired by the company instead of rental employers firm. And yay, steady income is always nice. ^^ Exiting year coming up!